Montana-Montana State Named Game of Year

FCS Game of the Week survey final results announced

May 29, 2007

Courtesy of CollegeSportingNews.com

 

College Sporting News is proud to announce the results of our 2007 NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Game of the Week Survey. We began the FCS survey by taking nominations from visitors to the College Sporting News website, and we asked all the schools / conferences / messageboards / fan websites to pass the word around so that we could get a well-rounded collection of games. After much fact-checking and verification we finalized the list of candidates and began the official voting. The voting ended on May 25.

 

The winning Game of the Year is "The Brawl of the Wild" featuring Montana at Montana State. This matchup was also selected as the 2003 and 2004 Game of the Year in our survey those years.

 


 

 

The 12 winning games were split between nine conference and three out of conference games featuring teams from six conferences. 18 teams in total were represented. Four teams from each of the Gateway Football, Great West Football and Southern Conferences were chosen, three from the Big Sky Conference, two from the Colonial Athletic Association and one from the Southland Conference.

 

Five teams were selected more than once. Appalachian State appears in three games and Cal Poly, Illinois State, North Dakota State and Northern Iowa appear twice.

 

Of note:

• Each of the Southern Conference games feature Appalachian State • Both of the Great West games feature Cal Poly • Both of the Gateway games feature different teams • Two of the out of conference games feature different teams from the Gateway and Great West and the remaining out of conference game features the only appearances by a Big Sky and Southland team • The top five Games of the Year feature different teams, each a conference game

 

Tens of thousands of verified, individual votes were cast on the website and the results are now final.

 

2007 FCS Game of the Week Winners

 

Week 1: Portland State @ McNeese State

Week 2: New Hampshire @ James Madison

Week 3: Northern Iowa @ South Dakota State Week 4: Appalachian State @ Wofford Week 5: Northern Iowa @ Illinois State Week 6: Youngstown State @ Southern Illinois Week 7: Cal Poly @ UC Davis Week 8: Georgia Southern @ Appalachian State Week 9: Appalachian State @ Furman Week 10: Illinois State @ North Dakota State Week 11: North Dakota State @ Cal Poly Week 12: Montana @ Montana State

 

GAME OF THE YEAR: Montana @ Montana State

 

 

DETAIL OF THE HIGH FIVE GAMES EACH WEEK:

(rank, pct. of vote, game)

 

Week 1

1. 19.07% Portland State @ McNeese State 2. 17.28% Cal Poly @ Texas State 3. 16.75% Delaware @ William & Mary 4. 16.33% Southern @ Florida A&M 5. 5.58% Holy Cross @ Massachusetts

 

Week 2

1. 28.41% New Hampshire @ James Madison

2. 16.86% Massachusetts @ Colgate

3. 14.67% UC Davis @ Portland State

4. 8.84% Furman @ Hofstra

5. 6.66% Hampton @ Howard

 

Week 3

1. 22.40% Northern Iowa @ South Dakota State 2. 18.23% Sam Houston State @ North Dakota State 3. 17.40% Illinois State @ Eastern Illinois 4. 5.42% Georgia Southern @ Coastal Carolina 5. 4.69% Lehigh @ Princeton

 

Week 4

1. 18.98% Appalachian State @ Wofford

2. 13.38% Delaware @ Towson

3. 10.27% Princeton @ Lafayette

4. 9.34% Massachusetts @ Maine

5. 6.85% Coastal Carolina @ James Madison

 

Week 5

1. 15.95% Northern Iowa @ Illinois State 2. 11.63% North Dakota State @ Western Illinois 3. 9.77% Wofford @ Furman 4. 9.47% Harvard @ Lehigh 5. 7.72% New Hampshire @ Richmond

 

Week 6

1. 17.92% Youngstown State @ Southern Illinois 2. 14.93% UC Davis @ North Dakota State 3. 11.02% Hampton @ Princeton 4. 9.99% Delaware @ New Hampshire 5. 6.59% Tennessee-Martin @ Jacksonville State

 

Week 7

1. 20.50% Cal Poly @ UC Davis

2. 19.67% Southern Illinois @ Northern Iowa 3. 6.91% Villanova @ Massachusetts 4. 6.73% Jackson State @ Southern 5. 5.59% Sam Houston State @ McNeese State

 

Week 8

1. 28.25% Georgia Southern @ Appalachian State 2. 16.49% South Carolina State @ Hampton 3. 8.04% Illinois State @ Youngstown State 4. 7.84% McNeese State @ Nicholls State 5. 3.51% Grambling @ Jackson State

 

Week 9

1. 28.32% Appalachian State @ Furman

2. 10.74% Youngstown State @ Northern Iowa 3. 9.51% Colgate @ Lafayette 4. 7.16% Richmond @ James Madison 5. 5.21% Montana @ Northern Arizona

 

Week 10

1. 16.94% Illinois State @ North Dakota State 2. 13.33% James Madison @ Delaware 3. 12.60% Portland State @ Montana 4. 6.20% Coastal Carolina @ Liberty 5. 5.58% Lehigh @ Colgate

 

Week 11

1. 19.63% North Dakota State @ Cal Poly

2. 11.09% New Hampshire @ Massachusetts

3. 10.89% Furman @ Georgia Southern

4. 6.82% Montana State @ Portland State

5. 4.88% Illinois State @ Southern Illinois

 

Week 12

1. 23.84% Montana @ Montana State

2. 18.16% Lafayette @ Lehigh

3. 5.47% Delaware @ Villanova

4. 4.23% Harvard @ Yale

5. 3.61% North Dakota State @ South Dakota State

 

GAME OF THE YEAR

1. 13.14% Montana @ Montana State

2. 12.12% Appalachian State @ Furman

3. 11.20% North Dakota State @ Cal Poly

4. 4.18% New Hampshire @ Massachusetts

5. 3.26% Northern Iowa @ Illinois State