By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist Sometimes, great ideas don't come all at once. They come incrementally, with one decision leading to another, and then another. That seems to be how the FCS Committee came to the conclusion that it would be… more »

By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist It all started, as it sometimes does, as a phone call with the executive director of the College Sporting News, Ralph Wallace. We started shooting the breeze about our favorite football players in Football Cham… more »

By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist There are some things that you can count on in October - the leaves changing color, the weather starting to get colder, and in this election season, presidential debates discussing something wacky (like, say, Jo… more »

By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist It's hard to believe, but we're just about ready to pass the mid-point of the college football season. While this season (so far, anyway) hasn't treated us to an Appalachian State-over-Michigan-esque upset, the… more »

By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist Nobody likes to hear it. Everyone likes to talk about the number of close games there were last weekend, or how close FCS teams came to upsetting FBS teams, or that "on any given Saturday, any team can beat any… more »

By Chuck Burton, The CSN Way Columnist If there was such a thing as “National FCS Game of the week”, it would have been the game in Harrisonburg, Virginia between James Madison and Appalachian State last weekend. It was a game that lived up to billin… more »

By Chuck Burton, CSN Way Columnist Hurricane Ike’s devastation robbed FCS Nation of a great potential matchup of Top 25 teams with Cal Poly and McNeese State. But that only left two great league matchups in the early going between nationally-ranked… more »