The College Sports Journal

By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal   TOWSON, MD. — The numbers from Saturday night's Colonial Athletic Association football survivor's series between Towson and Maine suggested a lopsided victory, not a hang-on-for-your-life 24-19 Tiger win.   No. 14-ranked Towson (3-3 overall, 2-1 in the CAA) piled up 507 yards of total offense compared.

By Lance Berndt FCS Columnist College Sports Journal   PHILADELPHIA, PA. — We may be midway through the Football Championship Subdivision season, but things are heating up in the Big Sky Conference, with several compelling games set for this weekend, topped by the showdown between the No. 4 and No. 7 ranked teams nationally in.

By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal   PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 7 Preview – the Sam Houston State Bearkats versus the Nicholls Colonels – is presented by College Sports Journal.

By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal   HARRISONBURG, VA. — What started as a marathon ended with a sprint for James Madison quarterback Justin Thorpe, who leaped into the end zone to complete a nine-yard scramble as the No. 4-ranked Dukes held off No. 10 Towson 13-10 Saturday afternoon in a Colonial Athletic.

By Kyle Roth FCS Columnist College Sports Journal   FARGO, N.D. — Kyle Roth brings us his Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Ratings for Week 7.  Read more

By Kyle Roth FCS Columnist College Sports Journal   FARGO, N.D. — On Saturday afternoon, as I was walking through the Fargodome's south lot on the way back to my car, I tweeted to the effect that there are victories that can constitute scariness and make a fan/broadcaster/beat writer tremble when considering what a team.

By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal   BETHLEHEM, PA. — Highlight reels can be very misleading. I'm not saying, dear reader, that Lehigh's 35-14 win over Columbia was bad. Not at all.   The Mountain Hawks went to 6-0 this afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium, in front of a pacing break crowd of.

By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal   BETHLEHEM, PA. – Sometimes, I wonder what I'm going to write about the world of FCS on a Friday afternoon. But then, an idea drops in from out of the sky. Almost literally. That's after I discovered, thanks to Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated,  of Georgia.

By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal   BETHLEHEM, PA. – If Columbia head coach Pete Mangurian ever wants to take on another line of work, he'd be a great blogger. Perhaps it's understandable that he hasn't done a lot of blogging in his first year as the Lion head coach – I can.

By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal   PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 6 Preview – the Cornell Big Red versus the Harvard Crimson – is presented by College Sports Journal.

By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal   PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan's NCAA FCS Week 6 Preview – the Towson Tigers versus the James Madison Dukes – is presented by College Sports Journal. This game will be broadcast nationally at 12:30 on the NBC Sports Network.

By Mitchell Miller Special Report College Sports Journal   CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – In Mitch Miller's Missouri Valley Power rankings, it will come as no surprise that North Dakota State remains as the No. 1 team, followed by Youngstown State.    Read more: Miller's Power Rankings: Week 5

By Mitchell Miller Special Report College Sports Journal   CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Huge, huge win for North Dakota State on Saturday as the Bison finally answered the age-old question of "what have you done for me lately?" by handing Northern Iowa an ugly loss (uglier than the last-minute touchdown made it seem, as the.

By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal   BATON ROUGE, LA. — For a period of time in the second and third quarters on Saturday night, Towson had reason to dream it could score an earth-shaking upset over LSU before an announced crowd of 92,154 fans at rainy Tiger Stadium.   But Towson (2-2).

By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal   BETHLEHEM, PA. — In the game of football, it's not easy being the placekicker. Frequently, it comes all down to you – the guy with the relatively-clean uniform, who trots in from the sidelines, to attempt to deliver the game-winning points. He's the guy who could come.

By Rudy Jones Special Report College Sports Journal   Editor's Note: This piece originally ran at FurmanPaladins.com was written by Rudy Jones, who wrote about hundreds of Furman University sporting events during his almost 40-year-career with The Greenville News and Greenville Piedmont. His coverage of the Paladins' 1988 football national championship earned him a first place writing award from the.

By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal   BATON ROUGE, LA. — Someday, it will happen again.    Perhaps the thunderclap will sound across the college football world tonight as Towson takes on the challenge of playing the Associated Press No. 3-ranked team LSU in Death Valley.   Maybe it will happen in a.

By Lance Berndt FCS Columnist College Sports Jourmal   PHILADELPHIA, PA. — With the Big Sky Conference schedule taking a turn into some key matchups this weekend, including the much-anticipated Montana at Eastern Washington game, here is an updated look at where each team is at after four weeks of the season and what to.

By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal   BATON ROUGE, LA. — When Division I-AA football was established in 1978 — the level now known as the Football Championship Subdivision — one of the major components of the two-tier Division I system was to establish a place for cost-containment as the costs of running.

By Kyle Roth Columnist College Sports Journal   FARGO, ND. — Northern Iowa redshirt freshman quarterback Sawyer Kollmorgen faces a tall task in this first half of the 2012 Football Championship Subdivision season.   Brought in from the state of Oklahoma and having to fill the shoes of UNI’s sensational Tirrell Rennie after the latter’s.

By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal   PHILADELPHIA, PA – It's strange that this is a conference game – yet not a conference game – for Lehigh, which actually makes this a difficult game to analyze. Against, say, Bucknell, a loss would be devastating to Lehigh's Patriot League title chances (and autobid chances). .