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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 5163459, member: 7894"] Results vary. Many teams that have moved up have had some measure of success. I'm not sure how to compare playing in completely irrelevant bowl games vs. deep runs in FCS playoffs. Liberty did get themselves into a major bowl recently...and got curb stomped. Marshall initially did fairly well in 1A/FBS/whatever. I can't remember if Randy Moss was still there when they moved up or if he was already gone. You had the Byron Leftwich years. But somewhere along the line they slipped into mediocrity (or worse) and have been up and down for a while now. There's more $ to be made in FBS, but it also costs more to try to compete at that level. There are a million bowl games, and most of them nobody cares about at all. I'm sure it's very complex weighing whether to move up or not, but I'm just not sure chasing the big prize is worth it for most schools. [/QUOTE]