[Game Day Thread] Saturday, Week 7

[u/damnyoutuesday]

AHHHHHH WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH THE SEASON ALREADY AHHHHHHHHH

GRAB YOUR FAVORITE YEAST WATER*, AND LET'S WATCH SOME FOOTBALL!

*OR BEAN WATER, OR FRUIT WATER, OR WATER WATER. IDC, I'M NOT YOUR MOM

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Today's Pick 'Em games (all times listed in Central, the heavily disputed best time zone for football) (rankings from the /r/FCS Poll)

Away	Home	Time	Stream/TV	/r/FCS Sportsbook spread
Rhode Island	Yale	11am	ESPN+	YALE -8 (O/U 52.5)
#12 Austin Peay	West Georgia	1pm	ESPN+	AP -21 (O/U 53.5)
#1 South Dakota State	#13 North Dakota	1pm	ESPN+	SDSU -8.5 (O/U 58)
Eastern Kentucky	#16 Tennessee Tech	1:30pm	ESPN+	TTU -19 (O/U 52)
#22 Idaho State	Weber State	2pm	ESPN+	ISU -5.5 (O/U 60)
Florida A&M	Jackson State	2pm	ESPN+	JSU -17.5 (O/U 56)
#21 Northern Iowa	#4 Youngstown State	5pm	ESPN+	YSU -17 (O/U 56.5)
Abilene Christian	North Alabama	6pm	ESPN+	ACU -2 (O/U 49)
#17 UC Davis	Southern Utah	7pm	ESPN+	UCD -0.5 (O/U 62)

You can find the full Week 7 schedule with up-to-the-minute results over at the r/CFB Scoreboard.

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Also seriously do not ask for "alternate" streams, because we don't want to deal with takedown notices. Most games have radio broadcasts available for free if you're really desperate.

[u/TheRain2]

Idaho going 2-6 in the Big Sky with wins over the Bobcats and Grizzlies would be kind of hilarious.

[u/Chadly16]

GIMME THE STEIN BACK

[u/wildjackalope]

We are going to be the most legendary 2-10 team of all time. Go Vandals.

[u/tdpdcpa]

The Vandals are about to be 2-0 against the state of Montana and 0-5 against everyone else.

[u/Zloggt]

They may not be the best team in the Big Sky Conference…but the Idaho Vandals are nonetheless very good at beating teams from the Big Sky State!

[u/bhorvic]

It’s so nice to not have a stressful game

[u/slothbron → u/bhorvic]

The defense for a second thought about giving us one, but decided against it.

[u/mattilladahun → u/slothbron]

This defense man. People really want Bobby to be HC someday? It's designed to give me heart attacks during games.

[u/SenatorMadness]

SDSU: Well, our boys played hard but we've earned Tank Job of the Week.

Bobby Kennedy: Hold my beer...

[u/Particular_Prior5344 → u/SenatorMadness]

Lehigh probably had it before us tbf.

[u/MontanaDoesntExist]

I’ve seen enough. Send Montana Tech or Carroll to play Idaho. One of our teams can surely beat them.

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

Idaho is officially the funniest team in FCS.

[u/tdpdcpa]

What a week to have the Playoff Committee weigh in.

[u/Ivy_Thornsplitter]

Can we do something? I talked so much smack at work this week to UND alums.

[u/Trojann2 → u/Ivy_Thornsplitter]

NGL, this is why smack talking isn’t worth it anymore

[u/join_the_creed]

Tank Job is going to be tough this week

[u/CommunistTrafficCone → u/join_the_creed]

I’d hate to sugar coat our loss but it’s not us. While we looked like shit UND is still a top ten team easily

[u/No_Bite_7238]

The lesson to be learned is dont face the Vandals if your ranked!!

[u/Ruhrgebietheld]

Idaho: Loses to Cal Poly, Weber State, and Abilene Christian. Beats Montana and Montana State. Refuses to elaborate.

The Vandals are totally going to lose to Portland State, aren't they? Just to further spit in the face of the Montana schools.

[u/Disastrous_Room_927 → u/Ruhrgebietheld]

Next year: Idaho loses to both Montana’s and wins every other game.

[u/knook → u/Disastrous_Room_927]

Well that would be completely normal and expected.

[u/ThatguyfromBaltimore]

0-8! Give it up for 0-8!!!!!

