HAMMOND - The Southeastern Lions are back in the NCAA FCS playoffs and unlike in years past, this season the 15th ranked Lions are hosting postseason play at home in Strawberry Stadium.

Southeastern and Illinois State will tee it up on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. in the first round of the FCS Playoffs with the Lions expecting homefield advantage to play into their favor.

"Vegas gives you three points for home field advantage, right? So we're going to take them," Lions head coach Frank Scelfo said of the advantages of playing at home.

"To play at home, not have to travel. There's a lot of arrangements got to go through. You know that you got to go through to get all that done. So being able to play at home, especially here, we play really well here, we're very comfortable here, " Scelfo

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