(Video courtesy of NCAA/ABC Sports)
This week's "better late than never" installment of "RFC Throwback Thursday" turns the clock back to 1978. That was when the then-eventual national champion Eastern Illinois University Panthers played host to the Youngstown State University Penguins in an NCAA Division II semifinal game. Ironically, both EIU and YSU would be among many that would join the fledgling NCAA Division I-AA (now FCS) ranks by the early 1980s, with both programs making multiple postseason appearances since then. The Penguins eventually won four I-AA national championships during the 1990s (1991, 1993, 1994, 1997).
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