First spread I've seen is NDST -9.5.

None this year according to wikipedia. They've got a list of all FCS over FBS wins.

Last time it happened was in 2019, Central Arkansas beat Western Kentucky, which went 9-4 and played in a bowl. Also happened once in 2018 and 2017. In 2016 though, 5 FCS team beat FBS teams that went to bowls. That appears to be an outlier though.

So it happens, but it's still fairly rare. Most of the FCS over FBS upsets involve FBS teams that end the year with 3 or fewer wins.

Random little fun fact:

Starting in 2010, Montana State has been in the playoffs 7 times, including this year. Of their six losses, three were to NDST (10, 18, 19), two were to Sam Houston St (11, 12) and one was to SDST (14). They've knocked off two of those teams already and get to face the third in the final.

I'd also recommend repeating what they did defensively this year against Sam Houston and SDST (19 points and 17 points) rather than what they did in the six previous playoff losses (34+ points allowed in all six games, 40+ in five of the six games) if they want to win in three weeks.

Also, good to see another Big Sky team make the final. Only the second time since EW won it in 2010 (EW in 2018).

That was a good game.

Totally agree on the outside hire part. It was absolutely necessary in this case.

North Dakota St -4.5 over JMU
South Dakota St -4.5 over Montana St.

Hopefully the games are as close as the spreads are.

South Dakota State is going to get the chance to eliminate three Big Sky teams if this result holds. Nice to see at least one of the teams make the semis.

Glad to finally see some actual ESPN games rather than ESPN+. Unfortunately, one of the two on ESPN2 is the North Dakota St game which is likely to be the worst game of the weekend.

Montana-JMU on Friday at 4 though.

JMU -6.5 over Montana
SDST -7.5 over Villanova
Sam Houston -5.5 over Montana St
NDSt -23.5 over East Tennessee

And there goes my cover. Ugh.

It was 24-3 at halfitme. This is the first time they've had the ball in the Sac St half in the 2nd half and it's because of an onside kick.

Only my SDSt -6 wager. Heck of a second half effort from Sac though. It looked like this was well on the way to being a 30 point blowout and yet they've still got an outside shot midway through the 4th.

Sac still hanging around. Only down 14 and getting the ball.

Though having a punt downed at the 2 doesn't help them much.

The margin of victory is definitely surprising but Sac was the underdog today. A couple years ago was actually an upset.

That first drive seemed pretty easy for SDSt. I didn't watch last week but I imagine that's what almost all their drives against us looked like.

I was thinking it might be rare for that to happen but in 2018 the 8 seeded teams all won their first game. 7 of 8 won their first game in 2014.

They came a foot short of having a chance to tie (or win with a 2 point conversion) with less than 10 seconds left.

For those who care about such things, the Sac line got bet down to SDSt -6 so lot of people betting on Sac.

That will definitely do it.

57 points on only 368 yards. How the heck does that happen?

That's one nice thing about playing in a one bid league. These games basically don't matter. I mean, you don't want to put up an 0fer or anything like that, but you've got the ability to try things out and give a bunch of players minutes to see what they can do.