East Region Fan Poll

[bman]

WNEC finally cracked my top 10 this week.  Oddly enough, before placing the ranking, their win this week was the least impressive of the season for me.  Giving up 35 to Maine Maritime(Even if 21 was in the 4th quarter) is not overly impressive, but Ithaca gave me no choice but to drop them out completely.  Now feeling down on Hobart, Ithaca's W's are getting less and less impressive.  This definitely doesn't mean they will stay there, even with a win.  Wins by RPI, Buff St., or even Ithaca next week could make me put them back into the top 10, but who knows what happens to the top 10 teams this week.  I still think Cortland loses 2-3 more games. 

That said, this is going to get really fun the next few weeks.

This season in the East has taught me the true meaning of the word "clusterf@@k".....

[gordonmann]

Any mistake that causes Fran Elia to make a guest appearance on this board is a mistake worth making.

[AUKaz00]

Week 7 Fan Poll

Team	Record	Points	Last Rating	Next Week
1   Wesley ( 7 )	6-0	70	1	vs. #4 Rowan
2   Albright	6-0	63	2	vs. #6 Delaware Valley
3   Salisbury	4-1	56	3	at Kean
4   Rowan	5-1	47	5	at #1 Wesley
5   Cortland State	6-1	42	6	vs. Brockport State
6   Delaware Valley	6-1	31	8	at #2 Albright
7   Western New England	6-0	19	9	at MIT
8   Stevenson	5-1	17	NR	vs. Widener
9   St. Lawrence	5-1	12	10	at Springfield
10  Framingham State	5-1	11	NR	vs. Plymouth State

Dropping Out:
Ithaca
Alfred


Also Receiving votes:               
Buffalo State 6
Frostburg State 4
Alfred 2
Brockport State 2
Montclair State 2
Ithaca 1
                     
            
Voting Distribution:            

Wesley (1,1,1,1,1,1,1)
Albright (2,2,2,2,2,2,2)
Salisbury (3,3,3,3,3,3,3)
Rowan (4,4,4,6,4,4,4)
Cortland State (6,5,5,4,5,5,5)
Delaware Valley (7,7,6,8,6,6,6)
Western New England (10,8,10,5,8,10,7)
Stevenson (8,9,7,9,10,9,8)
St. Lawrence (NR,6,8,NR,NR,7,NR)
Framingham State (NR,NR,NR,7,9,8,9)
Buffalo State (5,NR,NR,NR,NR,NR,NR)
Alfred (9,6,NR,7,NR,5,NR)
Brockport State (NR,10,NR,10,NR,NR,NR)
Montclair State (9,NR,NR,NR,NR,NR,NR)
Ithaca (NR,NR,10,NR,NR,9,8)


Key Matchups:
#4 Rowan at #1 Wesley
#6 Delaware Valley at #2 Albright

[lewdogg11]

Yowza, after last week, the Buff St guy, still has Buff St at 5?  <baffled>  Sweet win over Finlandia.

[AUPepBand]

Yowza, after last week, the Buff St guy, still has Buff St at 5?  <baffled>  Sweet win over Finlandia.

Hey, come on, LD, Buffalo State beat Finlandia by 62, just a point less than UW-Whitewater did...and the Bengals held them scoreless! It was a sweet win, indeed!

Pep knows he wouldn't want his Saxons facing dem pesky Bengals right now. Look what they did to Cortland State! They got Ertel playing like Hoppy....but they'd best change their e-roster as the boxscore has Hoppy completing two passes against Finlandia and Pep understands that he's done for the year (redshirt?) and they've got another #3 out there now. Which is it, bengalsrule? Is Hoppy back?

[AUKaz00]

Yowza, after last week, the Buff St guy, still has Buff St at 5?  <baffled>  Sweet win over Finlandia.

I know I've been absent from these boards, but not absent-minded.  Was fun to see all the hysteria I generated with my support of the Bengals!

Here's my defense: We're all trying to make sense of the mess that spots 2-15 are in the East, so I rank kind of how Pep said it - who'd I least want to face currently.  Buff State has two losses, but I think they are misleading.  The Bengals had the Alfred game well in hand until Hoppy got hurt; they looked better against the Saxons in Mayberry than the Red Dragons did in Cortland, plus they beat Cortland H2H.  Everyone is mildly high on Cortland, so while those losses occurred they don't speak to the quality of team currently.

And it's fun to troll.

While you're dissecting my top 10, take at look at my #9.  Montclair has three tough losses, so get on the bus now!

