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At College Sports Journal, we proudly present our first Patriot League Power Rankings for the week of 10/4/2016. (Last week’s ranking in parenthesis.) 1. (3) Lehigh 3-2, 0-0 This week: Lehigh 63, Yale 35 In a surprise, it wasn’t QB Nick Shafnisky at the helm for that Mountain Hawks, but backup QB Brad Mayes leading Lehigh.
Here are the updated power rankings for the Big South, courtesy of the A Sea Of Red Liberty Flames blog. Note last week’s rankings in (parentheses). 1.(1) Charleston Southern 2-2, 0-0 *Nationally ranked #10 This week: CSU 36 Monmouth 7 Seems like Charleston Southern hasn’t skipped a beat with the loss of their starting QB..
At College Sports Journal, we proudly present our first Patriot League Power Rankings for the week of 9/27/2016. 1. Colgate 1-2, 0-0 (Nationally ranked #25, FCS Coaches’ Poll) This week: No. 7 Richmond 38, No. 25 Colgate 31 A furious Raider comeback against the nationally-ranked Spiders fell just short in Colgate’s 38-31 loss to Richmond, making the.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In a way, it’s hilarious. This weekend, relatively quietly, two more teams of the FCS played, and beat, FBS schools. Granted, the Huskies of Northern Illinois are struggling, at 0-4 competing in the MAC. But the Huskies still were in one of the biggest bowls in college football -the Orange Bowl.
Four players including Nick Shafnisky from Lehigh, Eli Jenkins from Jacksonville State, MJ Stumpf from North Dakota State, and Antoine Custer from Eastern Washington have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending September 18th, 2016 in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The honorees are listed here with their achievements.
It is rare that a FCS team beats an FBS team. It is even rarer for two FCS teams that defeated an FBS team in the previous week to meet the following week. But that is the case when Eastern Illinois and Illinois State meet this Saturday afternoon in Normal. This game pits the oldest.
By Dave Cook Special to College Sports Journal This story is courtesy of Eastern Wahington athletics FARGO, N.D. — The Eagles nearly pushed the Bison over the cliff. Top-ranked and five-time defending national champion North Dakota State rallied in the final minutes and beat No. 8 Eastern Washington University 50-44 Saturday in overtime in a.
By Ryan Powell Special to College Sports Journal This article is courtesy of North Dakota athletics BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – No. 25 North Dakota was a two-point conversion away from pulling off back-to-back wins over FBS opponents, but Bowling Green survived the late rally by the Fighting Hawks to register a 27-26 victory at Doyt.
By Rich Moser Special to College Sports Journal This story is courtesy of Eastern Illinois athletics OXFORD, Ohio – Following a two hour, forty-five minute weather delay Saturday’s game between Eastern Illinois and Miami came down to the final 56 seconds as the Mitch Kimble hit Devin Church for a seven-yard touchdown pass and EIU.
BOONE, N.C. — For anyone who considered Appalachian State’s home-opening football game against Old Dominion the prelude to next Saturday’s main event versus Miami, there might have been disappointment even with a 31-7 victory before 23,374 spectators at Kidd Brewer Stadium. But after last week’s heartbreaking overtime loss at Tennessee, the Mountaineers were grateful to.
Special to College Sports Journal CHARLESTON, S.C. — Years ago, acclaimed author and former Citadel basketball player Pat Conroy wrote about how one of the most ridiculous college football rivalry pranks went horribly awry. With a 1963 game against arch-rival Furman coming up that weekend, Conroy described how a group of Citadel cadets attempted.
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The defending BOXTOROW national champion North Carolina A&T Aggies received the majority of the first-place votes in the BOXTOROW Media poll and begins the season No. 1 in HBCU football. N.C. A&T opened the season with a 62-0 beating of Saint Augustine’s. The Aggies outpaced No. 2 Alcorn State by 35 points. Speaking of Alcorn.
