The NCAA Division I FCS mid-major national football championship was a label that began in 2001 and ended after the 2007 season.
(Beginning with the 2010 season, the winner of the Northeast Conference has been awarded an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs.
The polls that were used to determine the annual champion are the Sports Network (for which the trophy is named), Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette, and the Dopke College Sports Report Polls.
(Notes: A team did not have to be named the national champion by all three polls in order to win the Sports Network Cup.
"Consensus" in this instance then meant more in the regard of the Sports Network's authority to name a national champion rather than an agreement by all three major polls.)