#Championship Subdivision

FRISCO, Texas - North Dakota State and South Dakota State will meet in the Football Championship Subdivision title game Sunday for the first time. The matchup seemed inevitable for the last few seasons, moreso in the last year since fellow FCS heavweights James Madison and Sam Houston left for the more interesting pastures of the higher Football…

FRISCO, Texas - A three-week lead up to the most highly anticipated Football Championship Subdivision national title game in history is quickly nearing its end. No. 1 South Dakota State and No. 3 North Dakota State are set to do battle for the 114th time come Sunday afternoon, only this time not for the Dakota Marker but for a national championship…

Incarnate Word quarterback Lindsey Scott, who started his college football career at LSU in 2016, leads The Associated Press FCS All-America team presented by Regions Bank and released Tuesday. Scott has thrown for 4404 yards and a Championship Subdivision record 59 touchdowns. The Division I record is 60 set by LSU's Joe Burrow in the 2019…

Incarnate Word quarterback Lindsey Scott, who started his college football career at LSU in 2016, leads The Associated Press FCS All-America team presented by Regions Bank and released Tuesday. Scott has thrown for 4404 yards and a Championship Subdivision record 59 touchdowns. The Division I record is 60 set by LSU's Joe Burrow in the 2019…

Holy Cross faces a mighty task taking on South Dakota State, the top-ranked team in the country and the No. 1 seed in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs, but, as usual, the Crusaders are more than up for the challenge. "It's just a great opportunity," junior quarterback Matthew Sluka said. "If you want to be the best, you have the…

The odds appear to be stacked against unseeded Delaware when the Blue Hens travel west to face top-seeded South Dakota State in the Championship Subdivision playoffs this weekend. Just over 18 months ago, when the pandemic pushed the FCS season into the spring, Delaware made the same trip in the national semifinals and was beaten 33-3. This time,…

Joe Andreessen remembers sitting in the stands at Lancaster High School football games, and remembers how watching players such as Justin Juda and Zack Maryniewski pushed him to set goals for himself, even when he was in elementary school. Andreessen wanted to play football at Lancaster, and then play football in college. He wanted to become…

A handful of the Football Bowl Subdivision's new head coaches for 2023 look like can't-miss hires right off the bat, including Luke Fickell at Wisconsin, Hugh Freeze at Auburn and Matt Rhule at Nebraska. But beware: Three or four years down the road, what seemed like a home run at the introductory press conference can be revealed as a big swing and…

Bobby Petrino has emerged as a candidate to be Texas A&M's next offensive coordinator, according to 247Sports' Chris Hummer. The former coach of Arkansas, Louisville and the Atlanta Falcons is expected to interview with the Aggies in the coming days. Petrino, 61, just finished his third season leading Missouri State of the Football Championship…

FARGO - The good news for Samford: North Dakota State has been eliminated from the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs more times in the quarterfinals than any other round. The Bison lost at Eastern Washington in 2010 and at Sam Houston in the COVID spring 2021 mess. Winners of nine FCS national championships since first making the playoffs…

WEST LAFAYETTE - Jeff Brohm couldn't turn down his alma mater a second time. After six seasons at Purdue, the former Louisville standout quarterback is returning to take over the Cardinals, per ESPN's Chris Low. Here is a list of names Purdue could consider to succeed Brohm: Babers knows a lot about Purdue's program. He's coached for the…

The BYU football coaching staff was decimated in the last week and a half with the departures of defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki and associate head coach Ed Lamb. But Wednesday BYU head coach Kalani Sitake filled both of those vacancies. He announced the hiring of Jay Hill as associate head coach and defensive coordinator and the return of…

For the first time in 12 years, a University of Delaware football season ended in December. That was certainly a sign of progress for the Blue Hens under first-year coach Ryan Carty, the ex-Delaware quarterback. But an 8-5 record - also the Hens' winningest in a dozen years - contained a vast concoction of highlights, such as the season-opening win…

