Eastern earns its playoff reward with No. 2 seed

Eastern Washington got its reward for a job well done the past 12 weeks last Sunday morning in the NCAA playoff selection show.

The 10-1 Eagles and 2016 Big Sky Conference co-champions, earned a No. 2 seeding and home games at Roos Field as long as they keep winning in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

In other words, once again the return road to Frisco, Texas and the Saturday, Jan. 7 national championship game runs through the red turf at Roos Field.

"It's exciting, and there are a lot of people before us that helped get that going," EWU head coach Beau Baldwin said of his team...