FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[dansand]

Final from Decatur: 34-23 Augie. Guzman with 180 yards on 18 carries and 3 TD's in his last game. Defense gives up 302 passing yards, but does a great job on Wallick (11-24 with a long run of 7 yards). Sounds like NCC is taking care of business in Naperville.

Congrats to all three tri-champs and especially NCC for earning the automatic bid.

[washdupcard]

Congrats CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly never knew if we could pull it off.  What a turn around for the program.

[Mr. Ypsi]

The scoreboard shows NCC winning by 34-24.  Was there a late TD, or is that wrong?

[NCC_alum62]

nope thats the finbal Studamen makes one handed catch in endzone to seal the deal on the cards first CCIW championship in 46 years

[WahooThunder]

Congrats to North Central on a well deserved championship and my hat goes off to Carthage for making it interesting.  With the MSJ loss it looks like Wheaton will get to host next weekend.  Thunder seniors had a big day - Black 154 yards, TD, Jeremy Chupp 293 and 3 TD, Joe Chupp 5-144, 3 TD.  Andy Studebaker with 1.5 sacks takes his season total to 16. 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Anyone got a final on Elmhurst @ NPU?

[mr_b]

Anyone got a final on Elmhurst @ NPU?

Elmhurst wins, 24-7. 

[WahooThunder]

Congratulations to the Wheaton Thunder, North Central, and Augustana on a share of the conference title and North Central for the AQ.  Good luck to North Central and Wheaton in the playoffs.  The Mt saint Joe loss should give Wheaton a home game but against who?  What does that mean for North Central?  I guess will have to wait for USEE.   I'm confused.

My guess is that Wheaton will host MSJ and North Central will be at Concordia.  That seems to make the most sense, but right now its all just speculation.

[ncc58]

Carthage came ready to play today. They were doing some hitting all game long. The problem was that several of those hits came late. I'm sure there will be some discussion on the late hits and pass interference calls.

North Central did their best to keep Carthage in the game -- a botched fake punt, an interception for a TD, and a blocked punt to set up Carthage on the 10 yard line (for their final TD). The offense could not get in sync in the first 20 minutes. But Kniss showed why he will be OPOY. His last two TDs were outstanding throws, 36 yards to Welch and then 23? to Stuedemann. Sulo was hit hard on almost every carry, but he finished with 120 yards. It's surprising that Carthage lost so decisively to Wheaton because they looked pretty good today.

At the end of the game, the CCIW Commisioner Chris Martin (thanks nccports891) presented NCC with the trophy as the CCIW Champion.

Before the season, many of you criticized NCC for listing November 18th on their schedule as a playoff game. Seems like that was the right thing to do.

[ncc58]

Congratulations to the Wheaton Thunder, North Central, and Augustana on a share of the conference title and North Central for the AQ.  Good luck to North Central and Wheaton in the playoffs.  The Mt saint Joe loss should give Wheaton a home game but against who?  What does that mean for North Central?  I guess will have to wait for USEE.   I'm confused.

Will it? MSJ could still be seeded 4th as a one loss conference champ and AQ? We'll know for sure in 19 hours.

[nccsports891]

Chris Martin was the name of the guy who handed the trophy out to NCC. I wanted to post one more time before I go back to my cubicle for the week.

Congrats to the Cards football squad. They truly deserved this celebration after getting so close last year. Kniss was even better this year. It should be interesting to see where NCC ends up. I heard that they will move up in the region standings to 6th because the last two AQ's will be moved into the 7th and 8th slots. If this happens, where does NCC go?

[ncc58]

Carthage had 37 rushing attempts for 100 net yards --- it sure seemed like they had more yards than that. They were hurting NCC through the game with their option. But Carthage was just 8 for 16 passing and 67 yards. NCC had 115 net rushing yards and 374 yards total.

[usee]

congratulations to Ncc and augie for being co champs with wheaton. I guess there should be some question over a trophy presentation for NCC and none for the wheaton and augie. but we'll save that for another day.

I'll look over the results and be back w playoff speculation shortly. keep in mind pat coleman will post his projections in the middle of the night on the front page so when you wake up check back. he is dangerously accurate on this.

[WahooThunder]

Will it? MSJ could still be seeded 4th as a one loss conference champ and AQ? We'll know for sure in 19 hours.

Wheaton's resume is much more impressive than Mt St. Joe's and I don't think the AQ will make a difference in seeding. 

[matblake]

Am I glad Wheaton won today,  especially with the St. John's loss.  Lots of bubble teams sweating it out now.  

Congrats to the CCIW tri-champions.  Should Wheaton be selected as a Pool C bid, I am looking forward to seeing the teams both Wheaton and North Central play and seeing how their boards react to my Monday newsflash segments.