Tag: SoCon

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...

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....

It's the nightmare scenario for any playoff team - seeing your starting quarterback go down midway through the second quarter with an injury.  That's exactly...

It took a while, but the last train to Clarksville ran all over Furman and left a mark of mammoth proportions....

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...

Austin Peay, the winners of the OVC for the first time since 1977, plays Furman in the first round of the FCS playoffs. It is...

FCS First Round Playoff Matchup: Kennesaw State (Big South) at Wofford (Southern) Where: Gibbs Stadium, Spartanburg, South Carolina Saturday, November 30th, 4:00 PM TV/Streaming: ESPN3...

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...

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...

Everything has been decided in the Southern Conference with one week to go in the season. Wofford was able to clinch the conference title with...

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...

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...

We are down to the last two weeks and the Southern Conference has a clear picture of its outlook for the conference title and potential...

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

The crème has started to rise to the top in the Southern Conference over the last few weeks. With three weeks left in the season,...

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...

The SoCon race is still a wide open, with three teams with one conference loss and another three with two conference losses. There is a...

Remember when I had Villanova as a seed?  Good times. Harken back to when I had Delaware in my field?  Yes, way back when –...

With Furman losing at home to The Citadel, the Southern Conference race was ripped wide open. Furman was cruising, leading many to think the league...

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...

It was a light week in the Southern Conference last week, but there was no shortage of fireworks. VMI hit a 56 yard field goal...

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...

There were a couple of surprising results in the Southern Conference last week and for vastly different reasons.It wasn’t Furman' defeat of Samford that was...

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....

Last week’s Southern Conference slate was headlined by an exciting 4OT game that saw Samford outlast The Citadel 61-55. Samford has rattled off three straight...

A week ago, UC Davis was being lauded for giving top-ranked North Dakota State a true run for their money at their place.  Last week,...

The Southern Conference continues to confound the rest of the FCS world. As soon as you think a team is heading in one direction, they...

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,...

The Southern Conference continues to look like a strong league in 2019. But, the one team everyone expected to be the top team in the...

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...

It was a week of high-profile Top 25 clashes in FCS this week, as the marquee games of the week pitted Delaware vs. North Dakota...

The Southern Conference continued its slow start to 2019 with only one team picking up a win against an FCS opponent. The one bright spot,...

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...

The Southern Conference did not get off to a great start in 2019, picking up only two out of conference wins. The poor weekend was...

The Southern Conference promises to be one of the most tightly contested races in 2019. While the conference champion won’t be determined in week one,...

Its hard to replace a Walter Payton Award winner like Samford has to do with Devlin Hodges. Hodges finished his career at Samford by breaking...

The Southern Conference is always a competitive league, and 2019. The SoCon only put two teams in the playoffs in 2018, but there was at...

2018 marked the first season in 30 years that Mike Ayers wasn’t the head coach. But the Terriers made Ayers proud in the first year...

A yearly competitor for an FCS playoff berth, Furman barely missed out in 2018 after a 6-4 season. The Paladins went 6-2 in conference play,...

Since reinstating the football program in 2015, East Tennessee State has been slowly improving, culminating in an 8-4 season and FCS playoff berth under first...

Chattanooga got off to a promising start in 2018 before losing their last three games to end the season. ...

The Citadel started 1-4 and finished 4-2 in an up and down season. The biggest highlight came in a loss to Alabama - the Bulldogs...

Samford came into the 2018 with high expectations, and was the talk of the FCS after nearly beating Florida State. However, the wheels came off...

Outside of an upset win over a struggling Samford team, Mercer won the games they were favored in and lost the games where they were...

Western Carolina started the 2018 season with three straight wins, but it was all downhill from there as the Catamounts lost their last 8 games...

On November 3rd, the Keydets downed D-II Tusculum 20-11, snapping a 25 game losing streak that dated from 2016.  The 1-10 record obscures the fact...

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....