FB: Presidents' Athletic Conference

[E.115]

I love the articles about the kids on all the teams.  Keep posting them!

This, my friends, is what D3football is all about!!

^ Agreed!!

Actually, found another one on the freshman QB from this week:  https://www.news-herald.com/sports/case-football-may-have-its-next-great-qb-in-freshman/article_6326e20a-c269-11e8-821b-ab53d27702e8.html

And here's the CWRU student newspaper recap.  I love the author interviews a band member.  (Last week she interviewed the student section for her quotes):

"The band's faces were so tired by the end of the game. The team scored so many touchdowns that we played the fight song like, a billion times," said Jess Dickson, a third-year saxophone player in the Spartan Marching Band.

http://observer.case.edu/spartan-football-keeps-on-winning/

[WashJeff68]

W&J holds on to beat Bethany 27-20. Not very pretty, but it is a win.

Looking forward to the CWRU Westminster game this evening.

[ADL70]

W&J holds on to beat Bethany 27-20. Not very pretty, but it is a win.

Looking forward to the CWRU Westminster game this evening.

Hopefully Spartans don't under-perform as Tartans and Prez did.

[SpartanMom_2016]

W&J holds on to beat Bethany 27-20. Not very pretty, but it is a win.

Looking forward to the CWRU Westminster game this evening.

Hopefully Spartans don't under-perform as Tartans and Prez did.

Apparently Westminster is a difficult place to play as a road team.

[jam40jeff]

Apparently it's also a difficult place to broadcast a game online.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Case wins with 21 unanswered 2nd half points, 35-14 over Westminster. 

A Case interception on Westminster's final drive sealed the win.

Now...........the showdown with W&J awaits!!!

[ADL70]

Game much closer than score.  Westminster played hard.  They totally stuffed the Spartans' running game for most of the game and pressured Saxton the whole time.  They shot themselves in the foot with penalties. The score was 21-14 until 5:25 left in the game.

W&J may have overlooked Bethany with eyes on next week. 

[jam40jeff]

I finally got the stream to work on the last play of the 3rd quarter.  (Before that it would restart from the Coming Up title screen every time I reloaded the page.). But I followed the Live Stats most of the game.  It seemed like Case had a hard time moving the ball until the last drive of the first half and the running game was non-existent.  The 2nd half was much better and they ended up with 460 yards of offense.

I couldn't be more impressed with the play of true Freshman QB Sexton.  He faced a lot of pressure today in a high stakes game and really kept his composure.

[ADL70]

In the four games Spartans have allowed only 27 second half points.

[E.115]

First time Case Western Reserve was held under 500 total yards.

Offense ended the game with 460 total yards.

By the way, HUGE upset in Pittsburgh.  Grove City defeats Carnegie Mellon 31-21.  What was the storyline in that game??

Also, the poor showing of W & J against Bethany makes me nervous. Typically the next week after a loss or poor showing tends to be a redemption type of week... who just so happens to be Case Western Reserve.

The battle to the PAC undefeated looms..!

[E.115]

Thanks Joe!

Case finally gets crack at Presidents
By Joe Sager
Posted: Oct 02, 2018

http://www.d3football.com/columns/features/2018/case-finally-crack-at-unseating-presidents

[The Mole]

Nice write up. Glad they finally get to play!

Who wins?

I say W&J 31 CWRU 17. Presidents get a late TD to pull away, but its not a cakewalk

Thanks Joe!

Case finally gets crack at Presidents
By Joe Sager
Posted: Oct 02, 2018

http://www.d3football.com/columns/features/2018/case-finally-crack-at-unseating-presidents

[Bob.Gregg]

I think this game all comes down to this:

W&J's defense vs. CWRU freshman QB Drew Saxton.
If, as The Mole predicts, W&J holds Case-Western to 17, the Presidents win.

If Saxton, a player the Presidents had a legitimate shot at getting coming out of South Fayette, can stay upright, the Spartans can win the game.
If the W&J defense can bump him, knock him down, sack him a few times, causing him to speed up the plays, the Presidents will win the game.

[ADL70]

One might surmise that Adams being at W&J and having started a couple of games influenced Saxton's decision to go to CWRU. Interestingly Adams' hometown is closer to CWRU than to W&J and the reverse is true for Saxton.

Should W&J fans be concerned that they under performed in a 27-20 win over Bethany?  Two stats stand out to me: Adams was sacked five times and even adding back the -33 from the sacks they only rushed for 94 yards.

I don't think that we can gain much from the results against the two common opponents, Thiel and Grove City, blowouts for each.  CWRU has a significant win over Westminster 35-14, a team which lost to Wittenberg, 34-21.  W&J's only quality win was 36-14 over CMU, but that win looks less impressive after CMU lost to Grove City, 31-21.

Westminster did stifle Spartans' running game pretty well holding them to 130 yds, 3.6/att.  Saxton though threw for 330 yds and four TDs.

Massey gives CWRU 67% chance of win with 34-28 most likely result.

[jam40jeff]

Massey gives CWRU 67% chance of win with 34-28 most likely result.

How about we just make it a 35-28 win for old times sake.