FB: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[frank_ezelle]

From an extremely tight game to a head scratcher as Bowser runs 31 yards to put Millsaps up 56-17 with 10:18 left in the 3rd. 

[frank_ezelle]

Rhodes gets 25-yard TD pass to make the score 56-24 with 3:59 to go in the 3rd.  Millsaps is playing a lot of players but since they are the visitors they only have 60 players and can only go so deep with the subs.

[frank_ezelle]

With 11:53 left, Millsaps 70-24 over Rhodes.  Taylor Weaver scored on a short run and then a series later Millsaps returned a punt about 70 yards and then Darious Allen rushes for his first Millsaps TD.  It's hard to tell by the webcast, but it sounds like a lot of subs playing for Millsaps and quite possibly by Rhodes as well. 

[frank_ezelle]

Final in Memphis has Millsaps winning 70-31 over Rhodes.  Lots of impressive offensive number for Millsaps as you can see at this live stats link:

http://www.sidearmstats.com/rhodes/football/index.htm

Taylor Russolino set a SCAC record with the 10 PATs.  Was surprised that he had been tied with several others for that record at just 8. 

In other action Trinity won at Sewanee 17-3, Birmingham Southern took a home victory by a 44-21 score over Austin, and as mentioned in an earlier post, DePauw held on at the goal line to win 23-19 over Adrian.

[frank_ezelle]

By the way, I see that some of the Trinity followers on this board got their wish this week.  McKissic started at QB for Trinity, finishing 12 for 23 for 175 yards, with 2 interceptions and 1 TD.  He also rushed 7 times for 13 yards.  Not great stats, but it was his first start in quite a while. 

With Trinity making this move at the QB position, it certainly throws a bit of the unknown into nexts weeks game against DePauw.

Box score:  http://sewaneetigers.com/documents/2010/10/16/SEW-TRIN.HTM

[D3_DPUFan]

With Trinity making this move at the QB position, it certainly throws a bit of the unknown into nexts weeks game against DePauw.

That's an interesting way to look at it. I've got to believe that DePauw will exorcise a lot of demons on its final trip to San Antonio.

[DPU3619]

With Trinity making this move at the QB position, it certainly throws a bit of the unknown into nexts weeks game against DePauw.

That's an interesting way to look at it. I've got to believe that DePauw will exorcise a lot of demons on its final trip to San Antonio.

Gotta play better.  That was a good team that showed up in Greencastle yesterday, but that was not a good enough effort on either side of the ball by DePauw.  Mistakes, missed kicks, and a crappy 3rd down percentage. 

[Navidad]

Before the season started, some of us briefly discussed predictions for how the season would turn out -- and the accuracy of such predictions. At the time, I wondered if simply the number of seniors on each roster -- without to regard to how many might be starters or not -- might be just as good an indicator as anything else.

Based on a very quick look at online rosters a few minutes ago, here are the number of seniors on each roster in the SCAC:
DePauw: 30
Centre: 20
Birmingham Southern: 19
Austin: 15
Millsaps: 14
Trinity: 10
Rhodes: 9
Sewanee: 7

And here are the win-loss records for each team through this past weekend:
DePauw: 6-0
Centre: 4-2
Birmingham Southern: 4-2
Millsaps: 4-3
Austin: 3-3
Trinity: 3-3
Rhodes: 2-4
Sewanee: 1-6

Seems to be a pretty strong correlation, at least based on the first part of this one season.

[frank_ezelle]

Very interesting.  I remember being at a Millsaps senior athletes appreciation dinner after Coach DuBose first season.  He had something like 6-8 seniors that year and he talked about needing to build the program to the point where there were 20-25 seniors each year. 

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[Ron Boerger]

With Trinity making this move at the QB position, it certainly throws a bit of the unknown into nexts weeks game against DePauw.

That's an interesting way to look at it. I've got to believe that DePauw will exorcise a lot of demons on its final trip to San Antonio.

Gotta play better.  That was a good team that showed up in Greencastle yesterday, but that was not a good enough effort on either side of the ball by DePauw.  Mistakes, missed kicks, and a crappy 3rd down percentage. 

To win Saturday, Trinity will have to play the best game of the season.  The defense needs play like it did against B-SC and Sewanee; the passing game has to gain consistency.    TU also needs to make the best use of its usually strong special teams play. 

It would help if we could go an entire game without more injuries, too.      

[D3_DPUFan]

To win Saturday, Trinity will have to play the best game of the season.  The defense needs play like it did against B-SC and Sewanee; the passing game has to gain consistency.    TU also needs to make the best use of its usually strong special teams play. 

It would help if we could go an entire game without more injuries, too.   

Ron,
I think they are need Trinity's vaunted 12th man...the officials...sorry, couldn't resist...  

[DPU3619]

To win Saturday, Trinity will have to play the best game of the season.  The defense needs play like it did against B-SC and Sewanee; the passing game has to gain consistency.    TU also needs to make the best use of its usually strong special teams play. 

It would help if we could go an entire game without more injuries, too.   

Ron,
I think they are need Trinity's vaunted 12th man...the officials...sorry, couldn't resist...  

Well since you brought it up... 

It's sad that most DePauw fans think they probably need to be 14 or 17 points better than Trinity right out of the gate just to have a shot to win the game because of what the officials are going to do.  Maybe they'll miss 4 or 5 3rd downs because the spots are off by MORE THAN A YARD like they did in 2003 and 2007.  DePauw may not commit more penalties, but I'm certain the flags thrown on DePauw will be at more critical times.  Maybe they'll just run the clock all the time when DePauw is behind like they did two years ago.  Who knows?  We'll find out on Saturday.

I hate this game.  I hate it.  I hate having to deal with all the garbage that comes with going to play with Trinity.  Somehow, you'd think this would happen in the NCAA.  But it does and it's a shame.  It's like that scene in the semi-final game on Remember the Titans, except there's no coach to ever tell those guys to call the game straight.  Hopefully what's-his-ass who has been the line judge for every game for the last 10 years is still there. 

I think DePauw is probably about 2 scores (maybe more) better than Trinity on a neutral site.  I'd be shocked if they're 3 POINTS better on Saturday, regardless of how good or bad they play.

[D3_DPUFan]

Well since you brought it up...  

It's sad that most DePauw fans think they probably need to be 14 or 17 points better than Trinity right out of the gate just to have a shot to win the game because of what the officials are going to do.  Maybe they'll miss 4 or 5 3rd downs because the spots are off by MORE THAN A YARD like they did in 2003 and 2007.  DePauw may not commit more penalties, but I'm certain the flags thrown on DePauw will be at more critical times.  Maybe they'll just run the clock all the time when DePauw is behind like they did two years ago.  Who knows?  We'll find out on Saturday.

I hate this game.  I hate it.  I hate having to deal with all the garbage that comes with going to play with Trinity.  Somehow, you'd think this would happen in the NCAA.  But it does and it's a shame.  It's like that scene in the semi-final game on Remember the Titans, except there's no coach to ever tell those guys to call the game straight.  Hopefully what's-his-ass who has been the line judge for every game for the last 10 years is still there.  

I think DePauw is probably about 2 scores (maybe more) better than Trinity on a neutral site.  I'd be shocked if they're 3 POINTS better on Saturday, regardless of how good or bad they play.

Yeah...and in that infamous clock game in 2008, they even managed to call a DePauw extra point that went between the uprights no good...

[Schwami]

Oh, and then there is the omnipotent 13th man that can be brought in when needed --- like when they brought in a hurricane so the game couldn't be played.