By David Coulson

Executive Editor

College Sports Journal

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Stony Brook running back Miguel Maysonet heads up the 2012 College Sports Journal Football Championship Subdivision All-America Team.

Maysonet, who finished as the runner up for the Walter Payton Award, was chosen as the offensive player of the year on the 63-player CSJ All-America squad.

Maysonet finished third nationally in rushing with an average of 151 yards per game and ended up with 1,964 yards and 21 touchdowns on the ground. 

Read more: Maysonet Heads Up 2012 College Sports Journal All-America Team

By David Coulson

Executive Editor

College Sports Journal

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Wide receiver Sean Price of Appalachian State and quarterback John Robertson of Villanova shared top honors on the second annual College Sports Journal Football Championship Subdivision Freshman All-America team as national freshmen of the year.

Price and Robertson head up a 63-man squad that represents the only all-freshman team in the FCS. The 63 players are representative of the 63 scholarships allowed to teams that compete in FCS.

Price, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound redshirt freshman, broke nearly all of Appalachian State's freshman receiving records — many previously held by the school's all-time leading receiver and current St. Louis Rams player Brian Quick — as he caught 81 passes for 1,196 yards, a 14.8 average and eight touchdowns in 10 games.

The Southern Conference freshman of the year was sixth nationally in both receptions per game (8.1) and receiving yards per game (119.6) and was 10th in total receiving yards.

He shattered FCS records for freshman receptions (Cal State Northridge's Drew Amerson had 71 in 1999) and freshman receiving yards (Marshall's Randy Moss with 1,073 in 1996).

Robertson, the Jerry Rice Award winner (Price placed third), helped lead the biggest turnaround in FCS this season as Villanova improved from 2-9 to 8-4 and won the Colonial Athletic Association automatic playoff bid.

The multi-talented quarterback who rushed for 1,021 yards and 14 touchdowns and passed for 1,965 yards and threw for 14 more scores, while throwing just seven interceptions.

Robertson, who took over as Villanova's starting quarterback after a season-opening loss to Temple, went on to win CAA freshman of the year honors.

Read more: Price, Robertson Head Up CSJ's Second All-Freshman Team

By Kyle Roth

FCS Columnist

College Sports Journal

FRISCO, TX. — One of the most riveting stats of the 2012 season for North Dakota State is simply the number six — that being the number of games decided by a touchdown or less over the course of the team’s 14-1 record and that culminated in the program’s 10th national championship and second-straight at the Football Championship Subdivision level.

The latter half of NDSU’s season saw a lot of doubts among Bison fans and to a greater degree throughout the FCS world as people began to see the offense, highlighted by quarterback Brock Jensen’s several pick-sixes, including the pair he threw to Indiana State defensive back Johnny Towalid that led the Bison to their only loss this season.

That late-season slump that nearly cost NDSU the top seed (and the crucial home-field advantage throughout) set the tone for the playoffs as Bison fans found themselves glued to the edges of their seats in the quarterfinal and semifinal games that saw team escape two triple option teams that gave the Bison all they could handle on both sides of the ball. 

With that trepidation in mind, the journey to Frisco came with a heavy emotional toll that made the back-to-back title all the sweeter.

Read more: Bison Fans Celebrate Another FCS Crown And Dream Of a Threepeat