FCS designation doesn’t mean a whole lot

By Garrett Hylton
Friday, Sep. 14, 2007 @ 8:49 pm

The Nevada football team doesn’t deserve any criticism for scheduling Nicholls State, a Football Championship Subdivision (more concisely known as Division I-AA) team.

For starters, the BCS big boys have made scheduling FCS teams about as trendy as the iPhone. Even Hawaii scheduled enough FCS opponents this season to technically qualify for the Big Sky championship (which could be a nice backup plan once Colt Brennan and the boys are ultimately derailed by that horrible defense).

And for everybody that’s using Nicholls State as an excuse not to show up at Mackay Stadium tomorrow, get over it. College football is college football. Opening up at Nebraska and at Northwestern is about the hardest pair of opening games of any team in the country. It makes sense to schedule a team like the Colonels to come home and build some confidence with a win.

Here’s the other thing, the Colonels might not even be the worst team on the Wolf Pack’s schedule. Nicholls State, located in Thibodaux, Louis., beat Rice earlier this season, and they’d beat WAC teams Idaho and Utah State under the right circumstances, too.

There’s a reason why the spread is staying around 20 points - the Colonels can play.





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  1. David C. Uhrig Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    I agree with you, as many big programs schedule FCS teams, but one (important) nit-pick: FCS was previously Division 1AA not Division II. Scheduling a DivII school for football would be unacceptable, Div-1AA is acceptable.