Tag: Big Sky

The CSJ writing staff answer the questions many of us have about the beginning of this unprecedented FCS season....

The National Football Foundation (NFF) highlighted today the more than 310 schools and 35 conferences playing college football this spring at the Football Championship Subdivision...

The confetti that rained down from the rafters of Worthington Arena on Feb. 22 may have been a harbinger of things to come for Montana...

With just over one month remaining before the start of the Big Sky Conference tournament it appears to be a three-team race for the top...

League leading Eastern Washington travels to Missoula to tangle with the Grizzlies with the top spot in the league standings going to the victor....

James Madison powered their way to Frisco and the FCS National Championship Game with a decisive 30-14 win at Bridgeforth Stadium this past Saturday....

It's the next-to-last weekend of FCS football action, and it's going to be a jam-packed Saturday with three games to showcase the best of FCS...

The College Sports Journal staff thought it would be a good idea to get some perspective on the Weber St/James Madison game from the guys...

The Dukes were not happy with their offensive production. Between penalties, turnovers and missed field goals, Coach Curt Cignetti felt the team left a lot...

On a wet, snowy evening at Stewart Stadium, Weber State's defense and special teams were the main reason the Wildcats defeated their bitter rivals Montana...

The irresistible force met the immovable object and on this night the force prevailed....

We're down to the final eight teams in the FCS Playoffs, as an unprecedented six of those teams face off on Friday evening in an...

After winning the Ohio Valley Conference championship for just the second time in school history and the first since 1977, the Governors won their second...

With the second round of the FCS Playoffs now complete, we give you links to all our recaps and our writers' impression of the games....

OGDEN, UT - Kennesaw State jumped to a 17-12 halftime lead over Weber State in their FCS Playoff matchup, but the host Wildcats used a...

Another chapter was written in Austin Peay’s history-making season as the Governors rolled early and often on their way to a 42-28 win over Sacramento...

Hosting their first FCS Playoff games since 2015, the Grizzlies put on a show for their home fans, setting program and national records as they...

Montana State used a balanced offense and solid defense to easily defeat Albany 47-21 in their second round matchup in the FCS playoffs. Even though...

This weekend eight seeded teams join the FCS Playoff party, including North Dakota State, who has made December dome football a North Dakota tradition, and...

Albany proved its eight win regular season was no fluke as they cruised to a 42-14 win over Central Connecticut State behind a huge second...

Austin Peay and Sacramento State are both in a position that few pundits imagined at the start of the season: in the second round of...

The FCS playoffs are finally here! Enjoy the picks of the staff of the College Sports Journal and find out who we think will win...

Two-time defending national champion North Dakota State (12-0) tops the bracket as the number one seed after winning the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Bison...

Using the Sagarin ratings from this week alone to project the FCS playoffs, along with the automatic bid for the conferences that receive a bid,...

The FCS Playoff Committee has a pretty unenviable job this time around in trying to determine the playoff seeds. With a crazy day of upsets...

Just like that, we are down to the last week of the regular season. Selection Sunday comes to your airwaves thus Sunday November 24th at...

I've been doing this FCS Playoff field predictions a very long time now, and it's been a very strange year. It's not customary for so...

Two weeks to go, and how many autobids have been clinched? How about... none?...

There are three more football weekends to go before FCS Playoff Selection Sunday, where FCS Nation hopes ESPN pronounces all the schools' names correctly and...

Remember when I had Villanova as a seed? Good times. Harken back to when I had Delaware in my field? Yes, way back when –...

The Big Sky has been a game of boggle lately as each time you shake it something big changes. Montana and Sacramento State will duke...

Welcome, America, to the FCSP'TID Cover Photo Curse. Eastern Washington, UC Davis, Jacksonville State, and, last week, Montana State graced this space as rising teams that...

Call it "Conference Carnage Week". High-profile conference games ended upending conference championship races, and further cementing others on top of the standings....

Don’t bother looking at my previous editions of “Playoffs ‘Til I Die” to get a solid playoff bracket. Like the rest of America, I had...

The Big Sky is a pendulum of normal games to chaotic endings many would not have suspected. What will we get Saturday? Despite the Northern...

It would be nice if Eastern Washington would stop making my sample FCS Playoff brackets look so foolish. The first playoff bracket of the season,...

The non-conference portion of the schedule is mostly over for the Big Sky with a few exceptions such as UNI vs, Weber this week, Idaho...

Without question the top FCS game of the week was the battle of FCS powerhouses in the Fargodome.Returning home after 47-22 victory the week before...

Week 4 is upon us and the last of the intriguing non-conference play will be wrapping up for the majority this week. The Big Sky...

Last week, we shook the dust off our first laughable attempt at picking an FCS Playoff field, and this week, we make another laughable attempt...

UC Davis QB Jake Maier had a tremendous evening in the Aggies’ home opener in UC Davis Health Stadium, going 38-for-49 passing for 389 yards...

The non-conference gauntlet continues in Week 3 with PAC 12 and Mountain West FBS matches, long distance FCS games, and one D-II game. Weber State...

The Lehigh Mountain Hawks (0-2) make a trip to Davis, California to take on the UC Davis Aggies (1-1). It's a game that promises to...

There truly is a never-ending search for content, a fact I was reminded of when I was politely and earnestly asked this week about coming...

Marquee: Montana State def. SEMO 38-17 The Redhawks gave their best effort, but the Bobcats prevailed dominant. A close halftime score did not define the...

The Big Sky schedule in general switches from an uphill FBS heavy schedule to a now D2 and interesting FCS matches week. With the schedule...

A Dalton Sneed-led Montana team went on the offensive and never looked back. It took a Coyote field goal in the second quarter for the...

The Big Sky Conference is one of the Power 3 conferences in FCS football and will continue that tradition this year too. In our College...

EWU finished second in the nation just behind the perennial Bison champions. A fantastic season of 12-3 is something to celebrate, minus the title loss....

Dan Hawkins has brought the team from cellar to stellar. UC Davis is now a competitor not only in the Big Sky, but also in...