Fear The FCS

Morehead State Hires Jason Woodman as Head Coach

Morehead State Hires Jason Woodman as Head Coach - Fear The FCS After a month of searching for its next head coach, Morehead State has hired Jason Woodman. Woodman spent the previous decade as head coach with NCAA Division 2 program Fairmont State. Woodman's coaching career began in the high school ranks at North Marion in Farmington, West Virginia from 1999 thr...

Alcorn State Promotes Cedric Thomas to Head Coach

Alcorn State Promotes Cedric Thomas to Head Coach - Fear The FCS Cedric Thomas will be the next head coach of Alcorn State. Thomas was most recently the defensive coordinator for the Braves and was promoted following the separation of former head coach Fred McNair and Alcorn State. McNair went 48-33 overall with Alcorn State while winning two SWAC Championships a...

Marist Hires Mike Willis as Head Coach

Marist Hires Mike Willis as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Marist has hired Mike Willis to be its next head coach. Willis has been Princeton's offensive coordinator since 2020. Willis was a player at Princeton from 2010 through 2013, which included the Tigers' 2013 Ivy League title they shared with Harvard. He joined the Tigers as a coaching intern in 2015....

Mike Gennetti Promoted to Head Coach by Merrimack

Mike Gennetti Promoted to Head Coach by Merrimack - Fear The FCS The Merrimack Warriors have decided to stay in-house to fill its head coaching vacancy by promoting defensive coordinator Mike Gennetti to the top role. Gennetti has been with Merrimack since the 2005 season. Gennetti's coaching career began in 2003 when he joined his alma mater - the NCAA Division....

Mike Minter Resigns as Campbell Head Coach

Mike Minter Resigns as Campbell Head Coach - Fear The FCS Mike Minter has stepped down as head coach of the Campbell Camels after 11 seasons. Minter is the latest FCS coaching change in an already busy coaching carousel. After a 10-year NFL playing career as a Carolina Panther that concluded in 2006, Minter became a head coach at the high school level in 2...

Mickey Joseph to Lead Grambling Football

Mickey Joseph to Lead Grambling Football - Fear The FCS Mickey Joseph will be the next head coach at Grambling according to FootballScoop. Grambling has scheduled a press conference for December 18 to formally introduce Joseph as head coach. Joseph was most recently the interim head coach of Nebraska for the final 9 games of the 2022 season after former....

North Dakota State Hires Tim Polasek to Replace Matt Entz

North Dakota State Hires Tim Polasek to Replace Matt Entz - Fear The FCS North Dakota State has hired Wyoming offensive coordinator Tim Polasek to take over the Bison football program. Polasek was part of North Dakota State's coaching staff as offensive coordinator from 2014 through 2016. Polasek began his coaching career with NCAA Division 3 Wisconsin-Stevens Point from...

Holy Cross Hires Merrimack’s Dan Curran as Head Coach

Holy Cross Hires Merrimack’s Dan Curran as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Holy Cross has hired Dan Curran to replace Bob Chesney as head coach. Curran has spent the past 11 years as the head coach of Merrimack. Curran played collegiately at New Hampshire and played professionally with the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks. He began his coaching career at Merrimack a...

Stony Brook Hires Billy Cosh as Head Coach

Stony Brook Hires Billy Cosh as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Billy Cosh has been selected as the next head coach of the Stony Brook Seawolves. Cosh spent the 2023 season as the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach with Western Michigan. Cosh helped improve the Western Michigan offense from 19 points per game in 2022 to 23.7 points per game in 2023. Cos...

Southern Makes Terrence Graves Permanent Head Coach

Southern Makes Terrence Graves Permanent Head Coach - Fear The FCS Southern has shed the interim tag and given Terrence Graves the head coaching position permanently. Graves was the interim coach for the Jaguars in the 2023 Bayou Classic, which they won 27-22. Graves has spent significant time with Southern having been a graduate assistant in 1994 and 1995 followed...

