MOBILE, Ala. — Nate Woody was genuinely worried about the health of his defense when he met a group Mountaineer fans Saturday morning at the team’s hotel several hours before the Dollar General Bowl. Woody quickly rattled off a list of his walking wounded. But the veteran defensive coordinator and his Mountaineer cohorts had little […]
FARGO, N.D. — It might have been a few weeks past Halloween on Friday night at the Fargo Dome, but for the third time in four years, the orange-clad Sam Houston State Bearkats turned into pumpkins in the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals. Of course, second-seeded North Dakota State (13-1) might have had something to do […]
FARGO, N.D. – Running back Bruce Anderson and #2 seeded North Dakota State advanced to their sixth FCS national championship game in seven years Friday with an imposing 55-13 national semi-final victory over #6 Sam Houston State before 18,279 fans at the Fargodome. The Bison never looked back after scoring touchdowns on their first three […]
FARGO, N.D.–North Dakota State caused two turnovers in the second quarter that led to two late touchdowns and the #2 seeded Bison routed past #7 seeded Wofford 42-10 in the quarterfinal round in front of 17,008 fans in the Fargodome. The win moved the Bison into the semifinals of the Division I FCS playoffs for […]
HARRISONBURG, VA. — James Madison knew the road to the defending its Football Championship Subdivision title would be arduous, but the top-seeded Dukes didn’t just how tough it could be until they survived a quarterfinal test from Weber State Friday at Bridgeforth Stadium for a 31-28 victory. Ethan Radke’s second field goal of the final […]
BOONE, N.C. — For any college football player, it is the ultimate fantasy — scoring a touchdown on your senior day. But for rarely-used Appalachian State quarterback Curtis Fitch, his highlight moment in his first game of the season went beyond his wildest dreams. Fitch was summoned from his normal game-day duties of signaling in […]
BOONE, N.C. — For the first two plays Saturday afternoon, things couldn’t have gone better for the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in their battle for football bowl eligibility against first-place Appalachian State. Starting quarterback Jordan Davis scrambled for a season-long 47 yards on first down and then fired a 28-yard scoring strike to senior Devin Scott […]
Below are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Dec 2. This is the final regular season rankings. The final rankings will be displayed after all bowl games and the FBS national championship game Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division […]
This week was the conference title game Saturday for most conferences (aside from the Sun Belt) where each divisional winner played each other to determine the conference champion. The American title game started the day with an offensive explosion that went to double overtime before the game was decided where UCF found by the end […]
AAC Football Championship: Memphis at UCF Kickoff: Saturday Dec. 2 at 12 p.m. ET TV Channel: ABC Stadium: Spectrum Stadium, Orlando, Fla. The Memphis Tigers and UCF Knights meet Saturday in the college football AAC Championship at Spectrum Stadium—the home field of the Knights. The Memphis Tigers have a chance to win 11 games for the first […]
Six players including Justice Hansen from Arkansas State, McKenzie Milton from UCF, Anthony Johnson from Buffalo, Terelle West from MTSU, Ulysees Gilbert III from Akron, and Mike Hughes from UCF have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending November 26th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FBS Group of Five schools. […]
Below are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 25. There will be one more ranking following the conference championship games (and last week of the regular season in the Sun Belt Conference) next week and then the last rankings will be following the […]
ATLANTA – Appalachian State was rested and motivated on Saturday afternoon at the former Turner Field and it showed as the Mountaineers torched Georgia State 31-10 in a Sun Belt Conference first-place showdown. Coming off a 17-day break since its 27-6 home victory over arch-rival Georgia Southern on Nov. 9, ASU overcame a few shaky […]
This week’s game of the week pitting #4 USF at #1 UCF and this I-4 Battle came down to the end with UCF coming away with the win to stay undefeated (only the second undefeated team in all of FBS left). Also, with the win the Knights claimed the American Conference East Division crown and […]
Five players including Nic Sblendorio from Eastern Washington, Brad Mayes from Lehigh, Bryant Horn from Jacksonville State, Simeon Page from Bucknell, and Austin Longi, Fordham have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending Nov. 19th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FCS schools. The honorees are listed here with their achievements […]
Five players including Trevon Brown from ECU, Mike White from Western Kentucky, Terry Swanson from Toledo, Kelsey Douglas from Southern Miss, and Rashaad Penny from San Diego State have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending November 19th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FBS Group of Five schools. The […]
