FB: Southern Athletic Association

[tigerguy]

Yep you're right. Stats briefly had it as 4th quarter. It's been flipping around all afternoon

[tigerguy]

BSC holds on 28-21 over Centre.

Centre had a shot at the end. With 1:12 to go, Centre down 28-21, 4th and 5 for Centre on their own 34. False start by Centre to make it 4th and 10. Diving catch by a Centre receiver to pick it up. 3rd and 10 with 40 seconds to go on Centre's 44. Huge pressure by BSC and the Centre qb scrambles around and throws up a duck that somehow a Centre receiver comes down with on BSC 44. 4th and 10 with 20 seconds left, Centre qb throws up a 50/50 ball down to the 15 yard line - some contact but no flag. Game over.

[tigerguy]

First fumble by Trinity all year (by backup running back) puts Millsaps in Tiger territory for the first time all day. Trinity defense steps up with a sack for 10 yards on Millsaps' first play, and an interception on second. Trinity 36-0 with a minute to go in the 3rd. Backups now in across the offense for Trinity.

[awadelewis]

Berry up 24-0 at the half over Sewanee.   And now, Berry up 31-0 in the 3rd Q.

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity will win 46-0 and outgained Millsaps around 550-75. 

[tigerguy]

Trinity will win 46-0 and outgained Millsaps around 550-75.

Trinity starters allow only 50 yards, backups give up an additional 22 in about a quarter a half of work. Offense never was fully in sync all game but obviously did enough. Field goal unit needs a lot of work. Another reoccurring issue for the Tigers is penalties. Came into the game averaging 6.5 penalties (140th in nation) and 68.75 yards (185th in nation) per game. Eight more penalties today for 95 yards; two of those penalties negated touchdowns and a D-lineman got ejected because he had two PI penalties. That won't work against BSC or playoff teams. Still, hard to complain about a 46-0 win but I'm obviously trying.

[D3Navy]

Another dominant outing from Trinity.  Millsaps operated in TU territory only a couple of times all game.

A broader play selection today including a couple of reverses.  As tigerguy said, the placekicking game needs some work.  TU went for it on 4th down a couple of times where a more confident kicking game would've usually come into play.

tigerguy also rightly highlighted the penalties.  It got very heated between the teams on the field in the 2nd half and I was quite impressed when Coach Urban called a timeout and brought the WHOLE team out around him to fix it.  Can't remember seeing that before in football.

Lots of time for replacements to play today revealing a lot of depth in the "skill" positions on this Tiger team.  With strong lines, the future looks bright.

A glorious day in San Antonio weather-wise and a terrific outing.

[BSCpanthers]

BSC played their worst game of the year today.  Had 14 penalties for 114 yards, fumbled the ball 4 times, twice inside the 5, fortunately Centre gave it right back to us just before the half.  BSC couldn't tackle the QB.  Trey Patterson had some, "What the hell is he doing" moments, but Southern survived as a team.  Patterson ended up 17 of 22 for 239 yards, also had a 65 yards TD run, so it ended as a good day. 

BSC is going to have to clean up all the penalties if we want to take down Trinity in 3 weeks.  But still 6-0, so I'll take it. 

On to the next one, which is Homecoming with Rhodes next weekend.

[Ron Boerger]

Rhodes and Hendrix in OT.   Both have field goals blocked in first OT.   Hendrix made their FG in 2OT.    Lynx get a 15 yd rush for TD from James Moskosky to win their first home game of the season and get back to .500 (3-3, 2-1 SAA).   Hendrix falls to 1-5, 0-3 SAA.

Conference Standings approaching the midpoint of the season:

Team	Record	SAA	Remaining games
BSC	6-0	3-0	RHO @BER TRI @MIL
TRI	5-0	3-0	@UOS HDX @BSC RHO
BER	4-2	2-1	@HDX BSC @RHO CEN
RHO	3-3	2-1	@BSC @CEN BER @TRI
CEN	4-2	1-2	@MIL RHO @UOS @BER
MIL	1-5	1-2	CEN UOS @HDX BSC
HDX	1-5	0-3	BER @TRI MIL @UOS
UOS	0-6	0-3	TRI @MIL CEN HDX

[Ron Boerger]

And this isn't SAA (or even Region 3) but you have to feel for the QB in the UW-Platteville / #11 UW-La Crosse game yesterday.   Basically the UW-P offense was in position to try a game winning FG with time running down and had plenty of time on the clock, which the UW-P QB patiently allowed to run down before taking the snap.   Instead of stopping the clock with a few seconds left by spiking the ball, he took a knee.  With no timeouts the stunned offense could not get set for another snap before time ran out.   You can see video of the play here (thank you, Pat).   This would have been a huge upset given that UW-P was 1-4 going into the game (including a narrow loss to Region 3's ETBU).

It would have been about a 31-yard FGA - no sure thing as the kicker is 4/7 on the season, but was well within his range as he had a 41- and a 50-yarder to his credit this season. 

[tigerguy]

And this isn't SAA (or even Region 3) but you have to feel for the QB in the UW-Platteville / #11 UW-La Crosse game yesterday.   Basically the UW-P offense was in position to try a game winning FG with time running down and had plenty of time on the clock, which the UW-P QB patiently allowed to run down before taking the snap.   Instead of stopping the clock with a few seconds left by spiking the ball, he took a knee.  With no timeouts the stunned offense could not get set for another snap before time ran out.   You can see video of the play here (thank you, Pat).   This would have been a huge upset given that UW-P was 1-4 going into the game (including a narrow loss to Region 3's ETBU).

It would have been about a 31-yard FGA - no sure thing as the kicker is 4/7 on the season, but was well within his range as he had a 41- and a 50-yarder to his credit this season.

Kirk Cousins did that a couple of years ago. The UW ending has been all over social media. Feel for the kid - but if an NFL qb can do it, anyone can. Hopefully it doesn't haunt him for too long. Would have been a nice upset for UW-P though.

[Ron Boerger]

Week 7 games where 3 of the 4 winners will likely be road teams:

• Centre (4-2, 1-2) at Millsaps (1-5, 1-2), 1PM EDT - Colonels outrank Majors on the football field as well as in the Army.
• Rhodes (3-3, 2-1) at B-SC (6-0, 3-0), 2PM EDT - Lynx have been the feel-good story of the early SAA season but hard to believe they'll be able to put the brakes on Shufford like Centre did, and if you can't slow Shufford, you can't beat B-SC.
• Trinity (5-0, 3-0) at Sewanee (0-6, 0-3), 2PM EDT - Tigers remain both undefeated and winless.
• Berry (4-2, 2-1) at Hendrix (1-5, 0-3), 5:30PM EDT - Vikings plunder the Warriors to keep their hopes alive another week; Panthers up next.

[BSCpanthers]

This week is easy to predict, best game could be Rhodes@BSC, but I expect BSC to return to their 40 point win ways as they were before the Centre game. 

[Ron Boerger]

Generous coverage of the Trinity defense in this week's Around the Nation.   Thank you @wallywabash (aka Greg Thomas)!

[wally_wabash]

Appreciate the read, Ron.  Thank you!