[rams1102]

Yowza, after last week, the Buff St guy, still has Buff St at 5?  <baffled>  Sweet win over Finlandia.

I know I've been absent from these boards, but not absent-minded.  Was fun to see all the hysteria I generated with my support of the Bengals!

Here's my defense: We're all trying to make sense of the mess that spots 2-15 are in the East, so I rank kind of how Pep said it - who'd I least want to face currently.  Buff State has two losses, but I think they are misleading.  The Bengals had the Alfred game well in hand until Hoppy got hurt; they looked better against the Saxons in Mayberry than the Red Dragons did in Cortland, plus they beat Cortland H2H.  Everyone is mildly high on Cortland, so while those losses occurred they don't speak to the quality of team currently.

And it's fun to troll.

While you're dissecting my top 10, take at look at my #9.  Montclair has three tough losses, so get on the bus now!

Montclair had 2 tough losses and rolled over in the second half against Salisbury. IMHO the jury is still out.

[Bengalsrule]

Yowza, after last week, the Buff St guy, still has Buff St at 5?  <baffled>  Sweet win over Finlandia.

Hey, come on, LD, Buffalo State beat Finlandia by 62, just a point less than UW-Whitewater did...and the Bengals held them scoreless! It was a sweet win, indeed!

Pep knows he wouldn't want his Saxons facing dem pesky Bengals right now. Look what they did to Cortland State! They got Ertel playing like Hoppy....but they'd best change their e-roster as the boxscore has Hoppy completing two passes against Finlandia and Pep understands that he's done for the year (redshirt?) and they've got another #3 out there now. Which is it, bengalsrule? Is Hoppy back?

Sorry, that's not Hoppy. New #3 - third string quarterback Jason Saul.  We won't see Hoppy until next year.  Sadly enough the roster hasnt yet (Hoppy still listed today) and at the beginning of the game when Saul went out for the coin toss the announcer said it was Hoppy. Surprising especially since we have 1 of the best SID's in the country. But with 100 plus players, sometimes things get mixed up!

[Bengalsrule]

Yowza, after last week, the Buff St guy, still has Buff St at 5?  <baffled>  Sweet win over Finlandia.

I know I've been absent from these boards, but not absent-minded.  Was fun to see all the hysteria I generated with my support of the Bengals!

Here's my defense: We're all trying to make sense of the mess that spots 2-15 are in the East, so I rank kind of how Pep said it - who'd I least want to face currently.  Buff State has two losses, but I think they are misleading.  The Bengals had the Alfred game well in hand until Hoppy got hurt; they looked better against the Saxons in Mayberry than the Red Dragons did in Cortland, plus they beat Cortland H2H.  Everyone is mildly high on Cortland, so while those losses occurred they don't speak to the quality of team currently.

And it's fun to troll.

While you're dissecting my top 10, take at look at my #9.  Montclair has three tough losses, so get on the bus now!

I like your rankings AUkaz!!!!!!   Hopefully my beloved BENGALS will prove worthy of 5...or higher in the weeks to come. If this Saturday's game vs Utica stayS in sync with the last 3 (lost at home in 2014, won at Utica 2013, lost at Home 2012) then this road trip may be worth while!  Going through 3 quarterbacks in 6 games would have finished the season for many a squad (or at the very least allowed for excuses to rain supreme). Coach Boyes seems to have the boys on track with his "next man up" philosophy. So far so good.

Go BENGALS

[Bombers798891]

I'd half agree with Kaz's post.

The Buff State defense certainly looks like it's playing better than it was earlier. They allowed 7 garbage-time points to Fisher (which is looking pretty good considering they've scored 30+ three times), held Cortland's offense to 14 points, and a shutout is still a shutout. If the offense is at least capable of putting up 24-31 points, I could see them being very tough from here on out.

Still, five seems a little high for a team that got waxed by a three-loss Morrisville. I kind of like Brockport. Pair of double-digit wins in conference and two OT losses.

[Bengalsrule]

I'd half agree with Kaz's post.

The Buff State defense certainly looks like it's playing better than it was earlier. They allowed 7 garbage-time points to Fisher (which is looking pretty good considering they've scored 30+ three times), held Cortland's offense to 14 points, and a shutout is still a shutout. If the offense is at least capable of putting up 24-31 points, I could see them being very tough from here on out.

Still, five seems a little high for a team that got waxed by a three-loss Morrisville. I kind of like Brockport. Pair of double-digit wins in conference and two OT losses.

