The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles (OVC-Big South) unveiled their 2025 schedule, which includes an opening game at home against the Cumberland Phoenix on Saturday, August 30. Cumberland is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Mid-South Conference. The Phoenix went 7-3 overall in 2024, the best season since a 7-4 … Read more
Bobby Wilder has received a contract extension from Tennessee Tech after his first season in Cookeville. Wilder won a share of the Big South-OVC Championship, the school’s first conference title since 2011 as the Golden Eagles finished 7-5. The original contract was set to expire after the 2028 season and is now extended through 2029. … Read more
Weber State (Big Sky) will travel to face former FCS program James Madison (Sun Belt) to start the 2025 season. The Wildcats will make the trek to Harrisonburg, Virginia for the August 30 contest. JMU is 3-0 all-time versus Weber State with victories in the 2017 FCS Playoff quarterfinals, 2019 FCS Playoff semifinals, and a … Read more
A record 121 FCS versus FBS games were played in 2024 and plenty produced exciting finishes. Six FCS teams ultimately prevailed over the FBS while another handful could have gone the same way. Below is a highly subjective list looking at the top ten(ish) FCS versus FBS games for the 2024 season with all five … Read more
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect the new kickoff location, date, and time for the Presbyterian-Davidson game, the change in kickoff between Tennessee Tech and Gardner-Webb, and the kickoff change time between East Tennessee State and The Citadel. Two additional FCS games have been postponed due to the impacts caused by Hurricane … Read more
One of the opening FCS games of the 2024 season has seen its broadcast network change. The McNeese (Southland) at Tarleton State (United Athletic) matchup taking place on Saturday, August 24 at 3:30 PM Eastern Time will be shown on ESPN2. The game was previously scheduled to be broadcast on ESPNU. The Cowboys and Texans … Read more
Tennessee Tech has hired Bobby Wilder as their next head coach. Wilder was previously head coach of Old Dominion when they were in the FCS and led them through the FCS to FBS reclassification. Wilder’s previous success early and often with ODU will be expected to help Tennessee Tech reach the FCS Playoffs again. The … Read more
More coaching moves have been announced as Morehead State, Tennessee Tech, and Utah Tech have decided to change the current leadership of their respective football programs. Morehead State will not renew the contract for Rob Tenyer, who had been with the Eagles since 2001 when he began as an assistant. He moved from assistant to … 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 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
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