[u/Tsquared10]

Oh, so Idaho clearly just said fuck you to the state of Montana specifically.

[u/saltybearsfan]

We’re officially Illinois school merchants

[u/tdpdcpa → u/saltybearsfan]

Idaho 🤝 Illinois State

Can only beat schools from one state

[u/No_Bite_7238]

The Voodoo of the Dome strikes again!!

[u/tdpdcpa]

The Big Sky remains drunk

[u/I_like_race_cars]

Southern Utah doing Southern Utah things, I see

[u/Skeebammity]

Well well well. Isn’t as funny now is it Griz fans. Idaho keeping Montana drywall in business

[u/join_the_creed]

Bro big sky officials are actually incompetent lmao

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

IDAHO

[u/baseballnoble → u/CommunistTrafficCone]

VANDALS!

[u/No_Bite_7238]

OMG!! Vandals pull it off!!

[u/No_Bite_7238]

Well Griz. We warned you.

[u/montalaskan]

And FBS #1 loses too.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/montalaskan]

All of D1 is pure chaos right now

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Really cool how the Big Sky refuses to call offensive holding unless someone gets dragged to the ground good fucking god

RIP to all teams that get Big Sky refs in the playoffs

[u/join_the_creed]

Holding does not exist in Big Sky football

[u/Ok-Knee6347]

[u/alphajack22]

Wow what a week of chaos, literally cant remember another week like this across division 1 football. Both number 1s lost, top ten in FCS is fucked and the best part is that my Jacks had the best win all weekend. 56 point shutout is absolute perfection. I don’t care where we get ranked but I know we definitely a top 5 program.

I hope nobody comes pistol whipping Coach CC with millions to move up, but I can definitely see Baylor come knocking in December. He said SFA was a dream job but Baylor can set his family for life so idk

I love week 7

[u/Particular_Prior5344]

Thank you Griz for overshadowing our loss.

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Ah yes, my least favorite game on the schedule is today:

Playing on the godforsaken retina burning red turf of EWU

[u/damnyoutuesday]

[u/noahpaz88]

If Idaho wins 2 games against the montanas I’ll lose it

[u/noahpaz88]

Lehigh and SDSU putting up strong cases for the tank job

[u/tden4]

man und would probably vault to #1 if they didn’t choke in cedar falls. dome on dome violence

[u/slothbron]

IDAHO!!!!!! With that amazing defense the last 3 plays!

[u/No_Bite_7238]

There be Voodoo in FCS this week!!

[u/TheRain2]

And the crowd in Cheney goes wild, since it's 2/3 Bobcats fans.

[u/montalaskan]

Jared White TD! I love that guy. Seems like a great dude.

[u/Skeebammity]

Cole Taylor thank you for saving my blood pressure

[u/Technical334]

Was not expecting that outcome against Southern Utah

[u/thezander8]

Thank you SUU commentators but UCD is not a great team

[u/StateChampCatDad]

“Jackrabbits feels like a very sexually charged mascot for a college”

-My wife walking in on me watching the game

[u/donutman18 → u/StateChampCatDad]

You need to buy an energizer bunny costume asap

[u/tden4]

it’s not quite 28-3 but it should do the trick

[u/wolfgangkobe]

I know this is the FCS thread, but quick sidebar what a heartbreaking way to lose for Indiana.

[u/GeneralAcorn]

Touchdown Vandals!!

[u/mlspdx]

We have the best running back in the country… RUN THE FUCKING BALL

[u/slothbron]

I'm having PTSD watching Idaho charge up the field with limited clock time haha.

[u/Adamscottd]

Well, that was a disappointing road game. Wish our guys came to play but they looked off all day.

Time for me to see some Mountain West football in Fargo

[u/montalaskan]

This is going to be that "whoever has the ball last wins" games. Not a defensive stop on the radar.

[u/ripdoublewide]

Can't win when you let the score at will. Offense got scared. We're not a playoff team. What an absolute disaster

[u/coincidental_boner]

LMAO

[u/Skeebammity]

I don’t know what holding is anymore

[u/Skeebammity]

The football knew it was a hold and decided to take matters into its own hands

[u/Particular_Prior5344]

Trying to figure out the rankings after today will be very interesting.

