The FCS has seen a high number of games moved up to the opening Thursday night for the 2024 season. The latest change was North Dakota State’s matchup versus Colorado, which was previously set for Saturday, August 31. NDSU holds a 9-4 record against FBS opponents since they moved to the FCS. Murray State’s opening … Read more
South Carolina tight ends coach Jody Wright will take over the head coaching position at Murray State. Wright spent two years with South Carolina and the Racers’ job will mark his first time as a head coach. Wright is familiar with the FCS level having played collegiately at Jacksonville State and he started his coaching … Read more
Dean Hood has announced his retirement from coaching. Hood was most recently in charge of the Murray State Racers since the season 2020 where he went 15-25 overall and oversaw the move from the Ohio Valley Conference to the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Hood is the fourth FCS head coach to announce his retirement in … 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
This post was edited on August 3, 2022 to reflect the news of Lamar returning to the Southland Conference starting in 2022 and Campbell joining the CAA in 2023. This post was updated on September 21, 2022 after Houston Baptist changed its name to Houston Christian. This post was further updated on October 14, 2022 … Read more
Murray State University will become the 12th football member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2023. The Racers announced their intention to leave the Ohio Valley Conference for the Missouri Valley Conference in January 2022 but did not announce a new football conference at the time (the MVC and MVFC are not the same … Read more
The Ohio Valley Conference is the latest and final FCS conference to postpone its conference schedule to the spring according to Pete Thamel. The OVC will allow up to four non-conference games followed by a seven game OVC schedule in the spring. The Ohio Valley Conference confirmed the postponement on Friday evening. The last week … Read more
The Tarleton State Texans will not be playing FCS football this fall as the school announced it would seek to play a spring season. The Texans had three games officially canceled for its 2020 season. Those three games were against Texas-Permian Basin (9/19), Eastern New Mexico (10/3), and Bethune-Cookman (10/31). The remaining 8 games featured … Read more
Editor’s note: The Pac-12 officially announced it would move to a conference only schedule on Friday, July 10. Following in the footsteps of the Big 10, the ACC and Pac-12 Conference are also reportedly moving to conference only schedules. Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic reported both the Big Ten and Pac-12 news but also cautioned … Read more
The Murray State Racers and Georgia State Panthers have moved their opening week game from Saturday, September 5 to Thursday, September 3. No specific reason was provided for the change of date. The game is scheduled to kick off at 7 PM Eastern Time. The Racers and Panthers have met once before on the football … Read more