Everyone knows about Eastern Washington, Northern Iowa and Richmond this past weekend. As so often happens seemingly every year, the best of the best in FCS surprise everyone but themselves in the first week of the college football season, taking down members of the “Power Five” conferences that didn’t see it coming – Washington State,.
Four players including Cooper Kupp from Eastern Washington, Steve McShane from Western Illinois, Jaheem Woods from Stony Brook, and Lorenzo Jerome from Saint Francis have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending September 4th, 2016 in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The honorees are listed here with their achievements.
Richmond 37, Virginia (FBS) 20 Richmond TImes-Dispatch: Richmond outclasses Virginia in Bronco Mendenhall’s first game as Cavs’ coach Virginia’s new huddle-less offense bothered the Spiders not a bit, and quarterback Kurt Benkert looked unsure as a passer early, though he finished 26 for 34 with three touchdowns. The Cavaliers, who rushed for 38 yards, committed four.
Every link you need for Saturday’s Week 1 FCS games is right here – video streaming, audio feeds, national TV information, and live stats. (Video streaming information courtesy of Matt Sarz’ College Football TV schedule.) (To see where you can see American Sports Network games locally on TV, you can check with their.
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — After a 2015 season which saw the North Carolina A&T Aggies finish as BOXTOROW national champions and win the inaugural Celebration Bowl 41-34 over Alcorn State, it’s no surprise the Aggies sit atop the preseason BOXTOROW Coaches poll. MEAC co-championships Bethune-Cookman and North Carolina Central – North Carolina A&T was MEAC co-champions as well.
Every link you need for Thursday’s Week 1 FCS games is right here – video streaming, audio feeds, national TV information, and live stats. (Video streaming information courtesy of Matt Sarz’ College Football TV schedule.) (For the Northwestern State/Baylor game on local FOX networks, check your local listings.)
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see Eastern Washington’s star wideout Cooper Kupp as one of the best receivers at the FCS level, or dominating Sam Houston State defensive end P.J. Hall as a great pass rusher. It seems, in fact, that all anyone talks about in the FCS preseason is the painfully obvious..
Every link you need for Thursday’s Week 1 FCS games is right here – video streaming, audio feeds, national TV information, and live stats. FANS: This Thursday. What #FCS over #FBS upset is most likely to happen? — CollegeSportsJournal (@CollegeSportsJ) August 31, 2016 FANS: This weekend. #FCS. Who wins, The Citadel (@CitadelSports) or Mercer (@MercerBears)?.
Your Team is AWESOME. No, wait, YOUR team is AWESOME. It’s the best weekend of the year, where everyone’s team is awesome. Everyone’s undefeated*. Everyone has potential to be undefeated*, conference champions, and heck, even maybe national champions. (*) Except for Charleston Southern, who lost in overtime to the No. 1 team in the country.
PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Last year’s Walter Payton Award winner Cooper Kupp and P.J. Hall of Sam Houston State are the centerpieces of the College Sports Journal preseason Football Championship Subdivision All-America team, which was announced on Friday as the 2016 FCS season is set to commence. Kupp, the record-breaking redshirt senior receiver from Eastern Washington,.
FARGO, N.D. — Most of the 18,881 fans attending Saturday night’s Football Championship Subdivision kickoff had their hearts in their throats in the final minutes as five-time defending national champion North Dakota State struggled to hold off the charge of surprising Charleston Southern. After the Bison faithful at the Fargodome exhaled collectively as a 50-yard,.
FARGO, ND—The North Dakota State Bison and Charleston Southern Buccaneers opened the 2016 season in the third annual FCS Kickoff on Saturday night in a memorable way. NDSU, the five-time reigning national champions, would win 24-17 but it took overtime to put away NDSU’s 18th consecutive home opener victory. A crowd of 18,881 in.
As we kick off a new football season, we’d like to start up something new here at College Sports Journal: “Who We Like and How To Watch”. In it, we’ll have links to all the broadcast information, our fearless predictions, and links to the picks of all the Top 25 games of the (plus other.
