Deep dive into FCS over ranked FBS teams

RaceBannon

https://ncaa.com/news/football/article/fcs-wins-vs-fbs-teams-all-time-victories-upsets

First of all a FCS team beating a FBS team isn't as rare as you think. It's already happened 6 times this year. However beating a ranked FBS team is rare - 5 times since the FC FBS split began in 2007. How did that work out?

2007 Appalachian State over Michigan
Michigan ended up 9-4 / 6-2 second place in the Big 10
Lloyd Carr "retired"

2010 James Madison over Virginia Tech
Also lost to Boise State
Finished 11-3 with the ACC championship game win over FSU and an Orange Bowl loss to Stanford
Frank Beamer enough said on that

2013 Eastern Washington over Oregon State (lol they were 25th)
OSU finished 7-6 under Reilly
He would leave for Nebraska after the 2014 season

2016 North Dakota State over Iowa
Iowa finished 8-5
Kirk Ferentz got a third lifetime contract extension

And Montana over UW
Story of the season TBD but it looks like 8-5 is the ceiling

So hopefully that cheers some of you up

PostGameOrangeSlices

Fire Jimmy after an 8-5 year

Beating Harbaugh and ending Michigan's season would be hilarious

biak1

Really happy to see UW make the history books for all the wrong reasons. What a great day to be a DAWG.

RaceBannon

biak1 said:

Really happy to see UW make the history books for all the wrong reasons. What a great day to be a DAWG.

WOOF

Bread

Sounds like we are a lock for the rosebowl

WoolleyDoog

Was only a matter of time and easily could have lost to Eastern twice already. I always maintained when scheduling these to not schedule Easterns, Montanas or South Dakota States because they actually show up and think they can win and can if you're not good.

FireCohen

At least ty lost to some decent teams lol

RaceBannon

Beamer and Ferenz were doog legends used to give Ty more time

Reilly was better than Pete Carroll, allegedly.

Carr won a national championship

Jimmy is the youngest and least accomplished to do this

So we have that going for us which is nice

MikeDamone

What 8 games are wins?

LawDawg1

It’s hard. Those other programs weren’t in a deep Pac 12 North. And now UCLA is for real. Don James never had it this bad.

RaceBannon

MikeDamone said:

What 8 games are wins?

I said ceiling

You don't want to see the floor. You just don't

AOG

Keep in mind a "ranked" FBS team is questionable at this stage of the season.

RaceBannon

AOG said:

Keep in mind a "ranked" FBS team is questionable at this stage of the season.

UW is as a legit a top 20 team as there is pre season this year. 20 was about right for who was coming back (although that was over rated as discussed)

Of course they are unranked now so Harbaugh can lose another home game to an unranked team