I'm no Hlastradamus, but I sense an Iowa football victory over Tennessee Tech on the horizon

Here are four scores of games pitting FBS and FCS teams in the 2010 college football season:

James Madison 21, Virginia Tech 16

Jacksonville State 49, Mississippi State 48 (2 OT)

South Dakota 41, Minnesota 38

North Dakota State 6, Kansas 3

Here are eight more:

Wisconsin 70, Austin Peay 3

Tennessee 50, Tennessee-Martin 0

Georgia 55, Idaho State 7

Indiana 51, Towson 17

Florida State 59, Samford 6

Maryland 62, Morgan State 3

Oregon 69, Portland State 0

TCU 62, Tennessee Tech 7

That Tennessee Tech is the same Tennessee Tech that will play at Iowa in the 2011 season-opener for both, on Sept. 3. The Golden Eagles met another FBS team last year in Arkansas, and lost, 44-3.

It is why the TTU-UI game is officially being known (at the Hlog) as the Paycheck Bowl. Randy Fordice has won last week's contest to name the game, and will get an America Needs Farmers T-shirt for his simple, yet eloquent submision. Thanks to all who entered. There were some excellent offerings. I have another such T-shirt to put up for a contest as the season proceeds. I wish I had one for all of you. I'm not sure who would pay the postage, but why let that intrude on a happy scenario?

Eastern Illinois (FCS) got $400,000 for its 2010 game at Kinnick Stadium.  Arkansas State (FBS, in a fairly loose sense) received $900,000 for its game at Iowa in 2009. Louisiana-Monroe (FBS, in the loosest sense) will get $1.05 million for its game at Iowa on Sept. 24. I know, I know. ULM-Iowa should be the Paycheck Game. Maybe it will be the Brink's Truck Game.

Iowa makes big bucks off these home dates, too, obviously. Not to mention the wins that pads the record and helps its postseason payout. Paycheck Bowl, indeed.

The four scores I listed at the start of this post are for those who say, hey, FCS teams spring upsets. Yes, they win several games a year out of the several dozen against FBS clubs. But most games are beatdowns like the eight other scores I submitted.

The Big Ten, no thanks to Minnesota, went 9-1 vs. the FCS last year, outscoring that division by a total of 430-153, or an average of four touchdowns per game even with the Gophers' loss. That's sporting?

Let's lock in on Tennessee Tech. This is a program that hasn't earned as much as a piece of the Ohio Valley Conference championship in football since 1975. It has, however, been good at collecting paychecks from bigger programs.

Since 1984, the Golden Eagles are 0-25 against FBS (formerly Division I-A) squads. The closest of the 25 losses was a 21-7 decision to South Florida in 2004 when USF was a newbie to I-A. The total score in those 25 games are Opponents 1,057, TTU 199. Average score: Bigger Boys 42, Tennessee Tech 8. Not once -- not once! -- in those 25 games have the Golden Eagles topped 17 points.

9/11/10   at TCU  7-62

9/4/10    at Arkansas  3-44

11/7/09   at Georgia  0-38

9/26/09  at Kansas State  7-49

9/20/08  at Western Michigan  7-41

9/6/08     at Louisville  10-51

11/3/07    at Auburn  3-35

9/14/06   at Middle Tenn. State  0-44

9/17/05   at Northern Illinois  3-42

9/11/04   at South Florida  7-21

9/6/03    at Northern Illinois  17-42

8/30/03  at Memphis  10-40

9/7/02     at Iowa State  6-58

8/29/02  at Bowling Green  7-41

9/8/01     at Air Force  0-42

9/16/00   at Ohio  14-52

9/11/99    at Bowling Green  15-40

9/19/98   at UAB  6-38

11/15/97  at UAB  14-38

9/14/91  at Ohio  14-35

9/3/88   at East Carolina  13-52

10/31/87 at Cincinnati  17-38

9/6/86    at Tulsa  0-51

9/7/85    at UNLV  7-35

9/15/84  at Kansas State  12-28

Coaches, players and media will all pretend the Golden Eagles-Hawkeyes (or "Armagridiron: Rapture of the Raptors," as Hlog contest-entrant Seth Talbot offered in a brilliant attempt to steal the ANF T-shirt with humorously wild exaggeration) game means something. They'll do likewise the same day at Indiana State-Penn State, Chattanooga-Nebraska, and the other FBS-FCS mismatches across the nation.

One of every 10 or 15 FCS teams will upset an underachieving FBS club, and some will say "See, it can happen to anyone." So can a root canal. That doesn't mean we want or need more of them.

By the way, none of this applies to Northern Iowa. I don't think any FCS team in the nation has had as much success against FBS squads over the years as the Panthers. UNI is at Iowa State the night of Sept. 3. The Cyclones beat UNI 27-0 last year, though the Panthers outgained ISU by 110 yards. This year, the score is almost sure to be closer.