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By Donal Ware HBCU Columnist College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Week 4 in HBCU football saw better results than week 3. Only two teams were shut out and teams fared much better against Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponents as a whole. Delaware State forced Cincinnati into six turnovers and hung around before.
By Emory Hunt Special to the College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 3 Preview – Illinois State Redbirds vs the Western Illinois Leathernecks – is Presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special to the College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 4 Preview – Elon Phoenix vs Georgia Southern Eagles – is Presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special to the College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 4 Preview – Northern Arizona Lumberjacks vs Montana Grizzlies – is Presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special to the College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 4 Preview – Sam Houston State Bearkats vs the Central Arkansas Bears – is Presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal LANDOVER, MD. — Playing against Bowl Championship Series teams will never be the same for James Madison. After scoring only the second win ever by a Football Championship Subdivision squad against a team ranked in the Associated Press Top-25, beating Virginia Tech 21-16 in 2010,.
By Lance Berndt FCS Columnist College Sports Journal Southland vs. Big Sky. It seems this is a guarantee to at least happen once every year the time comes for the FCS playoffs. In fact, only twice since 2001 has there been a playoffs without at least one Southland/Big Sky match-up. One might think that these.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — Someone had to win and someone had to lose when Appalachian State hosted Montana Saturday evening before 30,856 fans at Kidd Brewer Stadium — the third-largest crowd ever to see a game at this storied venue. And No. 5-ranked Appalachian State made.
Staff College Sports Journal Below the flip check out exclusive photos from Week 2 action in the world of FCS! Dennis Hubbard: North Dakota State vs. Colorado State, 9/8/2012
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — New Montana coach Mick Delaney was like a child with unbridled Christmas-morning joy as he walked around Kidd Brewer Stadium during the Grizzlies' Friday walk-through practice. "This is just cool," said Delaney, as he anticipated Saturday evening's hotly-awaited, non-conference Football Championship Subdivision.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Short of winning a real, earned-on-the-field national championship, there is almost nothing more exhilarating for a Football Championship Subdivision team than scoring a victory over one of their counterparts from a Football Bowl Subdivision squad, or better yet one of those Bowl Championship.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — The fog on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in the lush green Appalachian Mountains encroached upon Kidd Brewer Stadium like a fierce pass rush as veteran coach Jerry Moore directed his Appalachian State football team through special teams drills. The day was in.
Staff College Sports Journal Below the flip check out the best photos from Week 1 action in the world of FCS! Dennis Hubbard: South Dakota State vs. Kansas, 9/1/2012 Check back often to see even more pictures of Week One action!
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Hope spring eternal on Labor Day weekend in the Football Championship Subdivision. Every team from the Football Championship Subdivision dreams of becoming the next Appalachian State, or James Madison with an attention-getting victory over their Football Bowl Subdivision opponents as they play.
By Lance Berndt FCS Columnist College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — It has been just under 10 years since he packed up and left Missoula for Division I-A glory in Laramie, Wyoming. Joe Glenn, the Montana Grizzlies’ head coach from 2000-2002, is finally returning to Washington-Grizzly Stadium. However, he will be coaching.
By Josh Buchanan NFL Columnist College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — We’ve seen all of the official all-conference selections from each of the leagues in the Football Championship Subdivision. But now, here is our NFL columnist and draft expert’s take on who will be the players to watch for each conference as we.
By Chuck Burton & David Coulson College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Unlike the late Rodney Dangerfield, the Pioneer Football League didn't have to wait until death to finally earn some respect. The PFL finally received the news it had been awaiting for years when it was announced this month that the NCAA.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal NASHVILLE, TN. — The big question in the Ohio Valley Conference is when this once proud league will break through again with another win in the NCAA Division I Football playoffs? In a league that featured the first truly dominant program in Football Championship Subdivision.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When Stony Brook first joined forces with the Big South Conference for football, it seemed like a strange marriage. And many wondered just how long this relationship would last. But unlike the acrimony you see when other schools leave leagues, there seemed.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — You have to admit it's a pretty good time to be the commissioner of the Southland Conference. In a world where conferences fear expansion, Southland commissioner Tom Burnett welcomes it. In a world where members of Football Championship Subdivision sometimes question their place,.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — For all of the talk about who has the best league in the Football Championship Subdivision and for every measuring devices that people come up with to build their cases, the ultimate goal of teams competing in FCS is to win national championships..
By Lance Berndt FCS Columnist College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Expansion is here, even in the Big Sky Conference. The past couple of years have been a period of change for the NCAA with conference realignment becoming the newest trend. Schools all over the FBS were jumping ship and joining other conferences. .
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — There were questions throughout the spring and summer about the stability of the Colonial Athletic Conference with the defection of new football members Georgia State and Old Dominion to the Football Bowl Subdivision ranks. There were also persistent rumors that Virginia Commonwealth.
College Sports Journal Special Report PHILADELPHIA, PA. — North Dakota State and Sam Houston State battled for the NCAA Division I Football Championship title, with NDSU winning its first Football Championship Subdivision title last season. And in 2012, the Bison edged out the Bearkats for the top spot in the first College Sports.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Some of the media couldn't believe it. Neither could Albany head football coach Bob Ford. Neither could Marty Fine, Bryant's head coach. How could Wagner be picked seventh out of nine teams in the NEC coaches' poll to begin the season? It's not.
By Roscoe Nance Special to College Sports Journal Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on the website Boxtorow.com. The teams are placed in order of predicted finish. In the SWAC, Alabama State is picked to win the Eastern division, while Grambling State is picked to win the West for the second year running.
