[Game Day Thread] Saturday, Week 3

[u/damnyoutuesday]

GATHER YOUR LOVED ONES, PREPARE FOR THE STORM, IVY BALL IS BACK

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
Lafayette	Columbia	11am	ESPN+	CU -3 (O/U 51)
#21 Harvard	New Hampshire	Noon	FloSports	Harvard -10 (O/U 55)
Abilene Christian	Idaho	3pm	ESPN+	ACU -0.5 (O/U 53)
Wofford	Chattanooga	5pm	ESPN+	WOFF -0.5 (O/U 49.5)
#19 South Carolina State	Furman	6pm	ESPN+	SCSU -9.5 (O/U 55)
#10 Youngstown State	#4 South Dakota State	6pm	ESPN+	SDSU -10 (O/U 58.5)
#16 Austin Peay	#17 West Florida	6pm	ESPN+	AP -6.5 (O/U 56.5)
Central Arkansas	Southeast Missouri State	6pm	ESPN+	UCA -1 (O/U 55.5)
San Diego	#25 Cal Poly	7pm	ESPN+	CP -21.5 (O/U 56.5)
McNeese	UTRGV	7pm	ESPN+	UTRGV -5.5 (O/U 54)

You can find the full Week 3 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/pinetreesrule]

I see usd and sdsu have something in common atleast.

Choking easily winnable upsets.

[u/Aquatic-assassin]

Well at least Gillman, Davis, and Finch (Ran through dudes on ST) bitched OSU.

[u/Crispy_Whale]

Yea Brooks Davis!

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude]

Why the fuck is Gilman still in this game? Why is Yat and Davis?

[u/Calm_Woodpecker_8098 → u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude]

Meh not that crazy IMO, I don’t mind giving our starters a chance to work through things against quality competition, such as Ah Yat getting his confidence with the deep ball back even if it’s against their backups

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude → u/Calm_Woodpecker_8098]

His injury risk is low so sure. But alternatively who is his backup if he gets hurt and could use reps?

[u/I_like_race_cars]

Alrighty. What all have I missed?

[u/wildjackalope → u/I_like_race_cars]

\flips over table\

[u/sernameistakentry]

The polls are going to look very interesting this week. Maybe some shakeups in the top 5?

[u/tden4]

the showdown or interstate series or whatever the hell it’s called now is going to be insane

[u/damnyoutuesday]

South Dakota put up a hell of a fight

[u/No_Bite_7238]

Respect to South Dakota. Way to fight!!

[u/tden4]

that IS what locking in looks like

[u/sernameistakentry]

I expected Montana to give some resistance.

[u/CaptainCerealCanada]

We were this close to greatness

[u/PROUDgrizHATER → u/CaptainCerealCanada]

Heck of a showing. USD got some dudes. QB can SLING it.

Yotes are gonna be a tough out this year

[u/tden4]

at least our oc isn’t the only one that calls dumb ass throws to the end zone

[u/Zloggt]

Yotes!!! Do it!!! It’s gonna be epic!!!

[u/MasterYikes]

Wish we could play the OSU of last year. Some of these catches are so impressive.

[u/slothbron]

SD special teams!!!!

[u/CaptainCerealCanada]

MUFFED PUNT

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

Oof Boise! USD is still alive. That punt was ROLLING!

[u/tden4]

that is NOT what locking in looks like

[u/funnyerrrwhat]

The last decent deep ball Ah Yat threw was to Drew Deck. And that took an amazing catch.

[u/No_Bite_7238]

Ah-Yats got me confused. He's not playing like last years Ah-Yat and this is over the course of 4 weeks. That boy needs to wake up.

[u/PROUDgrizHATER → u/No_Bite_7238]

Iirc, he had a slow ish start last year too?

Losing a guy like wortham and a new o line can’t help.