BOONE, N.C. — The task facing the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision committee this weekend may have been the most difficult that any committee had faced in the 40-year history of this postseason tournament to determine a true national champion. Committee chairman Richard Johnson said as much in his comments Sunday morning on the […]
Below are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 18. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the G5 side of things and have been used for several years with his own […]
INDIANAPOLIS — The field of 24 teams competing for the 2017 NCAA Division I Football Championship was announced today by the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee. The top eight national seeds will host winners from the first-round match-ups. VIEW THE BRACKET | SRS RANKINGS Defending national champion James Madison University (11-0) tops the bracket […]
Using the Sagarin and the ten automatic bids the following would be the field using the criteria of at least 7-DI victories for the field. The schools in bold are automatic qualifiers. The seeds would be as follows using the Sagarin rankings: 1. North Dakota State 2. James Madison 3. South Dakota State 4. Western Illinois […]
Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 18th–the final regular season rankings. The next FCS Top 25 rankings will come after the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show […]
This week’s game of the week pitting #13 Fresno State at #14 Wyoming and it finished in a close final but was a little bit of downer as Wyoming star quarterback Josh Allen was sidelined with a shoulder injury. Fresno State won the game and wrapped up not only its fate in the Mountain West […]
Here’s the final FCS Playoff projected bracket from College Sports Journal. In the FCS playoffs, there are 10 conferences that get autobids, the Big Sky, Big South, CAA, Northeast, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Patriot League, Pioneer Football League, Southern, and Southland Conferences. Two conferences, the SWAC and MEAC, choose to send their champions to the […]
The Week that was and the Huge Weeks Ahead Last week of HBCU football was a week that sent waves through the MEAC and SWAC landscape, this week isn’t quite over and those waves have now impacted the world of FCS football and we’ve yet to get to the games. Last week we saw Celebration […]
The 2nd time this season TC has ran 80+ yards ➕ Vinatieri in the clutch. Your Wicked Plays of the Week!#GoJacks#WickedPlayWednesday pic.twitter.com/09qBa1vbbz — SDSU Football (@GoJacksFB) November 15, 2017 Just like I stated with the Big Sky power poll, I can’t believe we are already at season’s end. And the Missouri Valley race is still […]
https://twitter.com/NAU_Football/status/929551467660296192 We are surprisingly at the end of the season and with it comes this year’s last power rankings as we are headed to the playoffs. There’s a three-way tie for first place in the Big Sky and it’s going to take a lot of math to figure it out, depending on what the win-loss […]
#13 FRESNO STATE (7-3, 5-1 MWC) at #14 WYOMING (7-3, 5-1 MWC) When Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017 | 2:00 pm (ET) Location Laramie, Wyo. | War Memorial Stadium Television AT&T SPORTSNET Two of the teams in contention for the 2017 Mountain West Conference Championship will take the field in Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium on Saturday […]
Here is this week’s projected field using the Sagarin rankings to fit the bracket. This field is as of today and using the fact that 10 FCS conferences get automatic bids to the field the bracket (highest ranked school in each get the bid in this projection). Then the 14 next highest ranked teams are the at-large teams. We […]
Five players including Patrick Tyler from Southern Utah, Anthony Lawrence from San Diego, Dom Bragalone from Lehigh, and Lee Bennett and Chandler Curtis both from Mercer have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending Nov. 12th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FCS schools. The honorees are listed here with their […]
Six players including Malcolm Perry from Navy, Tyree Jackson from Buffalo, Alexander Mattison from Boise State, Dameon Baber from Nevada, Jackson Abresch from Northern Illinois, and Marcus Jones from Troy have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending November 12th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FBS Group of Five […]
With a week to go, here’s the latest projected bracket from College Sports Journal. This year, we are picking a bracket based on staff picks, Sagarin Ratings, the FCS Coaches’ Poll, and some special sauce to determine who we think will be in the playoff field, who is seeded, who is in, who is out. […]
DAVIDSON, N.C. — For University of San Diego coach Dale Lindsey, Saturday’s 63-7 victory over Davidson that clinched the Toreros’ third automatic playoff berth in four years and another Pioneer Football League championship was just the culmination of months of hard work. “We’ve been working toward this goal since the first day of practice in […]
Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 11th. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the FCS side of things and have been used for several years with his own computer ranking system […]
