FB: Southern Athletic Association

[BerryCollegeFan]

speaking of good wins, it seems like Berry has had some wins over teams that were ranked or at least receiving votes on some ballots: Trinity, Hendrix, & Millsaps. 

and Berry hasn't played Centre yet.


The OOC games don't look to be helping the picture this year.  LaGrange and Maryville.

[wally_wabash]

speaking of good wins, it seems like Berry has had some wins over teams that were ranked or at least receiving votes on some ballots: Trinity, Hendrix, & Millsaps. 

and Berry hasn't played Centre yet.


The OOC games don't look to be helping the picture this year.  LaGrange and Maryville.

That's correct, and that's my bad.  I knew better. 

[Ron Boerger]

speaking of good wins, it seems like Berry has had some wins over teams that were ranked or at least receiving votes on some ballots: Trinity, Hendrix, & Millsaps. 

and Berry hasn't played Centre yet.


The OOC games don't look to be helping the picture this year.  LaGrange and Maryville.

"good wins" to overcome a sizable defeat by an unranked (and still getting no votes) team would be against someone in the top 25 or close.  The 2 voters giving Trinity a 25th place vote, bless 'em, don't elevate that win to such a standard. 

[BerryCollegeFan]

fair point,

next question is would those teams still be receiving votes if they had not lost to Berry?

[Cedricb313]

Week 8 SAA FB Predictions:
BSC 29 CEN 31, SEW 7 TRIN 35, RHO 0 BER 28 & HEN 31 ACU 24.

#d3fb #SAA #GoldRush #GoColonels

[Cedricb313]

CEN 21 BSC 38 F BSC Shufford rushed for 282 yds. Back to drawing board for Colonels.

[awadelewis]

Neither Trinity nor Berry had any trouble today with their opponents.    At least my Tigers put up two more points on Trinity than those people from the school by the zoo did against Berry (gotta look for the positives...  )

[jekelish]

Tough game for Austin College and man, Miles Thompson can play. He threw a couple absolute ropes and the 'Roos just didn't really have any answers for him. Keegan Nichols got into the backfield three or four times and seemed like he had him, but Thompson managed to slip out of grasp and make a play. As soon as VanHoose returned a kick for a touchdown right after AC scored in the first quarter, it set the tone. Explosive plays left and right for the Warriors.

I also appreciated one other thing about Thompson: it was a pretty chippy game. Lots of extracurriculars. But as soon as the final horn blew, as the Hendrix guys started to run over and celebrate with their teammates on the sideline, Thompson trotted over and immediately started shaking the hands of the defensive players on the field. Class move. (Not saying the other guys going to celebrate first wasn't; everyone obviously shook hands. Just stuck out to me that at the end of a game that got pretty heated, he immediately went to the AC guys to shake.)

[BerryCollegeFan]

This week's D3football podcast features B-SC vs. Berry and has a nice interview with Panthers coach Tony Joe White.

Not sure I'd agree with his assessment of the SAA 4th place team being strong enough to win "a lot of conferences" tho 

Given the negativity of the conversation about SAA from the podcast, I'd say White became pretty defensive in his comments.  It was obvious there was an axe to grind in the commentary against the SAA.

[Pat Coleman]

Given the negativity of the conversation about SAA from the podcast, I'd say White became pretty defensive in his comments.  It was obvious there was an axe to grind in the commentary against the SAA.

What commentary would that be? Are you saying he responded to something we hadn't said yet? Because the commentary is after the interview -- and the interview itself was recorded several hours before the rest of the podcast.

[Ron Boerger]

Updated after this week's results:

Berry (5-1) holds h2h tiebreaker vs Trinity, loss to B-SC

• Rhodes WIN 54-10
• bye
• at Centre
• Austin

*win out, needs help (someone beats B-SC) for SAA's Pool A; Pool C candidate if wins out*

Birmingham-Southern (4-1) holds h2h tiebreaker vs Berry

• at Centre WIN 38-21
• Austin
• at Trinity
• Millsaps

*win out for Pool A bid on h2h tiebreaker*

Trinity (4-1) holds h2h tiebreaker vs Austin, loss to Berry

• Sewanee WIN 51-12
• at Hendrix
• B-SC
• at Rhodes

*Must win out, needs Berry loss*

Austin (3-2) loss to Trinity

• Hendrix LOSS 12-41
• at B-SC
• Rhodes
• at Berry

*Must win out, needs Trinity to lose Pretty much out of it*

B-SC shouldn't have any problem with Austin given last week's result; Berry has their bye this week.  Hendrix and Miles Thompson have another chance to play spoiler this week at home against Trinity. 

[Cedricb313]

Week 9 SAA FB Predictions:
CEN 27 RHO 9, ACU 19 BCS 37, TRIN 26 HEN 23 & MIL 31 SEW 9

#d3fb #SAA #GoldRush #CentreColonels

[tigerguy]

Is Hendrix the only SAA school that charges to watch its broadcasts? How prevalent is charging to watch streams across D3? Pretty frustrating but I understand attempting to recoup some costs.

[tigerguy]

Hendrix' statcast is messing up, but it appears from twitter that Hendrix scored with 2:07 to go up 17-14 on Trinity, and then Trinity just drove down and scored with 36 seconds left. Statcast updated to 20-17 and showed that Hendrix' drive started so I guess they missed the PAT.

[jekelish]

Good one going on in Birmingham today. AC and BSC tied 35-35 heading into the fourth.