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Belichick and UNC look like they are on a collision course to explode and separate by the season's end if not much, much sooner.
 
#24 USF got a big win over North Texas last night 63-36. Colorado State rolled Fresno State 49-21 and Kennesaw State stomped Louisiana Tech 35-7.
 
Quickie FCS Notes: Lafayette dropped 62 in a route of Bucknell; Rhode Island beat New Hampshire 38-27; Presbyterian remains undefeated knocking off Butler 31-25; Dartmouth beat Yale 17-16, scoring all their points in the 4th quarter; Villanova beat Elon 29-21; Western Carolina steamrolled Furman 52-7; Jackson State beat Alabama State 38-34 in a big SWAC matchup; #1 North Dakota State easily handled #8 Southern Illinois 45-17 in a playoff worthy matchup; Eastern Kentucky beat Austin Peay 34-20; #6 UC Davis beat Northern Arizona 45-24; Penn rolled Marist 28-9.
 
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A pretty good quick read of Dilfer's tenure at UAB after he just got fired - He went 5-14 in AAC play, and 6-21 vs. the FBS.


What was the low point? "It's not like this is freakin' Alabama." UAB fans know, Coach. They know. UAB fans live in the shadow of 61,320 hours a year, and they don't need their own head coach to remind them of that. Asked to clarify a couple days later, Dilfer pointed out that only two reporters covered the game in which he said that statement, and rested his case.

And to prove that wasn't a one-off mistake, Dilfer praised Louisville's volleyball program over UAB's, in a podcast with UAB's athletics director. “Like if you want to play big time college volleyball go to Louisville,” Dilfer said. “You’ll have the best experience ever there. They’re great people. They’re great coaches," Dilfer said.
“Or UAB," AD Mark Ingram interjected.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “You’re right. … I will say this, they’re pulling from different (recruiting) buckets, Mark.”
 
The folks in State College, PA dreaming of Cignetti can forget about that as he has agreed with an 8 year extension with Indiana.
 
A night of upsets!

Louisville upset #2 Miami 24-21 last night. Minnesota stomped #25 Nebraska 24-6. Also UNC lost to Cal 21-18, lol. Earlier in the week, FIU rolled Western Kentucky 25-6.
 
More upsets and chaos/carnage as #17 Vanderbilt beat #10 LSU and #9 Georgia beat #5 Ole Miss. Wonder if the SEC inadvertently ends up cannibalizing itself for the playoffs. UAB, after firing Trent Dilfer, promptly beat #22 Memphis and Arizona State beat #7 Texas Tech. Even #4 Texas A&M barely survived Arkansas in a 45-42 shootout. #18 Virginia had to score 12 points in the 4th quarter to beat Washington State. #21 Texas beat Kentucky but had to do it in OT, same for #16 Missouri beating Auburn in OT.

On the FCS side: Wofford upset Furman 31-13; Cornell gets their 1st win of the season beating Bucknell 30-20; Youngstown State beat Illinois State 40-35; Chattanooga beat East Tennessee State 42-38; Holy Cross upset Richmond 28-22 for its 1st win of the year; Western Carolina beat The Citadel 45-38; Lamar beat UT Rio Grande Valley 23-21 in a spotlight game; Eastern Washington beat Idaho 21-14 in what's been a down year for both programs; Southern Utah upset Abilene Christian 31-24
 
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D-III RB romps to NCAA record with 522 yards

Curry College running back Montie Quinn took down the NCAA record for all divisions by rushing for 522 yards on 20 carries while tacking on seven touchdowns in a 71-27 win over Nichols.
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Holy Shit... By the end of Curry's 71-27 win over Nichols, Quinn had taken down the NCAA record for all divisions by rushing for 522 yards on 20 carries while tacking on seven touchdowns.
 
Florida shitcanned Napier.

Quite a list of programs with vacancies this year.

Florida, Penn State, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Virginia Tech, Oregon State, Stanford, UAB and UCLA.

And there’s a solid chance of LSU and Auburn joining the list.
 
Game of the Year in the FCS tonight. We also gonna get a BAMA EXPLOSION

No. 1 North Dakota St (7-0,4-0 MVFC) at No. 2 South Dakota St (7-0, 3-0)​


Kickoff: 8 p.m. ET Saturday at Dana J. DykhouseStadium in Brookings, South Dakota (ESPNU)

The FCS season’s biggest crowd is anticipated for the fourth straight season with Alabama A&M (4-3, 1-2) and Alabama State(4-2, 2-1) meeting Saturday at Legion Field in Birmingham. The Magic City Classic has averaged 68,622 fans in the last three years– all games won by ASU despite being outgained by A&M in yardage each time.

#18 Illinois State also matches up on the road at #21 South Dakota.
 
