Tag: South Dakota State

Highlights: CSJ FCS Top 5 Games of Week 2

Here is my take on the top 5 games of the week with video highlights from Week 2. Eastern Washington survived a test on the road against Northern Arizona, Maine blocked a field goal on the very last play to preserve FCS’s sixth upset over an FBS team in 2018, and South Dakota State defended […]

CSJ’s 2018 Week 2 Game Preview: Montana State @ South Dakota State

Montana State at South Dakota State When: Saturday, September 8th, 6:00 PM CDT Where: Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium, Brookings, S.D. TV/Streaming Coverage:Midco Sports Network | Jackrabbits All-Access (subscription) | ESPN+ (subscription) Montana State (1-0, 0-0 Big Sky, last week W 26-23 vs Western Illinois) Tristen Bailey’s fourth field goal of the game, this time from 25 yards out, gave Montana State a […]

CSJ’s 2018 Week 1 Game Preview: South Dakota State at Iowa State

South Dakota State at Iowa State When: Saturday, September 1st, 7:00 PM CDT Where: Jack Trice Stadium, Ames, IA TV/Streaming Coverage: Cyclones.TV/ Cyclones.TV South Dakota State: CSJ’s 2018 Preview Capsule SDSU did not play an FBS opponent last year, in what was a record-setting, 11-win season, and now the Jacks are attempting to move forward from that season […]

CSJ’s FCS Week 5 Game of the Week, Spotlight, And Fearless Predictions

FCS Game of the Week: No. 4 South Dakota State vs. No. 5 Youngstown State “I’d put it up against any game being played in the country. BCS conference or not, these are two teams that can line up and beat a lot of football teams out there.” Never let it be said that Bo […]

CSJ’s FCS Week 4 Game of the Week, Spotlight, And Fearless Predictions

FCS Game of the Week: No. 20 Tennessee State vs. UT Martin There are a lot of FCS football games happening this weekend – a lot of games involving nationally-ranked teams and conference title contenders. But only one of those games is being played and also has a trophy associated with it. Saturday’s game marks […]

FCS Week 2 Quick Recap and Highlights

Top 10 Twitter Highlights No. 2-ranked North Dakota State rushed for 375 yards and rolled to a 40-13 victory over No. 6-ranked Eastern Washington in a key non-conference football game Saturday, Sept. 9. Bruce Anderson had 160 yards and one touchdown and Lance Dunn ran for 148 yards and three TDs for the Bison, who […]

2017 Season FCS College Football Picks: Missouri Valley Football Conference

CSJ’s Predicted Order of finish: North Dakota State South Dakota State Youngstown State Illinois State Northern Iowa Western Illinois South Dakota Southern Illinois Missouri State Indiana State   North Dakota State Fearless Prediction: While NDSU’s run at consecutive national titles and 27-consective playoff wins ended after losing in the playoff semi-finals last year against James […]

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 be no different as nine of the ten teams in the conference return their starting quarterbacks. A year ago, however, was the first year in six seasons that the […]

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 current Playoff Selection Committee rankings with the single loss to SDSU. Other than that loss, they have a spectacular resume due to their strength of schedule and an impressive FBS […]

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 visits NDSU. Both schools right now look comfortably in the field of 24 playoff field. The winner will have the inside track for at least a share of the conference […]

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 with four losses, however, are in a must win mode to stay in the playoff conversation. NDSU, meanwhile, will try to stay in the Top 4 seed conversation. The other […]

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 Dakota State (5-1, 2-1) Last Week: Lost to South Dakota State 19-17 at home This Week: at Western Illinois I know, I know. How can the Bison still be #1? […]

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. (1) North Dakota State (5-0, 2-0) Last Week: Win over Missouri State 27-3 on the road This Week: vs. South Dakota State The Bison play SDSU this week in the […]

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 Dayton have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending October 9th, 2016 in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The honorees are listed here with […]

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 to bottom. In fact, three league games last Saturday ended with large scoring runs by the winning team. North Dakota State trailed Illinois State, 10-7, with 13:06 remaining the second […]

College Sports Journal FCS Players of the Week, Oct. 2

Five players including KD Humphries from Murray State, Dallas Goedert from South Dakota State, Brad Mayes from Lehigh, Ryan Francis from VMI, and Lane Clark from Tennessee State have been selected as the College Sports Journal All-Stars for the week ending October 2nd, 2016 in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The honorees are […]

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, its prior ranking in the week and a summary of what each team did the week before, as well as what each team has coming up. I will do this […]

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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 State Youngstown State Western Illinois Southern Illinois Indiana State South Dakota Missouri State OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Jake Wieneke, WR, Jr., South Dakota State DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: […]