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College Sports Journal News Release PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Towson running back Terrance West was named on Wednesday as the freshman of the year on the first College Sports Journal All-Freshman Team. West, who helped orchestrate one of the most impressive turnarounds in Football Championship Subdivision history, heads up a squad of 40 newcomers.
By Kyle Roth Columnist College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — Almost four years ago, a younger, more uncertain version of myself was just a wide-eyed freshman on a charter bus with the Gold Star Pep Band on our way to Minneapolis, MN, traveling to play at the NCAA Basketball Championship Tournament’s first-round match up.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — In a dozen years of watching NCAA Division I Championship Football games, I’ve seen a lot of matchups dominated by defensive linemen and incredible offensive talents. I’ve even seen entire teams be dominated from start to finish. Saturday was the first.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sporting News FRISCO, TX. — North Dakota State took its place among some of the greatest defensive performers in Football Championship Subdivision history on Saturday afternoon, grinding out a 17-6 victory over previously-unbeaten Sam Houston State in the NCAA Division Football Championship game. The Bison (14-1) allowed.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — The FCS National Championship game between Sam Houston State and North Dakota State could be visualized as a battle between Bearkats and Bison, the respective teams’ mascots. When it comes to predicting who the national champions will be on Saturday, however, two.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Two years ago, I will never forget watching Villanova’s team buses pull into their parking spots at Chattanooga’s Finley Stadium. The Wildcats had a Tigger-like bounce to their steps as they paraded onto the field for media day. You could sense the.
By Kyle Roth Columnist College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. —Amat Victoria Curam. “Victory Loves Preparation.” It’s one of the recurring motifs of the recent Jason Statham action-flicks, The Mechanic, and it has every bit as much pertinence to the sport of football as it does to being a hit man-for-hire. It’s.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from Montana’s 2001 title victory over Furman. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — Like a wild west gunslinger, top-seeded Montana brought a reputation for high-powered offense.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from Western Kentucky’s 2002 title victory over McNeese State. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN.-Veteran coach Jack Harbaugh admitted Friday night that he was unsure if his.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from Delaware’s 2003 title victory over Colgate. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — When the I-AA championship football game opened with snow showers blowing into Finley Stadium, it.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from James Madison’s 2004 title victory over Montana. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — James Madison won the NCAA I-AA football championship the old-fashioned way Friday.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from Appalachian State’s victory over Northern Iowa in 2005. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — With its offense ailing and their championship hopes on the ropes,.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from Appalachian State’s victory over Massachusetts in 2006. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — There were some who wondered early in the week whether Kevin Richardson’s sore.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the game story from Richmond’s 2008 title win over Montana. This story originally appeared on The Sports Network. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — Richmond found a way to.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the Dec. 18, 2009 game story as Villanova stopped Montana for the national title. This story originally appeared on The Sports Network. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHATTANOOGA, TN. — Villanova coach Andy Talley.
Editor’s Note: This is another article in a continuing series of articles from past FCS championship games. This is the Jan. 7, 2011 game story as Eastern Washington rallied from a 19-0 deficit to beat Delaware 20-19. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — Eastern Washington didn’t have its Tabasco.
Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of historical articles that look back at past FCS title games. This story was written on Jan. 7, 2011 as Eastern Washington beat Delaware for the national crown. By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — When you look at the.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA — Here is a game-by-game synopsis of the previous 33 title games in the history of the NCAA Division I Football Championships, beginning with the first Football Championship Subdivision title clash in 1978, through the 2010 campaign.
By Kyle Roth Special To the College Sports Journal FARGO, N.D. — Within a few hours of Sam Houston State’s ticket-punching victory over Montana, Bearkat fans’ mandated allotment of 4,000 tickets to the game in Frisco, TX, were gone. Barely a day after the Bison dominated Georgia Southern 35-7 and sealed a chance to.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — In Fargo, North Dakota State is buzzing with excitement as they are headed to the Division I National Championship game after dominating six-time Division I NCAA National Champion Georgia Southern 35-7 this past weekend. And in Huntsville, Sam Houston State eagerly awaits, basically,.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota State did something even Alabama couldn’t accomplish Saturday in the NCAA Division I Football Championship semifinals. The Bison held Georgia Southern’s lethal triple option to just seven points and limited the Eagles to 186 yards rushing on the way.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal HUNTSVILLE, TX. — Tim Flanders was the main man when Sam Houston State built a 21-0 lead in the first quarter of its NCAA Division I Football Championship semifinal game Friday night against Montana at Bowers Stadium. And Flanders was there again at the end.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The last time that Montana ventured into Huntsville, TX. to take on Sam Houston State, the Grizzlies shocked the Football Championship Subdivision — by getting crushed by Sam Houston State, 41-29. On Friday, No. 4 seed Montana (11-2) will return to Bowers.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal STATESBORO, GA. — Five years ago, when Georgia Southern and North Dakota State met for the first time, then-GSU coach Brian VanGorder looked at NDSU after suffering a 34-14 loss at Paulson Stadium with admiration. “I look at North Dakota State and that’s where.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This is another in the College Sports Journal Classic series. It was originally published in the College Sporting News on Sept. 8, 2006 after the death of legendary Georgia Southern coach Erk Russell. One interesting historical fact is that in the conclusion, the.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal HUNTSVILLE, TX. — It was billed as a shootout against Texas high school all-stars, but only one side’s guns were blazing. Sam Houston State bowled over Montana State’s front seven for an eye-popping 428 yards rushing, cruising to a 21-6 halftime lead and coasting.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal FARGO, N.D. — In the end, not having junior WR Ryan Spadola didn’t matter for Lehigh In front of more than 18,000 loud North Dakota State fans, and a fearsome Bison defense, the Mountain Hawks couldn’t overcome the injuries, the noise, and their own miscues in the 24-0.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal STATESBORO, GA. — Until a couple of weeks ago, Jerick McKinnon was a stalwart in the Georgia Southern triple-option attack. But with the Eagle secondary finding itself more depleted as the season went on, McKinnon was asked to make a difficult personal sacrifice before.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal MISSOULA, MT. — Jabin Sambrano was a genuine playoff hero at Washington-Grizzly Stadium before Montana’s 48-10 victory over Northern Iowa on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Football Championships. Quarterback Jordan Johnson wrote his name into that pantheon of stars.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal FARGO, N.D. — Let’s say you’re a Lehigh player right now. Today, you learned that your star receiver, junior WR Ryan Spadola, was suspended by the NCAA by making an offensive tweet. To call it a distraction would be the understatement of the.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal HUNTSVILLE, TX. — It comes as no surprise that a game at Sam Houston State would feature a lot of athletes who played their high school ball in Texas. It might come as a surprise, though, how many of those athletes are suiting up for.