[u/funnyerrrwhat → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

The o line part has me flabbergasted. They are literally protecting him better than any year before. Eli Gilman broke free for what was gonna be a wide open down field throw and he had a clean pocket, yet he scrambled to his left and threw it at an Oregon st players head. He’s in his own head baaaad.

[u/Calm_Woodpecker_8098]

Unfortunate it got away early but not necessarily gonna take too much away from this outcome. OSU is a different team from their dumpster fire group of last year so props to them. Ah yat needs to lock in next week tho and I agree overall this squad feels flat, hopefully a blowout changes that

[u/No_Bite_7238]

Well Griz, I know this sucks. It feels like our game against Oregon last year, mucking the bottom of the pond. But hold your head high anyway. There's still the rest of the season.

[u/bhorvic]

Goldang, Yotes are putting in work!

[u/No_Bite_7238 → u/bhorvic]

How does it look, bro?

[u/tden4]

I really hope modrzewski likes money

[u/CaptainCerealCanada]

Is this happening?

[u/Adamscottd]

Holy shit USD might actually win this game

Yotes look scary

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude]

2nd half garbage time soft comeback with 2nd and 3rd stringers in Oregon?

[u/MsoDigger]

Hang up the banner! We scored 3 points

[u/tden4]

boise state please lock in

[u/thezander8]

They’re playing Kpop in Aggie Stadium, students are gonna lock in like sleeper agents

[u/CaptainCerealCanada]

incredible showing by the Yotes

[u/stayclassypeople → u/CaptainCerealCanada]

Let’s go!

[u/ripdoublewide]

Griz look so soft. We are really missing Hauck fire this year. Guys just don't look like they want it that bad

[u/slothbron → u/ripdoublewide]

I think they will get things figured out. Hauck drive or not I think if he did not "retire" they should still have parted ways with him. He was holding them back imo and way to stuck in his ways.

[u/hman1500]

just finished watching soccer and saw the final score. was west florida supposed to be good?

[u/damnyoutuesday]

That OSU TD throw was disgusting. Idk how you defend that

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

Bummer targeting call on Wing. Not sure what he’s supposed to do there

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

not lead with the crown of the helmet. Keep your eyes up.

[u/Aquatic-assassin → u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude]

He hit Atkinson with his shoulder, no head to head contact

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude → u/Aquatic-assassin]

debatable. his head was down so it was leading with the crown so it's a easy call. had he kept his head up it would have been a lot easier to overturn.

[u/ripdoublewide → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

He dips the head. Gonna get that call every time

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude → u/ripdoublewide]

Yeah it was soft but he needed to keep his head up.

[u/Calm_Woodpecker_8098]

I understand QB safety but wtf is wing supposed to do there??? He’s already fully in motion by the time OSUs qb decides to slide

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude → u/Calm_Woodpecker_8098]

keep his head up. I know it was a bang bang play, but every coach in all of football needs to, or already is beating into his D, that you need to keep your head up no matter what. It wasn't malicious for sure.

[u/knook → u/Calm_Woodpecker_8098]

I'm over here hate watching the griz and even I think that a pretty bad call by the refs.

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Feels gross rooting for NDSU but it is nice seeing sac state get pummeled

[u/SchuLace13 → u/CommunistTrafficCone]

That’s FBS Sac State my good sir. As long as they are FBS, nothing else matters to Luke Wood.

[u/ripdoublewide]

Griz have dudes open Ah Yat just cannot hit them.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/ripdoublewide]

I mean this earnestly and not rival shit talk, what happened with him?? He was hitting those last year and doesn't seem to be able to this year

[u/knook → u/damnyoutuesday]

He has always seemed to struggle when the pressure is on. He completely crumbled in Brawl 2.0

[u/ripdoublewide → u/damnyoutuesday]

Hurt? Just got the yips? Nobody knows. He's not crisp like he was last season looks like a different guy. And he's had good blocking so it's not like he's been hit a lot or under pressure

[u/join_the_creed → u/ripdoublewide]

I remember Colter Nuanez said during camp they were treating him like their golden goose, don't get me wrong that's how he should be treated in camp. But I wonder if now that the bullets are live he's almost second guessing his throws? Or that knee injury he got surgery on over spring still isn't 100%?Could also just be sophomore slump for his second full year?

