FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[jdean]

Completion over middle to 32--:53--Mount TO. TE completion and runs to the one--OOB with :50. Beaver fought off 5 tackles and was inches short of TD. QB sneak short with :07. QB sneak barely good with 2 seconds.
35-28.

[downtown48]

piss poor call with :50 and 0 timeouts...cost them a shot at the onside kick!  Great effort by Beaver though

[miacwatchmen]

congrats

[jdean]

Mount catches onside KO with :01. Kneel  and another championship

[downtown48]

Wow...nice job by ESPN getting the trophy presentation and interview with the coach!  Quick hurry to the BS non-league hoops game!! What a Joke!!!!  Good win mount...

[wildcat11]

Congrats Mount.  No doubt about it that you guys are the number one team in the country.  Great team effort today.

[purpled]

WE'RE BAAAACK!!!!!

[jdean]

Looked like another yawner after 3Q but UWW showed what a great team they are and fought back, That was a great game. Congratutions to UWW, MUC, LK, Kmic, Garcon and too many other players to name.

[reality check]

Congrats to the Purple Raiders on Number 8!!!  It wasa great effort by the Purple Raiders today.  Way to make the OAC proud.  

The ESPN commentators did a great job for most of the day.  I was upset that Curry got confused at the end and sounded like an idiot in his analysis of the Wells QB sneak stuff.  He had no idea that the QB spiked the next play (where Wells was offsides) to stop the clock and kept pointing out that Wells was offsides on the sneak (which was not the case).  Someone along the line should have told him he missed a play because he beat a play that didn't happen the way he though it did into the ground.  Also great job by the ESPN big-wigs in cutting directly to Princeton/Wake Forest Bball (yawn).  I guess Ivy League/ACC basketball matchups supercede trophy presentations.  It's almost as bad as two years ago when they cut away to a lumberjack competition in Lima, OH following the final whistle.

Wells was called on that facemask and you could sense he was going to make up for it.  Sacks the QB on the next play (despite a holding penalty that was not called) and then stuffs the QB sneak and kills lots of clock.  

Watson contained the burner Stanley for most of the day.  No one could stop Garcon.  Kmic is a beast.  Jorris may be one of the greats after all.  Wells looked like he was eating o-lineman for lunch. 

The best part of Garcon's game in my opinion was his heads up play all afternoon.  I don't want to like the guy but can't help it.  He stayed inbounds to kill clock.  He made some acrobatic catches and most importantly, he led the way on two of Kmic's TD runs with great downfield blocks.

Great job Mount Union.  Enjoy the bus ride back home.  It's going to be fun I am sure.

[pakownr97]

Congratulations to Mount Union on another title.  All other D3 teams are striving to get to your level.

[runyr]

Eight is Great!

[runyr]

EIGHT!!!

[BillyRayJimBob]

That was one of the sweetest MUC Stagg wins!

I agree that the ESPN announcer duo did D3 football well.  Not perfect, but respectfully well.
I had so many people from work, and those that know me casually/socially watching...who never normally would tune in a D3 championship game...that my phone kept ringing after every score/big play.  (At karaoke last night, in my Mount Union apparel, I spent most of my "Frosty the Snowman" selection touting this game.)
Thank you Purple Raiders!!!

Now, off to a Christmas party.  Is a purple shirt and purple MUC tie, with purple Santa hat too much?

[reality check]

Anyone who didn't think Hostetler deserved the accolades for his season for ONU has been shut up today.  He's had an entire season in today's Aztec Bowl.  3 TD's!?!  INT TD.  KO TD.  PR TD.  

[b4uknewit]

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER!!!!!!