FB: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Good luck to the Eagles! 🦅

[Macon]

Good luck to the Eagles! 🦅

Long time, no hear.  Welcome back.

[Jeremybozz]

 BC PAT hits the upright and goes through to make it 23-14 over W&L at half. Guilford 14, HSC 3 at half. E&H up 24-7 on Shenandoah with over minutes left until half. Ferrum up 24-7 on So. Virginia at the half.

[Jeremybozz]

 Matt, Bridgewater just unloaded about a 71 yard punt, may want to check your records to see if it is a new school record. 25-14 BC with over 12 minutes left in regulation in Lexington.

[Jeremybozz]

Bridgewater up 31-14 over W&L 10:48 left in regulation.

[Jeremybozz]

BC 31,W&L 14 Final

[Jeremybozz]

Ferrum 31, So. Va. 28 with 44 seconds left, E&H up 34-24 over Shenandoah with 10:10 left, Guilford 30,HSC 27 with 5:45 left.

[Jeremybozz]

Ferrum 31, So. Virginia 28 Final

[Jeremybozz]

Guilford 37,HSC 27 Final
E&H up 41-24 over Shenandoah midway through the 4th.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Good to be back (online)! Even though I've been MIA, I still watched/followed every Bridgewater game since the mid-2000s.

What an exciting year for the Eagles! Although we are riding a 13-year ODAC crown drought, a couple of those years we were only a touchdown away from being the champions. I would like to think that our run from 2000 to 2005 pushed other ODAC schools to improve (coaching, facilities, recruiting, etc) -- and then RMC, HSC, E&H, and W&L have all shared time at the top of the conference from 2006 to 2018.

It certainly wasn't easy for Mike Clark to maintain the success the teams at BC had  from 2000 to 2005, but I bet he would agree that his team's success (so far) this season has been once of his biggest accomplishments as a coach. Not easy having success, then struggling (although never less than 4 wins in a season), then coming back in 2019 to chase a championship.

Still a lot of football to be played to decide who will represent the ODAC in the NCAA playoffs this year:

   * BC @ E&H - 11/2
   * W&L @ RMC - 11/2
   * RMC @ BC - 11/9

Regarding today's game between Bridgewater and Washington & Lee...

   * The Generals defense came up huge holding the Eagles offense to FGs on three of their five scoring drives in the first half
   * The Eagles defense stifled the Generals #1-ranked rush offense (Nationally - 337.2 YPG), allowing only 153 yards on the ground
   * Take out W&L's two big plays (56-yard rush TD, 38-yard pass TD) -- the Generals only mustered 104 total yards of offense and 0 points
   * BC QB Jay Scroggins connected with 10 different receivers on the day (a Bridgewater record?) for 265 yards passing
   * Scroggins threw his first INT of the year in the 3rd quarter -- having gone 119-for-167 (71.3% pass comp) and 17 TDs before the INT

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Since I used to be considered "Mr. Statistician" for Bridgewater, I might as jump back into it... 

I calculated an interesting stat earlier in the week, once I saw Bridgewater had a very balanced team with the ODAC's best scoring offense and scoring defense. A recipe the Eagles had back in 2000 to 2005 when we had ODAC (and NCAA playoff) success.

NCAA stats showed the Eagles as having the #17-ranked offense (42.8 PPG) and the #12-ranked defense (12.0 PPG). So I calculated where Bridgewater ranked when it came to how much they were outscoring their opponents (30.8 PPG):

   #1) 49.0 - Mount Union (55.8 scoring offense / 6.8 scoring defense)
   #2) 43.5 - Mary Hardin-Baylor (51.0 / 7.5)
   #3) 38.4 - Wheaton (45.7 / 7.3)
   #4) 36.6 - Linfield (52.0 / 15.4)
   #5) 35.5 - North Central (48.5 / 13.0)
   #6) 34.5 - Hope (52.8 / 18.3)
   #7) 34.0 - St. Thomas (47.7 / 13.7)
   #8) 33.8 - Hardin-Simmons (47.3 / 13.5)
   #9) 32.3 - Wartburg (48.6 / 16.3)
   #10) 30.8 - Bridgewater (42.8 / 12.0)

As you can see, the Eagles came in at #10 in the country. All teams except for Bridgewater and Hope are ranked in the latest D3football.com poll:

  #1 - Mary Hardin-Baylor
  #2 - Mount Union
  #5 - Wheaton
  #7 - North Central
  #12 - Wartburg
  #15 - Hardin-Simmons
  #18 - St. Thomas
  #24 - Linfield
  NR - Hope
  NR - Bridgewater

Also, all of those teams listed above (except Bridgewater and Hope) have made the NCAA playoffs at least once in the past three years.

I would like to think there is "Hope" that Bridgewater will still be playing football in late November.

[hasanova]

BC PAT hits the upright and goes through to make it 23-14 over W&L at half. Guilford 14, HSC 3 at half. E&H up 24-7 on Shenandoah with over minutes left until half. Ferrum up 24-7 on So. Virginia at the half.

It was actually GC 21, HSC 6 at the half ... the Tigers had 2 FGs and GC scored on a pass on the last play.

[Macon]

BC PAT hits the upright and goes through to make it 23-14 over W&L at half. Guilford 14, HSC 3 at half. E&H up 24-7 on Shenandoah with over minutes left until half. Ferrum up 24-7 on So. Virginia at the half.

It was actually GC 21, HSC 6 at the half ... the Tigers had 2 FGs and GC scored on a pass on the last play.

Congrats, Hasa.  Looked like a statistically even game.  Any key plays in the game?

[Ralph Turner]

Good luck to the Eagles! 🦅

Welcome back!

[y_jack_lok]

Since R-MC was idle today I warched most of BC/W&L. Bridgewater certainly looked good in most phases of the game and Matt Barnhart's summary is excellent. They didn't run the ball very effectively, but they didn't need to. Also, BC was a bit penalty prone today. Need to clean that up. W&L announcers were saying that Pollard, their #1 QB, was struggling in part due to the injury that kept him out of the E&H game last week. Regardless, BC was the better team and the Generals likely would not have had much more success moving the ball if Pollard was at full capacity. Next week's R-MC/W&L game will give some clues as to how the Jackets and BC will match up.