FB: Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference

[SaintsFAN]

27 is the eye-popping number to me on the score line:

MSJ gave up 27 points in 2 1/2 quarters.  27 is the most Anderson has put on the board in 2017, and they've done it twice now.  The other team to give up 27 points to Anderson?  Earlham.

[GrizFan]

Coach Huber leaves but MSJ is still a classless program!  Up by 37 with starters still in and throwing TD passes in the 4th quarter.  Still a bunch of thugs!

[SaintsFAN]

Coach Huber leaves but MSJ is still a classless program!  Up by 37 with starters still in and throwing TD passes in the 4th quarter.  Still a bunch of thugs!

Maybe they were trying to take the spotlight off the MSJ defensive performance ??

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

With his 2nd TD pass today, Chase Burton has now passed Jonny West for most career TD passes in Franklin history with 106. Probably next week he'll break the career passing yards record as well. West threw for 10,653 in his career and Burton was a bit over 500 yards away entering today.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

If he stays in the game long enough Burton will set the yardage record today. Still almost 6 minutes left in the 2nd and Franklin is up 42-12 as Burton has 6 TD and 369 yards on 23 of 25 passing.

[SaintsFAN]

If he stays in the game long enough Burton will set the yardage record today. Still almost 6 minutes left in the 2nd and Franklin is up 42-12 as Burton has 6 TD and 369 yards on 23 of 25 passing.

23 of 25 is hard to do even without a defense out there; essentially this case.

Congratulations to Burton

[GrizFan]

Franklin broke the school single game record for total offensive yardage (727 yards) and Burton (first team offense) only played one series in the second half.

[Pat Coleman]

Regional rankings are out:
http://www.d3football.com/playoffs/2017/first-regional-ranking

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Franklin is officially your 2017 HCAC playoff representative.
Grizzlies were up 63-3 with under three minutes left before a couple late Anderson scores made it 63-17
Chase Burton also passed Jonny West for the Franklin career passing yards record. He's just shy of the 11,000 yard mark.

[Pat Coleman]

Latest regional rankings are out:
http://www.d3football.com/playoffs/2017/second-regional-ranking

[GRIZ_BACKER]

Latest regional rankings are out:
http://www.d3football.com/playoffs/2017/second-regional-ranking

The GRIZ more than likely headed to Trine, IL Wesleyan, or Wittenberg if I had to wager a guess.  Loss to Thomas More early on probably nixed any notion of a home game in the first round. 

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Latest regional rankings are out:
http://www.d3football.com/playoffs/2017/second-regional-ranking

The GRIZ more than likely headed to Trine, IL Wesleyan, or Wittenberg if I had to wager a guess.  Loss to Thomas More early on probably nixed any notion of a home game in the first round.

My worry is it will be Witt because those are 2 of the few teams that are in reach of Berry. But I've been surprised before by how generous the committee has been to Franklin in the past.

[GrizFan]

Any predictions on the Victory Bell Classic (the other bell game)?

Franklin will score its share of points, but the GRIZ defense is really bad this season.  I think the GRIZ will retain the bell but it will be a much closer game than in recent years.

[SaintsFAN]

Does Franklin have another surprise in them for Burton's senior year?? 

I think it's a good matchup.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Have to say, didn't see that matchup coming.
As always when the Grizzlies play a tough team, I look at the first 3 possessions. Far too many times Franklin has started off slow and dug a hole they can't recover from.

Massey says the Knights win 42-27 and give Franklin a 13% chance of winning