FB: Southern Athletic Association

[BerryCollegeFan]

Centre is off this week.

Other games...

Austin at Berry
Sewanee at Hendrix
BSU at Trinity
Rhodes at Millsaps

plenty of storylines in this line-up of games.  I think we could see some very competitive games.

[BerryViking92]

Centre is off this week.

Other games...

Austin at Berry
Sewanee at Hendrix
BSU at Trinity
Rhodes at Millsaps

plenty of storylines in this line-up of games.  I think we could see some very competitive games.

Rhodes at Millsaps is a very interesting match up and will tell us a lot about how good Millsaps really is.

[BerryCollegeFan]

BSC comes through with a show of support for Berry's Justus Edwards.

https://twitter.com/bscfootball/status/1044747874523844609?s=21

[Ron Boerger]

#15 Berry humiliates Austin, 61-0 (and it could have been worse).
Sewanee continues Hendrix's season from hell with a 38-31 win in Conway, stopping the Warriors twice on downs after they had closed to the final margin on a punt return TD by Jared Bazley.  Alex Darras had 364 yards passing for the Mountain Men; Mason Doerr had 339 for Hendrix.
Trinity survives a low punt snap which gave BSC the ball inside the TU 30 with plenty of time to score late to win 24-17.
In Jackson, Rhodes has just taken a 21-14 lead with just over four minutes remaining.  PJ Settles has 144 yards on the ground to go with 169 yards in the air.   Millsaps is driving.

And for gosh sakes someone tell the Millsaps announcers to quit constantly complaining about the officiating.

[Ron Boerger]

Millsaps tied it with under 2:00 remaining, but Rhodes took it from their own 15 to the 'saps 16 and Crew Jacobs knocked it through from 33.  Berry now stands alone at the top of the conference.   Great clock management and play calling from Rhodes during that drive. 

[BerryCollegeFan]

We knew the Rhodes/Millsaps game would be a good tight game.  It didn't disappoint. 

Great game by Rhodes.  I expect the Berry/Millsaps game to be a good one in a few weeks.

[BerryViking92]

Up to #14.  Can't wait to be in Rome this weekend for Mt Day and the Sewanee game.  Go Vikings!

[BerryCollegeFan]

Highest ranking ever!  They jumped a couple teams that won too.  That doesn't happen very often.

[MUC57]

Berry fans

Congrats on your new ranking. Number 14! Nice to see some new teams up there. Of course, I don't mind " old" Mount Union still up there. How about a Mount - Berry playoff game? I think that would be neat! Best to you guys on the rest of the season. Hey, my first loyalty is to the Purple Raiders, being a graduate, but I also root for some other teams. Berry is one of them. Go Vikings! ☠🏈

[BerryViking92]

Berry fans

Congrats on your new ranking. Number 14! Nice to see some new teams up there. Of course, I don't mind " old" Mount Union still up there. How about a Mount - Berry playoff game? I think that would be neat! Best to you guys on the rest of the season. Hey, my first loyalty is to the Purple Raiders, being a graduate, but I also root for some other teams. Berry is one of them. Go Vikings! ☠🏈

Thanks, but give us a couple more years to get ready to take on Mount Union, certainly the cream of the crop. But I truly feel we are a program on the rise

[Pat Coleman]

Berry fans

Congrats on your new ranking. Number 14! Nice to see some new teams up there. Of course, I don't mind " old" Mount Union still up there. How about a Mount - Berry playoff game? I think that would be neat! Best to you guys on the rest of the season. Hey, my first loyalty is to the Purple Raiders, being a graduate, but I also root for some other teams. Berry is one of them. Go Vikings! ☠🏈

Thanks, but give us a couple more years to get ready to take on Mount Union, certainly the cream of the crop. But I truly feel we are a program on the rise

I hope Berry boosts the non-conference schedule to one worthy of a program on the rise. I understand scheduling LaGrange, but get out of the local area and play someone in the rest of Division III. How about someone like Wittenberg?

[jknezek]

Berry fans

Congrats on your new ranking. Number 14! Nice to see some new teams up there. Of course, I don't mind " old" Mount Union still up there. How about a Mount - Berry playoff game? I think that would be neat! Best to you guys on the rest of the season. Hey, my first loyalty is to the Purple Raiders, being a graduate, but I also root for some other teams. Berry is one of them. Go Vikings! ☠🏈

Thanks, but give us a couple more years to get ready to take on Mount Union, certainly the cream of the crop. But I truly feel we are a program on the rise

I hope Berry boosts the non-conference schedule to one worthy of a program on the rise. I understand scheduling LaGrange, but get out of the local area and play someone in the rest of Division III. How about someone like Wittenberg?

Takes 2 to tango. That's a long ride. 500 miles even on TES. Other than a trip to Wash U back in 2009 and 2007, Witt's OOC has been pretty local. Olivet or Alma at 250-300 miles seems to be the outlier and that goes back to the mid 90s. Capital has been up 4 times at 50 miles. The number of good schools Witt would drive past seems a bit silly.

Berry is just a difficult island to be on, and with expensive trips to Texas every year, plus Arkansas every other, it's asking a lot to shell out for a distance OOC as well. Berry really needs the ODAC or USASAC to develop a strong team.

[Pat Coleman]

Berry fans

Congrats on your new ranking. Number 14! Nice to see some new teams up there. Of course, I don't mind " old" Mount Union still up there. How about a Mount - Berry playoff game? I think that would be neat! Best to you guys on the rest of the season. Hey, my first loyalty is to the Purple Raiders, being a graduate, but I also root for some other teams. Berry is one of them. Go Vikings! ☠🏈

Thanks, but give us a couple more years to get ready to take on Mount Union, certainly the cream of the crop. But I truly feel we are a program on the rise

I hope Berry boosts the non-conference schedule to one worthy of a program on the rise. I understand scheduling LaGrange, but get out of the local area and play someone in the rest of Division III. How about someone like Wittenberg?

Takes 2 to tango. That's a long ride. 500 miles even on TES. Other than a trip to Wash U back in 2009 and 2007, Witt's OOC has been pretty local. Olivet or Alma at 250-300 miles seems to be the outlier and that goes back to the mid 90s. Capital has been up 4 times at 50 miles. The number of good schools Witt would drive past seems a bit silly.

Berry is just a difficult island to be on, and with expensive trips to Texas every year, plus Arkansas every other, it's asking a lot to shell out for a distance OOC as well. Berry really needs the ODAC or USASAC to develop a strong team.

I am fully aware of how scheduling happens. But Berry can't rely on someone else to help it build its program. Understood that Witt has been local, but it doesn't have to be. If you want to play football with the big boys -- go find someone bigger to play. Gotta do what you can to make that happen rather than just play on your island the whole time.

[wally_wabash]

I think Witt-Berry would be a fantastic game, but agree with jk that Witt would have to really, really want to do it.  I have no idea who Witt has lined up after this year. 

[Pat Coleman]

I threw out Witt as a prototype because they are within busing distance (I know, 490-something is a lot, but for a Week 1 game where the kids likely aren't missing as much class time, I think it's possible to extend the reasonable travel), because they are in the same echelon as where Berry is currently ranked, and because they are both in conferences where the academic level of the schools is considered important.