Also more school records getting demolished: Redshirt freshman Drew Mestemaker passed for a school-record 608 yards with four touchdowns and North Texas Mean Green scored 37 unanswered points to beat Charlotte 54-20 on Friday night. Mestemaker completed 37 of 49 passes with one interception in breaking the record.
 
Memphis moved to 7-1 getting a big upset win over #18 USF 34-31. Navy moved to 7-0, the first time since 1978, with a win over FAU 42-32. Washington smoked #23 Illinois 42-25. San Diego State moved to 6-1 shutting out Fresno State 23-0. Pittsburgh and Iowa demolished NC State & Minnesota respectively to move to 6-2. #3 Texas A&M easily handled #20 LSU 49-25 giving them 3 losses on the year. Houston, now 7-1, knocked off #24 Arizona State 24-16.

Umass is 0-8 (lol but let's keep them in the FBS and move them to the MAC...). Deion's Colorado team is now 3-5 after losing to Utah (which ran for 422 yards as a team).
 
On the FCS side
  • Harvard moves to 6-0 beating Princeton 35-14
  • Yale beat Penn 35-13
  • Dayton beat Presbyterian in a big match up 35-19
  • Delaware State beat NC Central in a key game 35-26
  • Illinois State beat South Dakota 21-13
  • Alabama State steamrolled Alabama A&M 56-13
  • Grambling beat Jackson State in a key game 26-24
  • #1 North Dakota State annihilated #2 South Dakota State 38-7
 
In small school carnage, UTSA stomped Tulane 44-26. QB Owen McCown was 31/33 for 370 and 4 TD.

DeSean Jackson and Mike Vick went head to head as coaches with Delaware State beat Norfolk State (1-8) winning 27-20 and improving to 6-3 on the season.

"Norfolk State, with an enrollment of about 5,100 students, is 1-8 and has lost seven straight games. Vick recently fired some assistant defensive coaches as he tries to revive a Spartans’ program that has made only one playoff appearance since moving to FCS in 1997.

Jackson has orchestrated a rapid turnaround at Delaware State, with an enrollment of about 6,500 students, that already included its first conference win since 2022. The Hornets beat rival North Carolina Central 35-26 last week for their first win in Durham since 1977."
 
Seventeen FBS teams have reached the 7-win mark so far, and the clash between the 7-0 Midshipmen and the 7-1 Mean Green is the only Week 9 offering between that group. It's also a meeting of two of the best offenses in major college football; North Texas leads the nation at 46.1 points per game, while Navy is second in the country at 7.57 yards per play.

Really good FBS slate today
  1. #10 Miami @ SMU
  2. Navy @ North Texas (Neither team is ranked and this is kind of a damned if you do/damned if you don't game. Win and you're 8-0 or 8-1 but you technically didn't beat a "ranked" team; Lose and your playoff chances are probably doomed)
  3. #9 Vanderbilt @ #20 Texas
  4. Arizona State @ Iowa State
  5. Fresno State @ Boise State
  6. #15 Virginia @ California
  7. #18 Oklahoma @ #14 Tennessee
  8. #23 USC @ Nebraska
  9. #17 Cincinnati @ #24 Utah
 
FBS Carnage as the 8, 9, and 10th ranked teams all lost as did #22 Houston. #24 Utah ended up beating #17 Cincinnati too.

On the FCS side, a couple huge upsets of Top 10 ranked programs and a bunch of teams moving to 9-0 on the year.
  • Lehigh improved to 9-0 shutting out Georgetown 41-0
  • Towson steamrolled NC A&T 62-9
  • Drake beat Butler 24-19. QB Logan Inagawa threw for 244 and 1 TD
  • Tennessee Tech improved to 9-0 beating Gardner-Webb 27-21
  • Colgate beat Merrimack 23-20 in OT
  • Maine beat Stony Brook 28-21. QB Carter Peevy threw for 188 and scored 3 total TD
  • Mercer stomped Furman 52-28. QB Braden Atkinson threw for 426 and 4 TD
  • SC State held off Morgan State winning 36-30. RB Tyler Smith ran for 110 and 2 TD
  • South Dakota beat North Dakota 26-21. RB L.J. Phillips Jr ran for 106 and 1 TD
  • Alabama State beat Prairie View A&M 31-28.
  • FCS Upset Alert: Indiana State upset #5 South Dakota State 24-12 for their 2nd win of the season. Rashad Rochelle caught four passes for 84 yards and two touchdowns and tacked on a 95-yard kick-return score.
  • FCS Upset Alert: Incarnate Word upset Lamar 24-17. Josh Lorick had 8 catches for 90 yards and 1 TD.
  • Montana improved to 9-0 stomping Weber State 38-17.
  • UT Martin beat Eastern Illinois 27-20 in OT.
  • North Dakota State beat Youngstown State 38-30. Barika Kpeenu ran for 3 TD.
  • San Diego rolled Dayton 31-13.
  • FCS Upset Alert: Idaho State upset #6 UC Davis 38-36. Trajan Sinatra kicked a 50-yard field goal with 52 seconds left and Dason Brooks had 219 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 24 carries.
  • Sacramento State hammered Eastern Washington 35-13.
  • FCS Upset Alert: Abilene Christian upset #2 Tarleton State 31-28. Brandon Perez made a 47-yard field goal as time expired.
  • Stephen F. Austin stomped UT Rio Grande Valley 41-17.
  • Idaho beat Northern Arizona 35-32 in OT.
 
