Perhaps the most obvious mismatch of the
college football weekend pits the sixth-ranked Wisconsin Badgers against the
South Dakota Coyotes of the FCS.

How much parity is too much for CAA Football?
That's the question being asked after another Saturday of action muddied the
situation even more.

Surprise teams are always fun in the
Football Championship Subdivision, but when the conference races get serious,
few remain contenders and instead fall off as pretenders.

Cookeville, TN (Sports Network) - Maybe eight isn't enough for Central
Arkansas.


The Bears won their eighth ...

Montee Ball ran for four touchdowns and Russell
Wilson threw for a pair of scores, as the 15th-ranked Wisconsin Badgers
overwhelmed No. 20 Penn State, 45-7, to clinch the Big Ten Leaders Division
title on Saturday.

Rhode Island football will open its 2011
season at Big East opponent Syracuse and play ... home games at Meade Stadium.

First Eastern Kentucky pulled off the
great escape, then it made waves on Selection Sunday.

University of Wisconsin center Peter Konz has
decided to skip his senior season and will enter the NFL Draft.

Temple University will make its football
return to the Big East next season and will join the conference in all other
sports in 2013.

James Madison University has long been
considered a candidate to move its football program from the FCS to FBS level.

It can be easy to overlook teams from some
of the smaller FCS conferences on a national level.

The Sports Network FCS Top 25 on Monday
was as much about who wasn't in the rankings as it was who was in.

Take a close look at The Sports Network
FCS Top 25 because it should be quite different next week.

It's only Week 3 of the 2012 season and
while there's a long way to go, one conference, the Missouri Valley, has
certainly made a case for being the top dog conference to date.

Geno Smith threw for 411 yards and five
touchdowns on 34-of-39 passing and Stedman Bailey caught 13 passes for 173
yards and three touchdowns as ninth-ranked West Virginia dismantled James
Madison, 42-12, on Saturday.