No, this isn’t about a blues song that goes, in part, “What’s the price? Thirty twice.” It’s not the version by Stevie Ray Vaughn, although he’s amazing enough to take me completely off task (so here’s something from Jimmy and Stevie Ray’s “Family Style” album). Where was I? Oh, yeah, this blog post links you [...]

I was perfect in my FCS playoff picks again last week, by which I mean a perfectly symmetrical 2-2. That brings me to 6-6 on the postseason. I got Georgia Southern over Wofford right, and Eastern Washington over North Dakota State. But for whatever reason I picked App State over a healthy Matt Szczur and [...]

So I went 4-4 in my second-round FCS playoff picks last week, including a 42-17 loss by the MSU Bobcats to North Dakota State. I thought the Bison would be tough, but when their starting QB went down, the Cats looked to be set. Then the hosts wore down in the fourth quarter, giving up [...]

So I’ve been wondering where Marc Mariani, the subject of my Wednesday column, ranked in the annals of FCS title games with his two 170-yard outings in 2008-09. The NCAA doesn’t do such a great job with its record books, so it seemed it was up to me to find out. So I found out. [...]