Conference poaching, and our final per-conference breakdown of the year, after the jump.
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Two of the five seeded teams went home, three other home teams got upset, and DeAndre Presley lost his mind. Second round recaps, quarterfinal previews, and Friday football after the jump.
First round recaps, second round previews, and some news and stuff. Jump on over that link for the goods.
The playoff field is now set, and while one road does lead through Montana, it leads through Bozeman rather than Billings. A new team takes over at #1 in the poll, and they’ve never been there before. The Big South crowns a surprising champion, the Missouri Valley proves that it’s either totally stacked or painfully mediocre, and we answer the question of whether or not anyone managed to get through the regular season unscathed after the jump.
Sunday morning, 10am Eastern on ESPNU: The FCS Championship selection show. I know it’s hard to tear your eyes off Erin Andrews, but give it an eyeball. Four playoff berths have been clinched, and we head into the final week of play with many, many questions still unanswered. More after the ever-present jump.
The top three teams in the poll all tumbled on Saturday, setting up major shakeups in the rankings and tossing conference races around like so much windswept debris. The fallout, after the jump.
Three top-ten teams tumble (although one of them was to North Carolina, so it doesn’t quite count), three SEC teams pay out appearance bonuses to FCS teams next week, two teams remain ranked despite falling to 4-4, two teams which actually deserve it don’t get ranked, one FCS game draws over 60,000 in paid attendance, and one conference champion is crowned. All that, and partially-surprising conference realignment news, after the jump.
With the exception of the FCS recap, which I had done before a bunch of real-life stuff went all pear-shaped this week, the remainder of the recaps are going to be sort of lacking on the “recap” end, although my discussion of the relevance of the upcoming weekend’s games is intact. Sorry about that.
It was a fairly uneventful weekend in the rankings, as only two top-25 teams lost to lower or unranked teams. A top-five showdown ends on a wide left, a team wins despite not gaining a single passing yard, an entire conference schedule is decided by a total of 12 points, and lots of other fun stuff follows the jump.
The front end of the FCS pack remained unchanged last week, but that’s not going to be the case when next week’s poll comes out: we have a titanic battle of top-5 teams coming our way. That story, plus two major upsets, the end of a streak, a game featuring 32 points in the final 4:15, and a coach looking for a new job… after the jump.
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My task gets a little easier today, as we’ll deal with two conferences whose basketball programs I don’t have to worry about. First up, the SEC of FCS (no disrespect intended to the SoCon), aka the Colonial Athletic Association.
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