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Lot of good matchups on the FCS side going into Playoff Selection Sunday. Most of these can be caught on ESPN+

#16 Southern Illinois @ #22 Youngstown State
#1 North Dakota State @ #15 North Dakota
#10 Mercer @ #24 Western Carolina
#14 SE Louisiana @ #18 Lamar
#9 South Dakota State @ #25 South Dakota
 
FCS Recap with some more big upsets this week. FBS saw Wake Forest beat #14 Virginia, Cal beat #15 Louisville in OT, and Wisconsin beat #23 Washington.
  • Chattanooga beat Furman 45-28. QB Battle Alberson threw for 277 and 4 TD.
  • FCS Upset Alert: New Hampshire upset #6 Monmouth 34-13. QB Matt Vezza threw for 173, Ran for 67, and had 3 TD.
  • Wagner beat Robert Morris 24-20. RB Andre Hines Jr ran for 123 and 1 TD.
  • Lafayette beat Colgate 59-42. RB Kente Edwards ran for 260 and 3 TD.
  • Villanova rolled Towson 28-10. RB Jabriel Mace ran for 291 and 4 TD.
  • Illinois State stomped Indiana State 52-20. QB Tommy Rittenhouse threw for 314 and 4 TD.
  • Morehead State beat Butler 31-30. QB Carter Cravens threw for 298 and 2 TD.
  • FCS Upset Alert: Davidson upset #23 Presbyterian 14-13. RB Mason Sheron ran for 89.
  • Cornell beat Penn 39-17. QB Garrett Bass-Sulpizio threw for 265 and 1 TD.
  • Rhode Island beat Elon 34-20. QB Devin Farrell threw for 309 and 2 TD.
  • #1 NDSU beat #15 North Dakota 15-10.
  • #22 Youngstown State beat #16 Southern Illinois 48-38. QB Beau Brungard threw for 345 and 4 TD, Ran for 104 and 2 TD.
  • #10 Mercer beat #24 Western Carolina 49-47 in a game that matched the Top 2 FCS offenses. QB Taron Dickens threw for 551 and 7 TD in the loss.
  • Montana beat Eastern Washington 29-24. RB Eli Gillman ran for 83 and 1 TD.
  • #18 Lamar beat #14 SE Louisiana 14-12.
  • FCS Upset Alert: #25 South Dakota beat #9 South Dakota State 24-17. RB L.J. Phillips Jr ran for 168 and 2 TD.
 
FCS Recap. Next week is the final week before playoff selection and conferences get clinched for Automatic Qualifier bids.
  • Montana State beat UC Davis 38-17
  • Sacramento State beat Idaho 23-20
  • Stephen F. Austin beat Lamar 26-15
  • San Diego rolled Butler 29-7
  • Northern Arizona beat Cal Poly 35-27
  • North Dakota State stomped Northern Iowa 48-16. They've won 15 straight games now.
  • Mercer lit up Chattanooga 63-17
  • SE Louisiana survived past Incarnate Word 10-7
  • Illinois State handled South Dakota State 35-21
  • Lafayette beat Richmond 35-28
  • Presbyterian beat St. Thomas-Minnesota 23-9
  • Lehigh stomped Colgate 27-7
  • Dartmouth beat Cornell 24-14
  • South Dakota won a wild shootout in OT over Southern Illinois 53-51
  • Delaware State beat Howard 26-13
  • Villanova survived Stony Brook in OT 30-27
  • Rhode Island stomped Maine 45-13
  • Duquesne upset Central Connecticut State 38-33
  • Harvard won a wild game thanks to a 53 yard FG over Penn 45-43
  • Drake beat Dayton 14-6
  • East Tennessee State beat Western Carolina 52-35
  • On Friday, South Carolina State beat North Carolina Central 34-27
 
Virginia Tech has hired James Franklin to take over their program.
 
The FCS Playoffs Bracket. Biggest snubs include Presbyterian with North Dakota being a bit of a surprise inclusion. Glad Harvard got in though, was worried they'd get screwed after losing.

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- Art Briles has been named as HC at D-II Eastern New Mexico.
- Ray Priore is stepping down at Penn after 11 Seasons.
- Cal has fired Justin Wilcox after almost 9 seasons.
- Cal Poly has fired Paul Wulff after 3 seasons.
- Bruce Barnum is out at Portland State after 11 seasons.
 
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