By Roscoe Nance Special to College Sports Journal Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on the website Boxtorow.com. The teams are placed in order of predicted finish. Norfolk State is predicted to finish first in the MEAC this year, followed by South Carolina State, Bethune Cookman, and North Carolina A&T.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — It seems like something happens every year as a new football season is set to begin to bring focus back to that age old problem in the Ancient Eight. When will the Ivy League join the rest of the Football Championship Subdivision.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Winning one league championship is hard. Winning two, exceptional. But winning three in a row? That's the very large task of the Lehigh Mountain Hawks, who were virtually a unanimous pick to win the Patriot League in 2012. "Setting out to.
Staff Report College Sports Journal INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Women’s rowing is one of three Division I sports whose championship brackets will expand in 2013. In August, the NCAA Executive Committee approved a budget that included a recommendation from the Division I Championships/Sport Management Cabinet to expand championships in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision,.
College Sports Journal Special Report PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Towson sophomore running back Terrance West, the freshman of the year on the 2011 All-America team, heads up a star-studded group named to the first 2012 College Sports Journal preseason Football Championship Subdivision All-America squad. Other players who were honored on the 2011 All-America team.
By Donal Ware HBCU Columnist College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Howard linebacker Keith Pough, North Carolina A&T running back Mike Mayhew, Alabama State free safety Kejuan Riley, and Jackson State defensive end Joseph LeBeau are just four of the players who make up the 2012 Boxtorow Preseason HBCU All-America football team. The preseason team is.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — For Albany and Stony Brook, two prestigious universities in the SUNY system, it was supposed to be a banner day for their football programs. The Great Danes and Seawolves were announced yesterday as the newest members of the CAA football conference —.
By Kyle Roth Columnist College Sports Journal FARGO, ND. — After finishing atop most statistical rating services as the top FCS conference last year – not to mention the NCAA FCS National champions in North Dakota State – the Missouri Valley Football Conference enters the 2012-13 preseason expecting to once again contend as the.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The numbers on the Patriot League preseason poll were fairly resounding. On paper, with Lehigh garnering 11 out of a possible 12 first-place votes and a statistically perfect score of 60, the Mountain Hawks were essentially the unanimous choice to win.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA – Most years at college football media days, past performance is almost always indicative of the results of the preseason polls. So you might be forgiven if Alabama A&M linebacker Vernon Marshall was surprised when his Bulldogs, who made it all the.
By David Coulson Executive Editor/Managing Partner College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This the first of a two-part series on the College Football Hall of Fame, which inducts its 2012 class this month in South Bend, IN. Somehow, for the second time in four years, no Football Championship Subdivision candidates were selected. In.
By Kyle Roth Columnist College Sports Journal FARGO, ND. — Here in North Dakota, folks learn to take pride in the simple things. We’re a state whose economy is founded on the fiscally-conservative agricultural field, we vote in the “go with the flow” mentality that’s pervaded our state for generations, and we’re taught.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Wouldn’t it be great if every time you needed to articulate something, you had a politician to call to say it? You have to wonder if Tom Yeager, commissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association, is mulling that over in his head as he.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — In every place in America that I’ve lived, there’s been evidence of the times of the American revolutionary war. Close by, in some form or another, I’ve been amongst 18th-century farmhouses and ancient taverns where George Washingon, Ben Franklin or John Adams.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Whenever I think about Bill Stewart, I remember back to one specific incident at a Southern Conference media day in the mid-1990s. Stewart was trying to rebuild the long moribund football program at VMI, but had already won over realms of friends.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The Monarchs’ reign in FCS didn’t last very long. Wood Selig, Old Dominion’s athletic director, called a 2:30 PM press conference today to announce that the Monarchs would be moving to Conference USA effective July 1st, 2013. With Georgia State’s move.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The movie “Face/Off”, starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, is the ultimate John Woo movie, filled with incredibly choreographed Hong Kong-style action but with top actors filling the starring roles. Woo movies are also known for something that is called “Mexican Standoffs”,.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal TOWSON, MD. — There was a changing of the guard last season in the Colonial Athletic Association football world, with Towson University of all teams winning its first-ever gridiron crown. At the same time, two members of the old guard in the CAA, Villanova.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. —In the world of Division I Football Championship Subdivision, there are a handful of iconic programs that seem to embody what the entire, playoff-playing, 63 scholarship-competing subdivision is all about. The Montana Grizzlies, with their packed houses in Washington-Grizzly stadium, are one of.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — In the debate about political correctness, some people will never have a clue. As I am learning, one of the biggest Neanderthals on this subject is one Bernard Franklin, a vice president with the NCAA. Now this isn’t the first time.
By Kyle Roth Columnist College Sports Journal FARGO, ND. — It’s safe to say that in a conservative region of the country like the Upper Midwest that there’s a certain frugality present in college athletics. Just like in every day life in the Dakotas, nothing moves too fast or too rashly without due consideration.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing EditorCollege Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Monday, a decision was made by the Patriot League. The decision on Patriot League football scholarships that many, many followers of the quarter-century-old league have been waiting for. The decision came in the official announcement that the Patriot League “endorsed a policy that will allow.
By Donal Ware Special to the College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — For the sixth time in seven years FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW has ranked the top 10 HBCU FCS recruiting classes. The rankings are based on the talent that was brought in and research that we did based upon.
By David Coulson & Chuck Burton College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The first of February is one of the most important days of the year for Football Championship Subdivision teams, with recruits from around the country signing their national letters of intent to accept scholarship offers. But while web sites like Rivals,.
