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FCS Week 7 Game of the Week: Grambling Tigers @ Alabama A&M Bulldogs: How to Watch, Preview, Predictions
Date: Saturday, October 17 Time: 3:00 PM (ET) TV: ESPN+ The Quick Hits The SWAC got really interesting last week, largely because Grambling took down Jackson State in a shootout in Louisiana. Now the Tigers, fresh off that big win, turn their attention to another conference contender in the East division in Alabama A&M. The […]
Defensive domination: WKU collects first road win at Sam Houston, 16-3
You could sense it the moment Western Kentucky stepped off the bus in Huntsville, TX. From pregame warmups to the runout of the tunnel, the Hilltoppers displayed a different spark, a different energy, and a different level of enthusiasm. That intensity sustained through all four quarters of their Wednesday night nationally televised matchup at Sam […]
2026 Week 7 Preview: Cincinnati Bearcats @ West Virginia Mountaineers
Game notes Setting the scene An old Big East rivalry is renewed. Cincinnati and West Virginia surprisingly didn’t square off last season, making Saturday’s contest just the third matchup between the programs in the four years they’ve shared the Big 12. The Mountaineers have largely dominated the series since its inaugural meeting in 1921 and […]
2026 Week 7 Preview: Tulsa Golden Hurricane @ Rice Owls
Game notes Setting the scene It’s been 15 years since Rice and Tulsa met at Rice Stadium, which was renamed to First Community Stadium earlier this month. Despite the most recent matchups occurring in Tulsa, the Owls have controlled the series as of late. During the last meeting in 2023, Rice won in decisive 42-10 […]
Meet Cam Edge, the QB for the Best Team in HBCU Football
As summer faded to fall, most of those that pay attention the MEAC had one team and one team only circled as the favorite to get to Atlanta and hoist the Celebration Bowl trophy at season’s end. The one that did it last year. South Carolina State, rightfully, garnered most of the preseason attention as […]
2026 Week 7 Preview: Oklahoma State Cowboys @ Houston Cougars
Game notes Setting the scene This is Houston’s moment. TDECU Stadium hasn’t hosted a ranked matchup since the 2015 American Conference Championship Game, when No. 17 Houston defeated No. 20 Temple in the stadium’s second year of existence. More than a decade later, the No. 20 Cougars welcome No. 18 Oklahoma State for a matchup […]
Middle Tennessee emerges over Delaware, 33-30, in duel with seven lead changes
Week 7 of the college football season opened in Murfreesboro, TN. Middle Tennessee made its first Weekday CUSA appearance of the season, hosting a Delaware team that also was fresh off a bye week. The Blue Raiders showcased their improvement to a national audience Tuesday night, defeating the Fightin’ Blue Hens 33-30 in a thrilling […]
Jax State makes late FG, FIU misses in 27-24 Weekday CUSA thriller
Garrison Rippa has become a Weekday CUSA legend. Last week against Kennesaw State, the redshirt junior kicker sunk a go-ahead 33-yard field goal with 52 seconds remaining to allow Jacksonville State to prevail in a CUSA Championship Game rematch. Once again, Rippa was called to the stage to deliver the closing duties, and he delivered. […]
2026 Week 7 Preview: Virginia Cavaliers @ SMU Mustangs
Game notes Setting the scene SMU (4-1, 2-1 ACC) returns from its bye week, still supplemented with a No. 24 ranking beside its name. The Mustangs already dropped a conference matchup — just their third since joining the ACC in 2024 — but that doesn’t necessarily put them behind in the standings. All 17 ACC […]
Predicting the FCS Playoffs: October Edition
The 2026 FCS season is already half over, or at least the regular season is. As October nears its midway point, the playoff typically gets clearer. While it has in some ways this year, it has also gotten more muddy in some aspects also. Chaos has not been at a premium in the subdivision this […]
2026 Week 7 Preview: East Carolina Pirates @ UAB Blazers
Game notes Setting the scene East Carolina and UAB have shared the American Conference for each of the last four seasons. Somehow, this is the first meeting between the programs since 2013. They met regularly in the late 2000s and early 2010s in Conference USA, and ECU dominated the series. The Pirates have won seven […]
Weekday CUSA Previews: 2026 Week 7
We’re in our third week of Weekday CUSA, and we’ve finally made it to Tuesday nights. Last week, Weekday CUSA presented a Wednesday night thriller between Jacksonville State and Kennesaw State in a 2025 Conference USA title game rematch, but the other three matchups featured lopsided finishes. On paper, several thrillers could be on the […]
Coastal Carolina unveils colorful 90s-themed jerseys for Week 7 Friday matchup
