FB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Gomer Pyle]

Yes Gomer the Twinkies were good today in Greenville. I finally got to a GC game, and was not expecting what I saw.

CUW was never really in the ball game. Scored one offensive TD in the 1st
half, to trail 21-7 at half. Run 2nd half kick off back to close to 21-14, but never really threatened after that. With the fianl GC 44 - CUW 14.

Unable to move ball at all. Several turnovers for CUW, led to their demise.
From what I have read on Greenville and what I seen today, They just waited to long to get it all together for this year.

Greenville had to have over 500 yards of offense. Doubt CUW had much over 250 yards.
Greenville's QB is the best I have seen in the IBC. But have yet to see AU or CUC's QB's.

   Ditto on the .........crow.
   Who would have thought that Greenville had that kind of a game in them after the season they`re had?
    I`ll bet the fat lady sang the GC fight song loud and clear.

[Gomer Pyle]

                        Aurora: 30   Eureka: 3
                   Benedictine: 42  MacMurray: 0-8
                        Cheese Heads: 56   Believers: 7 

    Greenville gets a huge win (44-14) over CU-W. 
   
   A tie for 1st place in the IBFC: Cheese Heads and The Boys from Mequon.
   at 5-1.  At this point in time.
   The game between Benedictine and CU-W on 11/3 (at BU) could be the
    biggest game yet.
   BU wins it and The Boys from Mequon are out. That`s assuming LC wins
    their games. **
    Keep in mind LC still has to play Aurora but it`s a home game. For what
   that`s worth.  If The Cheese lose to AU, which is possible, then we`re
    back to 5-2 for the both of them.
    With that CU-W is still in the drivers seat as they beat LC.
   The fat lady sings and Maddog moves to Canada.    
   ** CU-W beats BU the above is moot as they would be 6-1.  LC wins out
   and there`re 6-1 as well but their loss to CU-W  leaves them in a tie for the IBFC championship but they don`t get the NCAA bid due to that loss
   in head up play. 
  The Fat Lady sings.......... Mequon Oh, Mequon.   

 
   
 
   
   
   

[old 40]

Congrats to GC. Great Win for your program. The GC QB is very, very dangerous and he took the wind out of the Falcons. Great Job!

Next week will be a great finishing week to the IBFC. The possibility of a four way tie is amazing.

The "Believers"  must be feeling sick today. A good try but from what I see alot of work to do. You have to remember that program was deep in the basement and will take some time to get to the top.


Good Luck to everyone's teams next week.

[madfrog]

4 way tie? will never happen. I will tell you why

CUW

and

Lakeland will both win next week.

However to bad CUW will go to the playoffs, Lakeland would have better odds of winning then CUW in the playoffs.

[cardinaldad]

                        Aurora: 30   Eureka: 3
                   Benedictine: 42  MacMurray: 0-8
                        Cheese Heads: 56   Believers: 7 

    Greenville gets a huge win (44-14) over CU-W. 
   
   A tie for 1st place in the IBFC: Cheese Heads and The Boys from Mequon.
   at 5-1.  At this point in time.
   The game between Benedictine and CU-W on 11/3 (at BU) could be the
    biggest game yet.
   BU wins it and The Boys from Mequon are out. That`s assuming LC wins
    their games. **
    Keep in mind LC still has to play Aurora but it`s a home game. For what
   that`s worth.  If The Cheese lose to AU, which is possible, then we`re
    back to 5-2 for the both of them.
    With that CU-W is still in the drivers seat as they beat LC.
   The fat lady sings and Maddog moves to Canada.    
   ** CU-W beats BU the above is moot as they would be 6-1.  LC wins out
   and there`re 6-1 as well but their loss to CU-W  leaves them in a tie for the IBFC championship but they don`t get the NCAA bid due to that loss
   in head up play. 
  The Fat Lady sings.......... Mequon Oh, Mequon.   

 
   
 
   
   
   

Can anyone explain the point differential scenario with a tie? Who is still in the running with some help? CUW, LC, BU? Who would be the 4th?

[cardinaldad]

Looks like BU has to beat CUW on Sat and Aurora has to win out including beating Lakeland for the tie to occur. Has anyone figured out the point differental for the AQ tie breaker? Anyones' thoughts on this happening?

[baseman201]

madfrog-

How does Lakeland have a better chance in the playoffs?

[Genius]

you are crazy if you think lakeland has a better shot in the playoffs then cuw. lakeland has good receivers who can catch well in traffic. that is all they have offensively. protection is suspect, running game none existent, qb makes bad decisions. Defense is pretty good. Cuw has less weaknesses then lakeland. they can pass a whole lot better than lakeland can run (both of the team's weaknesses). CUW has better special teams although lakeland's are good.

now cuw most have thought they were going to show up and win against GC. it is one thing to lose but to get blown out. i guess the team d3football picked from the start finally showed up.

[Gomer Pyle]

Cardinaldad:
     I believe .......S-O-S ( strenght of schedule) fits in there, somewhere.
     

[FalconsFootball]

Point differential only comes into play if their is more than two or more teams tied for first.  Unless those two teams somehow lost to the same team. 

If there was a three way tie like the scenario in 04

CUW beat LC but lost to AU

LC lost to CUW but beat AU

AU lost to LC but beat CUW

it came down to the point difference that decided each game.  Whoever had the better margin of victory would go to the playoffs.  Which ended up being AU

AU won by 17 and lost by 1 so their margin was +16.

LC lost by 16 and won by 1 so they were at -15.

CUW lost by 17 and won by 16 so they were at -1

I beleive that was how it played out.

[TBaggins]

I think the 4 way tie scenario is pretty far fetched; however, just for fun here's another question. Is the tie breaker based solely on points or do they consider head to head victories. For example, if a four way tie existed AU and Lakeland would have 2 losses to the teams involved in the group. BU and CUW would have one loss a piece, with BU winning the head to head against CUW. In this scenario BU goes to the playoffs. Far fetched, ridiculous, I know. But is this a possibility or do tie breakers always go to points and/or margin of victory?

[Timewilltell]

IMO- Lakeland might fair better than CUW.
CUW was unable to stop ANY play action from the GC offense. Their secondary was keying on coming up to stop the QB run/option, that the WR's from GC was running right by them and the QB was just laying it up for them to run under.
And the GC O-Line was controlling the line of scrimage so much the LB's were forced to come up.

[rusty shackleford]

4 way tie means Benedictine is in

[old 40]

The current tie breaker is point difference between the tied teams from their head to head battles. This was the case when AU, LC and CUW tied. AU went to the playoffs because of their point difference as someone stated before. I do not believe this rule has changed for the IBFC. I have no idea what the rule will be for the new conference.

Based on the head to head scores of the 4 possible teams that could be tied. As of today, I believe the LC team has the best differnce in scores. Again all of this is very premature because alot of things have to happen for a 4 way tie to come about. Maybe, because it is Halloween week, the strange possibility of a 4 way tie is fun to talk about.

Good Luck to everyone's teams this week. It has been great watching some of the conference Seniors do battle. Good Luck to all the IBFC Seniors inthe final 2 weeks of the regular season.

[Mr. Ypsi]

While I don't know about the IBC rules, the general procedure is that head-to-head comes before score differential.  With 3 teams, they are typically all 1-1 against each other, so score differential is the decider.  But with 4 teams, odds are that 2 of them are 2-1 (the others, 1-2 and thus eliminated); generally it then reverts to the head-to-head of the two 2-1 teams.