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2025 FCS Playoff Bracket
Editor’s Note: The bracket will be updated as the playoff games are completed. The 2025 FCS Playoff bracket is set, with North Dakota State expected to take the top spot. Montana State is likely the second overall seed. Those two met in the previous FCS National Championship in January 2025, with NDSU winning a thriller…
Delaware State is Stirring Up a Hornet’s Nest on the Ground This Season
If you’ve been around football for a while, the phrase “three yards and a cloud of dust” invokes a certain type of fondness for “old school” football, where the whole offensive playbook consisted of a few run plays designed to generate simple gains on the ground. The concept of actually throwing the football, let alone…
UTRGV Football Inaugural Season 2025: Making an Impression in the Southland Conference
As an old high school football coach, there’s a popular mantra within the coaching ranks that it takes three years to make a real impact on any football program, whether at the high school or collegiate levels. For some programs, success sometimes shows its face in increments, and for others, it shows up in leaps and…
FCS Moves to a Single Transfer Window
The NCAA Division I Administrative Committee, now the NCAA Division I Cabinet, voted to change the transfer window to a single timeframe. The vote comes after the FCS Oversight Committee recommended the change in September. The new rule will see the transfer period open from January 2 through January 16. The previous rules had two…
Tennessee Tech Joining Southern Conference in 2026
The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles will move from the Ohio Valley Conference to the Southern Conference beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. Tennessee Tech plays football in the OVC-Big South Football Association. The Golden Eagles joined the Ohio Valley Conference in 1949. Tennessee Tech won or shared 9 OVC football titles between 1952 and 1975….
Sacred Heart Football Joins CAA
The Sacred Heart Pioneers will join the Coastal Athletic Association as a football-only member beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. Sacred Heart spent the 2024 season as an FCS independent and will do so again for the 2025 campaign. The addition of Sacred Heart will put the CAA at 13 football teams and underscores a…
Austin Peay, SEMO, and UC Davis Add Future FBS Foes; SWAC Unveils Streaming Network
Three FCS teams have added future games against the FBS, starting with Southeast Missouri State (OVC-Big South). The Redhawks will play at the Kansas Jayhawks (Big 12) in week one of the 2027 season, although a date hasn’t been set according to FBSchedules. Kansas previously defeated SEMO in 2014 and 2017 in the only previous…
FCS Changes for the 2025 Season
The 2025 FCS season is only weeks away and the current realignment cycle is still producing numerous changes that will impact the upcoming season. As we have done with the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 seasons, below is a list of all the changes for the 2025 season and beyond. There’s a summarized list…
FCS Moves to 12 Regular Season Games
The NCAA Division I Council has voted to allow the FCS to have up to 12 regular season games each year, beginning with the 2026 season. FCS teams were previously permitted to play a maximum of 11 regular season contests unless there were 14 Saturdays between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. The 2024 and 2025 seasons…
Southern Utah and Utah Tech to Join Big Sky, ASUN Football Schools to Join Rebranded WAC
The realignment impacts on the Western Athletic Conference have led to two schools joining the Big Sky Conference, one of which was a former member. The Southern Utah Thunderbirds and Utah Tech Trailblazers will join the Big Sky Conference beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. Both schools are members of the WAC and compete in…