NAU 24-45 UCD NOCO 49-33 IDA SAC 55-27 WEB
CP 9-28 UMT
IDST 14-48 MTST
NConf Record: 0-0 Overall: 22-24
vs. FCS: 0-0 Overall: 18-9
Best Performance: (#7) UC Davis 45, (#15) Northern Arizona 24 - QB Caden Pinnick goes 25/29 for 348 yards and 5 touchdowns and his defense adds 6 sacks as the Aggies easily win the Big Sky game of the week.
Worst Performance: Weber St. 27, Sacramento St. 55 - The Wildcats allow three 100-yard rushers and 7 rushing touchdowns in a loss that proves they just aren’t good this season.
Most Surprising Result: (#14) Idaho 33, Northern Colorado 49 - The supposedly solid Vandal defense allows 49 points to a team that was averaging 19 points-per-game coming in.
Southland
LAM 33-23 ETAMU
NWST 17-20 HCU
NConf Record: 0-0 Overall: 16-24
vs. FCS: 0-0 Overall: 10-10
Best Performance: (#17) Lamar 33, East Texas A&M 23 - Ronnie Hamrick puts up 7 tackles, 1.5 tackles-for-loss, 2 forced fumbles, and a fumble-return TD on the lateral-rooskie at the end to help the Cardinals improve to 5-1.
Worst Performance: Northwestern St. 17, Houston Christian 20 - The Demons lose their 18th. straight conference game (13 if you don’t count the forfeit losses from 2023).
Most Surprising Result: (none)
Missouri Valley
YSU 17-35 UND
SIU 17-45 NDSU
UNI 3-31 SDKST SDK 19-14 INST ILST 46-32 MUR
NConf Record: 0-0 Overall: 24-15
vs. FCS: 0-0 Overall: 22-6
Best Performance: (#1) North Dakota St. 45, (#8) Southern Illinois 17 - The Bison gain 540 yards on just 62 plays and score 38 consecutive points as they continue to look unbeatable.
Worst Performance: Murray St. 32, (#12) Illinois St. 46 - Not a bad loss by Racer standards, but still… they were never really in the game late, and it was their 15th. straight defeat.
Most Surprising Result: South Dakota 19, Indiana St. 14 - The Coyotes are technically over .500 for the first time this season, but suspect results like this aren’t making them look any less disappointing.
United
TARL 41-23 UTU ACU 30-13 UWG UCA 49-21 UNA
AP 20-34 EKU
NConf Record: 0-0 Overall: 16-18
vs. FCS: 0-0 Overall: 13-11
Best Performance: (#19) Abilene Christian 30, (#21) West Georgia 13 - The Wildcats hold UWG, who was averaging 204.5 yards-per-game on the ground, to just 35 rushing yards in a statement victory.
Worst Performance: North Alabama 21, Central Arkansas 49 - The Lions allow 42 consecutive points to a Bear team that hadn’t really looked any better than them coming in.
Most Surprising Result: Eastern Kentucky 34, (#13) Austin Peay 20 - The Colonels breathe life back into their season by getting 2 non-offensive touchdowns in the first half and by scoring 17 unanswered points to close the game.
Pioneer
DRAKE 19-16 USD DAY 41-10 VALPO PRESBY 31-25 BUT
MARIST 9-28 PENN STTHOM 57-13 DVDSN
MHEAD 14-21 STET
NConf Record: 0-1 Overall: 20-21
vs. FCS: 0-1 Overall: 8-19
Best Performance: (#23) Presbyterian 31, Butler 25 - The Blue Hose only lost total yardage by 3 (388-385) despite running barely half the number of plays that the Bulldogs did (82-44).
Worst Performance: Morehead St. 14, Stetson 21 - The Eagles start 0-3 in Pioneer play for the first time in 13 years.
Most Surprising Result: San Diego 16, Drake 19 - The preseason PFL favorites gave up a 55-yard field goal at the gun and have seemingly fallen out of the conference-title hunt before the middle of October.
Best Performance: Lafayette 62, Bucknell 24 - The Leopards get two 100-yard rushers (almost three) and 316 yards and 5 TDs passing from Dean DeNobile in a Pennsylvania massacre.
Worst Performance: Bucknell 24, Lafayette 62 - The Bison clearly couldn’t handle the pressure after their upset of Richmond put them in position to possibly challenge for a playoff spot.
Most Surprising Result: Lafayette 62, Bucknell 24 - 62 points is the most scored by either team in the history of this series (103 games!), and the 38-point margin is the series’s largest since 1994.
Ivy League
MARIST 9-28 PENN LEH 31-7 COLUM
YALE 16-17 DART
COR 10-34 HARV BROWN 29-19 BRY MER 38-14 PRINCE
NConf Record: 2-2 Overall: 12-8
vs. FCS: 2-2 Overall: 12-8
Best Performance: Dartmouth 17, Yale 16 - Big Green K Owen Zalc hit a game-winning 51-yard field goal at the end after going 0/2 for the game prior to that.
