FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[TigerDad]

TU intercepts and that should do it!  Whew ... WAY too close.

(Excuse me, but isn't this the third game this year that the Black Flag saved with a last second INT??!?)

Congratulations to the AC 'Roos on a job well done today ... can't believe they were winless and almost took down the TU Tigers today.

CONGRATULATIONS (narrowly) to our Trinity Tigers ... undefeated and the last and final and sole SCAC Football Champions!  NICE WORK, TIGERS.  Better bring your 'A' game for the playoffs, men.

[tigerguy]

Interception on 2nd down by linebacker Thomas Puskarich. 35 seconds now left. Terrible offensive day for the Tigers. Wind might have been a factor but tons of wide-open dropped balls. Defense once again was staunch.

Offense will really have to step it up if they hope to do anything against McMurry or Mary Hardin Baylor next week. Congrats on being 10-0 though, Tigers!

[McM Blue Devil]

Congrats on 10-0 Trinity!!!!!!

[roocru]

Final -  7-6 Trinity 

[PrayingColonel]

Centre running clock out, fumble scooped up by Rhodes, then td pass and it's 41-28.

[PrayingColonel]

Its over in Danville Centre 41 - Rhodes 28. Hopefully 8-1 is good enough to get Centre in the playoffs.

[Ron Boerger]

Its over in Danville Centre 41 - Rhodes 28. Hopefully 8-1 is good enough to get Centre in the playoffs.

Centre will be the second Pool C team out of the South (edit;  unless McMurry loses, but they seem to have righted the ship against Miss Coll), but all indications are that should be good enough.   Congratulations either way on a fine season so far. 

Wow - I left with Trinity up 7-0, driving for their second TD and totally dominating AC defensively and they almost end up losing.  4 turnovers will do that.  Hope the guys can pull it together for next week - not how you want to go into the playoffs.

BSC defeated Millsaps 35-21.  Pinciotti did get the start for the Majors (31-53, 242 yds, 3 TDs, 3 INTs) but the story of the game was from the likely SCAC Offensive Player of the Year, Shawn Morris.  Morris had 332 yards on 35 carries and 3 TDs.

[tigerguy]

Ron you don't think Hampton Sydney's loss, as well as Huntingdon's absolute annihilation by Wesley will prove bad for Centre?

[Ron Boerger]

You mean W&L's loss?  Well, neither are a help, but they're still a one-loss team and there just aren't many of those out there in Pool C.   

Pat and company will crunch the numbers and put their best guess out there later tonight.

[Pat Coleman]

Ron you don't think Hampton Sydney's loss, as well as Huntingdon's absolute annihilation by Wesley will prove bad for Centre?

I don't see how these are connected, to be honest.

[etg]

(El Tea Gray--re: Projected Bracket for 2011 Football Playoffs?) 


For three Regions in the Projected Bracket the "magic number" is 9: 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5. Why is the "magic number" 10 for three games in the South Region and 6 for one game in the South: 2 vs 8, 3 vs 7, 4 vs 6 and 1 vs 5? Please don't tell us "travel costs"; that is just another and continuing NCAA load (Gag). Maybe the schools involved would (should?) chip-in ($) to right this wrong after a long/hard football season?




                                                                                           

[Ron Boerger]

(El Tea Gray--re: Projected Bracket for 2011 Football Playoffs?) 


For three Regions in the Projected Bracket the "magic number" is 9: 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5. Why is the "magic number" 10 for three games in the South Region and 6 for one game in the South: 2 vs 8, 3 vs 7, 4 vs 6 and 1 vs 5? Please don't tell us "travel costs"; that is just another and continuing NCAA load (Gag). Maybe the schools involved would (should?) chip-in ($) to right this wrong after a long/hard football season?




                                                                                           

C'mon etg, you've been following this long enough to know that three teams in TX always end up in a four-team pod.  Doesn't make it right, but it's consistent.

Very happy the AA gave TU a home game in the first round ... they've got their work cut out for them against a pass-happy McMurry bunch that wants to prove something before they go to D2.   UMHB no doubt awaits the winner.

Congrats also to Centre; getting a home game in your first-ever NCAA appearance shows you and the SCAC an awful lot of respect.   MUC awaits in the second round, but worry about that later. 

[TigerDad]

Well, well ... TU gets the SCAC automatic bid and DOESN'T get nearby UMHB in the first round! Awesome.

The War Hawks will be a challenge to be sure, but here's hoping the Tigers can have a great week and get an NCAA playoff "W" this season.

Congratulations, Tigers, on a great regular season ... keep it rollin'.

[DPU3619]

Yeah, I don't know why anybody gets surprised that this happens anymore.  If I was TU fan, I'd just be happy to play anybody other than UMHB.  That alone is a victory.

[TigerDad]

If I was TU fan, I'd just be happy to play anybody other than UMHB.  That alone is a victory.

Well, Wes, I am a TU fan and, yes, I agree with you. Can't imagine ever WANTING to play the Cru.  The last time TU faced them in 2007, the Cru's defense shut down TU's formidable rushing attack and left the Tigers in their dust.  Salinas and Freeman were impenetrable.  I have my reasons for remembering that part of the game.

Here's wishing the Tigers a victory at E.M. Stevens.  Go Tigers!