The Case Western Reserve University football team was selected to the field for the 2017 NCAA Division III playoffs, and will travel to Bloomington, Illinois to face 11th-ranked Illinois Wesleyan University (9-1) in the first round. The game will be played at 12:00 p.m. CT on Saturday, November 18th.
Case Western Reserve closed out the fifth undefeated regular season in program history with a thrilling overtime win over Carnegie Mellon on Saturday, 41-34. The Spartans, 10-0 overall, clinched a share of the 2017 Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship with an 8-0 mark in league play, and went 2-0 in University Athletic Association contest to claim the conference's title.