FB: Southern Athletic Association

[Ron Boerger]

Trinity 43-0 at half.  Tucker Horn has gone the entire way at QB and is 16-19-291 with 5 TDs.  Imagine we may see him for one series in the second half, unfortunately the starters need some reps after not playing last week but can't imagine they'll play much more (and some subs have already been in).

Macalester did get it going in the second but have been snakebit.  Their best drive stalled at the TU 10; a successful FG was waived off after a motion penalty and the resulting attempt was blocked.  A beautiful long pass on the next drive almost reached the red zone but was fumbled away during the tackle.

[Ron Boerger]

Final 64-0.  Horn played the first series and completed his sixth TD pass.  Total yardage 638-130.   At Texas Lutheran next week.

[tigerguy]

What is Horn's story? Looks like he was a pretty good qb in high school and spent two years at abilene christian, but has been on the team for two years? Looked great today. Wish he'd gotten a chance to go after the school record 7 tds.

Largest margin of victory for trinity since the last great (hopefully that changes this year) tiger team in 2011-2012, when they blew out Rhodes, 62-7. Missed the all-time record (I think) by 10 points, which was a 74-0 whacking of Principia in 1994.

[BSCpanthers]

BSC scores 5, yes 5 TD's in the 3rd qtr to win 48-9 tonight at instate rival Huntingdon.

[Hawks88]

That was a nightmare. Wish I could wake up and find out that 2nd half didn't happen.

[Ron Boerger]

What is Horn's story? Looks like he was a pretty good qb in high school and spent two years at abilene christian, but has been on the team for two years? Looked great today. Wish he'd gotten a chance to go after the school record 7 tds.

Largest margin of victory for trinity since the last great (hopefully that changes this year) tiger team in 2011-2012, when they blew out Rhodes, 62-7. Missed the all-time record (I think) by 10 points, which was a 74-0 whacking of Principia in 1994.

Stuck behind a multi-year starter his first year at Trinity, saw almost no playing time.  Actually split QB duties with same guy last year.  Getting all the first-team reps is obviously a big help this season.   He did look great but Macalester was not a strong opponent - TLU will give him a much better test next week.  I think the scrimmage score two weeks ago was something like 14-7 Trinity.

[BSCpanthers]

That was a nightmare. Wish I could wake up and find out that 2nd half didn't happen.

LaGrange probably felt the same way last week.  So far we are a second half team.  Score is 69-0 in the second half for BSC.

[Ron Boerger]

That was a nightmare. Wish I could wake up and find out that 2nd half didn't happen.

LaGrange probably felt the same way last week.  So far we are a second half team.  Score is 69-0 in the second half for BSC.

I would imagine having a back like Shufford pounding away at your defense does not do good things to it over time 

[BSCpanthers]

That was a nightmare. Wish I could wake up and find out that 2nd half didn't happen.

LaGrange probably felt the same way last week.  So far we are a second half team.  Score is 69-0 in the second half for BSC.

I would imagine having a back like Shufford pounding away at your defense does not do good things to it over time 

Four rushing TD's for Shuff, and over 600 yards of total offense has a tendency to break a defense.  Also when they commit 4 turnovers and put their defense in a bad spot, over and over again. 

[D3Navy]

Final 64-0.  Horn played the first series and completed his sixth TD pass.  Total yardage 638-130.   At Texas Lutheran next week.

Really hard to divine anything from the game.  TU was seemingly flawless and Macalester simply couldn't get anything going.  Even the one long pass play was stripped after covering nearly 50 yards.  They kicked a field goal, but had a procedure penalty and it was nullified.  The next longer attempt was blocked.

It was fun to watch, but reality will settle in this Saturday.

Other notes - first time for me in the new home-side stadium.  Very nice and a lot of shade.  Wish they had a camera system for replay worthy of the amazing scoreboard!  They were handing out complimentary bottled water.  San Antonio mayor (and TU alum) made a low-key visit.  Lots of fans and energy.  Great evening!

[Ron Boerger]

Definitely nice to have some shade on the home side after decades without it!

The d3football Top 25 voters were so impressed by Trinity's win that one soul gave them a 25th place vote, and that's probably more than I would have done.  Should they win the next two games (@TLU, @Berry [who entered the poll at 25th]) then you think about it.   Centre and BSC are also receiving votes this week. 

[jknezek]

Alright Region III fans, I'm willing to run the Regional Weekly Top 10 if I can get a balanced panel. If you are interested, you can either PM me or reply to this message and if I get enough responses maybe we can start next week. Looking for 1 or 2 people from each conference, but if I can get 5 voters total spread through at least 3 of our conferences I'll take it.

We'll run it mostly the same way Ralph has been doing it for years. Ranked 1-10 votes are due to me by PM by Tuesday at midnight, so if you can't commit to that, please don't offer. It's just not going to be worth it for me if I have to track people down every week. Votes will be anonymous in the published poll, but voters are free to discuss or post their own submissions.

It's a lot of fun, you learn about a lot of teams, and sometimes generates some good discussion. I always like being challenged on why I did things, but if you don't want to engage, that's fine also.

[Ron Boerger]

Hope you get some good folks to participate.   I don't know enough about all these other conferences to do a decent job and don't really have the time to dig into them.

This week's non-conference schedule:

Millsaps (0-1) at Southwestern Assemblies of God (NAIA) (1-1)
RV Trinity (1-0) at Texas Lutheran (1-1)
#25 Berry (2-0) at #2 UW-Whitewater (2-0)
RV Birmingham-Southern (2-0) at Arkansas Baptist College (NAIA) (0-2?)
Westminster (MO) (0-0) at Sewanee (0-1)
Hendrix (0-1) vs Howard Payne (2-0) in Prosper, Texas (north of Dallas)

BYE:  RV Centre, Rhodes

Obviously the game of the weekend will be in Wisconsin where Berry has an opportunity to put themselves (and the SAA) on the map with an upset (and it would be a big one) of the Warhawks.    We should also get some 'relative strength' between Hendrix and Trinity, with the Warriors taking on a Howard Payne team that defeated Texas Lutheran by 26.   Sewanee will look for improvement against a Westminster (MO) team playing its first game of the season.   BSC has Arkansas Baptist, in their first year of transition from NJCAA to NAIA and who still don't have a functioning website.  I found results for them on two opponent websites, the second a 71-0 blowout loss.   Millsaps travels to Texas to take on SWAGU which has a win against former D3 Louisiana College as their only win in two games. 

[Ralph Turner]

...and HPU only beat McMurry by a touchdown...

That may something about TLU.

[cciw83]

The UW-Whitewater - Berry game will really give an indication where the SAA is at. Berry is in a prime recruiting area as the Atlanta metro area along with north Georgia, west Alabama and the Chattanooga area are loaded with talent and have a lot of private schools to recruit from. I'm hoping it's a good game and the conference has shown improvement.