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FCS Games on DirecTV (Sept 8)

IdaGriz01

IdaGriz01

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Still a fair number of FCS-FBS matchups, some of which will be televised and picked up by DirecTV. At least a few FCS-FCS games will be showing (including the Griz game). FCS poll ranking shown in brackets [].

Saturday, September 8
Code: 
Jacksonville at Mercer 		 4:00 pm	794	
Fordham at Richmond 		 4:00 pm	642
SE Louisiana at #11 LSU 	 5:00 pm	209
Texas Southern at Texas State 	 5:00 pm	795
[16] McNeese at Houston Bapt 	 5:00 pm	623
[9] Samford at Florida State 	 5:20 pm	789
Alabama State at #7 Auburn 	 5:30 pm	611-1
W Illinois at Illinois 		 5:30 pm	610-1
E Illinois at [19] Illinois St 	 5:30 pm	665-1
[11] Nicholls at Tulane 	 6:00 pm	791
Jackson State at Tenn. State	 9:30 pm, delayed from 5:00 game time. Channel 649
DirecTV added a few on Friday, as expected -- including ones on the 700 channels.

Have to put up with the box & green text bit :lol: ;) This is the only way I've found to kludge a formatted table. In case you missed it, you have to use the slider on the right to see the bottom of the list now that it has gotten longer.
 
IdaGriz01 said:
Still a fair number of FCS-FBS matchups, some of which will be televised and picked up by DirecTV. At least a few FCS-FCS games will be showing (including the Griz game). FCS poll ranking shown in brackets [].

Thursday, September 6
Code: 
[7] Kennesaw St at Tennessee Tech 	5:00 pm		208

Saturday, September 8
Code: 
Albany at Rhode Island 		11:00 am	608
Drake at [14] Montana 		 1:00 pm	681
Lafayette at Delaware 		 1:30 pm	640
Lamar at Texas Tech 		 2:00 pm	649, 654, 684 … 
So Illinois at Ole Miss 	 2:00 pm	611-1
Et Tenn St at Tennessee 	 2:00 pm	611
Fordham at Richmond 		 4:00 pm	642
SE Louisiana at #11 LSU 	 5:00 pm	209
[16] McNeese at Houston Bapt 	 5:00 pm	623
Alabama State at #7 Auburn 	 5:30 pm	611-1
W Illinois at Illinois 		 5:30 pm	610-1
E Illinois at [19] Illinois St 	 9:30 pm, delayed from 5:30 game time. Channel 665
We expect a few more to show up (high 700s don't show up until Friday, usually), so I'll post those when they are available.

(Try to ignore the box & green text bit :lol: ;) This is the only way I've found to kludge a formatted table. Still working on that.)
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Thanks for taking the time to do this Idagriz, I for one really appreciate it! :clap: :thumb:
 
FYI: The Kennesaw State game is in a lightning delay(?). They're claiming a start at 5:45 MT, but Weather.com shows a lot of activity in that general area. Not sure they're even going to get the game in.

(Luckily, we have a few "left-over" game recordings from the weekend to ease withdrawal symptoms. Yes, we're hooked on college football.)
 
Make no mistake, Tennessee Tech is a crappy team. They won just one game last year, and that was at home against a mediocre Tennessee State team. So it was no surprise that Kennesaw State absolutely kicked their fannies, 49-10. But keep in mind that K State played mostly their two and threes in the second half (and their final TD was scored by the third string QB). The Owls are truly a "scary good" team.
 
IdaGriz01 said:
Make no mistake, Tennessee Tech is a crappy team. They won just one game last year, and that was at home against a mediocre Tennessee State team. So it was no surprise that Kennesaw State absolutely kicked their fannies, 49-10. But keep in mind that K State played mostly their two and threes in the second half (and their final TD was scored by the third string QB). The Owls are truly a "scary good" team.
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Good team. Not too fun to watch the azz kicking, but solid run game.
 
Updated list with more games.

It's good to have some additional FCS games, including ones that involve unranked teams. If you only watch the highly ranked teams (like Villanova and Kennesaw State), you get a skewed notion of what FCS is like, overall. Now, I freely admit that we seldom watch the entire game if it does not involve a ranked team, but we do watch enough to assess the level of play.

Those who claim that the Griz are only mediocre have clearly not watched a lot of FCS football outside the very elite programs. Trust me, there are many, many mediocre-to-bad FCS teams out there that the Griz, even in the last few "down" years, would crush.
 
IdaGriz01 said:
FYI: The Kennesaw State game is in a lightning delay(?). They're claiming a start at 5:45 MT, but Weather.com shows a lot of activity in that general area. Not sure they're even going to get the game in.

(Luckily, we have a few "left-over" game recordings from the weekend to ease withdrawal symptoms. Yes, we're hooked on college football.)
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Hell, there are more games in weather delay than not this year.
 
Silvertip said:
IdaGriz01 said:
FYI: The Kennesaw State game is in a lightning delay(?). They're claiming a start at 5:45 MT, but Weather.com shows a lot of activity in that general area. Not sure they're even going to get the game in.

(Luckily, we have a few "left-over" game recordings from the weekend to ease withdrawal symptoms. Yes, we're hooked on college football.)
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Hell, there are more games in weather delay than not this year.
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Yep, for-sure seems like it. Makes it harder to set up to record games (but we -- my wife, actually -- managed)
 
misterb said:
Are these available on DirectvNow for out of state subscribers?
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I know almost nothing about DirectvNow, other than that its a streaming service. Since ESPN has a streaming service (ESPN+), I'm guessing that DirecTV would be prohibited from capturing TV broadcasts for its own streaming channel. But I really have no idea.

Sorry. :?
 
Interesting game at Rhode Island. The Rams piled up a lot of yards (rushing and passing) in the 1st quarter, but lead by only a TD, 14-7.

Getting closer: GO GRIZ! :egriz:
 
Rhodies put up 45 on Albany. They did give up 26, but some of that was in garbage time.

Meanwhile, Delaware is leading Lafayette, 21-0, with less than a minute to go inthe half.
 
In the end, Southern Illinois got obliterated by Ole Miss, 76-41, but they actually led at the half, 38-35. I imagine there was some blistered paint in the Ole Miss locker room at half time. :lol: :lol:
 
Interesting status right now: Samford (FCS #9) leads Florida State 23-14, midway thru the 2nd quarter.
 
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