Fifteen of the 16 new head coaches in the
Football Championship will debut this week.

New Elon Phoenix football coach Jason Swepson
continued to build his staff on Tuesday by announcing the addition of three
coaches to the three he has retained.

For Appalachian State, the path to a seventh
straight Southern Conference Championship has been set.

The FCS prospects at Saturday's Senior
Bowl should hope to perform as well as others did in college football all-star
showcases this past week.

Former University of Delaware assistant head coach
and linebackers coach Brad Sherrod was named Elon University's new defensive
coordinator on Tuesday.

There's a sense of opportunity in Southern
Conference football this season.

It was an offensive explosion in Norfolk,
Va., this past Saturday, as The Citadel's Ben Dupree gave Old Dominion all it
could handle by accouting for 36 of the Bulldogs' 58 points in a 59-58 loss.

Who's in the race to finish second to
North Dakota State in the FCS again this season? You might need a long list.

The 14th-ranked Miami Hurricanes open
up ACC play as they host the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in a key ACC Coastal
Division showdown at Sun Life Stadium.

It was just over three weeks ago that
Furman was clearing the cobwebs from the 50 points that then-No. 1 Appalachian
State rung up on it.

The prototypical receiver has changed in
the last decade with wide receivers taking on tight end height and tight ends
taking on wide receiver speed.

Respect for the FCS level appears to be
growing on the NFL level.

Elon University announced on Thursday it will leave
the Southern Conference to join the Colonial Athletic Association in all sports
for the 2014-15 school year.

Stellar early season play has led to the
addition of quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo of Eastern Illinois and Wynrick
Smothers of Central Arkansas, and running back Zach Zenner of South Dakota
State to the 2012 Walter Payton Award Watch List.