Wow! What a schedule for NIU!

Budget cuts drove Northern Illinois to add Florida State to schedule | CollegeFootballTalk

FSU, BYU and Iowa on the road and Utah at home. 4 OOC games vs. Power 5 teams in ONE YEAR!

INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I graduated from a "small" school who plays FCS football in NC (Western Carolina University).  Budgets at that level necessitate playing out of your league both literally and figuratively.  Over the past 4 or 5 years they have played quite a few SEC schools including multiple games against Alabama and Auburn to go along with playing in a pretty high-level FCS conference (Southern).  The year that stands out for me was 2015 when they played both Tennessee and Texas A&M.  That is a tall order for an FCS school, but paid a lot of bills and funded a fair amount of scholarships.

owlsdad said

I graduated from a "small" school who plays FCS football in NC (Western Carolina University).  Budgets at that level necessitate playing out of your league both literally and figuratively.  Over the past 4 or 5 years they have played quite a few SEC schools including multiple games against Alabama and Auburn to go along with playing in a pretty high-level FCS conference (Southern).  The year that stands out for me was 2015 when they played both Tennessee and Texas A&M.  That is a tall order for an FCS school, but paid a lot of bills and funded a fair amount of scholarships.

Posted On: Apr 18th 2017, 3:38 PM #368381

Nice school, my daughter graduated from Brevard College and played softball there and another daughter had a HS Marching band competition at WCU! Nice little stadium too!