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Youngstown State vs. James Madison

YSU JMU Points per game28.548.0 Opp. points19.421.7 Rushing avg.257.5284.6 Passing


Carl Pelini’s defense critical in Penguins’ playoff run

This is the second stint together for Carl and Bo Pelini.


Coaches, players recall YSU’s 1997 title run

Ken Conatser remembers punching through a blackboard to make a point at halftime.


Morse scores 1,000th point in YSU loss

The Penguins fell, 83-70.


Cold spell costly for YSU women

The Penguins fell 71-58 at Wright State.


TRESSEL RECALLS YSU's GLORY OF ’90s

When the Youngstown State football team returned to the city after its national championship win in 1991, Jim Tressel, the team’s coach, remembers 10,000 people greeting the team at the airport in Vienna. “I never saw anything like it before,” Tressel said. “And I never saw anything like it after. ... That reaction was something special.”

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YSU’s Rivers, Moss a dynamic duo

The pair of ends has combined for 103 tackles and 28.5 sacks.


Fans give YSU team raucous send-off to Frisco

More than 100 Youngstown State University football fans gave their team a raucous send-off Wednesday at a rally before the players boarded buses that would take them to their plane at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna. The Penguins play James Madison University Saturday in Frisco, Texas, for the FCS National Championship.


Penguins trying to maintain approach

YSU and James Madison will meet in the FCS title game Saturday.


YSU men set to hit the road against Horizon foes

YSU visits Northern Kentucky and Wright State this week.


GROVE: Change has been just fine for YSU

Davis and Wells are a good example


FCS coaches talk title game

Bo Pelini and Mike Houston direct the two hottest teams in the FCS.


Double bonus

YSU wins thrilling Horizon opener


PLAYING FOR KEEPS

Youngstown State football team returns to practice as title game looms


YSU men’s team ready for Horizon games

Milwaukee and Green Bay will visit