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🎙️ New episode of The FCS Edge🎙️ Reaction to the FCS playoff rankings and Jerry Rice Award Watch List. Tennessee Tech coach Bobby Wilder joins as a special guest. Technology can be as funky as the FCS. Craig Haley is audio-only as Zach McKinnell anchors the line of scrimmage. theanalyst.com/podcast/fcs-f…
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Will No. 23 Southeastern Louisiana shake up the Southland race? Will No. 2 Stephen F. Austin continue a perfect season? Kendra Sheehan previews the Stats Perform FCS Game of the Week.
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Teams not in the current Top 25 after being nationally ranked in the preseason: Rhode Island (4-3), Villanova (3-4), Abilene Christian (4-4), Southern Illinois (3-5), Yale (3-2), UT Martin (3-4) and South Carolina State (5-2) How many will play in the postseason?
65%0-1 teams
27%2 teams
5%3 teams
3%4+ teams
37 votes • 19 hours
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If you missed the 30-player Jerry Rice Award Watch List: theanalyst.com/articles/jerr…
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The FCS playoff selection committee's current Top 10 rankings (Illinois State, Lehigh and Tennessee Tech also received votes).
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No. 4 Youngstown State and No. 7 Northern Arizona have byes in Week 8.
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The FCS playoff committee’s first Top 10 rankings reveal today (2 p.m. ET, “CFB Live” on ESPN2) helps give insight into which teams are in contention for eight first-round byes. The 24-team pairings will be announced on Nov. 22.
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Get them the rock because they know what to do with it.
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Opta FCS Football retweeted
FCS Remaining D-I Opponents’ Combined Win% High 1-Dartmouth (18-7/.720); T2-Penn & Yale (each 17-8/.680); 4-S Dakota (19-9/.679); 5-No Colo (19-10/.655) Low 1-Wagner (9-25/.265); 2-Fordham (7-19/.269); 3-Furman (10-25/.286); T4-Duquesne, Mercyhurst & New Haven (each 10-24/.294)
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The Opta projection model runs thousands of FCS season simulations. Here are the highest averages of teams winning out in the regular season.
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Tarleton State is No. 1 and Stephen F. Austin No. 2 in the #StatsPerformFCSTop25 Poll today. It’s the first time since Nov. 22, 2021, when Sam Houston was first and James Madison second, that both spots don’t include a Big Sky or MVFC team. The No. 1 spot had been either Montana State, South Dakota State or North Dakota State since then as well.
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Opta FCS Football retweeted
A Halloween treat: South Dakota at South Dakota State on Oct. 31 has been set for 4 p.m. ET on ESPNU. SDSU has a 58-54-7 lead in the all-time series heading into the 120th meeting.
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Tarleton State, the new No. 1 team in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll, moved to the Division I subdivision before the 2020 season. The Texans, under coach Todd Whitten, are tied for the sixth-most wins since then. Top 25: theanalyst.com/articles/fcs-…
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Upcoming Ranked vs. Ranked in Week 8 No. 23 Southeastern Louisiana (4-3, 2-2 Southland) at No. 2 Stephen F. Austin (7-0, 4-0) No. 22 Weber State (5-3, 4-1 Big Sky) at No. 3 Montana State (6-1, 3-1) No. 6 North Dakota (6-2, 3-1 MVFC) at No. 8 South Dakota (6-2, 3-1)
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