FCS National Championship Game Archives - The College Sports Journal

OPINION: Montana, South Dakota State National Title Game Deserves Better Than Television Siberia

Chuck Burton — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 07:26:46 +0000

Assuming you knew about this - and ESPN and the NCAA haven't gone out of their way to tell people - their broadcast on ABC will be going up against five different NFL games with postseason implications.

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OPINION: The All Dakota FCS National Championship Game Won’t Make Any New FCS Fans, Which Is Why Things Need to Change

Chuck Burton — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:21:56 +0000

This Sunday - idiotically slotted against the NFL - the FCS National Championship Game will feature North Dakota State and South Dakota State in what will likely be the least watched ABC National Championship game in our lifetimes.

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Nine is Just Fine for North Dakota State in Defeating Montana State for the 2022 FCS National Title

Kent Schmidt — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:54:45 +0000

FRISCO, Tex. — North Dakota State, who was the #2 seed in this year’s Division I FCS Playoffs, scored on its first three drives to really finish off the 2022 National Championship game. The Bison also scored the first 35 points of the game to dominate #8 seeded Montana State to a 38-10 final in.

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Montana State’s Extraordinary Year Ends Up Putting The Bobcats In Frisco. How Did They Do It?

Chuck Burton — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 20:35:53 +0000

After hiring head coach Brent Vigen in January - and opting out the the spring season - they find themselves with a 12-2 record and this time facing North Dakota State in Frisco to possibly win their first National Championship in in 37 years. How did they do it?

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Montana State Head Coach Brent Vigen Knows A Thing Or Two About Bison, Frisco

Ray Maloney — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 07:17:04 +0000

Montana State has spent nearly half a century panning for another national title in football and it’s taken a graduate of North Dakota State to lead the Bobcats to the threshold of achieving that goal.

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Ezzard And Schmid Dazzle In FCS National Championship Game To Give Bearkats First-Ever Title

Rob Butler — Tue, 18 May 2021 21:11:46 +0000

Schmid was 20 for 37 passing with 209 yards and three touchdowns without an interception, while adding 54 yards on the ground. Jequez Ezzard hauled in a season-high 10 catches for 108 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Bearkats’ aerial attack, with no reception proving more important than his final one.

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Sam Houston Proves Themselves Worthy of the National Championship

Ben Schleiger — Tue, 18 May 2021 04:50:35 +0000

Sam Houston State defeated South Dakota State 23-21 to complete a perfect season and National Championship win. After a long awaited FCS National Title game we finally have a winner to crown from this crazy season. The teams who made it to the playoffs suffered through opt outs, cancelled games, players going through numerous tests,.

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Spring 2021 FCS National Championship Game Preview: Sam Houston vs. South Dakota State

Rob Butler — Sun, 16 May 2021 06:23:49 +0000

The Sam Houston defensive line just keeps on coming. The offense came through in the second half, but the defensive front has lived behind the line of scrimmage all season long.

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The FCS Should Now Try To Play A Modified Season in the Spring. Here’s How You Do It.

Chuck Burton — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 07:13:41 +0000

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 they would do for spring practices. And from those games, it is possible to come up with an FCS Championship.

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OPINION: Emmert’s FCS Ignorance Not Only Embarrasses Him, But Harms The Subdivision. He Should Be Thrown Out As President of the NCAA.

Chuck Burton — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:17:45 +0000

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 to stick up for the athletes ostensibly under his charge.

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What Will It Take For Teams Outside the “Big Three” FCS Conferences To Become Title Contenders?

Preston Adams — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:04:06 +0000

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 respect?

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NDSU Out-Executed JMU to Win National Championship

Jamie Williams — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:54:56 +0000

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 was even tougher was knowing that JMU lost because North Dakota State simply executed better.

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FCS National Championship Game – The Road to Frisco, James Madison Dukes

Jamie Williams — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:31:38 +0000

When looking at James Madison’s road to Frisco and the FCS National Championship game this weekend, you have to look farther back than just the beginning of this season.

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The College Sports Journal 2020 FCS National Championship Roundtable: James Madison vs. North Dakota State, And Fearless Predictions

admin — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:25:03 +0000

The FCS National Championship game will be played this weekend in Frisco, Texas and will be televised nationally on ABC. Prior to the game, the College Sports Journal crew – Chuck Burton, Ray Maloney, Ben Schleiger, Kent Schmidt and Jamie Williams - sat down for a Championship game round table to discuss the game.

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An Outsiders Perspective of the FCS National Championship

Ben Schleiger — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:12:17 +0000

What: FCS National Championship Where: Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas When: Sunday, January 11, 2020, at 12 p.m. TV Channel: ABC Unfortunately, not all of our teams can make the national championship game as only two teams are eligible. That means 116 teams (126 total, minus these two, minus the Ivy teams – 8) are.

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2019 FCS National Championship Game Position Breakdown – James Madison

Jamie Williams — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 23:11:10 +0000

We are just over a week out from the FCS National Championship game in Frisco, TX. By all accounts, this should be a tightly contested, close matchup featuring the two best teams in the country. Let’s take a position by position look at the number two team in the country, the James Madison Dukes.

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