r/fcs • u/damnyoutuesday Montana State • Minnesota • Nov 15 '25

Game Thread [Game Day Thread] Saturday, Week 12

AHHHHHHHHHHH HOW IS IT ALREADY THE PENULTIMATE WEEKEND AHHHHHHHHHH

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

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

Away Home Time Stream/TV r/FCS Sportsbook spread
Central Connecticut Duquesne 11am ESPN+ Duquesne -2.5 (O/U 51.5)
Drake Dayton 11am YouTube Drake -8.5 (O/U 49.5)
#16 South Dakota #22 Southern Illinois Noon ESPN+ SIU -5 (O/U 54)
#13 Rhode Island Maine Noon FloSports URI -4.5 (O/U 50.5)
Lafayette Richmond 1pm ESPN+ Lafayette -3 (O/U 52.5)
#14 Illinois State #18 South Dakota State 2pm ESPN+ SDSU -11 (O/U 53.5)
#19 Lamar #12 Stephen F. Austin 4pm ESPN+ SFA -13 (O/U 50)
Idaho Sacramento State 8pm ESPN+ SAC -4 (O/U 55.5)
#8 UC Davis #3 Montana State 9:30pm ESPN2 MSU -17.5 (O/U 56.5)

You can find the full Week 12 (AHHHHH) schedule with up-to-the-minute results over at the r/CFB Scoreboard

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.

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u/sernameistakentry Idaho State • Oregon State Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 16 '25

What would it take for the Big Sky to clean house of all of their officials because every single game has an egregiously bad call that often changes the momentum, if not the outcome of the game completely?

Edit: The top 5 teams in the Big Sky are the main benefactors of these calls. Honestly, I think they’re trying to help the top teams look less bad to maintain the Big Sky’s image this year. Without these bad calls the top teams in the Big Sky (especially Sac St and NAU) would have worse resumes. It would be a poor look if the only good teams were an often shaky looking Montana and never-going-anywhere Montana State.

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u/Chadly16 Idaho Vandals Nov 16 '25

I'm not sure but it needs to be done. It's been worse this year than in years past. Even in the MSU Davis game they keep making bad calls, for example when pinnick stood up, bumped an msu player, then fell over they gifted Davis a 1st down. Anyone with a brain would know not to throw a flag. I'm not just bitching because it screwed the vandals it's every game every week, it takes effort to be this bad this consistent.

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u/sernameistakentry Idaho State • Oregon State Nov 16 '25

Some of it comes down to Big Sky stadiums having horrible camera angles for call reviews which results in the call-on-the-field being upheld. That doesn’t account for the fact that so many penalties and non-calls in this conference are complete and utter nonsense.

I’m curious how other FCS fans feel about the reffing in their conferences. The Big Sky’s have to be in the running for the worst which is crazy because we’re a “power” conference in FCS.

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u/Chadly16 Idaho Vandals Nov 16 '25

Just wait for the playoffs and a big sky crew is reffing a game with non-big sky teams. People will complain about how bad they are. Happens every year.