Don’t tell the folks at Charleston Southern that they can’t win this Saturday. Sure, everyone knows about the pressure the Buccaneers will face in the Fargodome, starting off the season against the defending five-time national champions. Everyone knows North Dakota state is good – legendary good. They know the eyes of the entire national college.
I felt compelled to write a rebuttal this after my colleague Charles Burton at College Sports Journal wrote why we hate the five time reigning national champions of North Dakota State. Well Chuck, I beg to differ in my view. Of course, my view comes from someone with some green and gold colored glasses.
North Dakota State, it’s time we had a talk. We get it. At the FCS level, you’ve been a terrific success story. You’ve won Missouri Valley football championships. You’ve upset a lot of FBS teams, the biggest one of all being a presesason contender for the Big 12, Kansas State, with an iconic game-winning drive.
The Big 12 has made some news this college football offseason as they have been publicly mulling expansion. They’ve been thinking about expanding by 2 teams, putting them at 12 overall, or 4 teams, putting them at 14. Reportedly eighteen schools, including some head-scratching candidates such as Air Force and Arkansas State, have pitched the Big.
College Sports Journal Missouri Valley Football Conference 2016 Preview By Kent Schmidt Predicted Order of Finish North Dakota State Northern Iowa Illinois State South Dakota State Youngstown State Western Illinois Southern Illinois Indiana State South Dakota Missouri State OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Jake Wieneke, WR, Jr., South Dakota State DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR:.
There are few things more exciting in the kickoff of the college football season than a Jacksonville State putting The Fear Of The Big Guy Above into Auburn, or Portland State delivering probably the most humiliating upset on FCS over FBS history over North Texas. There’s an extra jolt of adrenaline when a sixty-three scholarship.
Penn Quakers Head Coach: Ray Priore, 2nd season (7-3) Biggest Strength in 2016: Could there have been an unlikelier Ivy League championship candidate than Penn’s first season under head coach Ray Priore? After losing back-to-back games vs. Dartmouth and Fordham and giving up more than 40 points in each game, the 1-3 Quakers then proceeded.
FCS fans love the playoffs. So do I. Fans love the idea of organizing a bracket of the 24 best teams, having them play each other, until a true national champion is crowned, proven through the only reliable way to truly determine a champion – head-to-head competition. So do I. But quickly FCS fans realize.
Harvard Crimson Head Coach: Tim Murphy, 22nd season (156-63-0) Biggest Strength in 2016: You could pencil in Harvard’s biggest strength every single year as “despite losing N talented, all-Ivy League players, their depth is so great that they’ll simply plug in the next round of talented, all-Ivy players, and they’ll finish over .500 and compete.
Colgate Raiders Head Coach: Dan Hunt, 3rd season (14-12) Biggest Strength in 2016: Most teams break out in Year 3 of a new head coach, but Dan Hunt’s Raiders decided to break out after a 2-4 start and fired off seven straight wins, knocking out a Patriot League title contender (Lehigh) and three nationally-ranked teams.
Fordham Rams Head Coach: Andrew Breiner, 1st season (0-0) Biggest Strength in 2016: When the “Battering Ram” offense of Joe Moorhead was firing on all cylinders last season, Fordham’s multiple no-huddle offense was awfully difficult to stop. Eight times last season, Fordham scored more than 35 points in a game; eight times, they came out.
Duquesne Dukes Head Coach: Jerry Schmitt, 11th season (68-51) Biggest strength in 2016: The Dukes, always close but never the ultimate victors of the NEC, changed all that last season. They finally seized their chance after performing pretty much as expected in out-of-conference play, beating two sub-D-I opponents and Bucknell but falling to the eventual.
St. Francis (PA) Red Flash Head Coach: Chris Villareal, 6th season (24-41) Biggest strength in 2016: The theme of the 2015 Red Flash season had to be defense (almost) wins championships. With one of the top-rated defenses in FCS, St. Francis had a season to remember, securing their first winning season since 1992 and coming.