Cris Reisert Hired by Gardner-Webb

Cris Reisert Hired by Gardner-Webb - Fear The FCS Gardner-Webb has hired Cris Reisert to take over the football program. Reisert was most recently the head coach at NCAA Division 2 Tiffin where he coached the Dragons for five seasons. Reisert's appointment to the Tiffin head coaching job followed Gary Goff's eight-year tenure. Goff left for Valdost...

Western Illinois Tabs Joe Davis as Head Coach

Western Illinois Tabs Joe Davis as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Joe Davis will lead the Western Illinois football program as it moves into the Big South-OVC Football Association in 2024. Davis was most recently the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for Eastern Illinois since 2022. Davis has been instrumental in helping EIU improve from an abysmal 1-10....

Matt Entz Leaving North Dakota State

Matt Entz Leaving North Dakota State - Fear The FCS Matt Entz has decided to leave the North Dakota State Bison football program and join the USC Trojans as the linebacker coach. Etnz will remain with NDSU through the FCS Playoffs. Entz took over the program in 2019 after former NDSU head coach Chris Klieman left for Kansas State and has sustained th...

Jeff Faris Selected as Austin Peay Head Coach

Jeff Faris Selected as Austin Peay Head Coach - Fear The FCS Austin Peay has hired Jeff Faris to be the school's next head coach. Faris spent the last two years as the tight end coach at UCLA. Faris was born in Tennessee and played his college football at Duke from 2008 through 2011. He began his coaching career with the Blue Devils as a graduate assistant in...

South Carolina State Hires Chennis Berry

South Carolina State Hires Chennis Berry - Fear The FCS South Carolina State has hired Chennis Berry from NCAA Division 2 Benedict College as the next head coach of the Bulldogs. Berry went 27-7 overall and 17-4 in SIAC games with two SIAC Championships and two Division 2 Playoff appearances in three seasons. Berry was hired by Benedict in 2020 but the c...

Utah Tech Hires Lance Anderson as Head Coach

Utah Tech Hires Lance Anderson as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Lance Anderson will be the next head coach of Utah Tech. Anderson will take over for Paul Peterson who guided the Trailblazers during their reclassification from NCAA Division 2 to NCAA Division 1. Anderson was most recently with Boise State for the 2023 season as a defensive senior analyst. Anderso...

Cornell Hires Dan Swanstrom as Head Coach

Cornell Hires Dan Swanstrom as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Another FCS coaching vacancy has been filled with Cornell hiring Penn's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Dan Swanstrom to lead the program. Swanstrom has been with the Quakers for the previous two seasons and before joining Penn he was the head coach at NCAA Division 3 Ithaca College. He...

Bob Chesney Leaving Holy Cross for James Madison

Bob Chesney Leaving Holy Cross for James Madison - Fear The FCS Bob Chesney is leaving Holy Cross to become the head coach at James Madison. Chesney built a dominant program in the Patriot League in his six seasons with the Crusaders. Before Chesney took over Holy Cross, he was the head coach at the Division 3 school Salve Regina from 2010 through 2012. He led t...

Austin Peay’s Scotty Walden Leaving for UTEP

Austin Peay’s Scotty Walden Leaving for UTEP - Fear The FCS Austin Peay will begin a search for a new head coach following Scotty Walden's decision to leave for the head coaching position at UTEP. Walden went 26-14 overall and 17-6 in conference matchups at Austin Peay. Walden took over the Austin Peay program in the fall of 2020 after the Governors had alre...

Bobby Wilder Returns to FCS as Tennessee Tech Head Coach

Bobby Wilder Returns to FCS as Tennessee Tech Head Coach - Fear The FCS Tennessee Tech has hired Bobby Wilder as their next head coach. Wilder was previously head coach of Old Dominion when they were in the FCS and led them through the FCS to FBS reclassification. Wilder's previous success early and often with ODU will be expected to help Tennessee Tech reach the FCS Pl...