David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Northern Iowa and Montana are no strangers to the NCAA Division I Football Championships, as two of the powerhouse programs in the Football Championship Subdivision. But when the No. 4-seeded Grizzlies (10-2) and the No. 5-seeded Panthers (10-2) square off Friday night.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — On Saturday, it was a head-scratching lead-in on head coach Andy Coen’s press conference on Lehigh’s historic 40-38 win over Towson in the playoffs. The consensus from the folks I talked to coming out of the room was: why would you lead the press.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal STATESBORO, GA — It was only a matter of minutes after his team had finished up its press conference following a 34-12 road victory over Appalachian State in an NCAA Division I Football Championship second-round game and Maine coach Jack Cosgrove was already thinking about.
By Donal Ware Boxtorow.com Special to College Sports Journal When Anthony Jones’ Alabama A&M Bulldogs, the representative of the Eastern Division, meet Doug Williams’ Grambling State Tigers the West champion, in the Southwest Conference Football Championship game at Legion Field in Birmingham on Saturday, it will mark the second time the two coaches have gone.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal TOWSON, MD. — It was billed as a shootout between two of the top offenses of the Football Championship Subdivision. And it was, indeed, a shootout between the the tough running game of Towson, and the precision passing game of Lehigh. But no one would have predicted.
David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: CSJ Publisher/Managing Editor Chuck Burton contributed to the capsules for this column. BOONE, N.C. — Sam Houston State should beware. When you are the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Football Championships, people are watching you and teams like Stony Brook.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — If past performance were indicative of how things are going to go this Saturday, Lehigh would have nothing to worry about in the second round of the NCAA Division I Football Championships. In 11 meetings with the Towson, Lehigh has gone 10-1.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — The last time Maine traveled to Appalachian State for an NCAA Division I Football Championship playoff game in 2002, it took two and a half days for game film from the two schools to make it between Orono, ME. and this mountain.
by Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — While doing research this week for the matchup between the Tigers and Mountain Hawks, I looked into the archives of my blog, as I often do, for special insight on the history of the team Lehigh is to face. You might think.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This is the one in a series of three historical articles from the David Coulson archives that take readers back to the last time Maine traveled to Appalachian State for a first-round playoff game, in 2002. The two teams meet again on Saturday.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This is the one in a series of three historical articles from the David Coulson archives that take readers back to the last time Maine traveled to Appalachian State for a first-round playoff game, in 2002. The two teams meet again on Saturday.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This is the one in a series of three historical articles from the David Coulson archives that take readers back to the last time Maine traveled to Appalachian State for a first-round playoff game, in 2002. The two teams meet again on Saturday.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — At the conclusion of the Central Arkansas Bears’ 34-14 victory over Tennessee tech, Bears special teams player Rojae Jackson wrote on a coaches’ marker board, “See y’all in Montana.” Oddly enough, the fact that not enough people would potential be able to.
(Photo Credit:Karl Merton Ferron, the Baltimore Sun) It was a poorly-kept secret that U.S. President Barack Obama would be making the first-ever presidential visit of Towson. The first basketball fan, whose brother-in-law is Craig Robinson, the head basketball coach of visiting Oregon State. was there to see a Division I basketball game. But when the game was.
College Sports Journal News Reports COOKEVILLE, TN. — It may have been the first Division I Football postseason game for Central Arkansas, but the Bears looked anything like newcomers in a 34-14 thrashing of Tennessee Tech Saturday at Tucker Stadium. Led by the play of quarterback Nathan Dick on offense and a stingy.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal RICHMOND, KY. — You couldn’t blame place kicker Cameron Starke and his James Madison teammates for thinking they were experiencing a Deja Vu moment at the end of Saturday’s NCAA Division I Football first-round playoff game at Eastern Kentucky. Starke had drilled a 40-yard field.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal (Photo Credit: Old Dominion University players block a field goal attempt by Norfolk State University’s Ryan Estep on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, Ross Taylor, The Virginian-Pilot) Full Viriginian-Pilot photo gallery here. NORFOLK, VA. — For a brief moment, the loud voices in Old Dominion’s vociferous.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal (Photo Credit: Albany’s Brian Parker (49) tries to tackle Stony Brook’s Dominick Reyes (24) after he makes the interception off a tipped pass for the win. (Nov. 26, 2011) Joseph D. Sullivan.) Full Newsday photo album here. STONY BROOK, N.Y. — When you know.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — James Madison and Eastern Kentucky are two teams with championship histories, but their routes to the NCAA Division I Football Playoffs have been more like postseason upstarts. James Madison won the 2004 national title and was top-seeded and reached the semifinals.
