RFC Scoreboard--Championship Weekend

The national championship match-up in the FCS is set, while it was a championship weekend for NCAA Division II, Division III, and the NAIA.  Read below for a recap of all the action from the final weekend of games before Christmas.

FCS Playoffs--Semifinals

Sam Houston State holds off Montana (Houston Chronicle) 

Bonus coverage (Billings [Mont.] Gazette) 

NCAA Division II Championship 

Pittsburg State wins second title (Joplin [Mo.] Globe)

Bonus coverage (Pittsburg [Kan.] Morning Sun)

Bonus coverage (Detroit News)

NCAA Division III Championship (Stagg Bowl XXXIX)


Wisconsin-Whitewater three-peats (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Bonus coverage

Cleveland Plain Dealer 

Pierce County (Wis.) Herald


Wisconsin Radio Network

NAIA Championship

St. Xavier wins first-ever title (Chicago Sun-Times/Plainfield [Ill.] Herald-News)

Bonus coverage (Chicago Tribune)

Even more bonus coverage

Coosa Valley (Ga.) News

Oak Forest (Ill.) Patch 

Tinley Park (lll.) Southtown Star 

THE LIGHTNING ROUND--WEEK 16

Last Week: 8-1 (.889)
This Year: 551-262 (.678)

FCS Playoffs--Semifinals

Friday, December 16

Montana (11-2) at Sam Houston State (13-0)

Saturday, December 17

Georgia Southern (11-2) at North Dakota State (12-1)

NCAA Division II Championship Game--at Florence, Ala.

Saturday, December 17

Wayne State (Mich.)--(12-3) vs. Pittsburg State (Kan.)--(12-1) 

NCAA Division III Championship Game ("aka" Stagg Bowl XXXIX)--at Salem, Va.)

Friday, December 16

Mount Union (14-0) vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater (14-0)

NAIA Championship Game--at Rome, Ga.

St. Xavier (13-1) vs. Carroll (Mont.)--(13-1)  

RFC Scoreboard--Getting Closer To A Championship

FCS Playoffs--Quarterfinals

Montana crushes Northern Iowa (The Missoulian [Missoula, Mont.])

Sam Houston State stomps Montana State (Houston Chronicle)

Georgia Southern outlasts Maine (Savannah [Ga.] Morning News)

North Dakota State blanks Lehigh (Bismarck [N.D.] Tribune) 


Updated bracket (NCAA.com)


NCAA Division II Playoffs--Semifinals

Pittsburg State pounds Delta State (Wichita [Kan.] Eagle/KansasCity.com)

Wayne State (Mich.) stuns Winston-Salem State (Detroit Free Press)

Updated bracket (NCAA.com)


NCAA Division III Playoffs--Semifinals

Wisconsin-Whitewater rolls past St. Thomas (Associated Press/St. Cloud [Minn.] Times)


Bonus coverage (Canton [Ohio] Repository)


Mount Union holds off Wesley (Akron [Ohio] Beacon-Journal)

Updated bracket (NCAA.com)


Bonus Coverage

Grambling State edges Alabama State for SWAC title (Associated Press/ESPN.com)



 



 

THE LIGHTNING ROUND--WEEK 15

Last Week: 15-2 (.882)
This Year: 543-261 (.675)


Key: Projected winners are marked in RED.

FCS Playoffs--Quarterfinals

Bracket 

Friday, December 9


Northern Iowa (10-2) at Montana (10-2)

Saturday, December 10

Montana State (10-2) at Sam Houston State (12-0) 

Maine (9-3) at Georgia Southern (10-2)

Lehigh (11-1) at North Dakota State (11-1)

NCAA Division II Playoffs--Semifinals

Bracket 

Saturday, December 10

Delta State (11-2) at Pittsburg State (11-1)   

Wayne State (Mich.)--(11-3) at Winston-Salem State (13-0) 

NCAA Division III Playoffs--Semifinals 

Bracket 

Saturday, December 10

St. Thomas (13-0) at Wisconsin-Whitewater (13-0) 

Wesley (12-1) at Mount Union (13-0) 

Other Games 

SWAC Championship--at Birmingham, Ala.

Grambling State (7-4) vs. Alabama A&M (8-3)




 

RFC Scoreboard--Deep Into December

Editor's Note: It happened for the second straight week.  Saturday's (12/03/2011) second round NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoff game between Central Arkansas and Montana was inadvertently left off "THE LIGHTNING ROUND" prediction list. RFC regrets the error. Montana defeated UCA, 41-14. And now, on to this week's RFC scoreboard.


FCS Playoffs--Second Round

Georgia Southern wins shootout over Old Dominion (Access North Georgia)


Lehigh spoils Towson playoff debut (Lehigh Valley Live)


Missed extra point costs New Hampshire (SeaCoastOnline.com)


Sam Houston State gets by Stony Brook (Houston Chronicle)

Bonus coverage (Video courtesy of Stony Brook University Sports Information)


FCS playoffs interactive bracket (NCAA.com)


NCAA Division II Playoffs--Quarterfinals

Wayne State (Mich.) dethrones Minnesota-Duluth (Detroit Free Press)

Winston-Salem State advances to semis (Winston-Salem [N.C.] Journal)


Pittsburg State pounds Northwest Missouri State (Pittsburg [Kan.] Morning Sun)


Delta State rallies to beat North Greenville (Jackson [Miss.] Clarion-Ledger)


NCAA Division II playoffs interactive bracket (NCAA.com)


NCAA Division III Playoffs--Quarterfinals

Wisconsin-Whitewater downs Salisbury (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)


St. Thomas stomps St. John Fisher (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)


Bonus Coverage (St. Paul Pioneer-Press)


Wesley stuns Mary Hardin-Baylor (Wilmington [Del.] News-Journal)


Mount Union outlasts Wabash (Akron [Ohio] Beacon-Journal)

NCAA Division III playoffs interactive bracket (NCAA.com)


NAIA Playoffs--Semifinals

Recap (courtesy of NAIA Sports Information)