[u/thezander8]

Davis fans panicking because we didn’t look sharp up going up 28-0 vs Stetson but honestly we might get 8+ wins in this year’s Big Sky no matter how far we’ve regressed

[u/slothbron → u/thezander8]

I would rather being up 28-0 and not looking sharp, than the shit MSU put us through today haha.

[u/Birddogtx]

VICTORY FROM THE JAWS OF DEFEAT

[u/imperfectPK]

PVAMU? Why I was so worried about this match up? We CRUSHED them! Tarleton why did yall struggle so much.

[u/peepeepoopoo546 → u/imperfectPK]

I have a feeling we are pretty close to tarletons level and should be well into the top 10

[u/OfficerBatman → u/peepeepoopoo546]

Looking at Tarletons defense, SFA is better than them.

Right now the only team that would truly worry me are those guys up in Bozeman, and I think we could give them a run for their money this year.

We’re so much better than last year.

[u/powerlifting_nerd56]

So Northeastern State withdrew from the MIAA for football to try and get the program back on its feet from being so bad. When do they go back now that they're good again?

[u/TheLohanz → u/powerlifting_nerd56]

Hi. I was a student at NSU from 2016-2020. Between 2017-2020 NSU won 1 football game. In the 2019-2020 season, we lost all of our games by an average of over 70 points. They truly might have been the worst football program in college football history. The fact that they showed up and (despite the loss) played a close game against an FCS school is absolutely mind boggling.

[u/Birddogtx]

OVERTIME? There’s MORE?

[u/SenatorMadness → u/Birddogtx]

The torture doesn't end until morale improves

[u/PROUDgrizHATER]

I wanna see Eli Gillman go off for 100 yards in a 58-0 loss to the beavers. I like Gillman. And he’s a guy that (unfortunately) stuck around. Guys like him having a good end of career season are good for FCS.

How’s that for compromise?

[u/Lucky-Hunter-Dude → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

I megaloath all missoula fans but I'd never wish for these misguided players to get hurt. If this gets to a 3 score game they better not be feeding Gillman in a meaningless loss.

[u/SenatorMadness → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

I always knew you were secretly a Griz lover

[u/mlspdx → u/PROUDgrizHATER]

Idk how I feel about this. Thanks? I think? But if we’re getting blown out like that it’s gonna be an early night for Eli

[u/Birddogtx]

I legitimately do not now how it gets worse. This feels like a Lovecraftian horror.

[u/Adamscottd]

What a disastrous day for the Big Sky lol

[u/footballnerd72]

Montana State got so damn lucky.

[u/join_the_creed]

Man. Everybody in the Big Sky was seemingly looking to conference play it seems

[u/sernameistakentry]

RIP Big Sky Conference

[u/SenatorMadness]

Wait... Is the PAC-12 exclusive to the USA Network?

[u/thezander8 → u/SenatorMadness]

Pac has two other media partners but USA might only have the Pac

[u/tdpdcpa]

San Diego is going to do it to ‘em

[u/Birddogtx]

The final pick to seal the deal. UNC loses to a D2 at home to stay winless in night games. Fire everyone.

[u/sernameistakentry → u/Birddogtx]

Tear down the lights

[u/tdpdcpa]

Oh no! Disaster! What a bad decision, Cal Poly!

[u/bhorvic]

Bison scoop and score! Lmao

[u/Adamscottd]

Didn’t see this until now because I was at the Jacks game

Southern Utah lost to ST THOMAS?

[u/turtwig1123 → u/Adamscottd]

Yes :D

[u/tdpdcpa]

Furman is short, turns the ball over on downs, and South Carolina State will survive, 20-17.