Coastal Carolina is known for being unique in the college football landscape as the only FBS program that incorporates teal into its color scheme. But the Chanticleers are taking their uniqueness to another level with their Week 7 uniforms. Coastal Carolina unveiled colorful 90s-themed jerseys for its upcoming Friday night home matchup against Appalachian State. […]
Mud slides, rivalries, and wild finishes: Reviewing Week 6 in the Sun Belt
Week 6 was the Sun Belt’s most dramatic week yet. The chaos started well before Saturday, as the league had two nationally televised weeknight showcases. On Tuesday, Troy’s offense exploded for 55 points on Southern Miss, scoring its most against FBS competition since 2019 behind Goose Crowder’s career day. Then on Thursday, South Alabama outpaced […]
James Madison admitted to American Conference
The college football ecosystem was stable for once, with no pending conference realignment moves from July 1 through October 11. That changed October 12. The James Madison Dukes applied to and were accepted as a member of the American Conference. They will join the league no later than July 1, 2028. The American Conference Board […]
Takeaways from Week 6’s Weekday CUSA matchups
This year, we get 61 consecutive days of FBS or NFL football from Oct. 1 through Nov. 30, and Weekday CUSA is largely to thank for it. Conference USA is in its fourth season of showcasing weekday games, and Week 6 featured the first 4-game Weekday CUSA slate of 2026: Wednesday, October 7 Thursday, October […]
Gutierrez leads Navy to 20 unanswered to take down Tulsa, 34-26
In 2024 and 2025, the Navy Midshipmen posted an aggregate record of 21-5. But the 2026 trajectory was shitfing in the opposite trajectory. Navy found itself in Annapolis trailing 26-14 in the middle of the third quarter, staring down its fourth consecutive loss and third-straight conference defeat. Jackson Gutierrez was not going to let that […]
FCS Week 6 Recap: More Upheaval
As the season hits its midpoint, the postseason picture is as crowded and unclear as its ever been. It was another week of upsets, unexpected results and all around craziness in the FCS. A lot of the top dogs didn’t play in Week 6 but for the ones that did it didn’t necessarily go well. […]
Oklahoma State pulls ahead in fourth quarter, defeats UCF 42-28
Oklahoma State had defeated 14 of the other 15 Big 12 teams at one point in its history. But there was one team that was consistently a thorn in the Cowboys’ side over the past several years — the UCF Knights. UCF defeated Oklahoma State in Orlando last November on a game-winning field goal. Even […]
Memphis dominates UAB in second half, reclaims The Bones
Teams bring out their best when a 94-pound bronze rack of barbecue ribs is on the line. The Battle for the Bones features one of the most unique rivalry trophies in college football, and it’s one that was in UAB’s possession prior to Saturday. In Alex Mortensen’s first game as an interim coach, the Blazers […]
ECU turns on burners in second half, handles Rice 28-12
The East Carolina Pirates were in search of an offensive spark. Down every offensive starter from 2025 and their coordinator, the Pirates struggled moving the ball during the first three weeks of the season. In Week 4 against FCS competition, ECU made a change at quarterback to Emory Williams which sparked the unit. And the […]
Hellums’ 223 rush yards, Jones’ FG lift Army past Tulane, 20-17
Army and one-score games. The two are an inseparable pair. Prior to Saturday, nine of the Black Knights’ last 10 FBS matchups were decided by one-score and eight of the last nine were decided by four points or fewer. Thus, Saturday’s matchup against Tulane was going to come down to which team could execute in […]
Overmyer’s 4 TD ties FBS record; Houston makes 35-16 statement at Kansas State
Last time Houston rolled into in Manhattan, KS in 2023, it returned home with a 41-0 loss. Saturday was the ultimate measure of how much this program has grown in three years. Houston didn’t simply roll into the Little Apple and escape with a win. The Cougars steamrolled Kansas State from start to finish, ransacking […]
2026 Week 6 Preview: Tulane Green Wave @ Army Black Knights
Game notes Setting the scene Even before sharing the American Conference, Army and Tulane were famliar opponents, squaring off 19 times from 1996 through 2020. The Black Knights then joined the American in 2024 and instantly ran the league, rattling off an 8-0 conference record before handling Tulane in the conference championship game. That was […]
South Alabama is unstoppable on Thursdays in the Applewhite era
If South Alabama is playing on a Thursday night, the scoreboard operator becomes the busiest person in the building. South Alabama (4-2, 2-0 Sun Belt) continued its stellar start to the 2026 campaign, toppling Arkansas State 56-49 in the highest-scoring game of the season. The 105 combined points were also the most in an FBS […]
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