Happy Friday, and welcome to my very first links post, friends!
Dave Matter, of St. Louis Post-Dispatch fame, had a wonderfully titled post, To FCS or Not FCS (among other words, but this is my favorite part), which examines everyone’s favorite topic (aside from the weekly costume reveal, and that will come later on today, y’all) — whether or not big bad schools like ours in Power-5 Land should be playing smaller, clearly not as strong talent-wise schools in the FCS.
Despite how big of a blowout most of us expect this game to be (check out the hefty score projection by one of our hosts on the new Before the Box Score), SEMO coach Tom Matukewicz and Barry Odom seem to have a great relationship that extends back to Odom’s time at Memphis when they used to spend summers having Xs and Os meetings with Matukewicz and his staff.