[u/sernameistakentry]

Cal Poly might just manage to escape

[u/sernameistakentry → u/sernameistakentry]

LMAO NO FUCKING WAY

[u/sernameistakentry → u/sernameistakentry]

Booo nvm

[u/MasterOfVoice]

FINAL: UNA 38, Alcorn State 20. It was a long and hot day of inaugural events in Florence today and thankfully they earned the W! Congrats to all involved with the new stadium and very first game day! Roar Lions! 🦁

[u/tdpdcpa → u/MasterOfVoice]

Congrats on the first ever on-campus game!

[u/MasterOfVoice → u/tdpdcpa]

Thanks! I’m an alum that lives 6 hours away in Pensacola but proud of them!!

[u/tdpdcpa → u/MasterOfVoice]

I know what it’s like to root for your team from afar.

[u/MasterOfVoice → u/tdpdcpa]

It’s tough especially during events like this but social media and ESPN+ helps! And in the heat, I’m happy to watch from home. Lol.

[u/bhorvic]

I know neither team is FCS anymore but the Bison are already up on the Hornets lol

[u/SenatorMadness → u/bhorvic]

But Dr Limp Wood assured all of us he was ready for varsity

[u/thezander8 → u/bhorvic]

Let’s be honest we’re all morbidly invested IN how much the Bison will win by

[u/tdpdcpa]

Furman is within 3 late in the fourth against South Carolina State.

[u/Birddogtx]

Wow. Just wow.

[u/Dervoo]

Defense has done everything they could to keep us hanging around for as long as we have. Damn shame our offense is as bad as they are. This defense is worthy of a 10-win team but our ceiling is probably 7 with this O.

[u/bhorvic]

Ooh I forgot (ball)Sac state and the Bison play tonight. I’ll keep tabs on that

[u/AruarianGroove → u/bhorvic]

Winner gets an FCS autobid

[u/tdpdcpa]

It’s early, but South Dakota is leading Boise State

[u/GeneralAcorn → u/tdpdcpa]

Stop the count!

Ignore my 2nd flair while I'm in this sub...

[u/damnyoutuesday]

THIS HCU UIW GAME IS FUCKING CHAOS!!!

[u/Rontheworm → u/damnyoutuesday]

Kick the FG!!!!!!
Why the hell would they hand it to a guy that had TWO fumbles already tonight???

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/Rontheworm]

Braindead decision, just kick it

[u/Rontheworm → u/damnyoutuesday]

Absolutely!
Dodged a bullet after that terrible decision.

[u/Daiko_]

WTF INCARNATE

[u/tdpdcpa]

Oh my goodness, UIW

[u/Rontheworm → u/tdpdcpa]

Holy stupid call Batman

[u/sernameistakentry]

Cal Poly what are you doinggggg

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Cal Poly might be the second Big Sky team to get upset by a Pioneer team today

[u/Headwallrepeat]

Any word on Chase Mason?

[u/Particular_Prior5344 → u/Headwallrepeat]

The staff will probably keep it a secret like they did last year. Hopefully it’s just a sprain or something he can quickly recover from. Hopefully don’t need him against EIU next week but will definitely need him for Illinois State.

[u/SoDakJack1 → u/Particular_Prior5344]

I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not too optimistic. The way he left the field and the look on his face said that he knew something bad happened again.

[u/Headwallrepeat → u/SoDakJack1]

Frustration. Especially for him. I didn't know they manufactured glass in Hurley

[u/AruarianGroove]

These non-conference HBCU games are living up to the hype this week 

[u/tdpdcpa → u/AruarianGroove]

Morgan State has me shook.

[u/AruarianGroove → u/tdpdcpa]

Keeping that Baltimore rivalry alive.  The FAMU-TSU 4th quarter has been chaotic 

[u/damnyoutuesday]

HUSKIES NOOOOOO

[u/tdpdcpa]

Oh my goodness, HCU

[u/Birddogtx]

The Bears may legitimately be the worst FCS team. And the worst D2 team by proxy.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/Birddogtx]

Northwestern State lost to an NAIA

[u/Birddogtx → u/damnyoutuesday]

We should forfeit the rest of the season

[u/sernameistakentry → u/Birddogtx]

Woah slow down, you guys might pick up your only win next week against Utah Tech. Then you can forfeit the season.

