Tarleton State, another new FCS member in 2020, has scheduled five opponents in the future schedules per FBSChedules. The added teams were Dixie State, South Dakota State, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Western New Mexico, and Western Oregon. As announced earlier this year, Dixie State was scheduled to face South Dakota State on November 14, 2020. However, Tarleton … Read more
South Dakota State firmly stamped its entry as an FCS dynasty by winning back-to-back national titles while the FCS as a whole struggled to win games against the FBS. 2023 FCS Over FBS Victories (4) Playoff Bracket, Notes, and National Champion The FCS Playoff format did not change in 2023 with the 24-team format in … Read more
The University of West Georgia is moving up to the FCS ranks. The Georgia Board of Regents approved the move on Friday and the school will begin the four-year transition process to the ASUN beginning with the 2024-25 academic year. West Georgia’s football team will play in the United Athletic Conference, which is comprised of … Read more
The 2023 college football season will feature 118 FCS versus FBS games, which means many potentially exciting matchups. As done in 2021 and 2022, we will provide our list of ten (or so) FCS-FBS games we look forward to watching this season. As a friendly reminder, this list is not solely comprised of the best … Read more
Editor’s note: This post was updated on Thursday, July 20 to reflect the CAA’s new name and on August 10 to include the 12-game schedule allowance for the 2024 and 2025 seasons and Bryant’s move to the CAA in 2024. This post was further updated on September 8 with the news of West Georgia moving … Read more
The 2023 season is approaching and that means plenty of FCS versus FBS matchups are on tap with 118 this season. There will not be a record number of games featuring FCS teams against FBS opponents as we saw in both 2021 and 2022. This season will also mark the sixth time in the last eight seasons that … Read more
After two seasons and two different names, the ASUN and WAC football schools will compete in a newly named United Athletic Conference. The 9 members will compete under the UAC brand for the FCS Playoff automatic qualifying spot given to the conference winner. The ASUN and WAC have partnered up in football since 2021 when … Read more
The University of Texas at Arlington hasn’t played a snap of football in nearly four decades and the first step to bringing it back has been taken. Students at UT Arlington participated in Student Government elections with a referendum on the ballot that would begin the process of funding a football team. UT Arlington football … Read more
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has officially announced the start of a football program. The Vaqueros will kick off for the first time in the 2025 season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference. Per the release, UTRGV will be fully eligible for the NCAA Playoffs and play a full WAC schedule … Read more
Lamar University has returned to the Southland a year earlier than planned in a surprise announcement by the Southland Conference. Lamar was originally planning to rejoin the Southland in 2023. The sudden move will have numerous impacts in 2022. The ASUN-WAC football alliance was going to feature 5 teams from each conference but that has … Read more