Worst Performance: Princeton 14, (#22) Mercer 38 - The Tigers endure their most lopsided home loss since 2019.
Best Performance: Duquesne 52, St. Francis (PA) 7 - The Dukes scored 52 points on just 323 total yards thanks to 2 non-offensive touchdowns and an average starting field position of their own 45-yard line.
Worst Performance: St. Francis (PA) 7, Duquesne 52 - The Red Flash seems ready for DIII as they’ve been outscored 152-47 by FCS competition thus far.
Most Surprising Result: (none)
CAA
MAINE 20-13 MERR
UNH 27-38 URI BROWN 29-19 BRY MONM 42-31 TOW CAMP 38-21 HAMP SCSU 22-16 NCAT NOVA 29-21 ELON
NConf Record: 1-2 Overall: 21-32
vs. FCS: 1-2 Overall: 18-17
Best Performance: (#18) Villanova 29, Elon 21 - WR Luke Colella grabbed 10 balls for 125 yards and 2 TDs that kicked off a 26-7 second half for the Wildcats.
Worst Performance: Hampton 21, Campbell 38 - The Pirates lose rushing 301-76 and suffer their 7th. straight CAA defeat.
Most Surprising Result: Maine 20, Merrimack 13 - The Black Bears have now won 3 in a row after they started 0-4.
Best Performance: Gardner-Webb 21, Eastern Illinois 10 - The Bulldog defense dominates with 15 tackles-for-loss and 8 sacks.
Worst Performance: Tennessee St. 12, Southeast Missouri St. 28 - The Tigers lost their 5th. in a row after their passers combined to go 18/41 for 225 yards and 2 interceptions.
Most Surprising Result: Charleston Southern 13, (#10) Tennessee Tech 27 - The Bucs seem primed to end their long conference losing skid soon after they nearly upset Gardner-Webb and gave Tennessee Tech easily their closest game of the season.
SoCon
FUR 7-52 WCU
NFOLK 14-31 WOFF
vald 14-38 CIT MER 38-14 PRINCE
VMI 10-45 ETSU
NConf Record: 3-0 Overall: 9-20
vs. FCS: 2-0 Overall: 7-14
Best Performance: Western Carolina 52, Furman 7 - The Catamounts are 4-0 this season with Taron Dickens in the lineup at quarterback. In those victories, he’s completed 79% of his passes for 1607 yards (401.75 ypg) with 17 TD passes and 0 INTs.
Worst Performance: VMI 10, East Tennessee St. 45 - The Keydets lose total yardage 509-82 as their defeats keep getting uglier & uglier.
Most Surprising Result: Furman 7, Western Carolina 52 - This was the most lopsided game in the history of this series, and it was Furman’s most lopsided FCS loss in 11 years.
Best Performance: Jackson St. 38, Alabama St. 34 - The battle of the best two teams in the SWAC went to the Tigers after an 18-yard touchdown pass from JaCobian Morgan to Nate Rembert with 50 seconds left, one of 5 TD passes for Morgan on the day.
Worst Performance: Southern 14, Bethune-Cookman 45 - DE Ckelby Givens had 3 tackles-for-loss, but that wasn’t nearly enough to prevent an embarrassing defeat for the Jags.
Most Surprising Result: Florida A&M 7, NC Central 45 - The Rattlers suffer their most lopsided loss to a MEAC opponent since a 59-7 loss to Hampton in 2006, a full 15 years before they left the league.
Independents
MAINE 20-13 MERR
HOW 14-32 SACHRT
Non-Ind. Record: 1-1 Overall: 8-6
vs. FCS: 1-1 Overall: 7-4
Best Performance: Sacred Heart 32, Howard 14 - Pioneer RB Mitchell Summers garnered STATS Perform Freshman Player of the Week honors after rushing for 243 yards and 2 TDs.
Worst Performance: Merrimack 13, Maine 20 - Frequent mistakes cost the Warriors as they missed 2 field goals on the game and turned it over twice in their last 3 drives.
Most Surprising Result: Merrimack 13, Maine 20 - Merrimack has alternated wins & losses so far this season, so they’re absolutely 100% guaranteed to knock off Harvard this coming week.
Mvemjsunpx wrote: ↑Sun Oct 12, 2025 8:23 pm
Worst Performance: Northwestern St. 17, Houston Christian 20 - The Demons lose their 18th. straight conference game (13 if you don’t count the forfeit losses from 2023).
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Mvemjsunpx wrote: ↑Sun Oct 12, 2025 8:23 pm
Worst Performance: Northwestern St. 17, Houston Christian 20 - The Demons lose their 18th. straight conference game (13 if you don’t count the forfeit losses from 2023).