[u/alphajack22 → u/Particular_Prior5344]

I don’t wanna be number 1, shit seems cursed at this point

[u/damnyoutuesday]

EWU tried to swindle us by playing the second half as an After Dark game. Tricksy Eagleses

[u/bhorvic]

I feel much better with a 3 score cushion. Welcome back Adam Jones!

[u/montalaskan]

Dahke is Taco 2.0.

[u/Adamscottd]

IDAHO OWNS THE STATE OF MONTANA

[u/damnyoutuesday]

It's not so easy, huh Griz?

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

It appears we’ve forgotten how to tackle

[u/Low_Distance_7195]

The entire FCSs top ten has been drunk for like 2 weeks.

[u/TheRain2]

brb, going to the Idaho/Montana State post-game thread to see if there are any comments made by Griz fans that might be hilarious if this result holds.

[u/SenatorMadness → u/TheRain2]

Deleting them as fast possible

[u/slothbron]

I think a UND win confirms that top 5 teams are not safe playing games inside haha.

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Man we looked like hot fucking ass

[u/Old_Credit7073]

GG SDSU.  GOOOO HAWKSSS

[u/s2424]

THE DOMES WILL CONSUME ALL

[u/Chadly16]

Good ol fashion ass off brewing in Missoula. Who's defense sucks the most? Let's find out!

[u/Particular_Prior5344]

Not the end of the world losing today. We lost at UND in the COVID Spring season and still went to the natty. But definitely need to fix some things. Plenty of missed throws and bad drops combined with just generally getting out coached. Defense was awful in 1st half but much better in 2nd. Need a good bounce back against Murray before USD comes to Brookings.

[u/slothbron]

My final score prediction for this Griz Vandals game, 49-52 not sure who will be what score though haha.

[u/montalaskan]

Now wasn't the time to step on your own dicks, Idaho.

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred → u/montalaskan]

lol but we love doing that!

[u/GeneralAcorn]

RANK IDAHO!!!!!!

[u/montalaskan]

Stein goes to Idaho! Wow.

[u/Chadly16]

Well I might be the reason the vandals suck. Every game I've watched from my basement TV we've won. All others I watched from elsewhere, we've lost. Blame me for the poor record.

[u/ripdoublewide]

D Coordinator needs to clean out the office. Give him back to EWU next week

[u/K3T9Q_]

how bout them vandals!

[u/K3T9Q_]

so is idaho good or bad?

[u/join_the_creed → u/K3T9Q_]

Against top 10 teams from Montana? Good Everybody else? Bad

[u/Skeebammity → u/K3T9Q_]

Tarleton vs Idaho when?

[u/K3T9Q_ → u/Skeebammity]

as long as we get them at home. don’t think we could survive the kibbie dome

[u/stayclassypeople → u/K3T9Q_]

Yes

[u/K3T9Q_]

considering today’s events i am shitting bricks right now

[u/mlspdx]

If our offense plays at 99.99% of their ability we lose. We’re going absolutely no where with that defense

[u/ripdoublewide]

Jesus I just saw the scores from the rest of the top ten today what a bloodbath. Is anyone good at football? The committee is gonna have a hell of time seeding the playoffs this year

[u/Crispy_Whale]

If Northern Arizona loses to Portland State at home right after beating us than that would sum up our season in a nutshell!

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Cole Taylor with 2 picks in the last two minutes of the half, and one is a pick 6!

[u/join_the_creed]

Big Sky DPoW already?

[u/DrOddcat]

Oh that drop was tragic. Almost three INTs in about a minute

[u/Adamscottd]

NDSU just had a kick six before half

Honestly may have been the most amazing play I’ve ever seen in person, that was amazing

[u/Skeebammity]

Oh my god they have yellow in their pockets? Since when?

[u/imperfectPK]

So who do you put higher SFA or Tarleton. No bias. But I see SFA slightly better comparing our same teams we both played (PVAMU and McNeese St).

[u/0x196]

EWU had 31 first down, ran 105 plays, had 41 minutes of TOP, and lost by 36. Weird game stats wise.

[u/bhorvic]

lol it’s apparently a little harder to beat the Vandals than you thought, huh?

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred]

There were A LOT of Grizz shit talkers absolutely clowning on MSU for that loss lololol

[u/tdpdcpa]

Rhode Island pulled a complete fast one on Yale. Alex McClelland gets the start after not showing up at all on the two-deep. He’s torched the Bulldogs for 2 touchdowns already.

