September 2017 – The FCS Wedge

SOCON: Week 5 Preview

September 28, 2017September 29, 2017 Marc Goold

TweetIt’s the first full week of conference play and the race for Southern Conference should become a “little” clearer after this week. First off, the Bucs of ETSU meet Furman in Greenville. The Citadel travels to Samford in a battle of the Bulldogs. VMI travels to Mercer to take on the Bears in Macon. WCU goes to Chattanooga. And in the only... Read More

Patriot League: Week 5 Preview

September 28, 2017 Kevin Hottle

TweetLast weekend could be classified as a 5 alarm dumpster fire for the Patriot League after going 1-6 in out of conference play. Losing is never good but the way some of the teams in the league lost was especially embarrassing. The Patriot League’s overall record after 4 weeks of play is 7-20. With the non-league games wrapping up over... Read More

MVFC – Week 5 Preview

September 28, 2017September 28, 2017 Scott Lawson

Tweet It’s all downhill from here…at least for some teams. The MVFC has 6 teams listed in the top 10 of this week’s AGS poll and fully half of the conference is undefeated, but we’re now “all in” on conference “season”. This week, we have 5 games between the 10 MVFC teams including two games involving two top-10 teams. Somebody... Read More

The FCS Wedge – 2017-0920 – WEEK 5 PREVIEW

September 28, 2017September 28, 2017 Troy

TweetThese two games are probably the biggest of a slate of impressive matchups this week. I’m not gonna spoil these two, listen to what Kris & Lance have for these two donnybrooks. Sam Houston State @ Central Arkansas South Dakota State @ Youngstown State The rest of the impressive slate goes like this: South Dakota @ Western Illinois Not to... Read More

The FCS Wedge – 2017-0927 – WEEK 4 REVIEW

September 27, 2017September 28, 2017 Troy

TweetIn this week’s review the guys look over an interesting trend around the country. Teams that have been on the cusp or at the bottom of leagues stepping forward to claim their respect from the normal top dogs of various conferences. New contenders stepping forward. Albany – Lacking offense Montana State – Playmakers at multiple positions with Bignell, Herbert, and... Read More

Patriot League: Week 4 Recap and Power Rankings

September 27, 2017September 28, 2017 Kevin Hottle

TweetWhen the history of the Patriot League is written someday hopefully week 4 of the 2017 season is selectively forgotten. Outside of Bucknell’s thrilling win over Sacred Heart, it was one of the worst weekends the league has endured in years, maybe decades. Fresh off a “program changing win” against New Hampshire, Holy Cross snatched defeat from the jaws of... Read More

CAA: Week 4 Recap and Power Rankings

September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 Zac Price

TweetWow! What a week of CAA play. We’ve always talked about the parity in the conference, but boy did it show this week. Let’s take a look at a surprising week of CAA Football in our Week 4 Recap. Rhode Island 14 – #16 New Hampshire 28 The Wildcats took a 15-0 lead into the half, but the Rams came... Read More

Big Sky Round Up Week 4

September 25, 2017 Brad Reed

Tweet Is there going to be any Big Sky team going to finish over .500 this season? The fourth week of the Big Sky football slate has provided absolutely no clarity into who the best team might be. This is a freight train headed to disastersville at this point. At this point last week we thought Idaho State was going... Read More

SOCON: Week 4 Review and Power Rankings

September 25, 2017 Marc Goold

TweetIt was a wild week in the Southern Conference. A couple upsets spiced things up in the race for the conference crown. Both ETSU, with its victory over Mercer, and especially WCU’s victory over a ranked Samford team, showed just how competitive conference play can be in the SOCON. In the other conference match up, Chattanooga got back on track... Read More

AGS Poll: Top 25 Week 4 Results

September 25, 2017September 25, 2017 Tim

TweetMovement in the Week 4 AGS top 25 was the most volatile yet in this young 2017 season with 8 of the 20 ranked teams that were in action this past weekend sustaining losses – 7 of them to teams ranked below them in last week’s AGS rankings. Despite that the top 5 remained unchanged for the 4th straight week with... Read More