2020 FCS Championship Game Preview

TweetThe FCS regular season has come to a conclusion and we’re now looking forward to the FCS championship game. North Dakota State will be making their third straight appearance in the game, and eighth appearance in the last nine years. They will be facing off against James Madison. James Madison is making their third appearance …

MVFC in the Semifinals – In Review

TweetThe Scores (for both games, not just MVFC) South Dakota State – 21 North Dakota State – 44 Maine – 19 Eastern Washington – 50 South Dakota State at North Dakota State The Not-Dakota-Marker game started off this time around as a defensive battle, with a couple of 3-and-outs to start the game. The Bison …

MVFC in the Semifinals – Preview

TweetHere we are…the granddaddy of them all…this one’s for all the marbles…the…wait…this isn’t the championship game? Ok, fine…the “unofficial” MVFC Championship Game is this weekend with a rematch of a game that happened about 2 ½ months ago when the Jackrabbits visited Fargo to compete for the Dakota Marker trophy. This time around, it’s the …

MVFC in the Quarterfinals – In Review

TweetThe Scores Colgate – 0 North Dakota State – 35 South Dakota State – 27 Kennesaw State – 17 #8 Colgate at #1 North Dakota State Colgate’s struggles in this game started early, with the Bison taking their first possession 96 yards in 4 plays with RB Ty Brooks running it into the end zone …

MVFC Postseason Week 3 Preview

TweetConsidering some of the discussion and analysis of playing schemes and stuff over on the game-related threads at AnyGivenSaturday.com, I kinda feel like these articles are a bit redundant this far into the playoffs. If you’ve been reading my articles for a while, you know I’m not really a guy who gets into things like …

MVFC Postseason Week 2 In Review

TweetThe Scores Montana State – 10 North Dakota State – 52 Duquesne – 6 South Dakota State – 51 Northern Iowa – 16 UC Davis – 23 Montana State at #1 North Dakota State The Bobcats started with the ball in this game and on their first play of scrimmage, QB Troy Anderson nailed a …

MVFC – Postseason Week 2 Preview

TweetOnly one MVFC team played last weekend but now that the seeded teams are in on the action…we have three games involving MVFC teams. Couple of quick things: I’ll be using full-season stats now, because most of the games will not be in-conference matchups. Rankings of stat categories will be ranking within the entire FCS …

MVFC Postseason Week 1 In Review

TweetAKA: Mistakes were made The Scores (for games directly relevant to MVFC teams) Lamar – 13 Northern Iowa – 16 Incarnate Word – 14 Montana State – 35 Montana State will play at #1 North Dakota State next weekend Duquesne – 31 Towson – 10 Duquesne will play at #5 South Dakota State next weekend …

MVFC Postseason – Round 1 Preview

TweetRound 1 of the FCS playoffs starts this weekend and for the first time in quite a while (first time since before the playoffs expanded to 24 teams), only one MVFC team is playing with two more  seeded and have a first-round bye this weekend. Couple of quick things: I’ll be using full-season stats now, …

MVFC Week 12 In Review

TweetFor more than half of the MVFC teams, the 2018 season is now over. For a few, they get to continue on and play at least one more. Now that some of the teams are done, I’ll add a little something new to the end of the recaps, highlighting a few of the seniors who …