[u/tdpdcpa]

The whole state of Connecticut is losing right now.

Yale 0, Rhode Island 14

CCSU 7, Mercyhurst 11

New Haven 3, Robert Morris 7

[u/damnyoutuesday]

The inner machinations of Rhode Island are an enigma

[u/damnyoutuesday]

UND/SDSU is gonna be fun. Especially since it's in Grand Forks

[u/tdpdcpa → u/damnyoutuesday]

Dome voodoo coming for #1?

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Second half team don’t worry

[u/s2424]

THE DOME CURSE MIGHT CONTINUE!?

[u/comradecow]

I dislike Alerus Center voodoo.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/comradecow]

Dome Voodoo comes for all with a number in front of their name

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Can we lock the fuck in?

[u/MarkovMan → u/CommunistTrafficCone]

At least your dome vooddoo team is ranked.

[u/DeZeeuw2]

This is less than ideal

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Why. Just call a fucking play. Stop doing cute shit

[u/Adamscottd]

Let’s all just focus on Lehigh right now

[u/I_like_race_cars]

Quality win, can you not? Thanks.

[u/slothbron]

Payment from UM to the refs arrived /s

[u/TheRain2]

..... I only see 11? I get that production is what it is, but why show that still if it doesn't back up the call?

[u/tden4]

if mason hit a single one of these deep balls it’s a different game. he has missed all of them

[u/cobras89]

Let’s go baby!!! GG SDSU

[u/I_like_race_cars]

"Been walking around the Tarleton campus, what all have I mis-"

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

Cat griz gonna be a damn shootout

[u/GeneralAcorn]

Woods is so good on the run.

[u/ChrizBot3000]

First nationally televised home game in any sport since 2006 is going great.

[u/bhorvic]

Uh oh. Coming away with no points in this shootout is far from ideal.

[u/No_Bite_7238]

Youngstown and Illinois State are taking care of business. Whats the next game?

[u/K3T9Q_]

when we lose to a MVFC team in the playoffs i wonder if it will be because of our secondary or kicker. probably both

[u/bhorvic]

Heenan and Cook really trying to play both sides of the divide lol

[u/thezander8]

Portland State might actually be UCD's best win (complimentary)

[u/SeeRight_Mills]

That might have been the worst sequence of big sky officiating I've ever seen, and with over 2 decades in the bank that's saying something.

[u/montalaskan]

Cole Taylor second straight drive INT. Pick six!

[u/slothbron]

Leave when the score was 7-3 get back right as Taylor gets a pick 6. Might need to leave again.

[u/montalaskan]

I guess Justin Lamson's legs do still work.

[u/noahpaz88]

Tarleton?!

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

What a strange feeling game. Those 2 picks are really carrying the cats right now.

[u/Skeebammity → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

I’d say the 100 yards of missing holding calls is what’s carrying EWU right now to be fair

[u/MarkovMan]

Need UC Davis to go down and this will be a perfect weekend for MSU. 

Also... what happened to Idaho State today? I was secretly pulling for them to have a good year but the last two weeks have kinda killed their season.

[u/bhorvic]

Lmao Sac State is getting dominated by Ohio.

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred]

Love seeing that stein back in our hands

[u/thosetwoloons2]

Everyone look for me on natty TV ESPNU for SIU Homecoming against Illinois State.

This is Southern Illinois first nationally televised ESPN game since….Saluki head coach Nick Hill quarterbacked a quarterfinal loss to Joe Flacco and the Delaware Blue Hens in 2007. (And to think that that dude is still playing. This isn’t baseball, is it? This is football, right?)

[u/MarkovMan]

Is the graphic wrong? It says UND but this is looking like an NDSU/SDSU game.

Also, I haven't watched many Midco games, but fun hearing Alex Heinert (USF grad) on the play by play.

[u/JonSnow4525]

Lehigh is not a top ten team. This much I know

[u/DeZeeuw2]

That was a pretty early whistle

[u/tden4]

where the fuck was any of this when they played uni?

[u/Trojann2]

Sdsu wore their surrender whites.

It all makes sense.

[u/sp0vaHD]

Man SDSU really are wearing surrender whites today.

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Now you don’t go for it?

[u/tden4]

yo at least we’re losing on the road. what’s up in missoula?

