FB: Region 4 fan poll

[DPU3619]

I was thinking about IWU, sorry.  Wrong team.  Right church, wrong pew.

[smedindy]

Looks like North Central is giving Elmhurst the Cee-Lo treatment ("F--- You....")

[wally_wabash]

Hey now. 

Some other finals of interest around the region...

Otterbein 38, B-W 17 (we've really just been waiting for this kind of result with B-W, yes?)
Wheaton 49, Augustana 7
Wabash 54, Carnegie Mellon 28 (nice bounce back for Wabash)
Witt 14, CWRU 10 (Witt has either put their offense into neutral, or they aren't who we thought they were)
Allegheny 15, Oberlin 3 (understandable exhale game for the Gators...also goes to show the week to week variability teams can have)
Concordia (Wis) 6, Benedictine 0 (6 BU turnovers)
Concordia-Chicago 48, Rockford 10
Adrian 24, Hope 0

OWU and North Central are doing work.  Illinois Wesleyan, however, currently chasing a couple of scores against Millikin.  Tracking....

IWU survives Millikin in OT 34-33. 

[smedindy]

It looks like a clear path for the 'Berg to be the OAC "C" contender.

[NCF]

Looks like North Central is giving Elmhurst the Cee-Lo treatment ("F--- You....")

hahahaha, +K. Big game at Witt next week. outlook anyone?

[smedindy]

Juries out on if Witt had been sandbagging or their offensive prowess was hyper-inflated by DPU's ineptitude. It'll be a great game, though.

[smedindy]

Submitted my poll. Just saw the Top 25. Voters are going for the flavor of the week in the OAC.

[USee]

I went back to 1999(that's as far back as I could get on the IWU website) to see the Wheaton vs IWU series. In the last 13 games, IWU has only won five times. However, since IWU's 2004 loss to Wheaton, the two teams have alternated victories. IWU wins in the odd numbered years and Wheaton the even. If that pattern continues, it is IWU's year to lose.

I can't put any stock in that, personally.  Those things aren't even relevant to both head coaches.  While, Eash has been there for 25 years, Thorne wasn't even there in 1999.  If you have a sophomore who plays, he was 8 when you started your sample.

It might help to point out this trend happened to coincide with the home team winning every time.    That's a slightly more reliable trend. 

[NCF]

I went back to 1999(that's as far back as I could get on the IWU website) to see the Wheaton vs IWU series. In the last 13 games, IWU has only won five times. However, since IWU's 2004 loss to Wheaton, the two teams have alternated victories. IWU wins in the odd numbered years and Wheaton the even. If that pattern continues, it is IWU's year to lose.

I can't put any stock in that, personally.  Those things aren't even relevant to both head coaches.  While, Eash has been there for 25 years, Thorne wasn't even there in 1999.  If you have a sophomore who plays, he was 8 when you started your sample.

It might help to point out this trend happened to coincide with the home team winning every time.    That's a slightly more reliable trend.

When I started to look I was just checking to see how many times IWU had beaten Wheaton in the past few years and stumbled on the alt. W/L thing and thought it was kind of interesting.

[Pat Coleman]

Submitted my poll. Just saw the Top 25. Voters are going for the flavor of the week in the OAC.

I know Keith and you already talked about this on Twitter but he pointed out the reason why I'm not voting for Heidelberg, yet. The teams they've played so far have a pretty poor record at the moment.

[wally_wabash]

Maybe we need to start giving Franklin more credit for scoring once against Mount Union.  Sweet jeebus that group is stingy. 

[Dr. Acula]

Maybe we need to start giving Franklin more credit for scoring once against Mount Union.  Sweet jeebus that group is stingy.

The bad thing is with Wilmington this week followed by Cap and their putrid offense there's a decent chance of 2 more shutouts coming the next 2 weeks. 

[smedindy]

Will Wilmington move past the 50?

[Dr. Acula]

Will Wilmington move past the 50?

ONU only did once...with 90 sec left when some frosh DB got mixed up with the coverage and let a WR get behind him.  So sadly, that's a fair question I suppose.  Plus they have a new HC now.  Man, this is depressing...

[DPU3619]

Here's the North Region Fan Poll.  We're a voter short this week because Mr. Ypsi is somewhere in the North Dakota wilderness.  One small note, one voter did cast a 9th and a 10th place vote for teams not in the North Region.  Neither team made the poll, so I chose to omit them entirely.

1. Mount Union          70 pts (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
2. North Central         57 pts (2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 5)
3. Heidelberg             48 pts (2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8)
4. Illinois Wesleyan     44 pts (2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7)
5. Wheaton               40 pts (3, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9)
6. Wittenberg            34 pts (3, 3, 5, 5, 8, 8, -)
7. Wabash                31 pts (4, 4, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9)
8. Franklin                16 pts (7, 7, 8, 8, 9, -, -)
9. Otterbein              14 pts (5, 7, 8, 10, -, -, -)
10. Albion                 13 pts (6, 6, 9, 10, -, -, -)

ARV
Allegheny                   8 pts (7, 9, 10, 10, -, -, -)
Baldwin-Wallace          3 pts (9, 10, -, -, -, -, -)
Concordia (Ill.)            1 pt  (10, -, -, -, -, -, -)

The North Region Fan Poll is voted on by Wes Anderson, wally_wabash, smedindy, ADL70, FCGrizzlesGrad, newcardfan, and short.