Hopefully my beloved BENGALS can change your mind on November 14th, if not sooner. There s alot of football left to be played. Hoping that we can get by Utica Saturday!  Offense has been getting better although I wouldn't say that Findlandia was a great test. Those boys walked by me when they came out on to Coyer field. They looked scared (not disrespect meant...but you could see it in their eyes). BENGALS squad was 3 times the size of Findlandia's!!!  But you are right.. 62-0 is....62-0 no mater who you are playing. Tough game tomorrow. I'm hoping for the best!

GO BENGALS

[D3MAFAN]

I had a chance to watch a few games around the east and I think the East continues to run through Wesley, although Rowan made them appear human, they found a way to win the game. I think Rowan missed many opportunities to get the big upset, Marcelin continues to impress me, although he had some key turnovers, remove those and interception in the redzone and it would be a different front page story. Nevertheless, Wesley made mistakes as well, so it somewhat evens out and I still will have them number one on my ballot, but I am curious how they will fair against better defenses (i.e. St. Thomas, Wheaton, and UW-Oshkosh). Now to the Salisbury vs. Kean game. I am somewhat shaky about this Salisbury team, they can put up some numbers when they are executing the triple option, but I am still a believer that to beat good defenses, you are going to have to prove that you can throw the ball (i.e. dropback) and not be one-dimensional, defensively they didn't really finish the game, they had a chance to really demoralize Kean, but allowed them to score three touchdowns in the fourth easily. Maybe it was the fact that it was Kean's homecoming. Looking ahead in a couple weeks, I don't see them beating Wesley, I think Wesley actually beats them by 17+ points and that's because its a rivalry game. Now to the game that had me on my seat, the Albright vs. Delaware Val, I am impress with Delaware Valley, they came out on fire against Albright, but Albright settled in and played like the second half against Salisbury. Then Del Val made some key stops and some big plays and kept add it and took the lead, this was the game of the day for me in East that I watch from start to finish. Lastly, I watch the Framingham State game, they played shaky for three quarters and then erupted in the fourth, it took them a while to impose themselves, but they proved that they are a good team and when playing great, can score with the best of them. Also, I like that the defense stood firm all game when pressured came through to give the offense the ball. As far as the rest of region, I tuned out and watch some of the West and North region games. I will look at the recaps and analysis of others to help with my vote this week.

[bman]

I had a chance to watch a few games around the east and I think the East continues to run through Wesley, although Rowan made them appear human, they found a way to win the game. I think Rowan missed many opportunities to get the big upset, Marcelin continues to impress me, although he had some key turnovers, remove those and interception in the redzone and it would be a different front page story. Nevertheless, Wesley made mistakes as well, so it somewhat evens out and I still will have them number one on my ballot, but I am curious how they will fair against better defenses (i.e. St. Thomas, Wheaton, and UW-Oshkosh). Now to the Salisbury vs. Kean game. I am somewhat shaky about this Salisbury team, they can put up some numbers when they are executing the triple option, but I am still a believer that to beat good defenses, you are going to have to prove that you can throw the ball (i.e. dropback) and not be one-dimensional, defensively they didn't really finish the game, they had a chance to really demoralize Kean, but allowed them to score three touchdowns in the fourth easily. Maybe it was the fact that it was Kean's homecoming. Looking ahead in a couple weeks, I don't see them beating Wesley, I think Wesley actually beats them by 17+ points and that's because its a rivalry game. Now to the game that had me on my seat, the Albright vs. Delaware Val, I am impress with Delaware Valley, they came out on fire against Albright, but Albright settled in and played like the second half against Salisbury. Then Del Val made some key stops and some big plays and kept add it and took the lead, this was the game of the day for me in East that I watch from start to finish. Lastly, I watch the Framingham State game, they played shaky for three quarters and then erupted in the fourth, it took them a while to impose themselves, but they proved that they are a good team and when playing great, can score with the best of them. Also, I like that the defense stood firm all game when pressured came through to give the offense the ball. As far as the rest of region, I tuned out and watch some of the West and North region games. I will look at the recaps and analysis of others to help with my vote this week.

I don't see them faring very well, although I hope they do...

[wally_wabash]

but I am curious how they will fair against better defenses (i.e. St. Thomas, Wheaton, and UW-Oshkosh).

*clears throat loudly*

[jknezek]

but I am curious how they will fair against better defenses (i.e. St. Thomas, Wheaton, and UW-Oshkosh).

*clears throat loudly*

Need a cough drop?