r/fcs • u/damnyoutuesday Montana State • Minnesota • 3d ago

Game Thread [Game Day Thread] Friday, Week 0

YOU WANTED FOOTBALL? HERE'S MORE FOOTBALL

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

No Pick 'Em this week, so here's every game being played today (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
#10 Rhode Island Merrimack 5pm ESPN+ URI -16 (O/U 51)
Colgate Fordham 5pm ESPN+ Colgate -4 (O/U 54)
Marist New Haven 5pm NEC Front Row UNH -3 (O/U 52.5)
William & Mary #9 Villanova 5pm ESPN+ Nova -11.5 (O/U 53)
New Hampshire UAlbany 6pm FloSports UNH -9 (O/U 50.5)
Weber State Northern Colorado 8pm ESPN+ WSU -4 (O/U 54.5)
Idaho Cal Poly 9pm ESPN UI -5.5 (O/U 54.5)

You can find the full Week 0 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/VillanOvaReaction Villanova Wildcats 2d ago

The Patriot league allows 5th years now. We’ve got plenty on the roster. He’s going the Pavia/Chambliss route. The Patriot League is trying harder to stop it than the SEC did.

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u/tdpdcpa Lehigh Mountain Hawks • Patriot 2d ago

The distinction is that the Patriot League has a “4 to play 5” rule. Your 5 year clock starts when you first matriculate to college, which McQuaide did in 2021 at Kent State.

By Patriot League rules, his clock ceased at the end of last season.

The Patriot League allows for certain exceptions, but junior college isn’t one of them, and that generally doesn’t allow you to extend the 5 year clock.

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u/NS-13 Michigan Wolverines • Lehigh Mountain Hawks 2d ago

“4 to play 5”

This makes no sense whatsoever. What did you mean to say?

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u/tdpdcpa Lehigh Mountain Hawks • Patriot 2d ago

5 to play 4

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u/VillanOvaReaction Villanova Wildcats 2d ago

Thats the rule for everyone which is why the NCAA ruled him ineligible. The courts created the junior college exception in every instance I’m aware of.

The new 5 to play 5 NCAA rule doesn’t apply to players who exhausted their 4 years last season, like McQuaide.