2018 Around the FCS

[Long Time Cat]

ISU 30 Davis 14 in the 3rd
Idaho State may be the best team in the conference right now.

[Cat Grad]

ISU 30 Davis 14 in the 3rd
Idaho State may be the best team in the conference right now.

Bobcats coaching them...

[RickRund]

And Weber holds Eastern to 6 points, two fgs, and beats them 14-6...

[Long Time Cat]

Listening to the ISU/Davis game makes me very thankful for Jay Sanderson!

[grizzh8r]

Wow, ISU just missed what would have been a game winning 27 years fg.

[exppi]

UCD with a TD In OT. ISU's turn.

[RickRund]

And looks like Davis wins in OT, 34-27.

[Cledus]

NDSU 21, SDSU 17

Easton Stick's line was 9-20, 182, 2 TD, 1 INT. Not stellar but good enough. Passing does not have to be stellar, just good enough to be a threat and support the run game. And good defense. And don’t make crucial mistakes! The NDSU formula to beat SDSU, and pretty much everyone else.

We were on our way to being in position to defeat EWU, but on rereading the play-by-play it was the crucial mistakes that did us in (just like last year).

Bad toss between Andersen and Ifanse. Dropped long pass to McCutcheon. Touchdown called back on chop block penalty. Missed field goal. Put those possible points together and we are in the game. Four crucial plays.

Somehow clean that up — I still have hope.

So Easton Stick has a statistical game very similar to Troy Anderson and they beat a good SDSU team. It makes me wonder, how would the Cats have fared with a healthy Troy at QB? Did having Rovig play hurt us in that game?

Stick's 45% completion percentage obviously wasn't very good, but he averaged 9.1 yards per attempt, which is outstanding. I've always maintained that completion percentage is way overrated (at least without taking into account how much he's throwing downfield), and YPA is way underrated, in measuring the effectiveness/efficiency of a QB. Anderson doesn't throw downfield much, so he better have a pretty high completion percentage. Stick was obviously throwing downfield quite a bit (averaged 20 yards per completion), and in that case a QB can be quite effective, even with a fairly low completion percentage.

When you the study passer rating formula, you realize pretty quickly it’s just yards per attempt. Touchdowns and interceptions don’t really moving passer rating very much. It’s 1) attempts, and 2) yards.

[DriscollCat]

Caught the end of that ISU UCD game. That was a fun game to watch even without a rooting interest. What a great football weekend in the BSC!

[Rich K]

Early reports
UNC 6 NAU 0
Liberty 7 Idaho State 0

[Rich K]

UNCU 12 NAU 7 End of 1st
Elon 21 Richmond 14 Halftime
LIberty 13 ISU 10 10:09 2nd

[Hawks86]

[Bobcat4Ever]

Liberty 20, Idaho State 17 at the half. The Bengals have put up 278 yards, but were hurt by a fumble around there own 20 and a missed field goal into a very stiff breeze. It's a good game to watch. The announcers at halftime are just choking trying to give an FCS team credit for anything. Go Bengals!

[RickRund]

After seeing UNC had 12 suspended I figured it would maybe be no contest but UNC is rolling NAU, 28-14, and looking to score again.. 12:00 left in the 4th...

[RickRund]

A 30ish yard td pass. 36-14 now.

[Cledus]

A 30ish yard td pass. 36-14 now.

Welp. Didn’t see this one coming.

[luckyirishguy25]

Liberty may have just put the nail in the coffin, 41-31 Liberty

[Cat_gld]

Now ncu 42-14 following interception for TD.

[bobcat92]

9 NAU starters suspended for the game. Down to freshman NAU QB.

[RickRund]

9 NAU starters suspended for the game. Down to freshman NAU QB.

So this was the inaugural Suspension Bowl... Wasn't there also 9 starters out for UNC?