Bubba McDowell Out as Prairie View A&M Coach

Bubba McDowell has been let go by Prairie View A&M (SWAC) after three seasons in charge. McDowell led the Panthers to the 2023 SWAC Championship, losing to Florida A&M 35-14. McDowell is the second FCS head coaching change on Sunday following Valparaiso’s Landon Fox. McDowell took over in 2022 following Eric Dooley’s four-year tenure. Dooley … Read more

FCS Teams Set Numerous Matchups for 2025, 2026, and 2027 Seasons

Abilene Christian has added two games to its 2025 schedule as reported by FBSchedules. The Wildcats (United Athletic) will face off against Tulsa (American Athletic) on Saturday, August 30, and Incarnate Word (Southland) four weeks later on Saturday, September 27. ACU has never faced Tulsa in football and they own a 7-5 lead over UIW … Read more

SWAC Announces 19 Digital Network Games for 2024; Nine Games Involving FCS Teams Revealed

The SWAC has announced another set of games that will be broadcast on YouTube via its digital network for the upcoming 2024 season. 19 games in total will be shown on the SWAC Digital Network between Saturday, September 7 through Saturday, November 16. 11 of the 19 games will be conference matchups while the other … Read more

Prairie View A&M Adds Baylor for 2026; Two Big Sky Teams Set Future Opponents

Prairie View A&M has added Baylor to its 2026 schedule, per FBSchedules. The two teams will meet on Saturday, September 12, 2026, with the Panthers set to receive $400,000 for the contest. The two schools have never met previously. There are 455 future games scheduled between FCS and FBS teams including 83 for the 2026 … Read more

Three Additional 2024 FCS-FBS Matchups to be Televised; Two FCS Matchups Revealed

The Mountain West signed a TV rights deal with TNT Sports that will result in three more FCS versus FBS matchups being televised in 2024. The three matchups that will be broadcast on truTV and Max will feature Idaho, Sacramento State, and Texas A&M-Commerce. A total of 121 FCS versus FBS matchups are slated for … Read more

Slew of FCS Games to be Nationally Televised Among Several Assorted FCS-FBS Matchup Changes

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

Prairie View A&M and South Dakota Add Future FBS Opponents

There were to future FCS-FBS games announced this week beginning with Prairie View A&M and Michigan State for the 2024 season. The contest was recently revealed by MSU and the two teams will meet on Saturday, September 14 in East Lansing. The two schools have not played each other in football. For games beyond 2024, … Read more

The Citadel Gets Spring Waiver; Bryant-Rhode Island Schedule Spring Contest

The Citadel Bulldogs were recipients of a rare favorable ruling by the NCAA to play eight conference games in the spring. The Citadel played a four-game fall schedule against South Florida, Clemson, Eastern Kentucky, and Army. Due to the NCAA’s restriction on FCS teams playing only 11 games, The Citadel was originally scheduled to play … Read more

SWAC Postpones Fall Sports

After a report on Friday by Brett McMurphy that the SWAC would cancel fall sports and subsequent clarification from SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland, the SWAC presidents voted to postpone fall sports to the spring. The SWAC voted to play a 7 game football schedule spring 2021 with an 8 week training period beginning in January. … Read more

Four FCS Teams Face Postseason Ineligibility

The NCAA released the Academic Progress Rates for all sports teams on Tuesday to determine postseason eligibility. Teams must score at least 930 out of 1000 on the APR over the last four years to be eligible. The four FCS teams that did not reach the mark were Howard (915), McNeese (919), Prairie View A&M … Read more