Big South: Week 1 Review

Tweet(1-0)  Central Michigan 49, (0-1) Presbyterian 3 Presbyterian is, if nothing else, consistent.  Watching this opening contest of 2016 for the Blue Hose on Thursday night, this game could very easily have been mistaken for one straight out of the middle of the 2015 season.  That’s both a good thing and a bad thing if you’re …

The FCS Wedge 01/09/2016

TweetWe are in the process of adding a new podcast player to the site.  As such, here is a post to test our new capabilities.  This is last years National Championship preview show. -From 01/09/2016 Great interviews this week featuring an all NC show.  We have Coach Grass(JSU)  and Coach Klieman (NDSU) and then get …

2016 Big Sky Preview: Cal Poly Mustangs

Tweet2015 Record: 4-7 (3-5) Key Returners: Joe Protheroe, Kori Garcia, Kyle Lewis, Khaleel Jenkins Key Losses: Willie Tucker, Stephen Pyle, Kaulin Blair, Chris Brown The Cal Poly Mustangs finished 4-7 last year despite having the country’s leading rushing offense. Last season they checked in with 387 yards per game, 40 yards more than the next …

2016 Big Sky Conference Preview

TweetThe fall football season is nearly upon us, and even though it’s still summer and fall camp hasn’t yet begun that doesn’t mean we can’t talk some football! The Big Sky Conference just held their media days in Utah and they released their preseason poll. Here’s what the media had to say about this year’s …

ICYMI: Week 12

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. …

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 …