Nebraska is in the FBS, Bo Pelini

Lots of people get FBS and FCS mixed up, including college football coaches. That's OK.

#SummerOfBo continues:

"FBS, FCS I couldnt tell you which one we are." -Bo Pelini in preparing for McNeese St. #Huskers

— Jake Bockoven (@jakebockoven) September 1, 2014

"FCS" refers to the second level of college football, the former Division I-AA and current Football Championship Subdivision. "FBS" is the one with the SEC and Big 12 and Mountain West and so forth.

Teams from the two levels play each other, when FBS teams want easy wins and FCS teams want money. (Sometimes the FCS teams get both, though.) Nobody really likes that, since it usually means blowouts. Nebraska's Big Ten Conference is considering a rule against its teams playing FCS opponents, in fact.

When asked about that debate:

"Prefer not to have to deal with that." - Bo Pelini on scheduling FCS opponents, while respecting McNeese St. #Huskers

— Jake Bockoven (@jakebockoven) September 1, 2014

Pelini's confusion is a frequent one, though. You hear even the smartest college football observers say things like, "power-conference teams shouldn't ever play FBS opponents." The easy way to remember which is which is to recall the "B" in "FBS" stands for "bowl," and thus FCS is the subdivision that's too smart to fool with bowl games.

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