[u/Birddogtx → u/sernameistakentry]

I think I want off this ride.

[u/I_like_race_cars]

Alright. We didn't really cover...but we could have if we didn't kneel there. Not happy with the first half. But much better in the second half.

[u/sernameistakentry]

I'm honestly shocked Weber State is taking care of their business with how the rest of the conference has looked today. A Northwestern State upset would have been too funny.

[u/sernameistakentry]

I don't think the Pio will get their second win over a Big Sky team today, but they've certainly shown that Cal Poly and Southern Utah kinda suck.

[u/Zloggt]

HUGE TANGENT…but I never would’ve expected to hear the words “Montana at Oregon State, Pac-12 Football” come out of Leigh Diffey’s mouth just mere years ago lol

[u/K3T9Q_]

first half was awful but looked good in the second half

[u/noahpaz88]

We proved we can hang but SDSU showed there’s levels to this. Overall gg we couldn’t recover from 17 unanswered points

[u/Headwallrepeat → u/noahpaz88]

Youngstown is going to be around the top all season. That is a good football team. I was impressed. The 605 Hogs played their asses off. Much more impressed with this Penguin team than a few years ago when Davidson(?) called out the Jacks and Gronowski and then we went there and won 34-0

[u/damnyoutuesday]

Houston Christian vs Incarnate Word is going down to the wire

[u/bhorvic → u/damnyoutuesday]

Jesus is going to have to decide which of his children are better in that one.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/bhorvic]

This is the real Holy War

[u/Daiko_]

Florida A&M and Tennessee state is a true sickos game. What did I just watch

[u/bhorvic]

And now they’re bustin’ I fear for these commentators wives

[u/join_the_creed]

Name a better combo than a good SDSU running back and wearing #22

[u/Headwallrepeat → u/join_the_creed]

How about #31 former Jack Zack Zenner and #31 woman's basketball All American Brooklyn Meyer?

[u/Aquatic-assassin → u/join_the_creed]

An Ah Yat beating Oregon St. (hopefully 🤞

[u/hallese → u/join_the_creed]

Lamb and tuna fish?

[u/join_the_creed → u/hallese]

This is the most Midwest bullshit I've ever read lmao. Don't ever reply to me again /s

[u/pinetreesrule]

God damn the Youngstown defense has fell apart

[u/DeZeeuw2 → u/pinetreesrule]

They were pretty soft

[u/BellacosePlayer]

WHY DID YOU GO OUT OF BOUNDS

[u/Bdcky]

Damn didn’t realize CARK beat ut Martin, hopefully Semo can stay healthy and carry this momentum into the UWF game.

Fun fact: former Semo d lineman, Lucas Melo, is their d line and recruiting coordinator. Played with em back in 2012-2016. Good dude, and glad to see him doing well

[u/tden4]

I said “I bet we’re gonna throw it to the endzone from the right side” and that’s what happened lmao. eidsness has to stop calling plays

[u/bhorvic]

These commentators for the Tarleton game really like to say people are squirting…

[u/Zloggt]

…it’s still a win for them, but damn, Memphis is only beating UT Martin by 17 (Skyhawks just scored a touchdown)…

…that’s pretty damning for the Tigers, isn’t it?

[u/K3T9Q_]

should be the dagger there

[u/Bdcky]

I just looked up tarleton states game and saw their record.. that tarleton state fan wilding in here. They’re 3-0 and up 18. Like I was expecting some Cleveland browns level of incompetence but no.
Shits wild man

[u/HellFireGrunt → u/Bdcky]

I was surprised to see Tarleton won just by the comments lol

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/Bdcky]

He's acting like his team was down 2 scores to a NEC team or something

[u/Bdcky → u/damnyoutuesday]

I know!!!!! I can’t be like that because of high blood pressure else I’d have probably died by now.

