Originally Posted by
bruinbison
It will be a sad, sad day for FCS when JMU leaves.
Perhaps now they will accept an offer from the Sun Belt, or whoever, just to get their foot in the FBS door.
I’ve enjoyed seeing the ‘embarrassing’ FCS rebound with 8 FBS wins this year, so far. In recent times 2019 (not looking at 2020) was the low point with only 3 FCS wins over FBS. 2018 - 7 2017 - 9 2016 - 10 2015 - 9
With ‘98%’ of the FCS being empty, what is some more of the 2% full FCS that I am watching this fall?
- Missouri State - I posted a note on Bison Report last week about Missouri State’s pathway to a really high ranking before they play in Fargo. Well, they took that big 1st step, beating a higher ranked Central Arkansas. The Bears rose in the rankings from 23 to 14……
Missouri State has always been a sleeping big guy……they have location, recruiting talent galore in the area, are a state school and have a refurbished stadium. Petrino, whatever you think of him, might be the coach to make something of them.
- Southern Illinois, newer up and coming coach with SIU roots, nice stadium and a great recruiting area. What is it I’m forgetting? Oh yeah, for those bored with Bison football they beat NDSU this spring……hmm, I want to see how good they are again this fall.
- Who is this Deion Sanders guy? And why is he getting such high recruiting rankings?
They have a FBS matchup this weekend I want to check on.
- Who is this East Tennessee? And how did they beat a SEC team?
AJ Blazek’s team, btw. How will they do? Nice to see from someone on NDSU’s future schedule.
- How ‘bout that new Montana State coach? Coach Vigen almost got another FCS win against Wyoming. Will he be good, long-term, at that job? Get that IPF built!
- #3 JMU at #9 Weber State this weekend.
I’ve seen mention a couple times by National writers that JMU and Sammy have a pretty good path to undefeated seasons. If that happens, well, NDSU will possibly need to be a road team.
- And how ‘bout that Women’s Basketball school? Are they to be considered a football school? They sure built a nice regular season stadium, plus a really nice IPF. For those complaining about NDSU’s home schedule, not sure if serious if you did not buy tickets for Brookings. Nice game by that ‘embarrassing’ FCS team against Colorado State, eh? If the Bison lose that game in Brookings, well, the road to Frisco probably doesn’t go through Fargo.
- Have seen mention of 5 legitimate contenders, so far, for the FCS title.
Sam Houston - SDSU - JMU - Montana - NDSU
What I’ll be watching is if the next 3-4 teams can make that step. What is nice, as a fan of FCS football, is this year there could be extra legitimate contenders. Sounds more fun than a NDSU-JMU duopoly……
Anyways, I don’t expect to have cheered up MB with any of my ramblings, I just dislike Bisonville becoming fatigued and I try and point out the positive out there.
There is a lot of fun FCS stuff out there to watch this season,
Signed,
Not fatigued Bruin Bison
P.S. welcome back Idaho!
P.P.S. Nice job Griz taking down #20 Washington!