I haven't posted here in a while, and I will not proceed with posting pro Trinity comments after such a win so as to seem like a fair weather poster/fan; but I had to pass along what a friend of mine tonight, after watching numerous Sportscenter clips, coined to be what I feel should be the name of today's final  play in Jackson; not the Miracle in Mississippi (or Mississippi Miracle), but rather the Major Travesty.

Tobi told me after the game it was back spasms.  There were some minor injuries to other D-linemen and Tobi among others were forced to take more snaps than usual at the end of the game.

Seconded.  Best of luck to Houston in getting that idiot's (Bush) esteem up to par for NFL standards after one of the most bone-head of plays I have ever seen.  Not that the state of Texas, or Houston,  isn't thankful (along with that blown non recall call on UT's first touchdown).  But lets not make this the D1 Football.com forum.

Hard to say.  The Tigers have quite a few gaps to replace on the o-line with Farney being the only returning starter.  Despite the loss of two great runnig backs (both having been at least voted once on the SCAC 1st team) there is legitamate promise on Baer, especially with a sizeable Plotnick in the backfield.  I think the real question is whether Cannon is going to be able connect with his receivers next year.  Surely next years o-line with have a big deal to do with that.  As far as the defense goes, there were some good players lost, but with what hey have coming back i think last year's Black Flag will be as formidable if not more.  And Allen will a 1st team all-american.

Are there any predictions for this weekends game?  I myself have to go with Whitewater upon seeing the scores put up by what must be a juggernaut of an offense.  I hope for their sake that no key players get into "trouble" before saturday.

Quite a bit of offensive gelling for the kind of TRINITY season I think etg is referring to.

What exactly is the criteria used to establish how each region is ranked?  If I read the bracket correctly I think I saw the East and North Bracket with more two loss teams than no. 4 South region.

Anybody (Trinity in particular) find it interesting or irritating that Trinity cannot get above 9th in the poll?  I realize their scores haven't been consistently of blowout stature as some others, but does an undefeated record and a consistent place around the top ten mean nothing?  A defense averaging 10 ppg allowed isn't that impressive I guess?

I am in total agreeance with wua.  I really hope that we don't see an onslaught of angry DePauw folk crying about the tie breaker scenario.  While the situation was an unfortunate one for DePauw to deal with it was their choice not to come.  The tie-breaker plan does seem to ignore DPU's strength of schedule, but as the saying goes, the DPU Tigers have made their own bed and are going to have to lie in it.

Ron lets not forget that Centre was an '03 co-champ with a Trinity team that beat them by 50 some points.

Indeed.  The last season that started with a Monterrey Tech bashing didn't turn out too well.

I discussed the same topic with some players recently and they appear unaffected as the coaches should teach them not to be.  I've been told that the defense plans to be more aggresive than in years past, something I wished for in my day.  The players I know have ben speaking praises of the new format the Black Flag has taken.  From what I saw at the intersquad scrimmage the offense pretty well passed and ran as they have in the past few years and were able to make the defense stumble a little more than I have seen in summer camps in the past.

Did anybody else happen to attend the TU scrimmage yesterday?  And if so, thoughts?