Yale Bulldogs Head Coach: Tony Reno, 4th season (21-19) Biggest strength in 2016: When the Bulldogs really buckled down and played clean football, they had stretches of dominance that showed the rest of the Ivy League that they can compete with the best. Behind by two scores to Colgate, the Eli scored two late touchdowns.
Here at CSJ, we are previewing the upcoming 2016 season, and we are counting up from 7 to 1 as to who we think how the Patriot League football season will shake itself out. Last season, Colgate overcame an 0-3 start and won seven of their next eight regular season games, including a shock 31-29 win.
Holy Cross Crusaders Head Coach: Tom Gilmore, 12th season (66-69) Biggest strength in 2016: Battlers until the end of the season, Holy Cross navigated a strange schedule to finish above .500, but more importantly winning four of their last five games. After losing a closer-than-it-looked 31-14 loss to Colgate in Week 3, Tom Gilmore’s team.
Sacred Heart Pioneers Head Coach: Mark Nofri, 4th season (25-11) Biggest strength in 2016: Good teams stop the run well, and the Pioneers’ front seven stopped the run better than any other team in the NEC, allowing ony 3.2 yards per carry during the season. Additionally, in their six wins, Sacred Heart held the opposition.
Princeton Tigers Head Coach: Bob Surace, 8th season (25-35) Biggest strength in 2016: The biggest strength of the Tigers last year was basically the way they competed in the first four games of the season, pummeling Lehigh, Lafayette, Columbia and Colgate by a combined score of 146-58. Granted, they faced the Patriot League champion Raiders.
Lehigh Mountain Hawks Head Coach: Andy Coen, 10th season (68-46) Biggest strength in 2016: Last season, the Mountain Hawk offense went from an above-average unit to the type of scary offensive force that Lehigh fans love and expect. Averaging over 30 points per game in their last five contests of last season, with an impressive.
Here at CSJ, we are previewing the upcoming 2016 season, and we are counting up from 8 to 1 as to who we think how the Ivy League will shake itself out. Last season saw a thrilling Ivy League football season with three teams, Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth, enjoying a co-championship. Harvard beat Dartmouth in a 14-13.
Dartmouth Big Green Head Coach: Buddy Teevens, 17th season (75-83-2, 109-160-2 overall) Biggest strength in 2016: It is difficult to narrow down one strength of the coIvy League champion 2015 Dartmouth Big Green. Was it their dynamic, incredible playmaking QB? Was it their smothering defense, who gave up more than two touchdowns in a game.
Central Connecticut State Blue Devils Head Coach: Pete Rossomando, 3rd season (7-16) Biggest strength in 2016: The stat sheet doesn’t necessarily reflect it, but the Blue Devils have a great young core of defenders on which they will build this season. Rising seniors CB Jevon Elmore (71 tackles, 16 pass breakups) and DE Asia Bolling.
Lafayette Leopards Head Coach: Frank Tavani, 16th season (82-98) Biggest strength in 2016: After suffering through an immense number of injuries in 2015, the end of season finally saw Frank Tavani’s offense sputter to life, thanks to the emergence of an effective running game. The emergence of RB DeSean Brown (877 all-purpose yards, 5 TDs).
Columbia Lions Head Coach: Al Bagnoli, 2nd season at Columbia (2-8), 232-91 overall Biggest strength in 2016: After a 2014 season that ended with morale at an all-time low, the shock hire of Al Bagnoli after his retirement tour at Penn was a desperately needed jolt of enthusiasm. With the full knowledge that a ground-up.
Special to College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This story is courtesy of Sam Houston State and Colgate athletics. HUNTSVILLE, TX. — Quarterback Jeremiah Briscoe passed for 358 yards and four touchdowns and running back Corey Avery rushed 25 times for 197 yards and a score to lead Sam Houston to a 48-21 victory over Colgate.
