The Hartford Courant reported that the school will introduce Williams as the new coach in a 2:00 p.m. press conference on Wednesday. He will be the second black football coach in Ivy League history.

Williams, 38, has spent the past two seasons with the Jaguars defense and has also been an assistant coach at Hawaii, Washington, Stanford and San Jose State.

Ambrose spent nine seasons as an assistant at Towson and for the past seven years had been an assistant at Connecticut.

The 1993 Towson graduate becomes the fourth coach in the 40-year history of the program.

Huesman, a Chattanooga alum, has over 25 years of college coaching experience, most recently as defensive coordinator of Richmond the past five seasons. Richmond took home the FCS title last weekend thanks to Huesman's defense allowing a mere 39 yards on the ground in a 24-7 victory over Montana.

Huesman takes over as head coach for Rodney Allison, whose contract was not renewed following a horrid 1-11 campaign.

The Spiders, who beat Montana 24-7 in the NCAA Division I Football Championship game at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, received all 80 first- place votes and 2,000 points.

Richmond had previously been ranked No. 1 for the week of Sept. 22 after James Madison defeated previously top-ranked Appalachian State. But the Spiders lost the following weekend to Villanova to fall from the top spot.

The Spiders (13-3) jumped on Montana (14-2) with a 23-yard pass from fullback John Crone to quarterback Eric Ward in the first quarter, on the way to a 21-0 halftime lead.

From there, Richmond turned its pass rush loose on Montana quarterback Cole Bergquist to finish off its first national championship.

Eric Ward completed 12-of-18 passes for 96 yards with a touchdown and also caught a scoring pass on a gadget play in the opening quarter for the Spiders (13-3).

Richmond's first-year coach Mike London, a standout defensive back with the Spiders from 1979-82, saw his team take control of the game on the defensive end with seven sacks.

The 45-year-old Peveto will complete his duties as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at LSU when the Tigers play Georgia Tech in the Chick- Fil-A Bowl in Atlanta on New Year's Eve.

Peveto was defensive coordinator for the Demons under the school's winningest head coach, Sam Goodwin, from 1996-98.

The Payton Award, named for the legendary Jackson State and Chicago Bears running back, is presented annually to the top player in FCS.

"It's a great accomplishment and a great feeling," Edwards said. "I always congratulate my team, because without them, I wouldn't (even) be a finalist." The 6-foot-tall, 184-pound junior signal-caller rushed for 941 yards and 11 touchdowns, while completing 64 percent of his passes for 2,902 yards and 30 touchdowns.

The Buchanan Award, named for the legendary Grambling and Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle, is presented annually to the top defensive player in FCS.

"Coming in as a freshman, you see the award and you think about it," said Peach.

Matthews is the first two-time winner of the Robinson Award, which is presented annually to the top coach in FCS.

Matthews also won the Robinson Award in 1999, his first season at James Madison.

The rainy weather that has blanketed Chattanooga for several days did little to dampen the Grizzlies' excitement.

"It's 70 degrees warmer," said Montana coach Bobby Hauck. "Our guys think that's great." Many of the Grizzlies practiced in short-sleeved shirts and shorts on Wednesday afternoon at Finley Stadium as they prepared for Friday night's national championship game against Richmond.

But these two hard-nosed, workmanlike teams have survived the 16-team field and won difficult games on the road to set up an unexpected, yet compelling title game.

"I am not sure what to expect from this team," Montana coach Bobby Hauck said in July at the Big Sky Conference media event in Park City, UT. "But that is what makes this season exciting." Like a child anticipating Christmas morning, Hauck has a bigger package than expected under his championship tree, as the Grizzlies play for their fourth national crown and the sixth-year coach looks for his first title as the head man.

"Certainly, we are happy for Brock, but sorry to see him go," new Purdue coach Danny Hope said in a statement. "When I took the job at Purdue, I knew it was likely there would be some attrition on the staff, with guys leaving to become head coaches or coordinators. Like every head coach, I keep a short list of coaches to consider for vacancies, and we will get a quality replacement on our staff as quickly as possible." Illinois State assistant athletics director Todd Kober said a news conference would held Wednesday afternoon for Spack.

The Redbirds needed a replacement for Denver Johnson, who resigned following this past season. Johnson completed his ninth year as head at ISU with a 3-8 record. His overall mark with the Redbirds was 48-54.

But such was the case for No. 3 seeded Northern Iowa on Saturday evening when a 13-yard pass from Eric Ward to tight end Joe Stewart with 14 seconds left tied the game and Andrew Howard's extra point lifted Richmond into next Friday's NCAA Division I Football Championship game with a 21-20 victory.

