The Kennesaw State Owls have added the Lincoln (CA) Oaklanders to their 2023 football schedule, according to an announcement from Lincoln University.
Kennesaw State will host Lincoln at Fifth Third Bank Stadium in Kennesaw, Ga., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. The contest will mark the first-ever meeting between the two schools on the gridiron.
We’ll be taking our talents to Cobb County this season as we take on Kennesaw State.#TownBiz pic.twitter.com/RlR4c5rql1
— Lincoln University Football (@oaksfb) March 3, 2023
Lincoln University is a private university located in Oakland, Calif. The Oaklanders started their football program in 2021 and are reportedly aiming for NCAA Division II classification. To date, Lincoln has played every game on the road.
Lincoln is the third lower division opponent scheduled for Kennesaw State in 2023. The Owls will also host the Tusculum Pioneers, who are members of the South Atlantic Conference in Division II, and the Virginia-Lynchburg Dragons, members of the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).
Kennesaw State currently competes in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), but is transitioning to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and will compete in Conference USA beginning with the 2024 season. The Owls were a member of the ASUN Conference in the FCS, but were not included in the new ASUN-WAC partnership for the 2023 season.
As a result of their transition to the FBS, Kennesaw State is ineligible for post-season play and will compete as an FCS Independent in 2023.
Kennesaw State now has a total of nine games scheduled for next season. The Owls will host Tusculum, Furman, Tennessee State, Lincoln (CA), and Virginia-Lynchburg and will travel to Chattanooga, Tennessee Tech, Charleston Southern, and Sam Houston.
Future Kennesaw State Football Schedules
You might as well create a page with Lincoln’s schedule, because they seem to be playing all FCS opponents.
Wasn’t there a story about a HS start up team in Ohio who pulled the wool over people’s eyes. They played big brand teams with a lot of travel until finally being exposed as a fraud. Where is the money coming from to support this private University in Oakland, CA? Nothing good happens in Oakland.
That was Bishop Sycamore.
Unlike them, Lincoln appears to be a real university, having existed for over 100 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_University_(California)
You hit the nail on the head…….Lincoln isn’t even as good as an average high school team……calling them a D-2 school is an insult. Same goes to Virginia Lynchburg,the NCAA shouldn’t allow these schools to play NCAA members
Who called either of them a D2 school?
Kennesaw is becoming Desperation State. They really didn’t plan their transition to C-USA well: and we don’t see any of the C-USA schools helping them out by sharing scheduling send making opponent trade deals!
I get that Kennesaw State is going independent because of their upcoming move to Conference USA in 2024, but, wow this schedule isn’t exactly impressive.
Creighton Rabs,
Sam Houston State Bearkats, Jacksonville State Gamecocks had similar “Limbo schedules” in 2022.
IMO,
UGA Bulldogs Shadow is very to hard escape.
Except myself & graduates of Georgia’s 2 SBC Conference college Teams & 1 Southern Conference college Team Kennesaw S U exists in the dark, like the marine creatures in the deepest trenches of the Ocean.