Tag: Pioneer Football League

The Patriot League Office announced on Monday guidance regarding the 2020 fall competition, a list of principles to "guide the development of a Patriot...

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....

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa–With Northern Iowa’s offense struggling to make plays, the Panthers got a defensive touchdown and forced four turnovers to advance to the second...

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...

FCS First Round Playoff Matchup: San Diego (Pioneer) at Northern Iowa (Missouri Valley) Where: UNI-Dome, Cedar Falls, Iowa When: Saturday, November 30th,  2:00 PM EST...

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...

Dayton and Drake finished tied for second place in the league standing with identical 6-2 records, while Davidson placed fourth after compiling a 5-3 record....

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...

Perhaps no bigger matchup looms than when Drake travels to play Davidson. Both teams are tied for second place, along with Dayton, with 5-2 league...

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...

The Toreros had little trouble in steamrolling their way to another Pioneer Football League championship with an impressive win over Morehead State on Saturday. ...

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...

Drake entertains Dayton in the biggest game of the week in the PFL. A win by the Bulldogs would keep the pressure on San Diego...

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

San Diego has two games remaining during the regular season. The Toreros are scheduled to face Morehead State and Jacksonville in the final two games...

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...

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

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...

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...

Davidson's narrow win against Georgetown last week was a really nice win for the Pioneer, who went 2-4 in their games last week.  This week...

The PFL starts their 2019 journeys this week with the most diverse out-of-conference slate in all fo the FCS.  Butler takes on the defending FCS...

These teams are high caliber teams who will be in contention for PFL crown and the league's automatic playoff bid.  ...

The Toreros finished 2018 with a 9-3 overall record and a 8-0 mark in the Pioneer Football League to win their third straight PFL title...

The Bulldogs finished 2018 with a 7-4 overall record and a 6-2 mark in the Pioneer Football League to tie for second in the league...

Dayton Flyers Location: Dayton, OH Coach: Rick Chamberlin (83-38), 12th season at Dayton Stadium: Welcome Stadium (Capacity: 11,000) CSJ Projections: 3rd: Pioneer 10th: Ohio 86th:...

The Bulldogs got off to a great start with a win at the Missouri Valley Football Conference's Youngstown State, but could not use that momentum...

The Hatters went 8-2 last season and were in contention for the Pioneer Football League title, had PFL winners San Diego slipped up along the...

Say what you want about the Wildcats and their feather-light schedule - Davidson was a mighty entertaining football team last year....

The Red Foxes had a chance to end the year with a winning record, but a 31-14 loss to PFL champions San Diego doomed Marist...

The Eagles yielded a staggering 6 touchdowns a game en route to a 3-8 season, giving up 40 or more points in seven of eleven...

The Crusaders regressed to a 2-9 overall mark (2-6 PFL) after posting a 6-5 mark in 2017 and also lost its head coach Dave Cecchini...

A somewhat promising season crashed and burned to a disappointing 2-8 record.  In eight games, including one of their victories, the Dolphin defense gave up...

It’s May. Spring football is over, and the preseason camps don’t start for a couple months. We are in the doldrums of the FCS offseason....

Nicholls 49, San Diego 30 Video Highlights Courtesy NCAA.com THIBODAUX, La. – Nicholls State raced out to a 32-point lead over San Diego early in...

San Diego at Nicholls When: Saturday, November 24, 3:00 PM Where: John L Guidry Stadium, Thoibodaux, LA TV/Streaming: ESPN3 San Diego Toreros San Diego, California...

The 2018 FCS Playoff Bracket was announced on ESPNU on November 18th at 12:30 EST, and the NCAA issued their release about the 2018 FCS...

All the regular season games have been played, and let’s get right to it. Once again, a quick recap of the rules for the ability...

Though the field for the 2018 FCS Playoffs was clarified a little bit a week before the selection of the field, a chaotic upset-filled week...

What a weekend! Whatever you thought was true in regards to the qualified teams in the FCS Playoff field last week was almost certainly changed...

San Diego at UC Davis When: Saturday, September 8th, 7:00 PM PDT Where: Aggie Stadium, Davis, Calif. TV/Streaming Coverage: WatchBigSky.com / Pluto TV Channel: 245 San Diego (1-0, 0-0...

College Sports Journal announces their 2018 Fearless Prediction for the Order of finish of the Pioneer Football League. The San Diego Toreros are picked by...

San Diego Toreros Location: San Diego, CA Coach: Dale Lindsey (46-13), 6th Season Stadium: Torero Stadium (Capacity: 6,000) CSJ Projections: 1st: Pioneer League 10th: California 69th:...

Dayton Flyers Location: Dayton, OH Coach: Rick Chamberlin (79-33) 11th Season Stadium: Welcome Stadium (Capacity: 11,000) CSJ Projections: 2nd: Pioneer League 10th: Ohio 88th: FCS 218th:...

Drake Bulldogs Location: Des Moines, IA Coach: Rick Fox (26-18) 5th Season Stadium: Drake Stadium (Capacity: 14,557) CSJ Projections: 3rd: Pioneer League 4th: Iowa 90th:...