Football Bowl Subdivision teams face large opening day foes CHARLOTTE — Jay Mills had a vision of what he wanted to do at Charleston Southern when he accepted the head football coaching job in December, 2002. His vision for the Buccaneers paled in… more »

NORFOLK - It all seemed so familiar at first, to the point where you started to wonder, "Maybe the guy didn't leave after all." Upon entering the ballroom for the MEAC football kickoff news conference, Joe Taylor paused for a moment, then - just as h… more »

Former Appalachian State offensive coordinator Lonnie Galloway becomes a different Mountaineer (this time at FBS West Virgina) - and keeps a leery eye out for Villanova in 2008, too, MORGANTOWN — The saying goes something like this, Rich Rodriguez to… more »

NORFOLK - It took a decade, but Norfolk State is finally rising to the top of the MEAC. The Spartans were picked to finish third in the MEAC preseason football poll by the conference's coaches and sports information directors. The poll was announced… more »

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Winning three straight national championships and a victory at Michigan last season has firmly established Appalachian State as the nation’s top Football Championship Subdivision program. But the main goal — winning the Southern Co… more »

Fort Myers mourns a high school star, killed in a car crash only two weeks after setting foot at Alcorn State. The Lehigh Senior High School weight room has been quiet the last two days. “Pure silence,” Lehigh running back Otis Jiles said. “You co… more »

Hampton is picked to finish fourth, Norfolk State third in the five-team championship race. NORFOLK - — South Carolina State is the favorite to win the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football title. That is, if you believe the ballots cast by confer… more »

Football coach up against tradition. Sparky Woods is older now, but still lean and balding and quick to smile, the spitting image of the guy fired by South Carolina following the 1993 season. He's still a southern boy at 54, the drawl we first heard… more »

College football columnist gets excited about the possibility of another SoCon team shocking the world in 2008. After this column I promise to back away from my man-crush on the Football Championship Subdivision (at least for a while), but I think th… more »

NORFOLK, Va. — FAMU's new football coach Joe Taylor has left some kind of legacy in the Hampton Roads area. He received one of the loudest applauses when he was introduced Friday at the MEAC football season kickoff luncheon. But even bigger is the ha… more »

Success breeds high expectations. Just ask the University of Massachusetts football team. The Minutemen are an overwhelming favorite to win the Colonial Athletic Association's North Division, taking 17 of the 19 first-place votes in the preseason pol… more »

You don’t think about the punter too much until you snap the ball and nobody is back there to catch it. Right now, nobody is back there. Wofford senior Chris Tommie has a torn Posterior Cruciate Ligament and is out for the year. The Greenwood nati… more »

HOUSTON – When the Southland Conference’s preseason football polls came out on Tuesday, the Nicholls State Colonels weren’t anywhere near the top of them. They were picked to finish fifth in both the league’s coaches and sports information directors’… more »

BALTIMORE - At this week's conference media day, James Madison quarterback Rodney Landers exuded a quiet confidence when asked about his chances of ending the season as the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year. He left the bravado to his… more »

For Presbyterian, especially, emotions will be sky-high in the season opener Aug. 30 against Wofford as the teams renew a longtime rivalry. “It’s going to be huge, man,” Blue Hose head coach Bobby Bentley said Friday at the Big South Conference media… more »