FB: Southern Athletic Association

[D3Navy]

D3football.com TotW: 

P Eli Gehman, Jr., Trinity (Texas)
Gehman played a key role in the special teams as then-No. 5 Trinity edged Birmingham-Southern 23-20. Gehman punted five times for 213 yards, averaging 42.6 yards per attempt. He booted a pair of 50-yard kicks and dropped two punts inside the 20 during the game. His punting average also puts him in the top 25 in school history for a single game.

News and notes from the SAA office:

Offensive PotW:  Brody Davis / Millsaps / So. / St. Augustine, Fla.
Davis scored five touchdowns and kept Millsaps among the unbeatens in SAA play with a huge game last week. The sophomore completed 28-of-37 passes for 358 yards and four touchdowns through the air and added another touchdown on the ground to lead the Majors past Hendrix 34-28. Davis had touchdown passes of 38- and 34-yards to go along with a one-yard scoring run that led to a 21-7 halftime advantage. He later hit a 25-yard TD pass to start the fourth that provided enough cushion to hold off the Warriors late comeback.

Defensive PotW:  Armon Wells / Centre / Sr. / Louisville, Ky.

Wells was everywhere in a Centre victory, keeping the potent Sewanee offense in check all afternoon. The senior totaled a game-high 13 tackles, eight solo, and had four TFLs. Wells closed the game with a strip sack and also recovered the fumble to shut the door on the Tigers. The linebacker leads the SAA in total tackles (46) and is second with four sacks.

Special Teams PotW:   Aidan Hood / BSC / Sr. / Mountain Brook, Ala.

Handling kick off and punting duties, Hood posted big numbers against Trinity. His five kick offs traveled 293 yards with one touchback, for a 58.6 yard average. Hood totaled 259 yards for six punts, including a 63-yarder, for a 43.2 yard average.

• Home teams successfully defended home turf with all four hosts winning last week.
• Trinity, Centre, and Millsaps emerged from the week unbeaten in SAA play. The three teams won't meet each other until the last three weeks of the season.
  
• Trinity and BSC played the game of the week with the Tigers, trailing late before turning a 4th and 5 into a 43-yard go ahead touchdown with 13 seconds remaining.
• Trinity QB Tucker Horn enjoyed a big week, connecting on 23 of 32 passes for 322 yards and three TDs; the big week pushed him over 4,000 career passing yards.
• Trinity's Eli Gehman was named to the D3football.com team of the week; punting five times for 213 yards, averaging 42.6 yards per attempt. He booted a pair of 50-yard kicks and dropped two punts inside the 20.
• Trinity is 11th in the nation in passing efficiency and ranks 26th nationally in scoring offense (35.0 ppg).
• Rhodes is ninth in the nation in total defense, allowing 206.6 yards a game.
• Tucker Horn (Trinity) is eighth in completion percentage (73 percent).
• BSC's Zach Ford is one of two field goal kickers nationally still perfect on the season.
• Jon Lewis (BSC) is 10th nationally with eight rushing TDs.
• In the rankings; Trinity dropped a spot to No. 6 in the D3football.com rankings. BSC received seven votes.

I also noted zero yards and no returns for BSC.  That's significant.

[D3Navy]

Trinity - Rhodes currently delayed due to lightning in Memphis (1235 Central).

Not going away quickly.  I'd expect at least another hour before they consider starting.

[Cowboy2]

Trinity - Rhodes currently delayed due to lightning in Memphis (1235 Central).

Not going away quickly.  I'd expect at least another hour before they consider starting.

Radar shows it should clear up around 1 or so

[Ron Boerger]

It's been gone for a while but they must have the world's most sensitive lightning detector.  Field Hockey there is starting at 2:05 so let's hope for the same or close for football.

And I guess that's OK because I have the world's slowest DoorDash delivery driver who must be making at least three stops before he gets to my place.

[Ron Boerger]

Kickoff 1:55 per Rhodes Twitter.

[D3Navy]

www.lightningmaps.org

[Cowboy2]

Berry blocks Centre's extra point to win in OT!

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity defense looking very good (15 total yards for Rhodes in the first half), offense almost as much to lead 24-0 at the half.

[Ron Boerger]

Hendrix beat Sewanee 48-21 (after leading 41-0 at the half)
BSC is up 21-0 on Millsaps at the half.

[BSCpanthers]

BSC starts off hot, jumps to a 21-0 lead before putting the offense in neutral and sputtering to a 28-0 win over Millsaps.  BSC defense looked very good all day, stopping Millsaps twice on the goal line. 

This BSC team just doesn't have that killer instinct to put teams away, we just seem to pay with them enough to keep starters in the whole game.  We haven't been able to play other guys much at all, and that will eventually show up.

[rjtiger]

Hendrix beat Sewanee 48-21 (after leading 41-0 at the half)
BSC is up 21-0 on Millsaps at the half.

Tough one for the Tigers.  On paper it looked like it would be a good game.  O and D line for Hendrix were tough to handle.  Those long bus rides have got to be tough too. 

[Ralph Turner]

Factoid of the day...

Alabama's 52 points surrendered to Tennessee last Saturday was the most allowed by a Crimson Tide team since 1907 when Sewanee poured 54 on Bama.

Tip of the hat to D3Playbook.com

[tigerguy]

Factoid of the day...

Alabama's 52 points surrendered to Tennessee last Saturday was the most allowed by a Crimson Tide team since 1907 when Sewanee poured 54 on Bama.

Tip of the hat to D3Playbook.com

Awesome stat. I always enjoy the random conversations where I get to tell people that Sewanee was a founding member of the SEC.

[BSCpanthers]

Factoid of the day...

Alabama's 52 points surrendered to Tennessee last Saturday was the most allowed by a Crimson Tide team since 1907 when Sewanee poured 54 on Bama.

Tip of the hat to D3Playbook.com

Awesome stat. I always enjoy the random conversations where I get to tell people that Sewanee was a founding member of the SEC.

Been looking forward to our game at your house this weekend for a few years now.  Your campus has been one I've been waiting to see.  How's the tailgating scene on campus?  Good places to set up?

[tigerguy]

Factoid of the day...

Alabama's 52 points surrendered to Tennessee last Saturday was the most allowed by a Crimson Tide team since 1907 when Sewanee poured 54 on Bama.

Tip of the hat to D3Playbook.com

Awesome stat. I always enjoy the random conversations where I get to tell people that Sewanee was a founding member of the SEC.

Been looking forward to our game at your house this weekend for a few years now.  Your campus has been one I've been waiting to see.  How's the tailgating scene on campus?  Good places to set up?

Wrong Tigers sir - I'm a Trinity fan. Curse of having the most common mascot in NCAA.

Side note - and I just posted this in the general football forum. I never truly appreciated how much of an island Trinity and the western states are in terms of the d3 football landscape until I saw this graphic just now, wow:

Not sure how updated this is, but I just came across this map of the D3 football teams landscape. Never truly appreciated on how much of an island Texas and the western states are in D3:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/NCAA_Division_3_football_map.gif