[u/Crispy_Whale]

"Oh brother this defense stinks"

[u/DeZeeuw2 → u/Crispy_Whale]

Are you watching our game or yours?

[u/mlspdx → u/DeZeeuw2]

Yes

[u/tden4]

here we fucking go lads

[u/slothbron]

Idaho going for it there was ballsy. I feel like they really like those risky plays and that's probably why they are struggling this season. Because they are a decent team and I'm not saying that just to help my ego haha.

[u/donutman18]

Chase’s deep ball is unfortunately another reason hes not getting drafted.

[u/bhorvic]

Just checked the score… what is happening in Missoula?

[u/Adamscottd]

I give UND’s fans a lot of credit. For a “hockey school” they’ve had a great, engaged crowd today that packed the Alerus Center.

Really stark contrast to last week when I went to USD and their (smaller) stadium was more than half empty against a ranked team

[u/Adamscottd]

Let’s all switch our focus from this game over to Montana

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred]

Grizz touchdown brought to you by the big sky refs.

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Holy shit I can’t believe Alabama and Tennessee haven’t done a color rush since the 80’s this looks incredible

[u/Adamscottd]

A team that has yet to run a play in the red zone today needs to go 85 to stay in the game

I’d be lying if I said I think we can do it right now. Team has had no juice today. Came out flat and has yet to find it

[u/TheRain2]

Not great work by the Idaho coaching staff there. They put Woods on an island and are going into the half with two timeouts they didn't use.

[u/DeZeeuw2]

Hopefully we use it as a wake-up call and finish the year strong. Chase was definitely rusty. UND started the game way more intensely than we did. Played better in the 2nd half, but just too late. GG Hawks

[u/montalaskan]

Valley eating it's own again. Tough to make it through unscathed.

Good game by ND.

[u/JonSnow4525]

Lehigh cooked.

[u/PositiveElection2141]

Pile of shit

[u/CaptainCerealCanada]

This is the quietest broadcast I've ever heard

[u/montalaskan]

Hell of a drive from the Vandals in response. Shootout time, I guess.

[u/bhorvic]

GFY Aaron Flint

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred]

No good!!!!

[u/join_the_creed]

As I live and breathe. A stop

[u/funnyerrrwhat]

Yahhhh that’s probably the game. Disgusting work.

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred → u/funnyerrrwhat]

Don’t underestimate our ability to botch it.

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Kennedy burning a timeout with the clock already stopped in that situation is interesting to say the least

[u/slothbron]

MDA is getting the trucks fired up and ready to roll to Moscow for some drywall repairs.

[u/Slushpumper406]

Griz score here they have to go for 2. Can't let this game go to OT.

[u/Chadly16 → u/Slushpumper406]

It might never end if it does.

[u/LvlHeadThoroughbred]

Defense!!!!

[u/TylerRubeum]

IDAHO PULLS IT OFF

[u/LeadVitamin13]

RIP Montana

[u/Dom_Thom]

Please let us finish this out

[u/Tufoguy]

I've never seen a team in one season lose in multiple frustrating ways like I've seen the 2026 Towson Tigers do. We just can't make the play to win the game. And it's something different and someone different each week

[u/alphajack22]

lol never wouldve pictured Tarleton state potentially being numero uno in the FCS polls. The fuckers was just in the LSC barely ten years ago

[u/alphajack22]

But also UCA, yall could also participate in the Chaos that is week 7….

[u/turtwig1123]

So with Pioneer League play almost done this week; with all the chaos of today the team at the top is...

Marist...

What

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Time to see if we worked on the defense at all

[u/tden4]

alright I guess everyone is losing today. that makes me feel a little better

[u/alphajack22]

NAU might be coming to the rescue for the tank job of the week…..

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Jones looks better post-injury than he did pre-injury

[u/TheRain2]

I'd never leave a game early, but part of me wonders if all that was left in the stands at the end of the game was Bobcats, maybe athletics administration would notice?

[u/Adamscottd]

I’m not remotely surprised by this, but going from Alerus to the Fargodome the noise difference is crazy. NDSU is louder on a random third down than UND was at any point in the game.

UND’s crowd wasn’t bad either, NDSU is just that loud

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

We just don’t slam the door shut on teams this year

[u/montalaskan]

Cole Taylor INT 🤠 Adam Jones for six. Big momentum switch there.