Below are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 11. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the G5 side of things and have been used for several years with his own […]
This week’s game of the week pitting #10 SMU at #8 Navy did not disappoint as the game was literally not settled to the final seconds with the Midshipman pulling the last second win on a short field goal. The other CSJ Sagarin Top 25 match-ups saw #2 Boise State escape with a narrow overtime […]
Jerry Louie-McGee's punt return vs NAU comes in at No. 5 on the @NCAA_FCS Plays of the Week!#GoGriz pic.twitter.com/WugmuYySFv — Montana Griz Football (@MontanaGrizFB) November 7, 2017 https://twitter.com/NAU_Football/status/926954488019042305 It is looking a lot like honey–that is the honey state of Utah in the Big Sky race. It looks like the two members from that state […]
BOONE, N.C. — Just like Elle Woods in the movie “Legally Blonde,” the Appalachian State football team was looking forward to a perfect day Thursday against its arch-rival from Georgia Southern. Unlike Woods, the Mountaineers pulled off that accomplishment with their convincing 27-6 Sun Belt Conference victory over the winless Eagles before 23,110 fans and […]
https://twitter.com/GoJacksFB/status/928353638401093632 Timely turnovers and clutch conversions — here are your Wicked Plays of the Week from our victory over NDSU.#GoJacks#WickedPlayWednesday pic.twitter.com/FYUt1F1VJj — SDSU Football (@GoJacksFB) November 8, 2017 Two weeks remain in the regular season and the playoff potential teams still have so many questions to answer. The MVFC schedule makers really did some good […]
The following schedule is for games from Division I (FBS and FCS) for the dates of Nov. 9-15, 2017. If you choose to reproduce this schedule, please credit The National Football Foundation and use the NFF logo, which can be downloaded here. * All times Eastern * FBS Rankings reflect the FWAA-NFF Super 16 Poll * […]
#8 NAVY (5-3, 3-3 American) vs. #10 SMU (6-3, 3-2) When Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 | 3:30 pm (ET) Location Annapolis, Md. | Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Television CBS Sports Network Navy enters play in fourth place in the West Division, 1/2 game behind SMU for third and 1 game behind Houston for second. Navy […]
Here is this week’s projected field using the Sagarin rankings to fit the bracket. This field is as of today and using the fact that 10 FCS conferences get automatic bids to the field the bracket (highest ranked school in each get the bid in this projection). Then the 14 next highest ranked teams are the at-large teams. As […]
Five players including Daniel Smith from Campbell, Larry Brihm, Jr. from Bethune-Cookman, Ricky Davis from Youngstown State, Connor Strahm from Montana, and Corey McCullough from Alcorn State have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending Oct. 29th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FCS schools. The honorees are listed here with their achievements and […]
Five players including Quinton Flower from USF, Jonathan Ward from Central Michigan, Rashaad Penny from San Diego State, Jalen Young from Florida Atlantic, and Marcus Green from ULM have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending November 5th, 2017 from the NCAA Division I FBS Group of Five schools. The […]
With two weeks to go, here’s the latest projected bracket from College Sports Journal. This year, we are picking a bracket based on staff picks, Sagarin Ratings, the FCS Coaches’ Poll, and some special sauce to determine who we think will be in the playoff field, who is seeded, who is in, who is out. […]
Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 4th Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the FCS side of things and have been used for several years with his own computer ranking system […]
Below are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 4. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the G5 side of things and have been used for several years with his own […]
The top five ranked teams in the CSJ Sagarin rankings won their games including the CSJ Game of the Week Thursday that pitted two Top 10 teams. #4 Toledo defeated #10 ranked Northern Illinois easily while another Top 15 was a more compelling game with UCF hanging on over #11 SMU. Three other key match-ups […]
DALLAS, Tex.—UCF quarterback McKenzie Milton was not at his typical efficient self and the Knight offense did not put up its typical gaudy scoring numbers Saturday night at Gerald Ford Stadium. Nonetheless, the Knights earned a hard-fought 31-24 victory, remaining the only undefeated team and top ranked team in the CSJ Sagarin rankings of the […]
MONROE, La. — Appalachian State has made a habit of poor starts during the 2017 college football season, but an even worse finish sent the Mountaineers tumbling to their costliest loss of the year Saturday as Louisiana-Monroe scored a 52-45 knockout in Sun Belt Conference action. ULM quarterback Caleb Evans escaped pressure, stepped up in […]
Welcome to November where the road to the Celebration Bowl has officially heated up. Last week in the MEAC we saw Celebration Bowl hopes take a major hit for Hampton and Norfolk State, conference front runner North Carolina A&T enjoyed a much needed bye. In the SWAC, Alabama A&M was left searching for answers after […]
