Bobcats play six home games, including four Southland Conference Contests After winning the 2008 Southland Conference championship and making its second NCAA FCS Playoff appearance in the last four years, the Texas State University football team wil… more »

MISSOULA — The Montana Grizzlies' path to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs was paved not only by about 90 determined football players in maroon jerseys. Those 19,000-plus fans, most of them in some shade of mar… more »

Know this about the fifth-ranked Montana Grizzlies: Rain or shine, these guys can grind. The Grizzlies spotted 23rd-ranked Texas State a 10-0 lead, and then rallied for a 31-13 Football Championship Subdivision playoff win Saturday behind the power r… more »

Montana is 7-0 vs. Southland conference teams since 1995. The Montana Grizzlies and Texas State Bobcats will meet for the first time Saturday in the first round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Texas State is coming off a 48-45,… more »

Jim O'Day didn't use his position on the NCAA's 10-member Football Championship Subdivision playoff selection committee to send a seed the Montana Grizzlies' way. Not that he would, but it wasn't possible anyway. “It's an interesting process,” sai… more »

SAN MARCOS — Usually football teams need to wait until the weekend to find a change in the standings, but on Tuesday, Texas State suddenly found itself in a three-way tie for first place in the Southland Conference. The league office announced that C… more »

SAN MARCOS — For the past two years, Bradley George made the kind of progress that coaches expect from a starting quarterback. For two weeks at the start of Texas State's latest football season, he hit reverse, full throttle. However, after a shor… more »

While college football teams across the nation are battling first-week jitters and injuries, the Southland Conference squads are also combating the elements. Three of the eight teams in the SLC are in the middle of hurricane season. Nicholls State, M… more »

Experience helping 26-year-old George San Marcos — Bradley George has tenure. That’s the polite way of saying the Texas State quarterback is old. George remembers graduating high school in 2000, playing catch with King Tut and trading notes with S… more »

San Marcos — Defense and mental toughness. Those are the two areas in which the Texas State football team needed to improve according to head coach Brad Wright. After last season’s 4-7 campaign, the Bobcats needed a change and they needed it fast.… more »

Sportswriters across the nation are close to unanimous when it comes to two things about the 2008 season. Appalachian State is a good bet to repeat as FCS champions, and the Texas State Bobcats aren’t expected to be very good. That’s at least what t… more »

San Marcos — Football is like basketball in one aspect. In order to set up for the deep ball (passing vs. three-point shot), the inside game must be established (rushing vs. post). Teams who can set-up both reap offensive success. Opponents are force… more »

San Marcos — Thirteen days. Either it comes as a shock or blessing, but in less than two weeks, the lights will be fired up at Bobcat Stadium. Fans will fill the parking lot, crack open a cold one and toast the new season. Texas State’s footbal… more »

San Marcos — Donovan King and the Texas State defense has one goal for Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage. ’Stop our offense, every down,’ King said. ’That’s what I plan on.’ Easier said than done after Thursday afternoon’s practice, where the Bobcat… more »

Texas State coach Brad Wright said his team simply can't afford to participate in too many scoring duels this season. The Bobcats were in far too many last year, during a 4-7 campaign in his first year as head coach. Wright hired Fred Bleil, a vet… more »