^^^ After watching Averett for an entire game on Saturday, I'm coming around to your way of viewing them. They really need to clean up the penalties and turnovers. Their conference schedule has them playing all of the better teams before getting to Guilford and Bridgewater in the final two weeks. Those last two games will more definitively reveal if they have improved over last season. They didn't even play Bridgewater last year, forfeiting that game, which was the last on their schedule.

Quote from: jknezek on October 18, 2026, 12:33:53 PM

Quote from: The Third Division on October 17, 2026, 10:18:59 PMI thought bridgewater sucked. what happened?

Have to play the game in front of you, not the one the next week. Penalties and turnovers....

With a big win over RMC and HSC looming, it was a classic trap and W&L faceplanted into it

This is sort of a twist on the conversation we were having about Averett a few weeks ago and taking every opponent seriously.

RMC with a solid 42-7 win at Averett. The Cougars did some good things, but hurt themselves with turnovers and untimely penalties.

Shenandoah holds on to down Roanoke 30-24. It was 30-17, then RC drove for a TD and subsequently got SU's offense off the field. The Maroons were putting together what looked like another TD drive but a holding penalty at around the 10 yard line with less than a minute left on second down put a damper on things and they were unable to get a 1st down or TD on the next three downs, giving SU the ball with 26 seconds left.

H-SC easily handles Guilford 64-3.

With BC's win over W&L the ODAC race just got more interesting. RMC should be okay against Guilford next week, but finishes with three tough games: at Shenandoah, home vs Roanoke, then The Game in Farmville.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on October 17, 2026, 09:59:48 AMAssuming no other losses for RMC, H-SC, and W&L, what happens if H-SC beats W&L next weekend and then RMC beats H-SC on 11/14? They will be tied at 6-1 in the ODAC standings.

So much for that assumption. With two seconds left and 4th and 14 on the W&L 21, Bridgewater scores a TD and succeeds on a two-point conversion to win 22-21.

Assuming no other losses for RMC, H-SC, and W&L, what happens if H-SC beats W&L next weekend and then RMC beats H-SC on 11/14? They will be tied at 6-1 in the ODAC standings.

Quote from: jknezek on October 10, 2026, 08:47:42 PMI also said this was a good year if anyone was going to knock off RMC. I still don't think W&L is better than they have been the last few years. Which is fine. They've been good and competitive and finishing in the top 2 or 3 of the ODAC.

I don't think RMC is as good as they've been the last few years. That's no knock on RMC, they've been consistently excellent. This year? A step or two below. Enough for W&L and H-SC and maybe Shenandoah to join the conversation.

Agree about RMC and the other teams mentioned. I thought, going into this season, that RMC had a lot more question marks than the past four or five. Not that the answers couldn't be found, but so far there are still some unanswered questions.

A good game in Lexington today. Congrats to the Generals. Seems that Ty Collins made all the right decisions on option plays -- whether to keep the ball himself, hand it off, or pitch it. Jackets defense wasn't up to the task. RMC had an efficient drive with under a minute left in the first half to come away with a field goal and a 10-6 halftime lead. Then, trailing 20-17 with over three minutes left they had a chance to do the same thing and get a TD to take the lead or FG to tie, but it was not to be.

I thought jknezek's pessimism about W&L's chances might have been off. I felt similarly about RMC leading up to the game. It's no consolation that my pessimism was more accurate.

I caught the second half of H-SC at Roanoke. Both offenses looked good. But what does that say about their defenses? Tigers prevailed 39-33.

Bridgewater came from behind to beat Guilford 19-14. I get the feeling that BC's offense is still struggling.

Shenandoah beat Averett 38-20.

The "Favorites" feature on the Flo website seems to not be functioning. The favorites I have saved no longer exist and when I go to establish them again it is not possible to do so.

On the plus side, I'm seeing some decent content from Flo on FB and on X.

Quote from: WUPHF on October 07, 2026, 10:06:05 AMThe future of Division III is housing.  Eastern Nazarene, Cazenovia, Iowa Wesleyan and other references.

https://globecollegetown.substack.com/p/closed-colleges-could-be-great-for-housing

This got me wondering what has become of the MacMurray College campus. A quick Google search turned this up:

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It is rumored, from the highest and most reliable source possible, that hopefan will be back on these boards in January.

I was interested that Sweet Briar, a small women's college in Virginia that is in the ODAC, must not be part of the conference's contract with Flo as their online broadcast of yesterday's volleyball match with RMC did not go through the Flo platform. I suppose it makes sense, as they don't have football and also don't sponsor basketball.

^^^ As noted above, not the most well-played game by RMC, but an easy win nonetheless. My take of Bridgewater's offense is that they have a quarterback problem. Their starter, who played until late in the 4th quarter, is indecisive, or slow to figure out who to throw to on passing plays, and thus gets in trouble, has to scramble and/or throw the ball away. I suppose the RMC secondary could have caused those problems for him, but the opposing QBs in RMCs first three games have been better. I generally don't like to point the finger at individual players, but that's what it felt like to me today.

It was a good day for the Jacket ground game, especially Mitchell Johnson, even though he didn't score a TD. Bauman, Overbay and Detric Brown all had solid performances.

In the other games H-SC downed Shenandoah 30-14 in Winchester. Roanoke trailed Guilford 16-14 late in the 2nd quarter, but then cruised to a 52-24 win. W&L easily handled Averett 34-7.

Quote from: Macon on October 03, 2026, 10:30:08 AM^^^  I look at this Dickinson win totally different.  Any Dickinson win lessens RMC's loss to them.  If you're RMC, you want Dickinson to win out.  Dickinson's entry into the Top 25 helps RMC.

Completely agree. That just has much more to do with NPI than it does with the ODAC race.

Not important in terms of the overall ODAC picture, but perhaps of interest to some. Last night RMC's first two opponents, Dickinson and Johns Hopkins, played each other. Dickinson won 35-21 at home. Prior to the game Hopkins was two votes ahead of Dickinson in the Top 25 RV category. This win will likely put Dickinson into the Top 25 and ahead of RMC, wherever the Jackets land in the voting. No guarantees that RMC will even remain in the Top 25.

Webster has a campus in San Antonio: https://www.webster.edu/locations/sanantonio/index.php

And multiple international campuses: https://www.webster.ac.at/index.php, https://www.webster.edu.ge/index.php, https://www.webster.nl/index.php, plus a number of others.