After expanding in recent weeks to add TCU's Max Duggan, North Carolina's Drake Maye and others, the Heisman Trophy watchlist has eliminated all contenders but Ohio State's C.J. Stroud and Southern California's Caleb Williams. If the season ended today, Williams would be tough to beat. He's been on a historic run for more than a month, culminating…

Playoff football returns to Delaware Stadium on Saturday and the Blue Hens are relishing the opportunity. It comes after distressing defeats against Richmond and Villanova the last two weeks appeared to thwart Delaware's postseason chances. Instead, a season's worth of work earned the Hens a spot in the 24-team NCAA Division I Football Championship…

As the clock hit zero on Sept. 10 in College Station, App State took down another top 10 team on the road, 15 years after the historic win against Michigan. As the season nears its end, players and fans have since gotten a chance to look back at the game that shocked the college football world and how the Mountaineers carry the legacy. "I would say…

MISSOULA - The Treasure State should be proud of its Football Championship Subdivision rivalry game. The Brawl of the Wild between the University of Montana and Montana State University is real. It never deviates from its true nature. The teams despise each other, the fans follow suit and what ensues is a game that makes the rest of the state…

WEST POINT - If you thought the 2022 Army football schedule was challenging, the 2023 version is certainly on par. In a schedule officially released on Thursday, the Black Knights revive regional rivalries with Syracuse, Boston College and Holy Cross, head to Louisiana twice including a matchup with perennial Top 25 LSU, and face their service…

NORFOLK, Va. - Old Dominion and James Madison haven't met on the football field since Nov. 17, 2012, when the Monarchs claimed a 38-28 victory in Harrisonburg. A lot has changed in the decade since, when Barack Obama was president and the current ODU football players were in grade school. But one thing that hasn't changed is the intense rivalry…

After an exciting Week 1 of SEC football, we shift our focus to a Week 2 that features plenty of big-time matchups. The headliner of the weekend is Alabama's road game at Texas, but beyond that there is Tennessee-Pitt and Kentucky-Florida. The Georgia Bulldogs are one of three SEC teams playing against a Football Championship Subdivision opponent,…

BOZEMAN - The Montana State football team's most recent memory against Northern Arizona is a good one: MSU won 49-31 in 2019 to break a three-game losing streak to the Lumberjacks. That game, MSU's most recent against NAU, was at Bobcat Stadium. The Bobcats haven't won at the Walkup Skydome since 2008. This year's MSU team is arguably better than…

November is here, and that means the college football season is heading into the home stretch. The SEC takes center stage in Week 10 with a pivotal contest in each division. There's just one other top-25 matchup beyond those two headliners, but the Saturday slate also includes a playoff contender looking to avoid a stumble on the road, another big…

This column treaded more water in Week 8 of the college football season, finding the window with underdog Liberty's outright win over BYU and with the Oregon-UCLA game going over the total. But Northern Illinois' predicted starting quarterback never saw the field and the Huskies lost as a favorite to Ohio, and suddenly struggling James Madison…

A bettor once advised that October was the best time to find live underdogs in college football. The reason? Midterm exams. The theory went that student-athletes are busy studying for an economics test rather than the game plan for Saturday. As a result, teams were more vulnerable, especially those that relied heavily on younger players. I'm not…

Last week was a frustrating one for this column because a previously unannounced injury to Kentucky quarterback Will Levis caused that pick to go south, underdog Akron couldn't keep up in a track meet with Ohio, and TCU pushed against Kansas despite having numerous cover chances. Only Wake Forest got us to the window by going over its team total,…

BOZEMAN - The Idaho State football team doesn't have to dig deep for incentives to win Saturday's game at Montana State. ISU fell to 0-5 overall and 0-2 in Big Sky Conference play after a spirited home loss to No. 3 Montana last week. The Bengals are 10-31-1 against MSU in Bozeman, including a 27-9 defeat on Oct. 23, 2021. That was the first game…

Kentucky, Illinois and the Stanford-Oregon over got us to the window this past weekend, giving this column its third straight 3-1 effort. At 9-3 over the past three weeks and 13-7 for the season, we're off to a great (and hopefully sustainable) start. This column will give out four picks per week: the game of the week, a favorite, an underdog and a…

