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Nicholls travels to Southern Illinois. UIW despite an 8-2 record is left out. UIW's lack of a quality win and close games against what would be considered weak opponents by the committee was the likely reasons. Fourteen of the 24 teams come from 3 conferences. Missouri Valley has 6 and the Colonial and Big Sky each have 4. Note: 27,000 plus attended the Montana v Montana State game yesterday. That total is approximately 2.5% of the state's population. Interesting that the 2 biggest sports programs of any type in the state are FCS schools. If that happened in Texas, you would need a 750,000 seat stadium. A silly but fun thought.

LU knocks off McNeese. LU finishes 6-5 with a 4-2 in conference record. McNesse could have a new coach next season. UIW beats HCU. UIW despite an 8-2 record will be hoping for an FCS playoff invite as the weakness of the SLC and some close calls leave it in limbo. Some projections have them in and others have them as a first 4 out. HCU and new coach Braxton Harris complete the most successful season in school history despite today's loss. Nicholls beat SELA on Thursday. Nicholls is the SLC champion and will learn their first round opponent tomorrow.

LU up 52-27 with under 4 minutes left in the season. Congratulations to all involved on a quality season. Can they build on it?

Curious on that as well. Other than SHSU, can't think of anything over 10,000 near Montgomery without it not coming south making the drive for PNG not much difference than the present neutral site.

Was Lake Creek willing to agree to traveling to PNG's backyard? Was there going to be a coin flip for "home" with PNG using LU as its designated home site and this fell apart due to a NO from LU on availability? Would be amazing for SETX to have the opportunity to see the game, but I'm curious on the accuracy if this. Not trying to stir up anything, but this would be a quite unusual site based on the location of the schools without an unusual, but not unheard of agreement.

Thanks, Snake. 28-7 half.

This is a portion of a post I placed in the Southland Conference Football thread in the College Sports Forum. LU will host McNesse for the final game of the season next Saturday. A win and the Birds finish no worse than 3rd in conference. Could end up tied with UIW for 2nd if UIW loses. Lamar win would give them a 6-5 record with 1 loss to an FBS program, 1 loss to the SLC champions, and the other 3 to ranked FCS opponents. Going into this past weekend, those 3 teams were ranked #4, #6, and #10. Most, I assume, would consider this a good start for the team, the new coach, and his staff. Some might say much better than just good.

LU loses to Nicholls. Nicholls clinches the automatic qualifier spot for the FCS playoffs. UIW was scheduled for NWST, but that game had been cancelled for weeks. UIW can still share the SLC title with Nicholls with a final weekend win coupled with a Nicholls loss. As stated Nicholls holds the SLC playoff spot, this is due to the head to head win earlier over UIW. SELA beat A&M Commerce. HCU knocked off McNeese and set the school record for wins. This win also ensures the first winning season in school history (includes forfeit by NWST). Next week... LU host McNesse. A win and the Birds finish no worse than 3rd in conference. Could end up tied with UIW for 2nd if UIW loses. Lamar win would give them a 6-5 record with 1 loss to an FBS program, 1 loss to the SLC champions, and the other 3 to ranked FCS opponents. Going into this past weekend, those 3 teams were ranked #4, #6, and #10. Most, I assume, would consider this a good start for the new coach. Some might say much better than just good. UIW travels to HCU. UIW will playing with hopes for a committee selection into the FCS playoffs. Thursday night game as SELA host Nicholls. Commerce was scheduled to play Northwestern S.

LU falls 37-24.

34-24 early 4th. Nicholls leads.

LU denied, stopped on 4th and goal at the 1. 20-11 halftime.

20-11. LU with a safety.

LU fumble in the red zone and Nicholls follows with a 69 yard touchdown run 4 plays later. 20-9

Nicholls has scored twice, but LU scores a defensive PAT after the 2nd touchdown. Early 2nd 13-9 Colonels.

LU scores first 7-0. Early in the 1st. Playing for a 3 way tie A Lamar win would set up a final weekend with LU having a shot at being an automatic qualifier for the FCS playoffs.

!!:35/14/F

70 plus yard TD pass. !!:35/14/4 4:10 left to play.

Under 5 minutes left with Westwood in possession of the ball.

!!:28/14/4

!!:21/14/H

Fightin' Fontenot's for the W.

The conference bylaws count the forfeits for the conference and allows for the conference to use this for determining he automatic qualifier. At large teams are not given credit for the forfeits when considering participants in the playoffs by the NCAA FCS selection committee.

Lamar beats Commerce. UiW loses to Nicholls. Nicholls lone undefeated team in conference play. SELA defeated McNeese in the only other game today. Conference issue with Northwestern "explained" below. I simply don't understand if the conference will influence the automatic qualifier. The NCAA views of the forfeits doesn't clarify, at least to me, if the conference can determine the automatic qualifying team. It seems to be no, but if so why are they listing the forfeits. I will ask around on Monday, unless someone smarter than me (doesn't take much) can interpret without speculating. [Hidden Content]

41-21 final. LU moves to 4-1 in the SLC and 5-4 overall. Tough game next week at Nicholls then wrap up regular season at home against McNeese.

42-14. 6:44. 44-19 Nicholls early 4th. The SLC website (checked it just now) is showing the Northwestern games as forfeits. This will put Lamar tied with UIW and 1 back of Nicholls if all holds up. Next week will set Lamar with an opportunity for a 3 way tie.