Granddaddy of them all
http://athlonsports.com/college-football/15-best-fbs-vs-fcs-football-games-2016
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NDSU vs Iowa top FCS vs FBS '16 game
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And then there is this from the Alabama Mighty Sabans:
"Mercer, an FCS school in the Southern Conference, announced Thursday it will be playing Alabama in Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2017 and 2021. An Alabama spokesman confirmed it would be playing the two games.... Mercer, located in Macon, Ga., went 5-6 and finished sixth in the Southern Conference last season. It finished the year with a 47-21 loss to Samford."
BTW: Mercer dropped football in 1941 and only resumed in 2013... Link: http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2016/01/alabama_completes_2017_non-con.html
Other recent FCS opponents Alabama has faced:
Nov. 19, 2011: Georgia Southern, Won 45-21
Nov. 17, 2012: W. Carolina, Won 49-0
Nov. 23, 2013: Chattanooga, Won 49-0
Nov. 22, 2014: W. Carolina, Won 48-14
Nov. 21, 2015: Charleston Southern, Won 56-6
Just the SEC facts.
"Mercer, an FCS school in the Southern Conference, announced Thursday it will be playing Alabama in Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2017 and 2021. An Alabama spokesman confirmed it would be playing the two games.... Mercer, located in Macon, Ga., went 5-6 and finished sixth in the Southern Conference last season. It finished the year with a 47-21 loss to Samford."
BTW: Mercer dropped football in 1941 and only resumed in 2013... Link: http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2016/01/alabama_completes_2017_non-con.html
Other recent FCS opponents Alabama has faced:
Nov. 19, 2011: Georgia Southern, Won 45-21
Nov. 17, 2012: W. Carolina, Won 49-0
Nov. 23, 2013: Chattanooga, Won 49-0
Nov. 22, 2014: W. Carolina, Won 48-14
Nov. 21, 2015: Charleston Southern, Won 56-6
Just the SEC facts.
Not even winning national titles can make their uni's look good. Whomever designed them should be relegated to abstracting semen from bison.
Good catch. lol I'm apparently not up on all things bison spooge....or extracting...either way.
We are the only state with two FBS schools the experts think might lose at home to an FCS school. How do you look at it?
Didn't Kansas and Kansas State both lose to the same FBS school?
I look at it like those "experts" are kind of stupid when it comes to this stuff. Well not kind of.
This game will be far more difficult than the Miami (Ohio) game and likely similar to Iowa State, depending on what NDSU puts out there at QB. I do like the fact that it is game #3, and not Game 1. Iowa will have some film on NDSU's new QB and what their team is like this year. NDSU opens with Charleston Southern which was 10-2 last year (51-6 loss to Alabama included) and then plays Eastern Washington before Iowa. NDSU also has Illinois State the week after Iowa.
I always believe UNI is going to beat ISU. Reality is that ISU is a P5 school and should win this game handily, just like they did last time the two met. There will need to be a ton of things that go right for NDSU to beat Iowa, major injuries to Iowa coming into the game, bad turnovers, etc. The reality is though that there is just a lot of hope going on by these FCS schools. It is far more likely that Iowa and ISU piss pound these two than it is they lose.
I have far too much familiarity with the Bison since I am a USD supporter. I know about their history, the FCS titles, the FBS scalps they've collected. I also know a subpar USD squad went into their building last year and beat them by pushing them around the field. Everyone knows they have to replace their greatest QB in history and that they are in the midst of having to rebuild. Iowa isn't rebuilding this season, the Hawks are loaded and primed to make a splash on the national scene. There are a couple of games leading up to this game so it's not like NDSU can throw all their eggs into this one basket. If Iowa comes out prepped, ready, and motivated to take care of business I could see this one getting ugly for the Bison, like a 20+ point loss ugly.
I have far too much familiarity with the Bison since I am a USD supporter. I know about their history, the FCS titles, the FBS scalps they've collected. I also know a subpar USD squad went into their building last year and beat them by pushing them around the field. Everyone knows they have to replace their greatest QB in history and that they are in the midst of having to rebuild. Iowa isn't rebuilding this season, the Hawks are loaded and primed to make a splash on the national scene. There are a couple of games leading up to this game so it's not like NDSU can throw all their eggs into this one basket. If Iowa comes out prepped, ready, and motivated to take care of business I could see this one getting ugly for the Bison, like a 20+ point loss ugly.
For the life of me I don't know why we would pay NDSU to come to Kinnick. It's a lose-lose. If we pulverize them, we did what we were supposed to do, but is much harder said than done. If we play a close game or happen to lose, we're bums.
A lot of people were nervous for the Illinois State game last year and the Hawks handled them with ease. I see this game being pretty similar.
The goal is to force NDSU to rely more heavily on the pass. This should be an advantage for the Hawks. If they are able to hit on some big runs and spread us out, particularly with the run, then that's gonna be a major problem.
NDSU is a power team like Iowa, but unlike us they try to be a bit more inventive in their run and option game to open things up.
So yes the biggest question regarding them will be just how good their new QB is.
NDSU is a power team like Iowa, but unlike us they try to be a bit more inventive in their run and option game to open things up.
So yes the biggest question regarding them will be just how good their new QB is.
No comparison,NDSU has beaten(all on the road) Clowns,Minnesota and K State.
