Hate seeing this for teams as they enter the playoffs. Going to sound a broken record like everyone else, but the NCAA really needs to look at not opening the portal for fall/winter season sports like football until said season is formally finished across all NCAA divisions.

It sorta does seem like Polasek is positioning himself for a Cignetti type path right now, doesn’t it? Step 1: take NDSU FBS Step 2: dominate the G6 showing the Bison have always been one of the top teams in the country (see JMU) Step 3: get a job at Wisc, MSU, Iowa, UNL, etc.

To repeat: Why would Polasek leave for Oregon State or Colorado State when there (and will continue to be) better opportunities? With NDSU being a better program than either, he’s smart enough to play the game carefully and wait for a spot that actually sets him up for success.

“We certainly are planning an independent schedule. We’ll release it somewhere in February or March. We certainly will have a full schedule ready to go.” -Sac State AD Mark Orr Those are weird ways of spelling “November” 🤨 www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

Update: Not the first! As /u/andyaustinphoto noted over in /r/FCS, it’s happened at least twice before (or at least the same teams played twice). York College and now defunct Yankton College played in 1951 and 1952, with York winning the 1st 30-24 and Yankton the 2nd 25-12.

Real talk: why would Polasek leave for Oregon State or Colorado State when there are better (and will continue to be better) opportunities that open up? He’s smart enough to play the game carefully and wait a year or two if needed for a spot that actually sets him up for success

Week 14 (i.e. the First Round Playoffs, Turkey Day Classic, Bayou Classic, and a makeup game) /r/FCS Sportsbook lines are now available! www.reddit.com/r/fcs/commen...

If someone can find one please let us know, but next week’s 1st round matchup between Yale and Youngstown appears to be the 1st time in the history of college football that two teams whose schools start with “Y” have played each other.

What in the world was going on in the Selection Committee's minds. Why in the word are UC Davis, Mercer, and SFA rewarded while Tennessee Tech is majorly punished? Why was Harvard treated so much more critically than SDSU?

Tennessee Tech beat every FCS team they played and only lost to Kentucky, and that gets them a #13 seed??? After the committee had them #7 in their last ranking???

Prepare yourselves: MSU at #2 and UM at #3 If both schools take care of business, we get Cat/Griz 2 Electric Boogaloo in Bozeman for a trip to Nashville 👀

Tennessee Tech got screwed over. No reason as an undefeated they should've bene left out before Mercer, SFA, or UC Davis.

It's time to take a look around the FCS after Week 13! old.reddit.com/r/fcs/commen...

Today might've been Sac State's last legitimate chance to make the FCS playoffs. They still only have 3 games with a date attached next season when they go FCS independent

ALEXA! PLAY MONY MONY BY BILLY IDOL

The announcers know Montana isn’t in the Midwest, right?

TUNE INTO CAT/GRIZ RIGHT NOW 31-28 WITH 7:00 TO GO

JUSTIN LAMSON WITH THE TOUCHDOWN RUN!! 31-21 CATS!!

CATS BLOCK THE FIELD GOAL!!!

PICK SIX FOR THE LEAD!!! 24-21 CATS!!

Griz drive the field to open the second half. 21-17 Griz after a PAT delay of game

Pro tip if you go to WaGriz: North gate is not the move. At all

MSU 17 UM 14 Halftime

Lamson goes deep! 17-7 Cats

If someone can tell me what just happened that would be great

Finally some defense! Cats force a punt after an Ah Yat sack

Cats respond with an Adam Jones touchdown. 10-7 MSU

And the griz respond with a touchdown drive!

Cats with a methodical drive for an opening FG

It is LOUD in here

Who will win the Brawl of the Wild?

Does your Christmas tree have Rainier beer?

90 minutes until kickoff and there's already lines to get in. Stoke levels are at an all time high

Good morning from Missoula!

Week 13 /r/FCS poll results! Happy rivalry week everyone! www.reddit.com/r/fcs/s/FboS...

Let's pretend this was just a hypothetical and Alabama State is Jackson State for the point of the argument. Since the Turkey Day Classic obviously makes the playoff conversation moot.

The challenge a 9-2 Alabama State team might have making the playoffs (despite being 8-1 in the FCS) is very similar to the SoCon's 2nd bid issue this year: their conference OOC record The SWAC's just 4-10 vs the FCS, making it tough to argue they deserve a nod w/ a tight bubble

FCS OOC Records after Week 12: 1 MVFC: 22-6, 79% 2 BSC: 19-9, 68% 3 Ivy: 16-8, 67% 4 Patriot: 18-13, 58% 5 UAC: 14-11, 56% 6 OVC: 11-10, 52% 7 CAA: 18-17, 51% 8 Southland: 10-10, 50% 9 MEAC: 11-14, 44% 10 Ind: 8-11, 42% 11 SoCon: 8-15, 35% 12 PFL: 8-19, 30% 13 SWAC: 4-10, 29% 14 NEC: 6-20, 23%

For what it’s worth, here’s the /r/FCS Sportsbook lines Big Sky: Montana State -6 at Montana Ivy: Harvard -5.5 at Yale OVC-BS: UT-Martin at Tenn Tech -19.5 😳 Patriot: Lehigh -10.5 at Lafayette

We have 4 de facto conference championship games this week! Winner of these games will get their conference autobid and at least a share of a conference title Big Sky: Montana vs Montana State Ivy: Harvard vs Yale OVC-BS: Tenn Tech vs UT-Martin Patriot: Lehigh vs Lafayette

Week 13 Rivalry Week /r/FCS Sportsbook lines are now available! www.reddit.com/r/fcs/commen...

So things are going real great on that there website eh? The public has been clamoring for a badly cut black t-shirt with a logo for a site no one on twitter that’s worth following acknowledges. This crappy t-shirt at the low price of $35 will allow twitter to print money y’all.

If nothing else, at least Coach Marion now knows Sac’s penalty issue is one of discipline not the refs being out for the Hornets. After all, Sac still had 6 penalties despite the refs handing them the game. Big Sky just likes to mix a flavor of incompetence into the officiating.

Over at /r/FCS one of our members (/u/tdpdcpa) has put together a great breakdown of every autobid/conference champions scenario as we head into the last week* of the regular season *besides the Bayou and Turkey Day Classics of course www.reddit.com/r/fcs/s/CgeK...

Despite the tight game so far, sources in Bobcat Stadium are noting there doesn’t appear to be much concern.

Where will the Montana Drywall Association be filling their coffers at this week? (Because they might need to triage their repair requests the way today has been going.)

It’s an old reference but seems to check out

We’re very possibly observing the death rattle of the short lived 2020-2023 SDSU dynasty. And short lived isn’t meant as insult. Hell, if you want to kick the Jacks dynasty to the curb you also can’t claim that App State, Youngstown State, or EKU were ever FCS/I-AA dynasties.

COYOTES WIN IN 5OT!!

We're in 4OT in Carbondale!!