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FBS NCAA Division 1 Bowl Games: NCAAF College Football Scores - NCAAF Scoreboard - ESPN
12/20/19: 2 Bowl Games Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl (Mid-American vs. Conference USA): Buffalo 31 Charlotte 9
Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Mid-American vs. WAC): Kent State 51 Utah State 41
12/21/19: 6 Bowl Games
Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl (Pack 12 vs. WAC Conference Champ): Washington 38 Boise State 7
R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl (Sunbelt Conference Champ vs. Conference USA Runner-Up): Appalachian State 31 UAB 17
New Mexico Bowl (WAC vs. Mid-American) San Diego State 48 Central Michigan 11
Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl (Conference USA Winner vs. AAC): Florida Atlantic 52 SMU 28
Camelia Bowl (Sunbelt Conference vs. Conference USA) Arkansas State 34 Florida International 26
FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl (Independent FBS Team vs. Sunbelt Conference): Liberty 23 Georgia Southern 16
Overall How I'd Rank Conferences By Performance (only 1 Power 5 Team has played so far being Washington so am not including those conferences yet):
AAC (most powerful of the Group of 5 Conferences this year despite large gap between group of 5 and Power 5): 0-1 SMU losing to Florida Atlantic
WAC Conference 1-2 (Conference Champion Lost to Power 5 Team). Boise State losing to Washington of course is no surprise as Washington is a really tough program that's been known to give anyone playing them in a big game issues lower seeded or not.
Sunbelt Conference (Conference Champion Won): 2-1 Appalachian State won Multiple National Championships in FCS Football (kind of wonder how they'd do against North Dakota State now). Georgia Southern beat Appalatian State during the year but lost today and dropped a number of games through the season; like Appalatian State they're another program that's moved up to FBS football from the FCS in the last 6 years or so.
Conference USA 1-3 (although conference champion won very impressive, it was their last seeds that lost and their runnerup UAB lost to a power ranked Appalatian State team). Florida Atlantics impressive win puts them on the map though not to mention UAB didn't lose by much and was up at one point I believe despite playing kind of flat at times through the season.
Overall, impressive performance by Florida Atlantic against a tough AAC team (3rd in the West bracket) as SMU only lost 2 games this year against conference rivals Navy and Memphis. Florida Atlantic lost to Ohio State at the beginning of the year 21-45 then later 14-48 against AAC team Central Florida and then mid-October to conference rival Marshall by small margin 31-36. Florida Atlantic's coach left for Ol' Miss after winning the conference championship by a large margin against UAB. They've looked pretty good at the end of the year.
FIU and Charlotte being the last seeds of the 8 bowl eligible teams from Conference USA lost I see. I'm kind of surprised by Buffalo's margin of victory as they've kind of been on/off some games but when they get going they can put some points on the board.
Mid-American: 2-1 I thought Mid-American conference may go winless with exception of maybe Buffalo winning due to good offense despite being a mid-seeded Mid-American team they can score efficiently. Out of the "Group of 5" conferences Mid-American's been pretty weak this year. A lot of the top seeds lost in big blowouts at the beginning of the year to Power 5 teams (Top Seeds Miami of Ohio 5-76 against Ohio State in September and Central Michigan 0-61 to Wisconsin and Western Michigan 17-51 against Michigan State or 33-52 to Syracuse to see how stack up to Power 5 teams for example). I still see the conference runner-up Central Michigan lost by a fairly wide margin today though.
************Independent (3 of the 6 Independent Teams are Bowl Eligible this year): As not a conference not worth tracking performance but should be noted Liberty beat Georgia Southern.
Overall, the story of the day I think is Florida Atlantic. The Mountain West's Conference losses today have me re-thinking how good the teams in that conference are after Utah State's Loss to Kent State in a high scoring game. San Diego State blowing out Central Michigan was impressive though.
FCS NCAA Division 1 Games:
12/21/2019 FCS Playoff Semifinals: North Dakota State (Fargo) 42 vs. Montana State (Bozeman) 14
*North Dakota State has won 15 National Championships (3 in the "College Division" before it re-named to Division 2 then 5 in Division 2 until moving to Division 1 FCS Division in 2004 then winning 7 National Championships since 2010 which is very impressive; they're always a contender any given year)
James Madison (Harrisonburg, Virginia) 30 vs. Weber State (Ogden, Utah) 14
12/21/19: Celebration Bowl (SWAC Champion vs. MIAC Chambion; both conferences don't participate in the FCS playoffs and have had this conference champs faceoff since 2015):
North Carolina A&T (Greensboro, North Carolina) 64 vs. Alcorn State (Alcorn, Mississippi) 44
North Carolina A&T wins Celebration Bowl in record-setting fashion
This weekends update for Locally- Known Programs:
12/20/19: NCAA D3 Championship known as the Stagg Bowl:North Central 41(from Naperville Illinois) Whitewater 14 (from Whitewater Wisconsin)
North Central beats Wisconsin-Whitewater in Stagg Bowl, wins 2019 DIII football championship | NCAA.com
12/21/19: NCAA D2 Championship:
West Florida (Pennasocola, FL) 48 Minnesota State (Mankato, MN) 40 Minnesota State Mankato stopped on final play, loses Division II title game 48-40
12/21/19: NAIA Championship (For Football it's all 1 Division; schools could be seen as equivalent to maybe a Division 2 or 3 Program of NCAA):
Morningside (Sioux City, Iowa) 40 Marian (Indianapolis, Indiana) 38
Preview: Undefeated Morningside, Marian set to square off in 2019 NAIA Football Championship
Game News: Morningside Claims Back-to-Back NAIA Football Championships
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