CSN Log
August 27th, 2011, 06:20 PM
08-27-2011 07:19 PM
This much is certain: Big Sky Conference football coaches agree the league is likely the strongest its ever been.
“In my opinion, and I don’t mean to sound cliché or anything like that, but everybody talks about how the SEC is so tough — the toughest conference in the FBS — and I really believe the Big Sky Conference is the toughest conference in FCS football,” first-year Northern Colorado coach Earnest Collins Jr. said.
Four teams — Eastern Washington, Montana State, Montana and Sacramento State — begin the season ranked in The Sports Network/Fathead.com preseason Top 25, and a Big Sky team has played in the FCS championship game in each of the past three seasons. Eastern Washington, which is ranked No. 1 in the preseason, won last year after Montana was runner-up in 2008 and 2009.
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This much is certain: Big Sky Conference football coaches agree the league is likely the strongest its ever been.
“In my opinion, and I don’t mean to sound cliché or anything like that, but everybody talks about how the SEC is so tough — the toughest conference in the FBS — and I really believe the Big Sky Conference is the toughest conference in FCS football,” first-year Northern Colorado coach Earnest Collins Jr. said.
Four teams — Eastern Washington, Montana State, Montana and Sacramento State — begin the season ranked in The Sports Network/Fathead.com preseason Top 25, and a Big Sky team has played in the FCS championship game in each of the past three seasons. Eastern Washington, which is ranked No. 1 in the preseason, won last year after Montana was runner-up in 2008 and 2009.
Full story » (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/log/index.php/2011/08/27/is-the-big-sky-conference?blog=2#more7517)
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