Brandon Lawrence – The FCS Wedge

ICYMI: Week 12

November 22, 2015November 24, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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. Wild and unpredictable. And, unlike... Read More

ICYMI: Week 11

November 15, 2015August 15, 2016 Brandon Lawrence

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 the form of the longest... Read More

ICYMI: Week 10

November 8, 2015November 9, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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 will be extra fascinating. Hold... Read More

ICYMI: Week 8

October 25, 2015October 25, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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 players in FCS football become... Read More

ICYMI: Week 7

October 18, 2015August 15, 2016 Brandon Lawrence

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 junior pass catcher exploded out... Read More

ICYMI: Week 6

October 11, 2015October 11, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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 the oldest of fans (I... Read More

ICYMI: Week 5

October 4, 2015August 15, 2016 Brandon Lawrence

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 to show my New Hampshire... Read More

ICYMI: Week 4

September 27, 2015September 27, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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 upset for the masses, so... Read More

ICYMI: Week 3

September 20, 2015September 20, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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 the potential fireworks their Week... Read More

ICYMI: Week 2

September 13, 2015September 15, 2015 Brandon Lawrence

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 and hand grenades, and Jacksonville... Read More