TweetIn Case You Missed It: Week 12 By the time this column is published, the 2015 FCS Playoff field will be set. We’ll know which teams made the cut and which teams were left off the exclusive list as the single-elimination fight for the national championship gets underway. What a wild regular season it was. …
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ICYMI: Week 11
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 11 Saturday, Nov. 14, was the day the giants fell. Not just on the FCS level of college football. Not just for football in general. It was a wild, unpredictable day for sports across the platform. The obvious hint that it would be a crazy day came in …
ICYMI: Week 10
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 10 First things first: I apologize. For anyone (if, in fact, there was anyone) who was looking forward to this column a week ago and was disappointed by its absence, I’m sorry. I had a prior engagement and was unable to publish. Which means this installment of ICYMI …
ICYMI: Week 8
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 8 Offense sells the tickets, but defense wins championships. That’s how it goes, right? Growing up and playing competitive sports my whole adolescent life, that was the one statement I heard from coaches and teammates more than any other. But does defense even exist anymore? Or have offensive …
ICYMI: Week 7
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 7 For a while there, Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp had us all convinced. He had convinced us that any offensive award in the FCS come season’s end might as well already be in a trophy case in Cheney. It seemed like a sure thing after the …
ICYMI: Week 6
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 6 We as football fans have probably seen our fair share of the enigmatic; witnessed things on and off the field relating to the sport that cause us to collectively raise our eyebrows with sheer surprise. On Saturday, something happened I had never seen before. Granted I’m not …
ICYMI: Week 5
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 5 I normally don’t insert myself into the stories I write. It was never good journalistic practice to use personal pronouns in your work, because it gives the story an narrow-focused and non-objective feel. Sounds more like a freshman English class essay, doesn’t it? But I feel compelled …
ICYMI: Week 4
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 4 While almost the entire city of Philadelphia focused on getting ready for the Papal visit over the weekend, something else had been brewing up on the Villanova campus Thursday night – just a few miles from where Pope Francis would address hundreds of thousands of people. An …
ICYMI: Week 3
TweetIn Case You Missed It – Week 3 Don’t you just love when a game lives up to its hype? The hype, in this case, was concentrated on Eastern Washington and Montana State – the two Big Sky Conference teams that were interchangeable atop the league’s preseason polls prior to the start of the season – and …
ICYMI: Week 2
TweetIn Case You Missed It: Week 2 The last time an FCS team beat a ranked FBS opponent came back in the 2013 season, when Eastern Washington and then-No. 25 Oregon State went punch-for-punch offensively as the Eagles squeezed out a 49-46 victory on an Aug. 31 afternoon. They say close only counts in horseshoes …