Week 2 Wrapup: The Sun Belt

Week 2 had its ups and downs for the Belt.  Their teams mostly struggled against the BCS leagues, but Louisiana Lafayette scored big with a win over Kansas State.  Things are shaping up to be very interesting when conference play really gets going. Read Post

Week 2 Wrapup: the WAC

This was a solid weekend all around for non-BCS leagues, including the WAC.  Hawaii went to Washington State and won convincingly, Fresno State took Wisconsin to double overtime before being done in by an INT, and their other teams fared well against other non-BCS competition. Read Post

Fringe Hangover, Monday, September 14

This was an amazing weekend of college football.  So amazing that it took me a full day to start processing everything.  So we’re going to jump right into the conference weekly wrapups, beginning with the leagues I didn’t get to last week.  We’ll go with the MAC first. Read Post

Fringe Hangover, Saturday, September 12

Week 2 of the college football season is upon us.  As Steve Czaban would say: hug it.  Hug every single weekend, because you only have 14.  Last night, Toledo put the MAC on notice (and maybe Ohio State too) by blowing out Colorado 54-38.  Today, we’ve got a full slate of games ranging from money blowouts to very good chances to pull off major upsets.

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Week 1 Wrapup, CUSA Edition

Hey, lookie, the new site is live!  No football last night, so instead of the Fringe Hangover we just worked on this instead.  We’re gonna have 3 quick wrapups coming this afternoon, starting with Conference USA.  Let’s review, shall we? Read Post

12 Straight Hours of Happy

It’s been a heck of a day, and I’ll recap a few of the games in more detail tomorrow, but a few common themes from the night:

1-AA teams on the whole aren’t that far below 1-A teams.  Lots of scares today, including my alma mater UCF, and 2 wins (one of them Thursday).

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Fringe Hangover, Friday, September 4

“At least it was football,” seems to be the common thread going on last night’s games.  And with that, welcome to the ‘soft opening’ of a site for ruminations and such on Football on the Fringe.  The big weekly column at the Phoenix Pub isn’t going anywhere, this will be a place where I think out loud on some of the stuff that goes into the big column, and I’ll preview and review games that don’t make it in there.  In other words, this will be an outlet for the only people obsessed with non-BCS teams as much as I am, and I’m pretty sure that list is just me.  And with that, let’s look at what we got last night:

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The Season, she has been previewed

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