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Big Sky

PORTST 38-35 CP
SUU 34-6 UCD
IDST 13-38 SAC
WEB 36-52 NAU
UND 16-42 UMT
ETSU 7-63 MTST
EWU 43-41 NOCO

• NConf Record: 1-0
  Overall: 15-17
  
  vs. FCS: 1-0
  Overall: 5-7
  
  
  Best Performance: (#19) Montana 42, North Dakota 16 - In his first ever start, Makena Simis ties a Griz record with 6 touchdown passes on only 22 attempts.
  
  Worst Performance: Idaho St. 13, Sacramento St. 38 - The Bungles throw 4 picks while their defense allows true freshman Nate Ketteringham to be mini-Simis with 4 TD passes on just 26 attempts.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Idaho St. 13, Sacramento St. 38 - You know your program isn't doing well when they've lost 7 of their last 9 against Sac State.

Southland

SELU 22-7 HBU
NICH 7-37 SHSU
UCA 35-17 LAM
ACU 20-25 UIW
NWST 27-47 MCNSE

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 6-15
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 0-3
  
  
  Best Performance: Central Arkansas 35, Lamar 17 - Blake Veasley tops Kade Harrington by rushing for 292 yards and 4 touchdowns on an insane 49 carries.
  
  Worst Performance: Abilene Christian 20, Incarnate Word 25 - The Wildcat defense must've thought this game was postponed longer than one day because they allowed 593 yards to a UIW team that was averaging just 328 ypg coming in.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Incarnate Word 25, Abilene Christian 20 - The Cardinals pull off just their 2nd. win in 7 tries against transitional rival ACU.

Missouri Valley

MIZST 10-40 SDK
UNI 10-7 SDKST
WIU 28-48 ILST
YSU 31-38 SIU (OT)
NDSU 28-14 INST

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 18-12
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 16-3
  
  
  Best Performance: (#3) Illinois St. 48, (#20) Western Illinois 28 - Coprich, Roberson, and Warrum all have big days as the Redbirds firmly establish themselves as the MO Valley favorite.
  
  Worst Performance: Missouri St. 10, South Dakota 40 - Being outgained 529-155 by South Dakota shows how many light years the Bears are below the rest of the conference.
  
  Most Surprising Result: (#22) Northern Iowa 10, (#6) South Dakota St. 7 - QB Aaron Bailey runs for 169 yards while Karter Schult registers 3 sacks as the Panthers stay alive for one more week.

OVC

TTU 20-51 EIU
TSU 21-45 EKU
MUR 45-52 UTM
JAXST 27-7 AP

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 10-17
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 8-5
  
  
  Best Performance: (#13) Eastern Kentucky 45, Tennessee St. 21 - The Colonels move to 23-5 all-time versus TSU with a surprisingly easy win.
  
  Worst Performance: Tennessee Tech 20, Eastern Illinois 51 - Jared Davis desperately hopes nobody remembers his name after he threw 4 INTs on just 6 pass attempts in Charleston.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Murray St. 45, Tennessee-Martin 52 - Janawski Davis has a 100-yard receiving day and a KR touchdown to help the Racers nearly offset UTM's 661 yards of offense.

Pioneer League

war 14-45 USD
JU 24-28 DRAKE
STET 37-14 VALPO
BUT 24-27 DAY
MARIST 31-10 DVDSN
MHEAD 31-27 CAMP

• NConf Record: 1-0
  Overall: 18-14
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 5-12
  
  
  Best Performance: Drake 28, Jacksonville 24 - Eric Saubert catches 3 TD passes as the Bulldogs keep their vague conference title hopes alive.
  
  Worst Performance: Valparaiso 14, Stetson 37 - The Crusaders amass just 162 yards at home against a fellow bottom-5 (Sagarin) team.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Jacksonville 24, Drake 28 - I'm still not clear as to whether PFL rules could've allowed the Dolphins to receive an at-large bid to the playoffs, but that seems to be a moot point now.

