With basketball starting this weekend, let's not forget about football tomorrow.

RMC fans would like to see a couple of upsets:

1) Roanoke winning at W&L
2) Bridgewater winning at H-SC

If both happen, RMC will get the ODAC's NCAA bid. Neither is very likely, but the games could be competitive.

Averett is at Guilford
Gallaudet is at Shenandoah.

RMC is idle.

^^^ Thanks, Ryan. Glad someone noticed and made the changes.

Just want to note a game time discrepancy for anyone who might go to d3hoops.com to tune into the RMC vs Eastern game that takes place tomorrow night at the Gettysburg Tip-Off Tournament. D3hoops.com shows the game time as 6:00 p.m., but both the Gettysburg and RMC websites show it as 8:00 p.m., with the Gettysburg vs Wilson game having the 6:00 p.m. tip off time.

^^^ Seems unlikely that the type of situation in this story will ever become commonplace, even if the NCAA formally approves such arrangements.

Tigerfan's prediction vs Coaches votes
1. RMC                     RMC
2. Roanoke              VWU
3. VWU                     Roanoke
4. HSC                      HSC
5. Lynchburg            Lynchburg
6. W&L                      Shenandoah
7. Guilford                Guilford
8. Shenandoah        W&L
9. Bridgewater         Averett
10.Randolph             Bridgewater
11.EMU                      Randolph
12.Averett                  EMU

Really not a lot of difference. The one real outlier being Averett.

^^^ Good analysis there. Will be interested to see how it holds up come February.

Nine ODAC teams in action this weekend.

The three that aren't: 1) Roanoke has its first game on Tuesday 11/11; 2) W&L opens on Friday the 14th; 3) Randolph on Saturday the 15th.

RMC pretty well controlled the game vs Shenandoah. We're it not for throwing a pick six and suffering a blocked punt deep in their own territory, giving SU a short field, they might have kept the Hornets off the scoreboard. RMC 31, SU 14.

H-SC 61, Gallaudet 8
W&L 61, Averett 21.

Tough 21-20 loss for Guilford.

The game to watch tomorrow is Shenandoah at RMC. Massey has RMC as a 23 point favorite. Hansen Ratings says RMC by about 19 points. Over on the ODAC Pick-ems board, HSCTiger74 has the spread at 20.5 points in favor of RMC. If I were participating in the Pick-ems I'd pick Shenandoah to beat the spread. I think it will be a very competitive game.

Guilford at Roanoke might be tighter than many expect

H-SC is at Gallaudet.
W&L is at Averett.
Bridgewater is idle.

Quote from: GU1999 on October 28, 2025, 03:46:16 PMI am grateful that the coaches think that GU will be mid-table.  Since the 2015/6 season, when GU went to the System, they have been ranked 5, 5, 4, 8, 4, in the 5 years they have tied for or outright won the league.  So, a preseason coachs poll #4 seed sounds great to this panther fan. 

What about the other years when they didn't tie for or win the league outright? Where were they ranked and where did they finish. I'm curious to know if they were ever ranked #1 and, if so, where they finished in any of those seasons.

These polls are a crap shoot and don't mean anything anyway. But they're fun to get the juices flowing as the season approaches.

Just checked the Principia schedule. It now shows nine non-conference games plus the 16 SLIAC games for the requisite maximum of 25.

Webster also has a solid non-conference schedule, though perhaps not as challenging as Prin's. They have one non-conference opponent in common -- Illinois College.

Prin and Webster are voted #1 and #2 in the coaches' pre-season poll: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/s1vYqe7aomQXZ

^^^ Were you there or just following live stats? If you were there, do you have any other observation to share? And how would an outsider like me (as opposed to an insider like you) know about a scrimmage like this and be able to access live stats?

P.S. Found your "Tweet". Guess you weren't there. And you are right, the stats are no longer accessible.

At the conclusion of today's football game the RMC announcers mentioned that the Jackets were scrimmaging at John's Hopkins today. Does anyone have information on how that went?

Bridgewater at W&L turned out to be the most exciting game today. I checked in with 46 seconds left, just in time to see Bridgewater tie the game at 14 with a two-point conversion. In OT BC scored a FG on the first possession, then W&L threw a TD pass on its first play to win 20-17.

Roanoke at H-SC was shaping up to be a battle after 30 minutes, Tigers 7, Maroons 3 at the half. But the Tigers dominated the second half 28-7 to win 35-10. RC's 1st half FG came after a TD was nullified due to an unsportsmanlike taunting penalty as the ball carrier did something 3 yards prior to entering the endzone at the end of what would have been a 75 yard run. RC also incurred another unsportsmanlike penalty in the second half, as well as an unnecessary roughness call when a tackler threw a Tiger receiver to the ground after taking him out of bounds.

RMC 47, Gallaudet 7

Shenandoah 48, Averett 3

Tomorrow's game to watch is Roanoke at H-SC. Will be interesting to see who plays QB for Roanoke. Kam Hill, who transferred from D2 Mars Hill, played against RMC but not against Shenandoah due to injury (in the Bridgewater game???). Eli Taylor played some vs Bridgewater and started vs Shenandoah until he got hurt late in the game. Hill then came in and nearly led Roanoke to a late TD that would have made it a one score game, but got knocked out of bounds on the one-yard line on fourth down. Both guys are good. Will either of them be the starter, or will it be someone else?

Bridgewater at W&L could also be interesting.

Other games are RMC at Gallaudet and Averett at Shenandoah. Guilford is idle.

Webster picked #1 in pre-season coaches poll: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/37PJdyVNrg5ox