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Week 2 FCS Football Game Breakdowns

The leaves are turning brown, the air conditioner finally turned off, the local high school band is jamming out and somebody in the College Sports Madness office made a pot of chili. It looks, feels, sounds, smells and tastes like football season.  Any hope we have left for summer will go away this weekend as college football kicks off. Fall and football are here and College Sports Madness has all of your ...

Week 1 FCS Football Game Breakdowns

The leaves are turning brown, the air conditioner finally turned off, the local high school band is jamming out and somebody in the College Sports Madness office made a pot of chili. It looks, feels, sounds, smells and tastes like football season.  Any hope we have left for summer will go away this weekend as college football kicks off. Fall and football are here and College Sports Madness has all of your ...

Albany, Stony Brook join CAA Football

RICHMOND, Va. (August 7, 2012) -- University at Albany and Stony Brook University have accepted offers of membership into CAA Football beginning July 2013, Commissioner Tom Yeager announced today.

"This is certainly a momentous day for CAA Football," Yeager said. "The addition of Albany and Stony Brook bring playoff-tested programs from the ...

Towson Earns the Respect of the CAA

The coaches and SIDs in the Colonial Athletic Association must think Towson University is really good or they didn’t pay much attention to the Tigers’ schedule this fall.

For the first time, the Tigers, last year’s CAA champions, have been chosen as the league’s preseason favorite in a poll conducted Wednesday at CAA Football Media Day in Baltimore. ...

The CAA Challenge

With the departure this week of VCU to the Atlantic 10 and now Old Dominion to Conference USA, did one headline in a Virginia newspaper speak the truth when it screamed: “The CAA is doomed”?   That might be premature, but there’s no doubt the conference took a hit this week right in the solar plexus.

When George Mason announced it had declined an offer to join ...

FCS Playoff Expansion

The Football Championship Subdivision has proposed an expansion of the playoff system to 24 teams for 2013.  The expanded field would allow the FCS to provide an automatic bid to all conferences that want one and that will now include the Pioneer League.  As part of the expansion the FCS will seed the top eight teams in the playoff and give them first round byes and second round ...

FCS Spring Football Notes & Quotes

A national title tends to generate interest, not that North Dakota State football needed a spark. But fresh off its NCAA Football Championship Subdivision crown in January, a record crowd of 5,842 showed up Saturday at the Fargodome for the team’s spring game. The previous mark was last year when 3,051 attended the spring contest.  For the record, Adam Keller’s 43-yard field goal early in the ...

FCS Players in the 2012 NFL Draft

Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck might have been the attention-getters at the recently concluded NFL Combine, but the 32 teams and scouts present in Indianapolis came to see a lot more than just those two standouts.

Not all of the 300-plus invitees hail from the Stanfords, Baylors, or Alabamas of the world. Twenty-two players came from Football ...

FCS Championship Game Breakdown

At the end of August, several conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision began the quest to make it to Frisco. Three months later, the field was narrowed to 20 teams that qualified for postseason play. Only two remain.

Sam Houston State and North Dakota State square off on Saturday at Pizza Hut Field in ...

FCS Playoffs Semifinal Game Breakdowns

Was anyone hoping for a Montana State-Montana matchup in the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals? Sorry, try again. Not going to happen this year. What will happen is the top ...