FCS Football Talk
FCS Football Talk is a weekly FCS podcast, presented by HERO Sports and BetMGM. Senior FCS Analyst Sam Herder hosts the show throughout the year. During the season, FCS Football Central Senior Editor Zach McKinnell joins as a co-host. In the offseason, Sam brings on guests from all around the FCS for in-depth conversations.
Episodes
They discuss:
-Being a first-time head coach in the new era of college football
-UND's facilities and growth
-Early recruiting success
-Opting in and revenue-sharing
-The Dakotas' strength in the FCS and aiming for that standard
-Alerus Center
-2025 squad
-And more
They discuss:
-Transfer portal
-UIW additions
-USD and SDSU outlooks
-Sac State’s FBS push
-W&M joining the Patriot League
-Early preseason Top 5
-And more
They discuss:
-Leading the Harvard football program
-The Ivy League now sending its champ to the FCS playoffs
-Recruiting to the Ivy League
-Being protected from the transfer portal
-The Game
-Harvard's one captain tradition
-2025 outlook
-And more
-Offseason excitement
-Retaining top talent
-Making splash additions via the transfer portal
-Chasing an FCS championship
-QB competition
-UIW football's growth
-Being a young head coach
-Non-conference scheduling
-And more
-Helping build UTRGV football from scratch
-Assembling his staff
-Recruiting high schoolers and the transfer portal
-Benefits to UTRGV's location
-Community excitement and selling out season tickets
-Practicing last fall
-And more
-Reflecting on the 2024 football season
-National title chase
-Opting in to the House settlement
-Scholarship caps
-Brent Vigen
-Sac State's FBS move
-Realignment in the West
-College football landscape
-12-game FCS season
-And more
-The SoCon’s approach to the House settlement
-The vote to keep scholarship limits the same
-How many FCS schools could afford to go above 63 scholarships
-How many SoCon schools will opt in
-The SoCon keeping its in-conference transfer rule
-Governance changes in Division I
-And more
They discuss:
-Healy's FCS roots, from being a QB on Richmond's 2008 national championship team to an assistant coach at Chattanooga to being the HC at Austin Peay and now ETSU
-The differences and similarities between the G5 and FCS
-What attracted him to ETSU
-What he's learned as a younger head coach
-Positives and negatives he's learned from recruiting the transfer portal
-...
They discuss:
-Taking over as Idaho’s head coach
-Ford’s rise in the coaching profession
-Navigating the transfer portal
-Idaho fans’ thirst for more success
-A look at the 2025 squad
-And more
They discuss:
-NDSU’s championship run
-Not losing any players to the transfer portal after the title game
-Former Bison players on the coaching staff
-FCS changes while he was in the FBS from 2017-2023
-Ever-changing CFB landscape
-2025 QB competition
-And more
They discussed the new bracket format, the future site of the FCS championship game, Nashville, TV windows, the Ivy League joining the FCS playoffs, and more.
Discussion points include:
-What’s the vibe right now in Montana?
-This MSU squad's business-like attitude
-Brent Vigen staying
-Tommy Mellott’s play
-Defensive improvements
-Senior class of Montana natives
-Biggest cause for confidence and biggest cause for concern for MSU going up against NDSU
The podcast is ...
Discussion points include:
-Level of excitement after a 1-year Frisco hiatus
-Tim Polasek and the energy he’s brought
-Cam Miller’s play
-Brent Vigen's time at NDSU
-Will the game be back in Frisco
-Plus an unscripted segment about NDSU and the FBS
The podcast is presented by HERO Sports and BetMGM. Visit https://he...
The podcast is presented by HERO Sports and BetMGM. Visit https://herosports.com/ for FCS coverage and https://sports.betmgm.com/en/sports for online betting odds.
-The Ivy League in the playoffs
-Jason Eck leaving Idaho for New Mexico
-Gevani McCoy potentially transferring to UIW
-Semifinal matchups
The podcast is presented by HERO Sports and BetMGM. Visit https://herosports.com/ for FCS coverage and https://sports.betmgm.com/en/sports for online betting odds.
Friday, Dec. 13
8 p.m. CT on ESPN: #8 Idaho at #1 Montana State
Saturday, Dec. 14
11 a.m. CT on ESPN: #6 UIW at #3 SDSU
2 p.m. CT on ESPN+: #5 UC Davis at #4 South Dakota
2:30 p.m. CT on ABC: #7 Mercer at #2 NDSU
The podcast is presented by HERO Sports and BetMGM. Visit https://herosports.com/ for FCS coverage and https://sports.betmgm.com/e...
-Three Game Balls and A Flag from the first round of the playoffs
-The Top 3 finalists for the Walter Payton Award and Buck Buchanan Award
-Most intriguing second-round matchups
The podcast is presented by HERO Sports and BetMGM. Visit https://herosports.com/ for FCS coverage and https://sports.betmgm.com/en/sports for online betting odds.
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