FB: Southern Athletic Association

tigerguy · October 30, 2021, 05:10:52 PM

Pick-six puts BSC up 14-3 at the end of the third. Berry has a stout defense but their offense just doesn't seem to be able to do much against good teams, unfortunately. Time of possession thus far is BSC 30:23, Berry 14:37. Still an entire quarter left, but I'm sure the defense is starting to tire and the offense just doesn't seem to be able to get into a groove.

BSCpanthers · October 30, 2021, 09:47:07 PM

Final was 21-3 BSC over Berry. The 4th quarter was a lot of flags that pushed BSC out of FG range. BSC also had a missed FG and blocked Fag in the first half.

BSC stood tall all day, even keeping Berry out of the end zone late when they had first and goal inside the 5.

Next week is championship weekend for the SAA. Trinity at BSC for it all. Noon central kick, it should be a good one.

Ron Boerger · November 01, 2021, 08:10:08 AM

Trinity@BSC and impact on the playoff race (in terms of impact on where teams go) are discussed in this week's D3football podcast. They mention that the loser will be in the Pool C conversation, but the SOS of both teams are pretty marginal and the SAA runner-up would need some help - maybe a lot of help - to end up with one of the five available bids IMO.

jknezek · November 03, 2021, 03:49:09 PM

The first Regional Ranking (Listing) is out. Reminder, the change this year is the "Rankings" for the first week are in alphabetical order, not in an actual ranking:

Region 3
   Birmingham-Southern
   Centre
   Hardin-Simmons
   Mary Hardin-Baylor
   Randolph-Macon
   Trinity (Texas)
   Washington & Lee

whole story here: https://d3football.com/playoffs/2021/first-regional-ranking

Ron Boerger · November 03, 2021, 08:43:36 PM

Quote from: jknezek on November 03, 2021, 03:49:09 PM
The first Regional Ranking (Listing) is out. Reminder, the change this year is the "Rankings" for the first week are in alphabetical order, not in an actual ranking:

Region 3
   Birmingham-Southern
   Centre
   Hardin-Simmons
   Mary Hardin-Baylor
   Randolph-Macon
   Trinity (Texas)
   Washington & Lee

whole story here: https://d3football.com/playoffs/2021/first-regional-ranking

Good news for the SAA runner-up because they will have a 1-1 vs RRO against Hardin-Simmons' 0-1. Whether that will be enough to overcome HSU's strong SOS advantage (and the quality of that one loss) is another question. The 1-1 could help against other Pool C candidates, though.

Ron Boerger · November 04, 2021, 11:45:32 AM

Our friend @wally_wabash takes a look at the regional "rankings" and takes a stab at an actual ranking based on the NCAA criteria. No real surprises in our region, IMO, but still worth your time.

https://d3football.com/columns/around-the-nation/2021/giving-order-to-regional-rankings

Ron Boerger · November 05, 2021, 01:36:02 PM

Let's see, anything important going on this weekend?

Week 9 (OK, really week 10) games:

#17 Trinity (TX) [7-0, 5-0] @ #18 Birmingham-Southern [8-0, 5-0], noon CDT - Two teams steamrolling their opposition meet to determine the SAA championship. It will be either team's first NCAA AQ representing the SAA (Trinity last made the field in 2011 as the SCAC's AQ the year before the SAA split off from the conference). Winner can expect to pick up some of the loser's poll votes next week with a very outside chance of overtaking UMHB at the top of the regional rankings depending on margin of victory.
Berry [5-3, 3-2] @ Rhodes [3-5, 2-3], 1pm CDT - Vikings playing for pride and to set up for next year; Lynx have fallen off badly the last two weeks.
Centre [6-2, 3-2] @ Sewanee [0-8, 0-5], 2:30pm CDT - SAA runner-up wants Colonels to keep winning to boost their pool C chances, Tigers just want the misery to end
Millsaps [2-6, 2-3] @ Hendrix [1-7, 0-5], 6:30pm CDT - if in August you had said these two teams would only combine on three wins this late in the season, I would have asked you for some of what you were smoking. I thought the Warriors' first-year QB, Parker Wells, was pretty effective in the second half last week and perhaps he'll get the starting nod against the Majors. He was a conference Offensive POTW earlier this season.

albatross · November 05, 2021, 11:31:02 PM

Looking forward to the noon game tomorrow! This conference season definitely did not turn out how we thought, but glad it has been a fun one.

tigerguy · November 06, 2021, 02:21:32 PM

Looks like its a pretty windy day at BSC so not much offense through the air thus far. 14-7 Trinity at the half. BSC will get the ball to start the 2nd.

tigerguy · November 06, 2021, 02:40:08 PM

Of course I say that, and then Trey Patterson comes out in the second half and drops a bee-youuu-tiful 33 yard ball for a TD to tie it up 14-14.

tigerguy · November 06, 2021, 03:35:07 PM

Holy cow. BSC down 28-21 with 25 seconds left. 4th and 1 at Trinity one yard line. Run play and Trinity thinks they get the stuff but refs say BSC gets in to make it 28-27. BSC goes for 2 but receiver bobbles it in front corner of end zone; no good. BSC goes for the onside and almost gets it but Trinity recovers. Great ending. Pretty great game overall. Congrats to the Tigers and I sure hope BSC gets in as a pool C - they sure deserve it.

Ron Boerger · November 06, 2021, 04:49:01 PM

Only got to see second half, two teams that didn't want to lose and Trinity fortunate to come away with the win. The way the BSC QB was running all over the Tiger defense figured they'd run him off a fake to Shufford for the two point conversion.

One more W and probably a home game in the first round against HSU. Don't expect to see a lot of movement in the D3 top 25 given the narrow win.

tigerguy · November 06, 2021, 05:17:02 PM

Trinity has had a real problem with allowing opposing QBs to get big gains on runs when a play breaks down. Secondary does its job most of the time but there is no spy and so he just takes off. Have noticed that all season and it needs to get addressed

awadelewis · November 06, 2021, 05:36:33 PM

Centre leaves the Mountain with a 30-20 win over Sewanee. My one-and-only in-person game this year. Centre was pretty lackluster today and Sewanee's run defense was pretty much poor like it's been all season. The Centre QB made some really silly throws that turned into ints.

I really do hope B-SC gets a Pool C bid. But they may have to put a thumping on Millsaps next week in Jackson to keep in the running.

BSCpanthers · November 06, 2021, 07:22:39 PM

It was windy and cooler then expected on the Hilltop today. The game never got more the a TD apart, but it was two very evenly matched teams. BSC lost the field position battle in the first half, but none the less, stayed with Trinity all day. Very clean day with no turnovers for either team and not many, if any, mistakes. It was a conference game the way conference championship games should go. Unfortunately for my Panthers, we came up 3 yards short on the 2 point conversion. That was the only difference in the game, we kick the PAT and we go to OT. Selection sunday(or whenever they do it) will be a tense day.