Gotta a State of the Week for you.

[AmsterBison]

Kennesaw State and NDSU are the only two teams currently in the FCS who have not lost a game by 40 or more in the last 50 years.

Alabama, Michigan, and South Florida are the other DI teams that can say the same.

Other FCS teams with few beat downs:

TeamId	Cnt
Harvard	1
Monmouth (NJ)	2
Mercer (GA)	2
Central Arkansas	2
Robert Morris	3
Dayton	3
Pennsylvania	4
Princeton	4
Bryant University	5
Richmond	5
North Alabama	5
Villanova	5
Jacksonville State	5
Stetson (FL)	5
New Hampshire	6
Yale	6
UC Davis	6

[Reign of Terrier]

funny how there's a correlation between start up teams and teams that haven't/can't play FBS teams with this obscure statistics. By funny, I mean expected.

[Evolution Prime]

Here I was expecting North Dakota being declared State of the Week by some random computer poll. All I see are some BS statistics.

[AmsterBison]

Here I was expecting North Dakota being declared State of the Week by some random computer poll. All I see are some BS statistics.

Ha, yeah, typo in the title. State of the Week is gas, btw.

When you remove FBS games (which would mean, really, limiting games to 1973 and later), then SDSU has 7 40+ losses instead of 8. Sadly only one was at the hands of NDSU. And Mercer is added to the list of teams never beaten by 40+ when FBS games are excluded. And really James Madison should be zero since their two big non-FBS losses were in their first year.

[ElCid]

Ha, yeah, typo in the title. State of the Week is gas, btw.

When you remove FBS games (which would mean, really, limiting games to 1973 and later), then SDSU has 7 40+ losses instead of 8. Sadly only one was at the hands of NDSU. And Mercer is added to the list of teams never beaten by 40+ when FBS games are excluded. And really James Madison should be zero since their two big non-FBS losses were in their first year.

I think you mean 1978. And it wasn't settled until the 1982 season for all conferences. So it makes digging this stat even harder.

[AmsterBison]

I think you mean 1978. And it wasn't settled until the 1982 season for all conferences. So it makes digging this stat even harder.

I did 1973 just because that's when DI, DII, and DIII were formed.

Really, I could look at only fcs v fcs games - the only problem with that is that there is some disagreement about when teams really became FCS. I mean, I'm not sure that the NCAA really considered move ups an FCS team until their entire 5-year transition is over (I go with "they are FCS once that first year of the transition is over.)

<play Jeopardy music>

OK, looking at the teams that way, JMU is definitely the champ of not getting beat by 40 because the other teams without a 40+ loss to another FCS team are relative newbies (last column is what I consider the team's first year in the FCS)

TeamId	Lby40	FCSGames	MinOfYear
James Madison	0	382	1980
North Dakota State	0	169	2004
Central Arkansas	0	111	2007
Mercer (GA)	0	48	2013
Abilene Christian	0	43	2013
Kennesaw State	0	30	2015
North Alabama	0	2	2018
Harvard	1	353	1982
Pennsylvania	1	352	1982
Illinois State	1	343	1982
Villanova	1	335	1987
Monmouth (NJ)	1	231	1994
UC Davis	1	133	2003

[jmuwishyouhadadukedog]

Ha, yeah, typo in the title. State of the Week is gas, btw.

When you remove FBS games (which would mean, really, limiting games to 1973 and later), then SDSU has 7 40+ losses instead of 8. Sadly only one was at the hands of NDSU. And Mercer is added to the list of teams never beaten by 40+ when FBS games are excluded. And really James Madison should be zero since their two big non-FBS losses were in their first year.

I was gonna say, we've definitely been blown out by FBS competition in the past but I couldn't think of a time we've been curb-stomped by a FCS team. I did a quick perusal, we've only lost to FCS teams by more than 2 scores (i.e. more than 16 points) three times since 2004 (2009: Villanova 27-0, William and Mary 24-3 and in 2011 New Hampshire 28-10).


Another fun fact nobody cares about: between 2004-2008, our average margin of loss in our 12 losses to FCS teams was 4 points (3, 4, 3, 6, 3, 11, 1, 4, 1, 3, 1, 8). Too many people defended Matthews because of his ability to always keep us close to winning, which was a product of his overly conservative play calling. To be honest, in a lot of those years (sans 2004 and 2008) I wish we were getting blown out as the mediocrity that was Mickey Matthews was more infuriating. To watch a game where you were always in it, knowing that conservative play calling would ultimately be your demise was awful.

[Thumper 76]

Ha, yeah, typo in the title. State of the Week is gas, btw.

When you remove FBS games (which would mean, really, limiting games to 1973 and later), then SDSU has 7 40+ losses instead of 8. Sadly only one was at the hands of NDSU. And Mercer is added to the list of teams never beaten by 40+ when FBS games are excluded. And really James Madison should be zero since their two big non-FBS losses were in their first year.

Eh, we didn’t used to be what we are today. Just makes it that much sweeter.


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[cx500d]

Here I was expecting North Dakota being declared State of the Week by some random computer poll. All I see are some BS statistics.

Well, I guess its better than South Dakota being the State of the Weak

[grizband]

If you remove FBS schools, Montana has only 5 losses of 40+ points in the past 50 years.

1968 Utah State 50-3
1973 Boise State 55-7
1980 Idaho 42-0
1984 Idaho State 43-3
1998 Western Illinois 53-9 (playoffs)