Tomorrow: the rest of the playoff conferences.

Most Surprising Result: Idaho St. 13, Sacramento St. 38 - You know your program isn't doing well when they've lost 7 of their last 9 against Sac State.

I would actually say EWU squeaking by UNC is the most surprising.

Cujo wrote:

Most Surprising Result: Idaho St. 13, Sacramento St. 38 - You know your program isn't doing well when they've lost 7 of their last 9 against Sac State.

I would actually say EWU squeaking by UNC is the most surprising.

Not to me. I thought that game would be close after UNC's beatdown of Davis.

Mvemjsunpx wrote:

Cujo wrote:
I would actually say EWU squeaking by UNC is the most surprising.

Not to me. I thought that game would be close after UNC's beatdown of Davis.

EWU is averaging scoring 1.5 points per game more than their opponents on the year. The 2 point margin vs. UNC is above average for them.

Patriot League

GTOWN 17-9 BUCK
LEH 42-59 FORD
LAF 0-42 HC

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 15-19
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 14-17
  
  
  Best Performance: (#10) Fordham 59, Lehigh 42 - The Ram defense takes advantage of 5 turnovers while Chase Edmonds goes off for 402 total yards and 4 total touchdowns.
  
  Worst Performance: Lafayette 0, Holy Cross 42 - The Leopards haven't scored in 10 straight quarters and have only put up double digits in one game this season.
  
  Most Surprising Result: (none)

NEC

DUQ 16-7 RMU
WAG 6-70 BYU
SFPA 24-26 BRY
CCSU 26-10 SACHRT

• NConf Record: 0-1
  Overall: 13-20
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 6-18
  
  
  Best Performance: Bryant 26, St. Francis (PA) 24 - Special teams rule the day as the Bulldogs score on both a kick return and a blocked punt.
  
  Worst Performance: Sacred Heart 10, Central Connecticut St. 26 - The Pioneers go 1/5 on fourth down in a game where they won most other stats.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Central Connecticut St. 26, Sacred Heart 10 - The Blue Devils end a 4-game losing streak in the FCS battle of Connecticut.

CAA

SBU 10-23 MAINE
UNH 14-31 UD
NOVA 21-28 TOW
HAMP 7-40 W&M
RICH 59-49 JMU

• NConf Record: 1-0
  Overall: 16-18
  
  vs. FCS: 1-0
  Overall: 15-7
  
  
  Best Performance: (#11) Richmond 59, (#4) James Madison 49 - The Spiders ruin JMU's College Gameday magic by putting up 720 yards and getting 5 rushing touchdowns from Jacobi Green.
  
  Worst Performance: New Hampshire 14, Delaware 31 - The Wildcats cement that 2015 will be an underachieving year by losing rushing 284-50 and only gaining 183 yards of total offense.
  
  Most Surprising Result: (#4) James Madison 49 (#11) Richmond 59 - Not only was the Dukes' past week celebration ruined, but their future weeks may have been ruined too thanks to an apparently serious injury to Vad Lee.

Big South

CCU 23-20 MONM
KENN 35-45 LIB
CHSO 34-0 GWEBB

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 19-14
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 13-8
  
  
  Best Performance: Charleston Southern 34, Gardner-Webb 0 - The Buccaneers get some offense and hold GWebb to just 110 yards in a dominant win.
  
  Worst Performance: Gardner-Webb 0, Charleston Southern 34 - The Bulldogs get shut out and allow a season-high in points to a team that only scored 10 last week.
  
  Most Surprising Result: (#2) Coastal Carolina 23, Monmouth 20 - "Coast" seems to be the right word to describe a CCU squad that hasn't exactly dominated of late.

SoCon

SAM 36-56 WCU
CIT 38-17 FUR
UTC 20-17 WOFF
VMI 28-21 MER

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 15-13
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 12-6
  
  
  Best Performance: The Citadel 38, Furman 17 - All 5 Bulldog wins this season have come by at least 18 points.
  