[u/bhorvic → u/damnyoutuesday]

Imagine if that team struggled against NEC teams two years in a row. How crazy would that be?

[u/tdpdcpa → u/bhorvic]

You’d hope that you’d win a national championship in between to feel better about it or something.

[u/Bdcky → u/tdpdcpa]

What’s a championship. I didn’t know there were playoffs til 2011

[u/tdpdcpa → u/Bdcky]

You’re asking the wrong dude.

[u/Bdcky → u/Bdcky]

AND THEY BEAT AN FBS SCHOOL!! Like is that dude ok???

[u/bhorvic → u/Bdcky]

But is Tarleton good though?

[u/HellFireGrunt → u/bhorvic]

It's up in the air, we'll have to see next week.

[u/SenatorMadness → u/bhorvic]

We will find out next week

[u/Ivy_Thornsplitter]

Why no flag?

[u/Rontheworm]

How many penalties can be committed in one drive. Holy cow!

[u/Bdcky]

Ok does coach tuke run up the score after that, or do we take a knee. I’d wanna score some more but don’t want the bad juju that comes from it

[u/Birddogtx]

At least they didn't get a TD that drive...

[u/Bdcky]

Let’s go SEMO REDHAWKS back on the winning track baby. Coach coon coaches a hell of a defense.

[u/K3T9Q_]

just when i thought to myself we were being more disciplined…

[u/hallese]

Knees aren't supposed to do that.

[u/bhorvic]

Green Squirts you say?

[u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Our playcalling is DOGSHIT

[u/Groots5 → u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Maybe the run will work after it hasn’t for the last 6 runs.

[u/CommunistTrafficCone → u/Groots5]

Yeah I’m perfectly ok with canning this OC at the end of the year. Incredibly uncreative

[u/Adamscottd → u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Only his third stint with the program, you’d think we’d know by now

[u/pinetreesrule → u/CommunistTrafficCone]

Leaked offensive playbook of the jacks

https://reddit.com/link/pavnl59/video/alvjphucykqh1/player

[u/I_like_race_cars]

Fucking Corners, man...

It really is shocking how much of a step back that unit has taken. Like I expected a drop off...but not "utterly useless"

[u/K3T9Q_]

good lord i don’t know who’s secondary is worse

[u/I_like_race_cars → u/K3T9Q_]

Its ours.

These guys are making too much NIL to be this bad.

[u/tdpdcpa]

I’m beginning to think the Big Sky is really just 3-4 good teams and then a whole lot of middling programs whose profile is raised by those other teams.

[u/SenatorMadness → u/tdpdcpa]

Uh.... Yeah

[u/pinetreesrule → u/tdpdcpa]

Same is with MVFC

[u/Birddogtx → u/tdpdcpa]

Middling is high praise for UNC

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/tdpdcpa]

Always has been

[u/join_the_creed → u/tdpdcpa]

That's what it's always been tbh

[u/hallese → u/join_the_creed]

It just so happens that 3-4 good teams is about 2-4 more than most other conferences can claim.

[u/join_the_creed → u/hallese]

And the 2-4 good teams are typically better than the other conferences 1 good team ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/tdpdcpa → u/join_the_creed]

Then maybe I should revise my statement.

The basement in the Big Sky is worse than the conventional wisdom thinks it is.

[u/B-Niche]

THE FORDHAM FOOTBALL RAMS.

... Are we back?

[u/tdpdcpa → u/B-Niche]

You have my attention.

[u/AruarianGroove → u/tdpdcpa]

A-10 football is back 

[u/Tricky_Pack_9020]

Uhhhh Cal Poly are you guys good?

[u/I_like_race_cars]

Defense has been VIOLENT with some of the hits this half lol

[u/Aggressive-Run-792]

We escaped the fraud conversation, for now