Cole Snyder understands the visibility and responsibility that comes with playing college football close to home. The University at Buffalo quarterback grew up in the Southern Tier, played high school football at Southwestern, and joined what is essentially his hometown program after a three-season stay at Rutgers. Snyder will be UB's starting…

Clemson's failure to cover as a seven-point favorite against Wake Forest - the Tigers won by six in double overtime - was my only loss in Week 4 of the college football season, giving this column two straight 3-1 weeks and a 10-6 record on the year. This good run ideally will continue in Week 5. This column will give out four picks per week: the…

Syracuse football is 4-0 for the first time since 2018, after the Orange squeaked by fellow Atlantic Coast Conference squad Virginia last Friday night. The 22-20 triumph by the'Cuse over UVA on the Hill marked the second week in a row where Syracuse football scored points on its final offensive series to prevail, first against Big Ten Conference…

Coming off its rout of Wisconsin on Saturday night, Ohio State could be afforded an opportunity to rest some banged-up starters this week. It plays Rutgers on Saturday. Though the Scarlet Knights inched closer to.500 last fall and have shown signs of progress since Greg Schiano returned in 2020, they've been near the bottom of the Big Ten for…

Middle Tennessee wide receiver Colton Shaffer celebrates after Middle Tennessee beat Miami 45-31 during an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 | 2 a.m. The ACC is ditching the divisional setup starting next season, but the change might be coming one year too late. This year's ACC…

YPSILANTI, Mich. - The University at Buffalo football team waited for this win, and worked for this win. The Bulls withstood the heckles that came with losing to a Football Championship Subdivision program on a last-second Hail Mary pass, then with a collapse on teal turf last weekend at Coastal Carolina. The Bulls put on brave faces when people…

Two weeks ago, Georgia embarrassed Oregon. There is no sugarcoating the 49-3 demolition the Ducks endured. Don't throw out those Pac-12 Championship predictions just yet. After cruising past Eastern Washington last weekend, Oregon put together an impressive 41-20 victory over 12th-ranked BYU. Bo Nix exploded for a second straight five-touchdown…

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The scheduling gods blessed the Missouri football team with the perfect cure for a Manhattan hangover: a cold glass of FCS. Fresh off their 40-12 thrashing at Kansas State, Eli Drinkwitz's Tigers (1-1) return home Saturday to host Abilene Christian (2-0), a team from the Football Championship Subdivision, the Division I level one…

The North Dakota State Bison and Arizona Wildcats play on Saturday in a Week 3 college football game. Here's a look at the time, channel, announcers and broadcast information for the game. College football Week 3 picks, predictions, odds: The game can be seen at 8 p.m. MST time on FS1. Alex Faust (play-by-play) and Petros Papadakis (analyst) will…

It was another 2-2 week for this column, as Alabama and Wisconsin failed to cover as favorites (the Badgers lost outright despite dominating the stat sheet) while my underdog pick Kentucky defeated Florida and the North Carolina-Georgia State game came in under the total. I'm 4-4 on the season on these picks, which isn't great. Hopefully we can…

Youngstown State Penguins vs Kentucky Wildcats 9/17/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Youngstown State Penguins will go against the #20 Kentucky Wildcats in NCAAF action in Kroger Field, Kentucky, on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at 12:00 PM ET. Mark Stoops has an 8-0 record as the head coach of Kentucky against teams in the Football Championship…

Legal online gambling is half the age of the College Football Playoff. Neither has hit double digits in age, but what they each have in common is they both ushered in change. Some online gambling operators have influenced and shaped how we view the US online gambling market. People like Sara Slane, Jason Robins and Jay Snowden have pushed the…

Guarantee games have been part of the college football landscape for a long time. For the most part, such contests are mutually beneficial. The host school fills out its non-conference schedule while the visiting team, usually from a less-prestigious league, cashes a big check that helps the overall bottom line of its athletic department. But…