FCS Football

FCS Playoffs: Who's In, Who's Out

The final week of the FCS regular season gave us plenty of drama as teams battled to make the field of 20 in the playoffs. There were battles for conference titles and a few at-large bids that were still up for grabs heading into Saturday’s action. And those at-large bids are now in the hands of the selection committee. But before the official announcement comes Sunday morning, College Sports Madness will take ...

Maine Black Bears
CAA

Maine has been one of the many surprise teams in the Colonial Athletic Association. Following a 5-6 season in 2009 and another disappointing 4-7 campaign in 2010, the Black Bears finally pulled everything together in 2011. A big reason for their success has been the ...

Towson Tigers
CAA

Just about every story in the CAA this year is of a surprise team making the playoffs. But the story of Towson may be the biggest surprise of them all. The Tigers went 1-10 last season and that one win took five overtimes. This is a program that had won just three ...

Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles
Ohio Valley Conference

Tennessee Tech was the most consistent team in the Ohio Valley Conference even though a whole slew of teams headed into the last weekend of the regular season with playoff hopes. But it was the Golden Eagles who stepped up when they needed to the most. ...

Albany Great Danes
Northeast Conference

Coach Bob Ford has built the Albany program and now gets to see them make the next step in college football. Coach Ford joined the program back in 1970. It was not until three years later that football went from a club to a varsity sport. Since then Coach Ford has led Albany to success at ...

Wofford Terriers
Southern Conference

Wofford coach Mike Ayers entered his 24th season with the Terriers with high expectations. This squad has not disappointed. Wofford nearly beat Clemson back in September and have been able to score a ton of points on just about everybody. Stopping the opposition has been a little more ...

Montana Grizzlies
Big Sky Conference

Last year Montana finished with a disappointing 7-4 record and missed the playoffs. All they needed to do at the end of the 2010 campaign was win a road game at Weber State or knock off Montana State in the finale at home. A win in either of those games would have likely earned the Grizzlies a ...

Sam Houston State Bearkats
Southland Conference

Sam Houston State was expected to have a strong season under second year coach Willie Fritz. Last season the Bearkats improved dramatically as the season progressed, except for a three game losing streak when the going got tough. But that was a young team ...

Lehigh Mountain Hawks
Patriot League

Lehigh has had another great season in 2011. A year ago they upset Northern Iowa in the first round of the playoffs before falling to Delaware. This year the postseason success could continue. The Mountain Hawks lost just one game during the regular season and it was an overtime thriller ...

Stony Brook Seawolves
Big South

Stony Brook may not even remember losing. The Seawolves started the season with trips to UTEP and Buffalo. They took the Miners to overtime before losing 31-24and lost at Buffalo. They then played Brown at home and lost 21-20. After that disappointing, but mostly ...