The 2024 FHSU Football season officially ended following the announcement of the NCAA Playoff brackets. The Tigers finished third in the MIAA with an 8-3 overall record and 6-3 conference mark. Fort Hays State reached eight wins in a season for the sixth time under 13^th-year head coach Chris Brown, a feat the program reached only six times in history before he took over in 2011. The Tigers finished one win better than they did in 2023, when they went 7-4.
 
MIAA champion Central Oklahoma (10-1, 8-1 MIAA) and second-place finisher Pittsburg State (8-2 overall, 7-2 MIAA) were selected to compete in Super Regional 3 of the NCAA Playoffs, which will also feature two teams from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC), two teams from the Great American Conference (GAC), and one team from the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC). Super Region 3 features defending national champion Harding and has produced the eventual national champion in each of the last three years. Super Region 3 is the only Super Region in the NCAA Playoffs only with teams of two losses or less, while the other three Super Regions have 3-loss teams competing.
 
The MIAA was very competitive at the top this season with six of 10 schools finishing above .500 overall. Two of FHSU's three losses were to the teams from the conference competing in the NCAA playoffs. All six of the programs that finished above .500 overall in the MIAA were in the Top 25 of the AFCA national rankings at some point during the season.
 
Fort Hays State played five contests against AFCA Top 25 ranked teams and went 3-2 in those games. The Tigers had a win over Angelo State, which made the NCAA Playoffs in Super Region 4 at 9-2. Both of Angelo State's losses were in non-conference to MIAA teams that did not make the playoffs (Fort Hays State, Emporia State), but then ran the table in Lone Star Conference play after an 0-2 start to the season.
 
Fort Hays State collected 18 All-MIAA selections for the 2024 season with six first-team, six second-team, three third-team, and three honorable mention picks. Myles Menges was named the MIAA Defensive Player of the Year, Fort Hays State's first to win the award since 2018 and fourth overall while FHSU has been in the MIAA.
 
The Tigers had several individuals etch their names in the record book. Shane Watts produced the sixth-most rushing yards (1,303) for a season and tied for the fifth-most 100-yard rushing games in a career (9) with Emmett Pride and Kenneth Iheme. He was also the first 1,000-yard rusher in a season since Iheme in 2017. He also produced the fourth-most all-purpose yards for a season in school history with 1,769. At quarterback, Caleb Heavner set a new single-season record for pass completion percentage at 70.2, the first Tiger to ever have a mark over 70 percent for a season. Jack Dawson moved up the career lists for quarterbacks in passing yards (7^th, 5,465), pass attempts (7^th, 750), pass completions (5^th, 470), and passing touchdowns (6^th, 45). Trevor Watts completed his career ninth on the receptions list at FHSU with 119, while Jayden Horace tied for the sixth-most receiving touchdowns (19) for a career.
 
In special teams, Parker Janky set a new single-season record for punting average at 44.9 yards per attempt. Carson Arndt tied the third-most field goals made (16) in a season at FHSU and tied the fourth-most kicking points in a season (88).
 
Defensively, Benyon Williams set the new school record for longest fumble return for a touchdown at 81 yards, going 10 yards further than the previous record set by Courtney Jackson back in 2000. MIAA Defensive Player of the Year Myles Menges tied for ninth on the all-time list in sacks with 15.
 
Chris Brown now has an 89-58 record in 13 seasons at Fort Hays State. All six of Fort Hays State's seasons of reaching at least eight wins under Brown have been since 2015. His two teams that won nine or more (11 in 2017, 9 in 2018) made the NCAA Playoffs in the perennially tough Super Region 3.