YoKid
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Post by YoKid on Sept 4, 2016 10:27:08 GMT -6
Richmond 37
Virginia 20
Eastern Washington 45
Washington State 42
Northern Iowa 25
Iowa State 20
Albany 22
Buffalo 16
*Numerous others had nail biter loses...
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Post by Yotes on Sept 4, 2016 11:49:11 GMT -6
These are teams that are kind of becoming regular culprits in these FCS upsets. Richmond beat Duke twice in the past 6 or 7 years. UNI beat Iowa State in 2014 and 2007 with numerous close calls against others. Eastern Washington beat a ranked Oregon State in 2013, Idaho in 2012 (though that program is a mess and transitioning to FCS now), and had one score losses to Washington twice and Washington State in the last five years. The Albany one came out of left field though - huge win for that program.
Something to take away if you are these FBS programs is that you should not be scheduling in-state FCS schools. These upper echelon FCS teams in Richmond, EWU, and UNI are on par with a lot of FBS teams and come in with all the motivation in the world because they want to beat the larger in-state schools that passed over them in the recruiting process.
I do really enjoy seeing these FCS over FBS upsets. There will be more of these in the next few weeks, other culprits I'll be keeping an eye on are Portland State, NDSU, James Madison, and Western Illinois.
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Post by larobe on Sept 4, 2016 11:52:29 GMT -6
Appalachain State just about beat #9 Tennesee in OT ,Tenn pulls out the win 20-13 One of the better stand outs in the nail-biter losses category.Seems many of the FCS playoff teams do well against FBS teams.
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Post by YoKid on Sept 4, 2016 12:11:07 GMT -6
Appalachain State just about beat #9 Tennesee in OT ,Tenn pulls out the win 20-13 Appalachian State is no longer FCS, they are in the Sun Belt Conference. Others had close games: Maine 21 Connecticut 24 Montana State 17 Idaho 20 |
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 5, 2016 18:34:05 GMT -6
Appy is FCS now.
NDSU upsetting Iowa seems to be a popular pick. I watched NDSU week one. I watched Iowa yesterday. Not even close. The Bison have very little chance at winning that game. I don't understand why people are saying to look out for that game.
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Post by YoKid on Sept 5, 2016 20:07:33 GMT -6
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 5, 2016 20:17:28 GMT -6
Meant to say FBS, my bad.
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Post by Yotes on Sept 5, 2016 20:22:32 GMT -6
Appy is FCS now. NDSU upsetting Iowa seems to be a popular pick. I watched NDSU week one. I watched Iowa yesterday. Not even close. The Bison have very little chance at winning that game. I don't understand why people are saying to look out for that game. I don't see NDSU beating Iowa - but I won't be surprised if NDSU pulls it off as they have won 5 straight games against FBS teams. Plus Iowa's been known to lay eggs, if they pull out another classic letdown against Iowa State your confidence will be diminished. |
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Post by Coyote Fan on Sept 5, 2016 20:24:32 GMT -6
It is a general rule that it isn't a good idea to under estimate what NDSU is capable of. I will take Iowa but I will give NDSU a 30% chance to pull it off.
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Post by YoKid on Sept 6, 2016 9:56:27 GMT -6
Meant to say FBS, my bad. I had to double check, sometimes I feel sure about something and not so much... I do think NDSU has a chance mainly because of their defense. Not having their stud MIKE will likely will hurt, but his replacement did well against CSU. Iowa will indeed go in as the favorite, but if they are slightly off and NDSU comes out like SDSU did against TCU then it's a game. I'm still trying to get a handle on MVFC teams versus FBS teams. The easy part is the conference analysis...crazy good as a whole. |
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Post by thumper76 on Sept 6, 2016 20:59:50 GMT -6
Meant to say FBS, my bad. I had to double check, sometimes I feel sure about something and not so much... I do think NDSU has a chance mainly because of their defense. Not having their stud MIKE will likely will hurt, but his replacement did well against CSU. Iowa will indeed go in as the favorite, but if they are slightly off and NDSU comes out like SDSU did against TCU then it's a game. I'm still trying to get a handle on MVFC teams versus FBS teams. The easy part is the conference analysis...crazy good as a whole. To give you more insight, the year USD beat Minnesota they finished at the bottom of the conference. This isn't meant as smack, but there isn't a conference out there I think that a team could do that and then end up towards the bottom other than the Valley. |
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Post by yotesfan1985 on Sept 6, 2016 22:47:51 GMT -6
Meant to say FBS, my bad. App State and GA Southern left the Southern Confrence and Joined the sun belt the same year |
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Post by Yote 53 on Sept 7, 2016 6:32:28 GMT -6
I had to double check, sometimes I feel sure about something and not so much... I do think NDSU has a chance mainly because of their defense. Not having their stud MIKE will likely will hurt, but his replacement did well against CSU. Iowa will indeed go in as the favorite, but if they are slightly off and NDSU comes out like SDSU did against TCU then it's a game. I'm still trying to get a handle on MVFC teams versus FBS teams. The easy part is the conference analysis...crazy good as a whole. To give you more insight, the year USD beat Minnesota they finished at the bottom of the conference. This isn't meant as smack, but there isn't a conference out there I think that a team could do that and then end up towards the bottom other than the Valley. Except I'm pretty sure we were in the Great West Conference that season. |
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Post by Yotes on Sept 7, 2016 7:04:33 GMT -6
To give you more insight, the year USD beat Minnesota they finished at the bottom of the conference. This isn't meant as smack, but there isn't a conference out there I think that a team could do that and then end up towards the bottom other than the Valley. Except I'm pretty sure we were in the Great West Conference that season. That is correct. And we didn't even win it either. |
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Post by thumper76 on Sept 7, 2016 7:15:31 GMT -6
To give you more insight, the year USD beat Minnesota they finished at the bottom of the conference. This isn't meant as smack, but there isn't a conference out there I think that a team could do that and then end up towards the bottom other than the Valley. Except I'm pretty sure we were in the Great West Conference that season. And that's why I don't do Coyote trivia......oops! |
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