Ten Breakout Players in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2017
The Missouri Valley Football Conference is ranked in most of the recent years polls as the top FCS conference in the country. This year likely...
Will Football Play a Role in Missouri Valley Conference Expansion?
In case anyone was secluded over the past week, the big college sports news in the Midwest area of the country was Wichita State leaving...
Head Coaches (And Parody Twitter Accounts) Lend Star Power To FCS National Championship Game In Frisco
FRISCO, TX – Parody twitter accounts are generally a pretty good indicator that you’re a well-known star in your chosen field....
Pelini’s Penguins Freeze Out Terriers In Double Overtime Playoff Thriller, 30-23
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — In a game between two unseeded teams that had more twists and turns than the blustery wind that howled through the Ice...
2016 NCAA Division I Football Championship Field Announced
INDIANAPOLIS—The field of 24 teams competing for the 2016 NCAA Division I Football Championship was announced today by the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee....
Playoffs ‘Til I Die: Final FCS Playoff Bracket Projections
To close out the FCS Playoff projection brackets, Kent Schmidt and Chuck Burton will post their final sample brackets. Tune in tomorrow to...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings — Week 12
The highest ranked conference in all of FCS in the Missouri Valley Football Conference according to Sagarin enters the final week of the regular season...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings — Week 10
With two weeks left NDSU right now is really only the obvious selection going to the playoffs. The Bison have the #3 spot in the...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings — Week 9
The game of this week in the MVFC is in Fargo with two of the top three schools tied atop of the standings when YSU...
North Dakota State Holds On to Defeat Northern Iowa, 24-20
CEDAR FALLS, IA — The game was there for Northern Iowa to steal a victory in a win that seemingly the Panthers needed to stay if the...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings — Week 8
The game of this week in the MVFC is in Cedar Falls with the Top 2 Sagarin rankings with NDSU coming to face UNI. UNI...
Missouri Valley Conference Power Rankings — Week 7
Here is the College Sports Journal’s Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings for the week of 10/18/2016. (Last week’s ranking in parenthesis. 1. (1) North...
SDSU downs NDSU to Capture Dakota Marker Trophy, 19-17
FARGO, N.D. – The Dakota Marker Trophy is coming back to Brookings after six straight seasons of being in Fargo. South Dakota State snapped...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings — Week 6
Here are the updated power rankings for the Missouri Valley Football Conference for the week ending Oct. 9th. Note last week’s rankings in (parentheses). 1....
College Sports Journal FCS Players of the Week, Oct. 9
Five players including Chase Edmonds from Fordham, Corey Avery from Sam Houston State, Taryn Christon from South Dakota State, Montrell Pardue, and William Will from...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings – Week 5
Here are the updated power rankings for the Missouri Valley Football Conference this week ending Oct. 4. The league is very close from top...
NDSU Wins 2014 National Title Rematch over Illinois State, 31-10
FARGO, ND–Quarterback Easton Stick passed for three touchdowns in the second quarter to lead North Dakota State to a 31-10 homecoming victory over Illinois State...
CSJ Missouri Valley Football Conference Power Rankings – Week 4
Much like the Big Sky Conference I did yesterday, I will give my rankings for the Missouri Valley Football Conference with the team, its record,...
Not So Suddenly, The Big Ten’s Entire Rationale For Banning FCS Games Crumbles
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In a way, it’s hilarious. This weekend, relatively quietly, two more teams of the FCS played, and beat, FBS schools. Granted,...
Leathernecks Hold On Fourth Down, Defeat Northern Illinois
WESTERN PICKS UP SEVENTH CAREER FBS VICTORY IN THE 28-23 DECISION SATURDAY. By Patrick Osterman Special to College Sports Journal This story is courtesy of Western...
NDSU upsets FBS Iowa in Dramatic Fashion
IOWA CITY, IA–North Dakota State kicker Cam Pedersen drilled a clutch 37-yard field goal on the final play of the fourth quarter to lift the...
Mid-America Classic Pits Two FBS Winners This Week
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...
Eastern Washington Comes Close To Pushing Bison Over Cliff, Fall 50-44 In Overtime
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...
Montana holds off Northern Iowa 20-14 in FCS Heavyweight Battle
CEDAR FALLS, IOWA — Montana’s offense went absent for the second half, but the Grizzlies relied on its defense to beat Northern Iowa, 20-14...
Big Sky versus Missouri Valley Match-ups Highlight This Week
The two most western conferences and arguably the top two FCS team will highlight this week’s top match-up. In total, this season will see six...
College Sports Journal Players of the Week, Sept. 4
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...
Week 1 Roundup From Around FCS: Not-All-That-Surprising FCS over FBS Upsets
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...
Western Illinois Opens with a Win at Eastern Illinois
CHARLESTON, IL – Western Illinois sophomore running back Steve McShane rushed for 207 yards — 70 on the game-clinching touchdown to end the game’s scoring....
10 Under-The-Radar FCS Players And Fearless Predictions, Week 1
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...
Big Ten Conference: Bring Back FCS Opponents
This week, I will be traveling to Charleston, IL to attend the Western Illinois – Eastern Illinois football game. This is a match-up I circled a...
Opening Weekend: Your FCS Team Is Awesome
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...
You Couldn’t Have Asked For A Better Showcase Than This Year’s FCS Kickoff
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...
NDSU Starts 2016 with a Thrilling Overtime Win over Charleston Southern
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...
Who We Like And How to Watch: Charleston Southern at North Dakota State
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...
Why We Should Love NDSU and the Bison?
I felt compelled to write a rebuttal this after my colleague Charles Burton at College Sports Journal wrote why we hate the five time...
Secretly We All Hate North Dakota State
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...
Plenty Of FCS Schools Awaiting Big 12’s Expansion Move
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...
2016 Missouri Valley Football Conference Preview
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...
Six Possible FCS Humiliupsets Over FBS Schools
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...