FB: Midwest Conference

[hickory_cornhusker]

Monmouth gets mentioned (and Carroll by default for playing them this week) in Greg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback on espn.com.

http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story/_/id/7175444/tmq-says-defenses-solidified-slowed-early-season-nfl-offensive-explosion (Bonus Obscure College Score near the end of the article)

[scottie]

+K Hickory for digging that one up.  (I wish I could give you another +K for the extra photos in the article....) 

Looks like Tanney will need to get busy on Saturday to put some extra space between him and the Grotberg-esque numbers of the gunslinger from Houston.  However, the article said that Houston is 8-0 so far.  Don't they play, like, 23 games a year now?  The record may be short-lived. 

[Moncolfan]

Hey Woodys are any of you guys going to Petey's after the the game. I'll be sitting at the bar watching the college games- let me buy you a cold one.  You will see that I'm not that hostile!
Would like to catch some of the LSU/Bama game. If I buy some of the MC players that show up a beer thats not a violation is it?

[scottie]

Regional Rankings

West

1.UW-Whitewater, 5-0, .528, 1-0*.
2.St. Thomas, 8-0, .578, 1-0.
3.Linfield, 6-0, .494, 1-0.
4.Cal Lutheran, 5-1, .585, 1-1.
5.Redlands, 5-1, .572, 1-1.
6.UW-Oshkosh, 5-1, .605, 0-1*.
7.St. Olaf, 6-1, .580, 0-1.
8.Wartburg, 5-2, .537, 1-1.
9.Monmouth, 7-1, .545, 0-1.
10.Dubuque, 6-1, .476, 0-1.

Discuss among yourselves.....

[Maverick]

scottie - Where/when did you find those?  The Division III Regional Rankings I found on ncaa.com are listed as being updated today and look like this for the West (in-region record, overall record):

1 Wisconsin-Whitewater 6-0 8-0
2 St. Thomas (Minn.) 9-0 9-0
3 Linfield 6-0 7-0
4 Cal Lutheran  6-1 6-1
5 St. Olaf 7-1 7-1
6 Dubuque 7-1 8-1
6 Monmouth (Ill.) 8-1 8-1
8 Redlands 6-1 6-1
9 St. Scholastica 8-0 8-0
10 Lewis & Clark 7-0 7-0

[desertcat1]

Hey mav , you did better than i did.. I could not find any at all  (on the ncaa ) 

[Maverick]

Hey mav , you did better than i did.. I could not find any at all  (on the ncaa ) 

Sorry desert, here's the link: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/d3

[desertcat1]

thanks Mav,, 

[scottie]

I got mine off the d3foozball site but didn't check the date.  I like your version better.   

Pat, are these coming from the same source? 

[desertcat1]

scottie - Where/when did you find those?  The Division III Regional Rankings I found on ncaa.com are listed as being updated today and look like this for the West (in-region record, overall record):

1 Wisconsin-Whitewater 6-0 8-0
2 St. Thomas (Minn.) 9-0 9-0
3 Linfield 6-0 7-0
4 Cal Lutheran  6-1 6-1
5 St. Olaf 7-1 7-1
6 Dubuque 7-1 8-1
6 Monmouth (Ill.) 8-1 8-1
8 Redlands 6-1 6-1
9 St. Scholastica 8-0 8-0
10 Lewis & Clark 7-0 7-0

Go Cats
Go Big D

[Maverick]

I got mine off the d3foozball site but didn't check the date.  I like your version better.   

Pat, are these coming from the same source?

Ok, now I get it...that was the D3football.com staff version of the regional rankings from last week.  They came up with what the rankings probably would've looked like last week had the NCAA actually produced one last week (the NCAA cut off the first week of regional rankings this season).  I thought those looked somewhat familiar scottie.

[scottie]

An interesting game in the IIAC this weekend that could affect those rankings: Dubuque (6-1, 8-1) at Coe (5-1, 5-3).  This outsider would think that a Coe win (and a win next week vs. Cornell) likely would give them the automatic qualifyer and move Dubuque down in the regional rankings - POSSIBLY moving Monmouth up (ahead of Coe?) in the rankings.   

Perhaps our friends at St. Johns could pick off a game from St. Olaf while we're hoping....   

Avoiding absolutes,

Scottie

P.S.  This is all assuming that the good guys can avoid the upset from Knox on the Rise this Saturday and keep from hurting their own cause.   

[DBQ1965]

An interesting game in the IIAC this weekend that could affect those rankings: Dubuque (6-1, 8-1) at Coe (5-1, 5-3).  This outsider would think that a Coe win (and a win next week vs. Cornell) likely would give them the automatic qualifyer and move Dubuque down in the regional rankings - POSSIBLY moving Monmouth up (ahead of Coe?) in the rankings.   

Perhaps our friends at St. Johns could pick off a game from St. Olaf while we're hoping....   

Avoiding absolutes,

Scottie

P.S.  This is all assuming that the good guys can avoid the upset from Knox on the Rise this Saturday and keep from hurting their own cause.   

As we all know, football is a game of inches ... and of "ifs."  However the next two weeks work out ... it will be interesting to see who is in and who is out ... and what the match-ups are.  On 11/19 will I be staying home in Michigan ... or will I be driving over to Dubuque ... or to Monmouth ... or trying to figure out how to get to the Twin Cities ... or watching live streaming on the Internet?  And what about the Scots ... what if they have to go to UWW in the first round?

[Pat Coleman]

Hey mav , you did better than i did.. I could not find any at all  (on the ncaa ) 

Sorry desert, here's the link: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/d3

The heck with that -- try the front page of D3football.com! What more do we have to do?

[Maverick]

Hey mav , you did better than i did.. I could not find any at all  (on the ncaa ) 

Sorry desert, here's the link: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/d3

The heck with that -- try the front page of D3football.com! What more do we have to do?

Come on now, Pat...obviously I would've used the front page of D3football.com...if there would've been a link to the regional rankings at the time I was looking for them yesterday.