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North Alabama Building New Stadium
North Alabama will have a new home by the 2026 season. The school broke ground on a new stadium that will be called Bank Independent Stadium with construction to begin immediately. UNA has an estimated cost of $65 million to build the stadium with $25 million coming via fundraising and another $35 million borrowed by…
Big South and Ohio Valley Conferences Alter Agreement
The Big South Conference and Ohio Valley Conference altered their football association agreement. The two conferences allow a “look-in” provision following the 2026 season that could allow the agreement to be extended four years through the 2030 season. The original agreement was set to last four years from 2023 through 2026 as the two conferences…
Annual Fear The FCS Update: June 2024 Edition
Welcome back to the now annual update regarding Fear The FCS where we provide insights into some of the updates and enhancements to the website. The past two years of updates mainly focused on the FCS versus FBS historical database changes but there’s not much to report this year regarding the database. Instead, the last…
Seven FCS Schools Face APR Practice Reductions
The NCAA released its Academic Progress Rate (APR) on Tuesday, which measures the academic success of a school and its various athletic programs. Failure to obtain a rating over 930 can lead to penalties, such as the penalty 7 FCS member institutions face based on the APR scores from the 2019-20 academic year through the…
Mercer Replacing Football Field
The Mercer Bears will be running around on a new football field this fall. The football field will be replaced and installed before the 2024 season amidst a larger facility upgrade plan by the university. Mercer plays at Five Star Stadium, which opened in 2013 and coincided with football’s return that year. The Bears played…
Southern Utah Football Hit With Tampering Penalties
Southern Utah committed tampering violations and will face several penalties from head coach DeLane Fitzgerald’s impermissible contact with two athletes still enrolled at other schools. One athlete was contacted prior to entering the transfer portal and later enrolled at SUU. Fitzgerald contacted the other athlete for game film despite not being in the transfer portal…
FCS Changes for the 2024 Season
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated as of Thursday, November 7 to reflect Texas A&M-Commerce changing its name to East Texas A&M. This post was previously updated as of Tuesday, August 27 to include the proposed NCAA changes to the Transfer Portal and waiver blanket for redshirt rules. The 2024 FCS season is a…
Stephen F. Austin Leaving WAC to Rejoin Southland Conference in 2024
Stephen F. Austin is leaving the Western Athletic Conference to return to the Southland Conference beginning with the 2024-25 academic year. The football team will leave the United Athletic Conference to rejoin the Southland with the SLC expected to play a 7-game conference schedule in 2024. SFA became a member of the FCS – then…
Bucknell Replacing Football Field
The Bucknell Bison will be trampling over a new football for the 2024 season. The football team shared a post on social media indicating work was underway to replace its previous turf field. Bucknell originally installed FieldTurf back in 2001 to replace its grass field in Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. The FieldTurf was replaced again in…
Tennessee State Renovating Stadium and Replacing Field
Tennessee State will renovate Hale Stadium as it looks to make more frequent appearances on the field that hosted numerous football games in the last half of the 20th century. Since 1999, the Tigers have primarily called Nissan Stadium in Nashville home for its football games alongside the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. TSU signed a 30-year…