ESPN HATES FCS

[San Diego Football]

Some of the greatest players in football history came from the FCS.

Walter Payton
Jerry Rice
Terrell Owens
John Stallworth
Charles Haley
Shannon Sharpe
Michael Strahan

Just to name a few.

[JohnStOnge]

A handful of teams will catch an FBS team unprepared in the next couple of weeks. A few of those might actually pull a upset. But make no doubt, we are cupcakes in comparison.

Depends on what FCS team is being compared to what FBS team. As you know there's overlap in caliber between the subdivisions. And conferences like the Sun Belt, MAC, and now even CUSA are very close to FCS in caliber. In fact by Sagarin's conference strength ratings the Missouri Valley was stronger than those three FBS leagues as well as the American Athletic last year.

Talking about Big 5 conference FBS teams is different than talking about the other five conferences. In fact I think there's more overall difference between the Big 5 conference teams and teams form the other 5 conferences in FBS than there is between the other 5 conferences in FBS and the top 5 leagues in FCS.

You when I first wrote that, right after the sentence that starts with "Depends…," I wrote "If it's Alcorn State vs. Georgia Tech, yes. If it's Northern Iowa vs. Georgia State, no." I deleted it because Northern Iowa isn't actually going to play Georgia State this year and I didn't think Charlotte had quite the same Omph.

But wouldn't you know Charlotte beat Georgia State last night. BTW Army lost to Fordham too and I watched most of that game before I had to go to sleep to be able to get up for fishing this morning. Fordham was not a cupcake for Army. You could see from the start that Army had its hands full trying to stop Fordham's offense.