Northern Arizona Hires Brian Wright

Northern Arizona Hires Brian Wright - Fear The FCS Northern Arizona has hired Brian Wright as their next head coach. Wright will replace Chris Ball who spent 5 years in Flagstaff but his contract was not renewed by the school. Wright was most recently the head coach at Division 2 Pittsburg State where he led the Gorillas to three straight winning se...

Joel Taylor Hired as West Georgia Head Coach

Joel Taylor Hired as West Georgia Head Coach - Fear The FCS West Georgia is moving up from NCAA Division 2 to the FCS in 2024 and they will have a new coach with previous FCS experience. The Wolves hired Mercer defensive coordinator Joel Taylor to lead the program on Saturday. Taylor has been the defensive coordinator for Mercer since 2020 when he joined the...

Columbia Hires Jon Poppe as Head Coach

Columbia Hires Jon Poppe as Head Coach - Fear The FCS Another FCS school has chosen to go to the Division 3 ranks for its next head coach. First, it was Northwestern State hiring Belhaven's Blaine McCorkle and this time it's Columbia who has hired Jon Poppe from Union College. Poppe spent only one season as head coach for Union College in Schenectady,....

Tim Plough Returns to UC Davis as Head Coach

Tim Plough Returns to UC Davis as Head Coach - Fear The FCS UC Davis has found its next head coach with former player Tim Plough hired to take over the vacancy left by Dan Hawkins. Plough was a quarterback at UCD from 2003 through 2007 where he finished with 1,466 yards passing and 12 touchdowns for his career. Plough would spend the 2008 through 2012 season...

Marist Head Coach Jim Parady Retires

Marist Head Coach Jim Parady Retires - Fear The FCS Marist head coach Jim Parady announced his retirement after 32 years in charge of the Red Foxes. Parady led Marist to an overall record of 155-171-1 with a conference record of 116-86-1. Parady joined Marist in 1991 as the offensive coordinator and became head coach a year later. His first season in...

Hue Jackson Out at Grambling State; Dan Hawkins Resigns From UC Davis

Hue Jackson Out at Grambling State; Dan Hawkins Resigns From UC Davis - Fear The FCS Grambling State and Hue Jackson have decided to part ways while Dan Hawkins will step down from his head coaching duties at UC Davis. The duo are the latest coaching changes at the FCS level this year. Jackson spent two seasons with the Tigers but did not achieve a winning record in either one. Jack...

Blaine McCorkle Hired as Northwestern State’s Next Coach

Blaine McCorkle Hired as Northwestern State’s Next Coach - Fear The FCS Northwestern State has dipped into Division 3 for its next head coach. The Demons hired Blaine McCorkle from Belhaven after his six years in charge. McCorkle's time at Belhaven was some of the school's best seasons. The Blazers - located in Jackson, Mississippi - started football in 1998 when they w...

Robert Morris Football Returning to Northeast Conference

Robert Morris Football Returning to Northeast Conference - Fear The FCS Robert Morris is rejoining the Northeast Conference as a football-only member effective with the 2024 season. The return of the Colonials will help the NEC offset the recent departures of full-time members Sacred Heart and Merrimack. Robert Morris was a member of the NEC from 1996 through 2019 but l...

East Tennessee State Hires Tre Lamb

East Tennessee State Hires Tre Lamb - Fear The FCS A little over a week after letting go of George Quarles, East Tennessee State has its new head coach. Tre Lamb will leave his head coaching position at Gardner-Webb to take over the Buccaneers despite interest from his alma mater Tennessee Tech and future FCS program West Georgia. Lamb graduated fro...

Delaware Flying Into FBS and Conference USA

Delaware Flying Into FBS and Conference USA - Fear The FCS The University of Delaware is set to become the most recent FCS team to leave for the FBS. The Fightin' Blue Hens will leave the Coastal Athletic Association and join Conference USA beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, according to Pete Thamel of ESPN. Delaware's move will be the fourth involvi...

