Tag: NEC

On February 1st, Northeast Conference Commissioner Noreen Morris announced revised regular season competition and NEC Championship formats for fall-to-spring, winter and spring sports, which included...

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...

I have five burning questions on the issue that might help to give clarity on what a spring season for the Patriot League might look...

The Patriot League's dilemmas, whether the rest of FCS admits it or not, is the FCS' dilemmas. And as we inch closer to an...

Sixty student-athletes in the NCAA Division I Football’s Championship Subdivision have been named to the 2020 College Sports Journal Preseason FCS All-America Team. ...

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

The Albany Great Danes, behind a tremendous performance by QB Jeff Undercuffler and defeated the Central Connecticut Blue Devils 42-14 on Saturday in the first...

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...

Picked to finish twelfth in the twelve team CAA, no one expected to see Albany’s name pop up in the playoff bracket. But the Great...

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...

The dark days are over! Robert Morris caps off an incredible season finishing 7-5 with their most recent victory coming over Sacred Heart 16-14....

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...

Going into this game, Lehigh's defense had a serious challenge on their hands - to stop, or a least slow down, the leading rusher in...

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...

It's highly unusual for Lehigh (4-5, 3-2) and Sacred Heart (6-4, 4-2)to be playing a non-conference game this late in the season, but for both...

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 –...

As of right now, the FCS Playoff field feels like the show "Who's Line Is It Anyway", where the picks are just random improvisations of...

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...

This week's games feature a couple of challenges vs. the Ivy League, LIU still trying to win their first game in the NEC, and a...

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...

It was a week of thrilling conference rivalries, and it's the "Military Classic of the South" that yielded the best story of them all....

On a hot, humid late September afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium, Gilmore won his first football game as head coach, finally outlasting visiting Merrimack 10-3...

It wasn’t the sort of game for the NFL’s Red Zone channel. It wasn’t for people who love power rushing, precision passing, or turnover-free ball....

A brand-new rivalry is spawned in the NEC and a league tilt between St. Francis (PA) and Bryant feature this week....

In the end, the matchup this weekend will be a show-me type of game, one that might set the trajectory for both programs....

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,...

Another interesting week awaits us in the NEC, featuring a battle between a NEC title contender and a Pioneer Football League contender. ...

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...

Things pretty much played out as expected when the teams of the NEC stepped up in class, losing some games against tough competition. It was...

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...

Wagner, who came within a blown defensive penalty from having a chance to beat FBS UConn, isn't the only NEC team chomping at the bit...

We live in a strange world where people consume things in bites. People consume bites like video clips quickly, and sometimes they love them enough...

It was a game a defensive coordinator could love, and it resulted in a thrilling victory for St. Francis (PA) and an agonizing loss for...

Last season, St. Francis (PA) and Lehigh faced off at the exact same time of year (Saturday, Labor Day weekend) at the exact same weekend....

The NEC starts their 2019 football season as road warriors with the exception of Merrimack, who is not a full NEC member but is competing...

Lehigh has just released their game notes for their 2019 Week 1 tilt against St. Francis (PA), and it's our first look at Lehigh's starting...

The Northeast Conference welcomes two new members in 2019 in LIU and Merrimack, two teams that should bring some juice to the league in future...

Things looked grim after an early-season defeat to Bryant left the Dukes at 3-3. But Jerry Schmitt's team would win their next five games to...

Two close conference losses, both by a single score to Sacred Heart and Duquesne, were all that separated the Blue Devils from a conference title....

The FCS Playoff autobid came down to the wire in Pittsburgh, PA, but Sacred Heart's 28-24 loss to Duquesne meant 7-4 Sacred Heart would end...

A tough, brutal early stretch of the schedule saw the Seahawks limp to a 1-5 record, though they would win their final two games against...

CCSU scored 48 straight points in a 34 point loss, and the Bulldogs never seemed to fully recover, dropping three of their last five games...

A 31-14 win over Southern Connecticut (D-II) brought the Warriors time in Division II to a close with a 5-5 record. Merrimack announced they would...

  St. Francis (PA) Red Flash Location: Loretto, PA Coach: Chris Villarrial (40-59), 9th Season at St. Francis (PA) Stadium: DeGol Field (Capacity: 3,500) CSJ...

In their final season in Division II, LIU-Post went out in style, beating perennial NE-10 power New Haven to win their conference championship and qualify...