Tag: Southland

Lots of playoff implications on the line for the Southland this weekend....

Scoreboards may break as one of the biggest games of the week features two of the best spring offenses squaring off....

Compared to the chaos of the final week of February, where we saw half the top 25 lose, the results of the first week in...

Northwestern State’s first game of the spring season, Southeastern Louisiana playing for its playoff lives, and surprising Incarnate Word headline Southland Conference action this weekend....

McNeese State and Nicholls are the only two Southland schools that have already played spring football games, winning both. This weekend the Southland Conference...

With three playoff teams in 2019, including 2018 champion and 2019 co-champ Nicholls, the Sam Houston State Bearkats seek a return to form following seven...

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...

Nicholls is the favorite for the Southland Conference spring football season based on a preseason vote, the league announced Wednesday....

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...

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

Hosting their first FCS Playoff games since 2015, the Grizzlies put on a show for their home fans, setting program and national records as they...

FARGO, N.D. — Top seeded North Dakota State set a new FCS record with its 34th consecutive victory, pulling away from Nicholls in the second...

Illinois State RB James Robinson followed up his 297 yard effort last week against Southeast Missouri State with a 210 yard rushing game against Central...

This weekend eight seeded teams join the FCS Playoff party, including North Dakota State, who has made December dome football a North Dakota tradition, and...

  FCS Second Round Playoff Matchup: Illinois State at Central Arkansas Where: Estes Stadium, Conway, Arkansas When: Saturday, December 7th, 3:00 PM TV/Streaming: ESPN3 (subscription...

The oddsmakers don't give them much of a chance - on a popular gambling site, Nicholls was a 28 point underdog. ...

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....

When the bracket was released last Sunday, many fans pointed to the Villanova/Southeastern Louisiana as the most potentially entertaining game and the one most likely...

Julien Gums and Dontrell Taylor combined for 267 yards on the ground and quarterback Chase Fourcade completed all but two of his 16 pass attempts...

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...

Are the Wildcats just a streaky team? Can they continue their hot streak into the playoffs? A matchup with a strong Southeastern Louisiana Lions team...

Perhaps no other matchup in this year’s opening round of the FCS playoffs pits two teams with such a varying discrepancy in terms of history...

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...

It has taken until the last week of the regular season, but we finally have some clarity in the Southland Conference....

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...

If you know what’s going to happen in the Southland Conference these last two weeks, head out to Vegas and make yourself a lot of...

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

While Central Arkansas seems to have control of the Southland at his point, the conference has shown that anything can happen on a weekly basis....

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 Southland continues to be one of the most confusing conferences to figure out. As soon as we think a team has taken a step...

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

If the playoffs started today, the Southland would easily have four teams in the playoffs, and would still have at least one team that would...

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...

After week seven, the Southland has only one team unbeaten in conference play – defending champion Nicholls – after Sam Houston State lost in triple...

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...

Last week, Nicholls asserted itself as the team to beat by cruising over Central Arkansas. Sam Houston State currently leads the conference at 3-0 and...

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...

1/3 of the way through the season, there are still a large number of Southland teams in contention for the league title. What was already...

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,...

Week three brought a mixed bag of results in the Southland. Houston Baptist shocked the FCS world with their exciting 53-52 upset of MVFC member...

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 Southland did not have many FCS vs FCS games last week. However, two of its teams – Northwestern State and Stephen F. Austin –...

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 Southland Conference picked up two of the biggest early wins and one of the most talked about close losses to an FBS team in...

Week One saw quite a few Power 5 FBS teams celebrate wins against powerful FCS teams as if they had won a bowl game. Only...

Every Southland team is playing on opening weekend, which means all Southland fans will be in for a treat of quarterback play. Better yet, there...