The South Dakota Coyotes play in Norman on Saturday. The McNeese State Cowboys play in Stillwater on Saturday. Welcome to college football’s answer to the NFL exhibition season.
The Cowboys and Coyotes are members of the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision, which many call FCS. I don’t, because the world is overrun with indistinguishable acronyms. I stick with the old verbiage; Division I-AA.
I-AA schools give out a maximum of 63 scholarships, 22 fewer than Division I-A, and much of their funding comes from these unfair fights.
“Sometimes people forget that if the bigger schools don’t play some of the smaller schools, it’s hard for them to budget and make ends meet,” Mike Gundy said.