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Stats.com new FCS coverage.... purchased from The Sports Network...Craig Haley who provides excellent coverage of FCS continues......

My wife and I are going and we snagged tickets on stub hub for about $35 a piece close to the UCA sections. I'm anticipating a less than full stadium, so I'm hoping we can scoot over a few seats to watch with the rest in Purple and Gray.

The link below is also a resource for online FCS coverage. Not a whole lot of options out there:
http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football

Anyone attend the scrimmage Saturday? From what I hear we look a lot like we did last year with a great offense and a defense that can make plays but can be gashed. Hopefully all the chatter about gains in the weight room will translate into more of a run stuffing D.

Yeah, from what I've heard/been told we are looking similar on offense to last season, quite a few weapons. The defense seems to be stepping up a notch seeing as how they are more familiar with the defensive schemes. Should be a pretty good year if we can survive the road slate to start the season.
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The defense looked a lot better on Saturday than they did in the Spring game. The offense had a few long plays, but overall looked like they are fine with grinding out 5 yards at a time. The pace seemed a little slower than what we ran last year. The O-Line looks real good and hopefully we can keep them health. QBs threw the ball well with little decline from first to third string. Can't wait to line up against another color uniform and see where we really stand.

FBDad,
Thanks for the update. Hopefully, we are bigger and stronger and our defense can reduce the number of explosive plays by the opposing offense. I'm anxious to see how we play at Samford!

PS: great avatar! I have the painting on my weight room wall.

IMO, nobody in the Southland plays much defense, the teams that win (including ours in '11 & '12) come up with some keys stops & avoid the quick strikes. If the Bears can keep the other guys in the 20's, I think they can have a great year. That will require improvement. Go Bears

Just one tackle a few yards earlier vs Mo State we would have been a 7-5 record and a possible playoff spot..our guys were whipped chasing their receivers that last drive it seemed.....agree re assessment of how SLC team's typically play but I would love to see a lock down defense that is rarity at any level these days.....keeping opponents in 20s is actually pretty soild now....really need to win at Samford for playoff chance unless we win SLC......

Do we get a QB transfer mid year with what is going on in NWA?

Looks like we'll get to play against Altee Tenpenny when we go to Nicholls haha

Nice write up in Sync Weekly on Dillon Winfrey

http://www.syncweekly.com/news/2015/aug/25/all-grown/

http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20150820123535989414104

SLC preview........

Excellent article below on Winfrey...great example of why you need to make offers to players that the common wisdom is they are heading somewhere else......he reminds me of Tristan Jackson who has been a very good CFL player......both have a nose for the ball and play confidently.....

Week 2 Games of Interest

Southland:

9/3:
UCA at Samford, 16-45
#19 Southeastern at Northwestern State.important early SLC game, 34-20
Abilene Christian at Fresno State.....old Bear Collums takes on Bulldogs, 13-34


9/5:
Incarnate Word home vs Texas A&M-Kingsville, 18-16
#3 Sam Houston State at Texas Tech....RRs may want to stop SLC in Game 1, 45-59.......wow...
#24 Stephen F Austin home vs Northern Arizona, 28-38
Houston Baptist home vs Bethany College, 51-7
Lamar home vs Bacone College, 66-3
$25 McNeese State at LSU..another in-state game.... can some one explain that? Cancelled due to weather..

FCS Top 10:

9/3: #4 Villanova at UConn, 15-20
9/3: #9 New Hampshire at San Jose State, 13-43
9/5: #2 Illinois State at Iowa ...might be a very good game in I-City, 14-31
9/5: #7 Jacksonville State at #8 Chattanooga, 23-20
9/5: #5 Coastal Carolina at Furman....... hard way for Palladins to start, 38-35
9/5; #10 Northern Iowa at Iowa State.......big in-state game..imagine that, 7-31
9/5: #6 Eastern Washington at Oregon..... new QB for Ducks is old EWU QB, 41-62......>100 points between two high power offenses


Others:

9/3: Eastern Illinois at Western Illinois, 5-33
9/3: Oklahoma State at Central Michigan..Cowboys and Indians (Chippewas)....Boys better be on with CMU's new coach in his first game after NFL career, 24-13

9/5; #16 South Dakota State at Kansas....anyone taklng the Jayhawks? 41-38
9/5: #14 Youngstown State at Pittsburgh .....Penquins and Panthers in the Steel Cities Bowl, 37-45
9/5: Southern Illinois at Indiana, 47-48.......Hoosiers get lucky
9/5: Southern at La Tech, 15-62
9/5: Missouri State at Memphis..... former Mizzou d-coach Dave Steckel makes premier as Bears coach, 7-63
9/5: Texas at #11 Notre Dame...best to Charlie..can use a big win,3-38
9/5; #20 Wisconsin at #3 Alabama (AT&T Stadium), 17-35
9/5: Mississippi State at Southern Miss ....yet another in-state game....wow...,34-16
9/5: UT-Martin at Ole Miss, 3-76
9/5; SE Missouri at #24 Mizzou...yet another.....3-34
9/5: UL-Monroe at #9 Georgia.....yikes, 14-51
9/5; Arkansas State at #8 USC......State could ruin Sark's year for sure...,6-55

9/6: UAPB at South Carolina State, 7-35

Week 3, /12/15, Games of Interest

Sagarin Ratings below in parens.........add 3 to home team to estimate predicted margin of score

For what its worth, Samford moved uo 31 in the Stats FCS Poll and has a Sagarin Rating of 61 which is tied for the SoCon top spot with Chattanooga who s sranked #10 in Stats FCS Poll. Also, Samford is #9 FCS in the combined Sagarin ratings.

Bears dropped out of Stats FCS voting, are #48 FCS in Sagarin and 5th in Sagarin for SLC and very close to #3.

Southland:

UCA (47) at Oklahoma State (80) by 33
SFA (50) at TCU (90) by 43
Northwestern State (43) at La-Lafayette (64) by 24
Nicholls State (29) at La-Monroe (57) by 31
Incarnate Word (27) at McNeese State (49) by 25
Lamar (41) at Baylor (90) by 52
Northern Colorado (38) by 17 at Houston Baptist (18)
#20 SELA (58) vs Florida Tech..no ratings

FCS Top 10:
#2 North Dakota State (70) by 24 vs Weber State (46)
#3 Coastal Carolina (59) by 8 at SC State (48)
#4 Illinois State (65) by 37 vs Morgan State (31)
#5 Jacksonville State (63) at Auburn (88) by 28
#6 Villanova (60) by 5 at #16 Fordham (52)
#7 Eastern Washington (65) by 1 at #14 Northern Iowa (62)
#9 South Dakota State (64) by 14 vs Southern Utah (53)
#10 Chattanooga (61) vs Mars Hill......no rating

Other Games

Western Illinois (61) at Illinois (75) by 17
Southern Illinois (60) by 12 at SEMO (45)
Missouri State (48) vs Chadron State.......no rating
Eastern Illinois (50) at Northwestern (78) by 31
UAPB (22) vs Morehouse.......no rating
La Tech (71) at Western Kentucky (70) by 2
Murray State (40) at Northern Illinois (66) by 29
OU (88) by 1 at Tennessee (84)
Texas (73) by 4 vs Rice (66)