Oct 4
Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
The CAA takes over the poll, and this week we’ve got 7 games with two top-25 opponents facing one another (and that’s with three ranked teams idle).
Big doings:
#24 Tennessee-Chattanooga at #1 Georgia Southern
#17 Indiana State at #2 Northern Iowa
#3 Montana State at 3-1 Portland State
#4 North Dakota State at #20 Southern Illinois
#19 Maine at #7 James Madison
#9 William & Mary at #13 Delaware
#10 Lehigh at 4-1 Bucknell
#14 Richmond at #25 Towson
#22 Southern Utah at #18 South Dakota
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Sep 30
Posted by Jon Morse in Analysis, Division II, Division III, FBS (aka I Couldn't Help Myself), FCS, NAIA | Comments off
Since we’re actually (gasp) caught up, and I got all four previews up before a single game had been played at any level this week (oh, my), I actually have time to tinker with ideas. So today, I thought I’d take a peek at the differences between the divisions on paper. I’m using the Massey Ratings for this, since Richard includes every team down through the NAIA, and has a formula separate from the one he provides to the BCS in which he does include margin of victory.
Naturally, there’s not really anything surprising here. I will argue as to the aesthetic superiority of the lower divisions in certain respects until I’m blue in the face, but none of those respects includes “quality of play”. Mostly, this is just a fun look at how things compare both on average and on the margins.
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Sep 27
Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
There weren’t a great many major upsets within FCS, but the division had a whale of a week playing against the big boys. A 3-10 record on the week may not seem like much, but trust me, that’s a successful week for the FCS against FBS competition.
Big games coming up this week:
#1 Georgia Southern at 3-1 Elon
#3 Appalachian State at #8 Wofford
#25 Sacramento State at #4 Montana State
#10 Richmond at #9 James Madison
2-0 Yale at #13 Lehigh
#20 Massachusetts at 3-1 Old Dominion
#22 South Carolina State at 3-1 Norfolk State
#23 Towson at FBS Maryland
3-1 Bryant at 3-1 Duquesne
3-1 Tennessee Tech at 2-1 Tennessee-Martin
3-1 Georgetown at 3-1 Bucknell
2-1 Texas Southern at 3-1 Jackson State
More in-depth nonsense, snark, and outright viciousness after this.
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Sep 20
Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
The number of unbeaten FCS teams dwindles to nine (thirteen if we include the Ivy league teams which won their openers this week). The defending champion continues to spiral downward into oblivion, as does Villanova; on the other side of the coin, Old Dominion remains undefeated and the soon-to-be vacant Great West finds itself with two teams in the poll. And did South Alabama make it to 20-0? Stay tuned and find out.
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Sep 13
Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
Everything’s gone haywire and topsy-turvy, helping to make me look like an idiot. Only 16 undefeated teams remain in FCS, and that’s because three of them didn’t play last week. Leading the mighty CAA after two weeks of play is… what? TOWSON? Check it out after the jump.
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Sep 5
Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
A couple of teams forged upsets, several more came up just short, and one team laid a very embarrassing egg. Scores and notes beyond the jump.
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Sep 2
Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
With every off-season comes the inevitable reshuffling of teams between conferences and divisions. A mess of them were announced last year, but we’ll go over what’s already changed, and who’s on their way out at the end of the season.
Sep 2
Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division III, Division News and Notes, FCS, Introductions, NAIA | Comments off
Before we get started on a new season of hijinks here at Those Other Guys, I have some mea culpas to offer.
I disappeared right after I posted the previews for the FCS semifinals and the championship games in the other divisions, meaning I never wrapped the other divisions, nor did I preview or wrap the FCS championship game or wrap the semifinals.
I think we can all agree that this was bad.
There were things going on here at home that ate up a great deal of my free time, and said things also contributed to a severe case of writers block. No excuse, but it wasn’t just because I stopped caring all of a sudden.
So, with that, congratulations to Eastern Washington (FCS), Minnesota-Duluth (D-II), Wisconsin-Whitewater (D-III), and Carroll (MT) (NAIA) on winning their respective national championships last December.
Last season, I picked a format and rolled with it, but I was never satisfied WITH that format. I felt like it worked against the very purpose I had in mind with this site; it was too stiff, too wordy, and was pretty much just as thick and hard to swallow as simply going to dedicated sites would have been. This year, I’m going to toy with things and see if I can’t land on something that feels organic and entertaining.
I also never did figure out what to do about basketball (despite actually having a couple of offers from people interested in helping cover it), and thus never even started it. Congratulations go out to Bellarmine (D-II), Saint Thomas (MN) (D-III), Pikeville (NAIA-I), Cornerstone (NAIA-II), Azusa Pacific (NAIA-I women), and Northwestern (IA) (NAIA-II women). I cannot guarantee that I’ll get to basketball this year either, but if I do manage to come up with a format for football which I’m comfortable with, I might manage it.
Next: what changed over the summer.
Dec 18
Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division III, Division News and Notes, FCS, NAIA | Comments off
A look at headlines from across all the lower divisions for this week, right after the ol’ jumpy dealy.
Dec 18
Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off
Sorry for the tardiness of this post, which is actually going up after one of the two FCS semifinals. I’ve been fighting off a particularly nasty bout of bronchitis, and haven’t been able to concentrate on getting this done. That said, last week’s quarterfinal recaps, a recap of the first semifinal, and a preview of today’s game after the jump.
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