Category: FCS Football

On Tuesday, Lehigh University temporarily suspended training and practices for all sports programs after several Lehigh students tested positive for the coronavirus. ...

In 2006, I wrote two pieces for the website I-AA.org about a Fordham/Columbia game I attended. The two crosstown Rivals competed for an actual...

For months, fans, players, and Lehigh football head coach Tom Gilmore knew that this game wasn't going to happen on this day. But Gilmore...

I have five burning questions on the issue that might help to give clarity on what a spring season for the Patriot League might look...

This game between Austin Peay and Central Arkansas was supposed to kick off another exciting season of FCS football. These are two teams who won...

On August 29th, 2020, the Guardian Credit Union FCS Kickoff will be kicking off in Montgomery, Alabama, despite the risks of doing so....

How do we organize these programs in a way that is enticing for them, without breaking the proverbial bank while also creating a potentially better...

Playing a radically shortened season of six "regular-season" games would allow for most teams to only have a season that is marginally longer than what...

On Wednesday, August 5th 2020, we were finally given the answer we have all been waiting for from the NCAA with regards to the continuation...

Writers across the nation struggle with the fact that all their work may be all for naught. Athletes worry their off-season efforts and senior years...

It has been a wacky 2020, hasn’t it?  The year started out like most years.  The Group of Five played four bowl games in this...

Despite the bungling and mismanagement of the NCAA, President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors, they still have one final chance to get on...

It seems like nationally, college football people really don't seem to have any idea about the talent, passion, and tradition that goes on at FCS...

Emmert's long silence about the subject of FCS football was broken today, where he showed himself to be as equally ignorant as he is unable...

On July 21st, 2020, when David Pollack went on air to suggest that FCS football should permanently become spring football, I cringed....

CSJ’s David Mays caught up with Tennessee State defensive coordinator Justin Roberts to talk Tigers football, strength and conditioning, and coaching in Nashville....

Hope is not a strategy, and the truth is any form of national strategy has failed in an effort to have college football this fall....

How do teams outside the FCS "Big Three" conferences take that final step to become national championship contenders, and how do these conferences gain national...

CSJ's David Mays caught up with Jacksonville State's Athletic Director Greg Seitz just before a very eventful week on college athletics....

Anyone who wants to know why we won't have college football this fall ought to sit in on their local school board meeting to understand...

The Patriot League's dilemmas, whether the rest of FCS admits it or not, is the FCS' dilemmas. And as we inch closer to an...

CSJ's David Mays caught up with Sam Houston State offensive coordinator Ryan Carty to talk Bearcats football, CAA football, and a journey that took him...

Bethune-Cookman announced late Thursday that it will join the SWAC beginning in 2021 in a unanimous vote by the B-CU board of trustees, ending the...

Our David Mays caught up with Gardner-Webb CB Christian Miller to see what the incoming Runnin' Bulldog signee is all about....

The writing has been on the wall for months, but many seem unable or unwilling to accept what is now reality. The college football...

If these are the only two plans that are actively being considered by the Ivy League, it means that, effectively, all out-of-conference games involving Ivy...

The Patriot League Office announced on Monday guidance regarding the 2020 fall competition, a list of principles to "guide the development of a Patriot...

New Weber State TE Logan Strom has taken a very interesting route to the Wildcat football program. The former two-sport Norfolk High school (NE)...

This week, CSJ’s David Mays got a hold of Big Sky commissioner Tom Wistrcill and talked to him about the future of the conference,...

This week, CSJ's David Mays got a hold of Colgate head football coach Dan Hunt and got his opinion on the most important topic of...

Sixty student-athletes in the NCAA Division I Football’s Championship Subdivision have been named to the 2020 College Sports Journal Preseason FCS All-America Team. ...

Of our preseason poll last year, only 6 of the top 10 teams made the playoffs. 13 of the full 25 played past Thanksgiving. Its...

One aspect to the Bison’s recent domination has been the arrival of Randy Hedberg as the quarterback coach prior to the start of the 2014...

Dear NFL, Why? Why was there such a distrust of the FCS in this year’s NFL Draft? What was it that made the FCS so...

It was a nerve-wracking three days, but in the end the result was worth the wait....

In my opinion, there is a lot of recklessness out there, with plenty of blame to go around....

Once upon a time, HBCUs were the place to draft NFL talent. But that hasn’t been the case lately. ...

This year’s NFL draft did not go as well as expected for FCS players, but the Big Sky Conference still had 11 players earn undrafted...

While our lives are put on hold by COVID let’s get a discussion piece going. FCS players are often discounted as a lower division athlete....

Lehigh head coach Tom Gilmore will be the first person to tell you that he'd prefer to have a regular spring assessment season for his...

With the COVID-19 shutting down the college and professional athletics world this spring of 2020, there is one sporting event upcoming that involves college football...

Though it might not be the time to make definitive plans to tailgate at Michigan/Ohio State this November, the latest news on mitigation strategies for...

Colorado Sees Three New College Coaches, Who Comes Out on Top? Northern Colorado and Colorado State planned on having new coaches this year, but the...

In the past, college football has survived through outbreaks of disease and mass disruptions, and how the sport handled those circumstances provide a possible roadmap...

It was an historic week that nobody could have foreseen. ...

This is the 14th year of BOXTOROW’s Top 10 HBCU FCS Recruiting Class Rankings. Recruiting at HBCUs has really stepped up, to the point that...

If the Big 10 and the Power 5 have their way, however, the Trey Lance's of the world won't be sticking around at FCS schools...

I'm proud to unveil this year's edition of the Patsy Ratings....

GREELEY, CO – The University of Northern Colorado Bears football team signed 20 players for the new season. In a town that once saw back-to-back...

As a JMU fan and alum, it was tough to sit inside a cold Toyota Stadium this past Saturday and watch my team lose. What...