  Worst Performance: Mercer 21, VMI 28 - The Bears are now 1-9 in SoCon games the last two years despite the fact that 8 of those 10 games were decided by one score (the win was VMI last year).
  
  Most Surprising Result: Samford 36, Western Carolina 56 - Samford has fallen off a cliff the last two weeks thanks to back-to-back lopsided conference losses.

Tomorrow: Non-Playoff Folks…

Ivy League

YALE 20-34 PENN
BROWN 44-24 COR
COLUM 9-13 DART
PRINCE 7-42 HARV

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 16-8
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 16-8
  
  
  Best Performance: (#15) Harvard 42, Princeton 7 - Crimson rack up 647 yards against a team that looked like an Ivy contender a couple weeks earlier.
  
  Worst Performance: Cornell 24, Brown 44 - The Big Red misfires in the redzone too many times and loses their 15th. in a row to teams other than Columbia.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Yale 20, Penn 34 - Despite mostly the same personnel, the Bulldogs are averaging barely half the scoring output they had last year.

MEAC

SCSU 34-7 DSU
HAMP 7-40 W&M
MORG 17-20 NCCEN
HOW 14-65 NCAT
NFOLK 49-59 BCU

• NConf Record: 0-1
  Overall: 8-23
  
  vs. FCS: 0-1
  Overall: 3-8
  
  
  Best Performance: NC Central 20, Morgan St. 17 - The Eagles only passed for 44 yards, but they did force 3 turnovers & they held Morgan to minus-11 rushing yards.
  
  Worst Performance: Howard 14, North Carolina A&T 65 - The Bison actually led 14-13, then gave up 52 unanswered points to end the game.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Norfolk St. 49, Bethune-Cookman 59 - Norfolk State, a team that hadn't hit 30 points in 3 years, scores 49 and loses.

SWAC

SU 40-21 TXSO
MVSU 14-49 GRAM
UAPB 3-37 JSU

• NConf Record: 0-0
  Overall: 4-14
  
  vs. FCS: 0-0
  Overall: 0-6
  
  
  Best Performance: Southern 40, Texas Southern 21 - The Jags outrush TSU 305 to minus-2 in an expected win.
  
  Worst Performance: Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3, Jackson St. 37 - The Golden Lions are dominated in yardage 469-175 in a game that was supposed to be close.
  
  Most Surprising Result: Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3, Jackson St. 37 - Pine Bluff loses 2 straight in Jackson since around the turn of the millennium.

Independents

ETSU 7-63 MTST

• Non-Ind. Record: 0-1
  Overall: 0-7
  
  vs. FCS: 0-1
  Overall: 0-5
  
  
  Best Performance: (none)
  
  Worst Performance: East Tennessee St. 7, (#21) Montana St. 63 - The Bucs actually weren't outgained by a huge amount, but losing turnovers 4-0 and allowing a KR touchdown totally negated that moral victory.
  
  Most Surprising Result: (none)

Mvemjsunpx wrote: Worst Performance: Idaho St. 13, Sacramento St. 38 - The Bungles throw 4 picks while their defense allows true freshman Noah Ketteringham to be mini-Simis with 4 TD passes on just 26 attempts.

Nate.

SDHornet wrote:

Mvemjsunpx wrote: Worst Performance: Idaho St. 13, Sacramento St. 38 - The Bungles throw 4 picks while their defense allows true freshman Noah Ketteringham to be mini-Simis with 4 TD passes on just 26 attempts.

Nate.

Whoops. Fixed.

Mvemjsunpx wrote:

Cujo wrote:
I would actually say EWU squeaking by UNC is the most surprising.

Not to me. I thought that game would be close after UNC's beatdown of Davis.

I was about to argue that, but after what Davis did to grieving NAU, you just might have something there, Venus....