TweetThe Scores Northern Iowa – 33 Indiana State – 0 Illinois State – 21 Missouri State – 24 South Dakota State – 17 North Dakota State – 21 Youngstown State – 38 Western Illinois – 45 South Dakota – 31 Southern Illinois – 24 Northern Iowa at Indiana State Back-to-back shutouts for the first time …
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MVFC Week 5 Preview
TweetThe week’s slate of MVFC games kicks of a little early, with a matchup of Northern Iowa at Indiana State on Thursday evening. The rest of the games are all on Saturday starting between 2:30 and 6 PM. All times listed as Central time zone and ranking numbers based on the AGS Poll. Here’s the …
Missouri Valley OOC In-Review
TweetMissouri Valley Conference football games begin this coming weekend, so I figure this is a good time to do a quick review of what happened during the out-of-conference (OOC) games for each team. WIth the exception of South Dakota State, who had their game against Iowa State cancelled due to weather, everyone in the conference …
FCS Championship Preview (the MVFC perspective)
TweetOh right…there’s still football. There’s one game left…the big one, the showdown in Frisco, the grandaddy of them…wait, sorry, that’s a different one. I’m pretty sure this is the matchup that the playoff committee had in their minds when they set up this year’s bracket. Defending FCS champion and currently undefeated #1 James Madison Dukes …
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MVFC – Playoff Semifinals in Review
TweetAlright…semifinals time…heavy hitters turning things up a notch. Was NDSU going to be able to shut down Sam Houston State’s strong passing attack (spoiler alert…they did). Well, at least the SDSU at James Madison game had the potential to be a close, exciting…um….oh come on. Can’t we get some exciting football? At least the Celebration …
MVFC – Week 4 Preview (Semifinals)
TweetSemifinals…the penultimate weekend of football in the FCS…or as it would be known in the FBS…the entire playoff bracket. Thankfully we have a real playoff bracket to determine our champion. Whatever your disagreements are with which teams should have gotten the last few at-large spots, I think we can all agree that this is a …
MVFC – Playoff Week 3 in Review
TweetFour total games this week. Two were exciting…the MVFC games were, for the most part…not. Everyone reading this is probably pretty well aware already that both JMU’s win over Weber State on a last-second FG and SHSU’s defeat of Kennesaw State were pretty darn exciting games. Not going to bury the lede on this one, …
MVFC – Playoffs Week 3 Preview
TweetWeek 3 of the FCS playoffs…the Quarterfinals. We are down to two MVFC teams left in the bracket now…the XDSU’s…Bison and Bunnies. At this point, pretty much all the “pretenders” have been eliminated. There are three unseeded teams still playing this weekend, but all three have had to win an opening round game, then upset …
MVFC – Playoffs Week 2 in Review
TweetAnother round of playoffs and two more MVFC see their seasons come to a close. Neither are huge surprises for the most part…one game involved two MVFC teams and somebody has to lose there, and the other was a team that barely made it past the first round but made it a competitive game with …
MVFC – Playoffs Round 2 Preview
TweetWeek 2 of playoff football…time for the “big boys” to see what they can bring. Frequent championship contenders like North Dakota State, James Madison, Jacksonville State, and Sam Houston State get to test themselves against the unseeded teams who survived (or in some cases, dominated) the first round. Since I handle pretty much just the …