FCS championship game set following huge comeback by Sam Houston State
Sam Houston State has reached the FCS championship game for the first time since 2012.
The Bearkats trailed 24-3, and later 27-10, but rattled off four straight touchdowns in about a five-minute stretch to beat James Madison, 38-35 on Saturday. Sam Houston will meet South Dakota State next Sunday in a championship meeting of the top two seeds in the FCS playoff.
QB Eric Schmid had a passing touchdown and two rushing touchdowns in the victory, while Jequez Ezzard added a punt return for a touchdown and and a receiving touchdown along with 107 receiving yards.
Next week’s championship game will be in Frisco, Texas.
Earlier in the day in South Dakota, Mark Gronowski passed for two touchdowns and caught a 24-yard TD pass from Pierre Strong Jr. as No. 1 seed South Dakota State beat Delaware 33-3 in the other FCS semifinal.
This will be the second time Sam Houston faces a team from the Dakotas. Last week, the Bearkats knocked off North Dakota State, as it was the first time the Bison did not reach at least the semifinals since the 2010 season.
Joseph Wallace with a HUGE sack on 3rd down!! #EatEmUpKats
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📺 https://t.co/kQ3jJt3Cwc pic.twitter.com/lC1ZSiYL3h— Sam Houston Football (@BearkatsFB) May 8, 2021
Schmid takes it 20 yards for a BEARKAT TOUCHDOWN!!
KATS LEAD!#EatEmUpKats
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📺 https://t.co/kQ3jJt3Cwc pic.twitter.com/AudLXVEHBX— Sam Houston Football (@BearkatsFB) May 8, 2021
The Bearkats knocked off North Dakota State…that’s the team that recently moved past Florida into 26th on the all time football wins list isn’t it?
That would be correct while Georgia currently sits 1 game behind Princeton on the list.
So what you’re saying is we closed the gap, That’s AwESOME! We were 8 games behind them before last year…
I hope North Dakota State stays FCS as they have said they would. They will be joined over the next few years by many current DI schools as the money begins to peel off the lower tiers and the next realignment begins into a type of supper league of the upper tier P5s.
Supper League. Now you’re making me hungry.
Sam Houston St. should play one home game in the state of Tennessee every. Sam Houston was the governor of Tennessee before he moved to Texas.
Of course, looking at the 5,000 license plates in Nashville, maybe, they should just move the whole university here.
But, if they relocate SHU, they will have to move UCLA and USC here as well, as a dozen people a day move from SoCal to Nashville.