2024 FCS Playoff Bracket

Editor’s Note: The bracket will be updated as the playoff games are completed. The 2024 FCS Playoff bracket has been revealed and Montana State took the top spot, which is the first time they’ve been the #1 overall seed. Behind them are a trio of MVFC teams and an additional Big Sky team that will … Read more

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 … Read more

North Carolina A&T Schedules Two Future Series

North Carolina A&T has scheduled not one but two different two-game series against FCS opponents, according to FBSchedules. The Aggies will play against a familiar foe – Tennessee State – and a new one – Princeton. North Carolina A&T and Tennessee State have a home-and-home series scheduled for 2025 and 2028. TSU will host the … Read more

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 … Read more

10 FCS Versus FBS Games We Are Looking Forward to Watching for the 2023 Season

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

FCS Changes for the 2023 Season

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 along with Bryant’s move to the CAA in 2024. This post was further updated on September 8 with the news of West Georgia … Read more

Ohio Valley Moves Football to the Spring

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

SIAC and CIAA Suspend Fall Sports; 12 Additional Games With FCS Opponents Canceled

In a day and week of constant bad news, two Division II conferences delivered some more. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) jointly announced the suspension of fall sports for 2020. Both conferences are willing to consider a move of football to the spring of 2021 but will ultimately … Read more

Two More Games Canceled

Two more games featuring FCS teams have been canceled due to the ongoing pandemic. Both the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic and Lafayette at Navy were canceled. The Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic follows the news that the Pro Football Hall of Fame game scheduled for a month earlier on August … Read more

Southern Cancels Florida A&M and Tennessee State Games

Southern’s opening two contests of the season have been canceled according to the New York Times. The game on Saturday, September 5 between Southern and Tennessee State was scheduled to take place in Detroit, Michigan. The Saturday, September 12 game between Florida A&M and Southern has also been canceled. The game was scheduled to be … Read more