Seventh-ranked Richmond (12-3) battled back from a 20-7 deficit in the final 12 minutes to advance to the championship game for the first time in school history. The Spiders will meet Montana (14-1) at 8 p.m. next Friday in Chattanooga, TN.

Ward completed 28-of-35 passes for 280 yards with two touchdowns and ran for another score to lead the Spiders (12-3), who scored 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter and will face Montana next Friday in Chattanooga for the title.

Stewart had 71 yards on five receptions, while Tre Gray made six grabs for 68 yards.

With running back Chase Reynolds setting a Grizzlies scoring record with three touchdowns and quarterback Cole Bergquist turning in a near-perfect second half, Montana (14-1) won only its second road playoff game in school history and avenged a 2004 championship-game loss to James Madison that was still fresh in the memories of the Grizzly coaching staff and senior class.

"It's exciting," said Montana coach Bobby Hauck, who will be taking his team to the title game for the second time in six years. "It's not lost on me that we came in and beat the No. 1 team in the country on their home field." Montana advanced to the FCS final for

Chase Reynolds rushed for 123 yards and a pair of scores for the Grizzlies (14-1), who will face the winner of Saturday's other semifinal between Richmond and Northern Iowa. The championship contest will be next Friday in Chattanooga.

Rodney Landers, James Madison's star quarterback, suffered an apparent ankle injury in the second quarter. Drew Dudzik filled in for the second half and completed 6-of-13 passes for 70 yards and was picked off once, while rushing for a pair of touchdowns.

The injury occurred with just over two minutes left in the first half when Landers carried the ball up the middle.

Landers, who led the Dukes to a 12-1 mark this season, including a current 12- game win streak, came into Friday's game having passed for 1,519 yards and 21 touchdowns and ran for 1,686 yards and 16 scores. He was the FCS's top rushing quarterback by nearly 50 yards per game at 129.7 yards per outing.

Mussman, in his first year as head coach, led the Fighting Sioux to a 6-4 record in their first year of a five-year FCS transition. They previously competed in Division II, where they were national champions in 2001 and a national runner-up in 2003.

"Chris has been an integral part of the Sioux football tradition for the past 10 seasons, and I believe he is the right man for the right time to continue to lead Sioux football into the Division I era," said North Dakota athletic director Brian Faison.

The streaming video will be available for viewing via a link with the Appalachian Sports Network on sportsnetwork.com.

The highlight of the night will be the presentation of the Walter Payton Award, which goes annually to the top player in FCS. Western Illinois running back Herb Donaldson, Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards and James Madison quarterback Rodney Landers are the three finalists for the Payton Award.

FCS Semifinals Friday's Game No. 4 Montana (13-1) at No. 1 James Madison (12-1), 8 p.m.

In 2004, James Madison clinched the school's first national title with a 31-21 win over Montana in the championship game. To reach the grand stage once again, the Dukes will have to go through the Grizzlies in the semifinals at home in Bridgeforth Stadium. JMU was able to complete the season sweep of Villanova, defeating the gritty No. 6-ranked Wildcats 31-27, in one of the most-thrilling quarterfinal match ups last Saturday.

Serving as the defensive coordinator at Marshall in 1995, Matthews watched as Montana quarterback and Payton Award winner Dave Dickenson led a late comeback to move the Grizzlies into field goal range for a 22-20 national-championship victory over the Thundering Herd.

All of these years later, that game remains as the only playoff road win ever for Montana. Matthews still bristles about the mistakes and penalties that left the door open for a Montana comeback.

According to the Birmingham News, ASU was given the following penalties: five years' probation, a ban from the 2009 postseason, reductions in recruiting activities and in football scholarships, elimination of wins from the 2000 and 2001 seasons along with vacating the team's 2001 Southwestern Athletic Conference championship.

The scholarship sanctions were already enacted by the school, for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

The team was selected by nominations and votes from the member schools' coaches and sports information contacts along with selected members of the media.

Players of the year will be announced on Wednesday.

Coaches talk all season long about winning the turnover battle and in postseason play there is even more emphasis on that statistic. If they ever needed a sermon illustration for that point, this weekend's FCS games were the perfect examples.

Appalachian State saw its three-year reign as FCS champion come to an end as the Mountaineers committed seven turnovers in a 33-13 loss to Richmond. Weber State helped stake Montana to an early lead with miscues and finished with three turnovers in a 24-13 defeat. Neither Richmond nor Montana had a single turnover in winning those games.