FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[D3_DPUFan]

DePauw (Replacing Marks will be tough, but lots of talent back; a homer pick)
2. Millsaps (Lose some D, but QB Joseph, talented WR's make Majors obvious contender...again).
3. Trinity (Solid program that will contend once again; do they know how much they will miss QB Barmore?).
4. Colorado College (Most improved team; talent on Offense and athletic Defense)
5. Rhodes (Tough D but do they have enough O to compete in the top half?)
6. Centre (All America LB and some solid players on both sides of ball; will surprise somebody)
7. Birmingham Southern (Not yet eligible, but should make another leap forward) 
8. Sewanee (A defense that is much better than a lower division team)
9. Austin (Improving, but not yet ready to make that big leap).

Notes... A DePauw win would be especially difficult considering they play both Millsaps and Trinity on the road and Centre, I think, is a real trap game. Millsaps and Trinity suffer key losses but again will be there at the end. Top to bottom talent and travel will make the SCAC a tough sled for any champion.  CC, Rhodes, Centre and BSC are teams that will figure in the league outcome with an upset or two. DePauw keeps the Bell in tough win over Wabash at C'ville. 

Wes---I'm disappointed that you haven't posted your picks by now...

[DPU3619]

Wes---I'm disappointed that you haven't posted your picks by now...

Towing the company line.... you'll have to get Kickoff to get my picks. 

[D3_DPUFan]

Towing the company line.... you'll have to get Kickoff to get my picks. 

Savvy...very savvy...

[wabashcpa]

Wes---I'm disappointed that you haven't posted your picks by now...

Towing the company line.... you'll have to get Kickoff to get my picks. 

Shameless...   

[frank_ezelle]

I think everyone will agree that Trinity, Millsaps and DePauw will all be good teams.  Just how good is hard to say because it's hard to get a read on the impact of incoming players.  With this preseason uncertainty of not knowing who added what, it seems like the logical order of these teams in a preseason poll should be:

1) Trinity
2) Millsaps
3) DePauw

If you look at last year's schedule you see that DePauw lost at home to both Trinity and Millsaps.  I don't see how you could make DePauw a favorite to win those games on the road this year.

Millsaps lost at home to Trinity and now Millsaps is going on to San Antonio where Trinity hasn't lost in well over a decade.  Again, I think you have to pencil in Trinity as the favorite at this point in time.

Certainly DePauw is capable of winning in Jackson and at Trinity, just as Millsaps is capable of winning at Trinity, but if for no other reason than the schedule, Trinity has to be the preseason favorite in the SCAC.  One things for sure, it should be an exciting season even if it is unlikely to produce another national play of the year.

[Ron Boerger]

Wes---I'm disappointed that you haven't posted your picks by now...

Towing the company line.... you'll have to get Kickoff to get my picks. 

Shameless...   

It's called 'don't bite the hand that will hopefully feed you.'   

[Tex]

Well, I wish I were more informed on the SCAC to venture a prediction on the conference rankings.  So, I won't even try.  I just started observing the conference last season. 

Speaking of the SCAC, do you guys pronounce it S C A C or do you pronounce it "skack"?  I was talking with Bob Edwards yesterday and he pronounced it Skack.  Sort of gave me a mental image of a questionable woman in a bar after midnight with the raspy smokers cough. 

[Ralph Turner]

Well, I wish I were more informed on the SCAC to venture a prediction on the conference rankings.  So, I won't even try.  I just started observing the conference last season. 

Speaking of the SCAC, do you guys pronounce it S C A C or do you pronounce it "skack"?  I was talking with Bob Edwards yesterday and he pronounced it Skack.  Sort of gave me a mental image of a questionable woman in a bar after midnight with the raspy smokers cough. 

And I cannot imagine a SCAC student having ever encountered a woman like that in their lives.  She is only a thing a curiosity in Freshman Lit or some esoteric essay in a literature or cinematography directed studies class.

[historymajor]

TEX,,, you're referring to scanks???  Splell check plz

[Tex]

TEX,,, you're referring to scanks???  Splell check plz

I thought skank was spelled with two k's. 

[Li'l Giant]

TEX,,, you're referring to scanks???  Splell check plz

I thought skank was spelled with two k's. 

That's for a garden-variety skank. There's a higher level of skankiness spelled with Q. 

[DPU3619]

That's for a garden-variety skank. There's a higher level of skankiness spelled with Q. 

Keep in mind, now, that's from a Wabash grad. 

If there's a person with an encyclopedic knowledge about women of ill-repute, I know not of one better than a Little Giant.  I kid, I kid.

[Tex]

I'll try to keep to myself the random crazy thoughts that rattle around in my dome.  Sorry.

[DPU92]

Does anyone know if DPU has started camp yet?  How do they look?  News travels slowly down here to the Big Sleezy.  Looking for any info...thanks.

[DPU3619]

Does anyone know if DPU has started camp yet?  How do they look?  News travels slowly down here to the Big Sleezy.  Looking for any info...thanks.

They're still a week away, I believe.