Amidst a sea of collegiate athletic change, the Ivy League had one policy that was the most resistant to the raging waters. However, that longstanding Ivy League policy has finally fallen: the winner of the 2025 regular season championship will play in the FCS Playoffs for the first time in conference history in a move … Read more
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks (Patriot League) have released their 2025 schedule comprising 7 conference games and 5 non-conference games. The season kicks off with a conference battle at home against Patriot League newcomer Richmond on Saturday, August 30 followed by non-conference tilts against Sacred Heart (FCS Independent) on September 6 at home and a trip … Read more
The Ivy League might be an FCS Playoff participant in the future, according to The Harvard Crimson. The Ivy League’s current policy does not allow football programs to play in the FCS playoffs, in contrast to other sports in the conference that are allowed to compete in postseason tournaments. The NCAA declares the Ivy League … Read more
Thursday saw a dizzying release of kickoff and television information for the early part of the 2024 season. Included among the releases were four separate FCS conferences that will have conference matchups televised on national television. The Missouri Valley Football Conference will have two conference matchups televised nationally by ESPN in 2024. The first game … Read more
Another FCS school has chosen to go to the Division III ranks for its next head coach. First, it was Northwestern State hiring Belhaven’s Blaine McCorkle and this time it’s Columbia who has hired Jon Poppe from Union College. Poppe spent only one season as head coach for Union College in Schenectady, New York where … Read more
There are two pieces of FCS coaching news to report involving Columbia and Eastern Washington. Mark Fabish will not return as head coach for Columbia. Fabish served on an interim basis for the 2023 season after the retirement of Al Bagnoli in August. The Lions went 3-7 overall and 1-6 in the Ivy League, capping … Read more
Welcome to the All-FCS version of our annual FCS versus FBS article. Each year, we list 10 games that we like featuring FCS teams taking on the FBS and for this year we decided to look at FCS versus FCS matchups as well. We will not be using any FCS-FBS matchups in this article. In … Read more
The Ivy League will announce the fall 2020 college football season, as it relates to its members, will not happen according to a report by Mark Blaudschun of Sports Illustrated. The Ivy League will cancel all fall sports and no sports will take place prior to January 1, 2021. Blaudschun noted that a move to … Read more