Year: 2016

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Excuse Appalachian State’s football team for feeling like it was reliving Groundhogs’ Day all week in preparation for the Raycom-Camellia Bowl. But...

CHENEY, Wash.–Youngstown State dramatically beat #2 seeded Eastern Washington in a Division I FCS national semifinal  on Saturday night, 40-38, to advance to the national...

FARGO, N.D.–North Dakota State’s unprecedented run of five consecutive FCS national championships is over. The top seeded Bison lost at home on Friday against #4...

CHENEY, WA – Up 7, with a 4th and 1 at the Eastern Washington 3 yard line, Richmond head coach Danny Rocco, wearing an uncharacteristic...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — In a game between two unseeded teams that had more twists and turns than the blustery wind that howled through the Ice...

FARGO, N.D.—Revenge was on the minds of the top seeded North Dakota State Bison and they got just that in a 36-10 Division I FCS...

HARRISONBURG, Va. — For one play, everything seemed to be going Sam Houston State’s way in its quarterfinal-round, Football Championship Subdivision playoff game at James...

The second round of the NCAA Division I FCS playoffs is in the books with three upsets of seeds, ironically all on one side of...

The 2016 NCAA Division I playoffs kicked off Saturday with seven of the eight home teams wining with San Diego being the only road team...

San Luis Obispo, CA–San Diego stunned Cal Poly 35-21 at a wet and muddy Alex G. Spanos Stadium in front of 3,356 fans in the first round...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — From the beginning to an end of the regular season in college football seems to pass like the soft whisper of...

Five players including Sam Staub from Southern Illinois, Anthony Philyaw from Howard, Manusamoa Luuga from UC Davis, Dallas Brown from South Dakota State, and Lane...

INDIANAPOLIS—The field of 24 teams competing for the 2016 NCAA Division I Football Championship was announced today by the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee....

Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 20–the last regular season tally.  CSJ will again...

    To close out the FCS Playoff projection brackets, Kent Schmidt and Chuck Burton will post their final sample brackets.  Tune in tomorrow to...

BOONE, N.C. — The wind was howling through Kidd Brewer Stadium, the temperature had plummeted from the 70s on Friday to near freezing by game-time...

BOONE, N.C. — The last time Louisiana-Monroe coach Matt Viator showed up at Kidd Brewer Stadium, he and his team left Appalachian State with broken...

The highest ranked conference in all of FCS in the Missouri Valley Football Conference according to Sagarin enters the final week of the regular season...

BOONE, N.C. — If there was one thing that the Appalachian State men’s basketball team needed on Thursday night after a pair of competitive, but...

Wow, it is hard to believe we have just one regular season week left this season. It seems the season just flew by.  We know...

  This year, we are picking a consensus bracket based on staff picks, Sagarin Ratings, and the FCS Coaches’ Poll to determine who we think...

Four players including Jordan Robinson from Sacramento State, Elijah Ibitokun-Hanks from Albany, Tyler Williams from Central Arkansas, and Cameron Stubbs from Dayton have been selected...

Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 13. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that...

TROY, Ala. — Victory and a likely Sun Belt Conference football championship were one play away from Appalachian State on Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial...

  This year, we are picking a consensus bracket based on staff picks, Sagarin Ratings, and the FCS Coaches’ Poll to determine who we think...

TROY, Ala. — It was probably the most important game of the Scott Satterfield coaching era, two years ago when Appalachian State played Troy at...

With two weeks left NDSU right now is really only the obvious selection going to the playoffs. The Bison have the #3 spot in the...

Its hard to believe but we have just two weeks left in the regular season.  Playoff positions loom for several Big Sky schools. In my...

Five players including Austin Gahafer from Morehead State, Ronald Brown from Tennessee State, Tyler Renew from The Citadel,  Kahlid Hagens from UT Martin, and David Marvin from...

BOONE, N.C. — Earlier this week, Appalachian State quarterback Taylor Lamb reflected on the lessons that the Mountaineer football team had learned from last year’s...

Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 6. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that...

The game of this week in the MVFC is in Fargo with two of the top three schools tied atop of the standings when YSU...

BOONE, N.C. — The coaching profession has taken Everett Withers a lot of places, but it will bring this former Appalachian State football star back...

The Big Sky title race appears to be down to three teams, with two of them facing off this week in Eastern Washington at Cal...

This year, we are picking a consensus bracket based on staff picks, Sagarin Ratings, and the FCS Coaches’ Poll to determine who we think will...

Four players including John Lovett from Princeton, Cooper Kupp from Eastern Washington, Desmond Johnson from Kennesaw State, and Darien Townsend from Youngstown State have been selected...

Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 29. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that...

CEDAR FALLS, IA — The game was there for Northern Iowa to steal a victory in a win that seemingly the Panthers needed to stay if the...

STATESBORO, GA. — A local D.J. spun the Allman Brothers tune “Statesboro Blues” for tailgaters before Thursday night’s Sun Belt Conference football showdown between Appalachian...

    One page for all the online streaming, TV, and XM radio information for the week of games ending 10/30/2016. Looking for links for...

Here are the updated power rankings for the Big South.  The original post for this is on the A Sea of Red blog. Note last...

The game of this week in the MVFC is in Cedar Falls with the Top 2 Sagarin rankings with NDSU coming to face UNI.  UNI...

  The Big Sky title race appears to be down to four teams, with two of them facing off this week. Surprisingly, that game isn’t...

  STATESBORO, Ga. — The modern history of the Appalachian State-Georgia Southern football rivalry started on one of the coldest days in Kidd Brewer Stadium...

Here is the College Sports Journal’s Patriot League Power Rankings for the week of 10/25/2016. (Last week’s ranking in parenthesis.) 1. (1) Lehigh 6-2, 3-0...

  It’s that time of year again! This year, we are picking a consensus bracket based on staff picks, Sagarin Ratings, and the FCS Coaches’...

It is College Sports Journal’s pleasure to team up with the permission of Jeff Sagarin himself to present the FCS Top 25 rankings based on...

Four players including Gage Gubard from Eastern Washington, Eli Dunne from Northern Iowa, John Haggart from Stony Brook, and Connor Mitchell from Murray State have been selected...

  BOONE, N.C. — The answer for some Appalachian State football friends was blowing in the wind as the Mountaineers treated a homecoming crowd of...

BOONE, N.C. — The subject at a recent Appalachian State football practice this week turned to weather forecasts and coach Scott Satterfield was quick to...