Columbia Won’t Retain Fabish; Eastern Washington Keeps Best

Columbia Won’t Retain Fabish; Eastern Washington Keeps Best - Fear The FCS There are two pieces of FCS coaching news to report involving Columbia and Eastern Washington. Mark Fabish will not return as head coach for Columbia. Fabish served on an interim basis for the 2023 season after the retirement of Al Bagnoli in August. The Lions went 3-7 overall and 1-6 in the Ivy Lea...

Another 3 FCS Coaching Changes Announced

Another 3 FCS Coaching Changes Announced - Fear The FCS More coaching moves have been announced as Morehead State, Tennessee Tech, and Utah Tech have decided to change the current leadership of their respective football programs. Morehead State will not renew the contract for Rob Tenyer, who had been with the Eagles since 2001 when he began as an assista...

Clarence McKinney Not Returning as Texas Southern Head Coach

Clarence McKinney Not Returning as Texas Southern Head Coach - Fear The FCS In addition to the three FCS coaching changes on Monday, there is yet another change to report although this one had been reported a week earlier. Clarence McKinney of Texas Southern will not be returning in 2024. HBCU Sports reported the contract would not be renewed on Monday, November 13. McKinne...

Three More FCS Coaching Changes Announced; VMI’s Rocco Given Extension

Three More FCS Coaching Changes Announced; VMI’s Rocco Given Extension - Fear The FCS The FCS regular season has come to a close but the coaching carousel is only beginning with numerous coaching changes announced. Cornell, Northern Arizona, and Western Illinois will have new head coaches in 2024. David Archer will not return to Cornell after 10 seasons in charge of the Big Red. Arch...

East Tennessee State Fires George Quarles

East Tennessee State Fires George Quarles - Fear The FCS East Tennessee State has decided to forge a different path after firing George Quarles. Quarles was in charge for two seasons, going 3-8 in both campaigns and 3-13 in the Southern Conference. Quarles had incredible success at Maryville High School (Tennessee) where he won 11 state championships betw...

2023 FCS Playoff Bracket

2023 FCS Playoff Bracket - Fear The FCS The 2023 FCS Playoff bracket has been revealed and South Dakota State will be the deserving top seed as the Jackrabbits seek to defend their title. SDSU went undefeated in the regular season at 11-0 with only two games decided by a touchdown or less. The opening round of the FCS Playoffs will begin....

2023 FCS-FBS Stats and Recap: Weeks 10 Through 12

2023 FCS-FBS Stats and Recap: Weeks 10 Through 12 - Fear The FCS Welcome back to the sixth edition of the FCS-FBS recap for the 2023 season with the previous editions located here. With the FCS versus FBS matchups slowing down drastically around this time of the season, we have combined the final three weeks (10, 11, and 12) into a single post. We will have addit...

It's hard to believe but we've arrived at the final week of the college football season featuring the versus . We end with four games to complete all 118 matchups for the 2023 season.

2023 FCS Versus FBS Matchups - Fear The FCS The 2023 season is approaching and that means plenty of FCS versus FBS matchups are on tap with 118 this season. There will not be a record number of games featuring FCS teams against FBS opponents as we saw in both 2021 and 2022. This season will also mark the sixth time in the last eight seasons...

Eric Dooley Out at Southern University

Eric Dooley Out at Southern University - Fear The FCS After two coaching changes were announced on Monday, there was another change on Tuesday with Eric Dooley as Southern fired Dooley effective immediately. Assistant head coach Terrence Graves will take over as head coach for the Jaguars' final game in the Bayou Classic versus Grambling. Eric Dooley s...

Coaching Changes at Stony Brook and West Georgia

Coaching Changes at Stony Brook and West Georgia - Fear The FCS There were two head coaching changes on Monday with announcements that longtime Stony Brook head coach Chuck Priore and West Georgia head coach David Dean will not return for the 2024 FCS season. Stony Brook has seen many changes in the 18 years of Priore's tenure. He took over in 2006 when Stony Br...