^^^ 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.

^^^ I saw a good bit of that CNU/Susquehanna game as well. (Without RMC to watch, why not?) CNU defense was outstanding, as you said. Susquehanna turned the ball over six times -- four fumbles, two INTs. One of the early fumbles was with their RB trying hard to get into the end zone, but a CNU defender knocked the ball loose ending SU's best chance to score the entire game. CNU has allowed a total of three TDs in three games.

Three lopsided shutouts today. Roanoke the only winner 52-0 over Gallaudet.

Brevard thumped Guilford 59-0.

Centre overwhelmed Bridgewater 45-0. I was in and out watching this game with the sound off most of the time. Didn't see a lot of the scoring by Centre. Late in the 4th quarter Bridgewater had the ball but was missing on long pass attempts. On third or fourth and long Centre was penalized 15 yards (not sure what for) so Bridgewater got a fresh start and on the next play completed a long pass to a wide open receiver who was tackled at about the Centre seven yard line. On the following play, which looked to be a designed QB keeper, the BC QB fumbled and Centre recovered. A score there could have given BC something to feel good about. It was not to be. Don't know if that was characteristic of what preceded it in the game for Bridgewater. Feeling bad for the Eagles. Centre's defense did look pretty good. In their two losses preceding this game they had given up only 17 and 16 points respectively.

^^^ Roanoke should beat Gallaudet given that Averett thumped Gallaudet last week. But the other two games are harder to call. I'm guessing Guilford will lose to Brevard. As for Bridgewater at Centre, who knows? Both are 0-2. Both were shut out 17-0 in their first games. Both scored two touchdowns in their second games, but Bridgewater was playing a very good Susquehanna while Centre played LaGrange.

The Top 25 voters have corrected their pre-season view of Hopkins, dropping them into the RV group.

I agree that this season is not like the last few in the ODAC. I'd be surprised if anyone goes undefeated.

^^^ Well, the whole spelling thing is understandable given that Quentin Mankin is also on the roster.

^^^ Hope you are right about that, but it's still early and the stat sheet is pretty sparse. He's actually only scored one TD on a total of two catches, although both catches netted considerable yardage -- 61 and 57 respectively: https://rmcathletics.com/sports/football/roster/quinten-jones/15945

Having said that, he's only had a chance to play in three games, so lots of time remaining to prove you right.

Also, correct spelling of first name is Quinten.

In this episode of the D3Datacast, at about the 32 minute mark, the Snyders talk about streaming of D3 sports, with a significant portion of the +/-10 minute conversation devoted to Flo.

https://youtu.be/TrVpYuwnzNU?is=3oqNUjtQlVsKhpGr

^^^ I'm certainly not predicting any specific outcomes for Averett in any of their ODAC games. But every ODAC team would be wise to respect that, as you say, they are at the very least "less terrible" than last year. It's hard to know for sure at this point exactly how much less terrible they are. But I'd venture they will be tougher to beat this year than last. Five of their six ODAC losses last season were by 40 points or more. The other was by 27 to Bridgewater who are off to a tough start. I just reiterate the folly  of disrespecting an opponent and their desire to win. I know of one specific example in women's basketball out here where a player verbally said a game was a gimme for her team and had to eat those words. I'd venture to say there are more such examples in many sports.

^^^ I'm always hedging my bets on observations like that. But last season Averett lost to NC Wesleyan 64-12 and this year 27-13. They also lost to Southern VA last year 46-14 vs a 41-34 win this year. So they improved their results against all three year-to-year. I know this is a new season for all those programs, so those comparisons aren't necessarily worth much. But, Averett does have a knew head coach. And I think it's always wise, in any sport, that no matter how good you think you are or how bad you think your opponent is, never underestimate your opponent's desire to win. They might just surprise you. I've seen it happen, as I'm sure you have.

Averett downs Gallaudet 55-19. Last season the Cougars lost that game 39-30 in D.C.. Averett is 2-1. This might be a different Averett team than we have seen lately. ODAC opponents should not take them lightly.

Quote from: MCScots2013 on September 19, 2026, 01:05:25 PMI was wondering when Macon would remember the film and expose our secondary...

Yes, an uncharacteristic way for RMC to win a game. One long pass where the receiver beat the secondary, plus two long pass TDs with credit to the receivers for great runs after the catch. Also, one other big pass play where the receiver just beat his defender and made a nice catch before going out of bounds. The Jackets racked up 241 of their 310 passing yards on those four plays. Maryville did a good job containing the RMC running game giving up only 143 yards on 42 attempts. In all, a solid win for RMC, but hard to know how the team will fare in ODAC play.

H-SC won a high scoring affair, 43-41, way up in Maine vs University of New Englalnd.

Shenandoah lost a high scoring game in Cleveland 48-41 to Case Western Reserve. DagarmanSpartan's comment about the SU passing game has me concerned.

Salisbury easily handled W&L 43-13.

Averett hosts Gallaudet tonight.

Bridgewater, Guilford, and Roanoke had their bye weeks. They play next week, while the the five ODAC teams who played today are idle. Then it's seven straight weeks of conference action.

As for last week's RMC opponent, Johns Hopkins, the were handled easily today by Susquehanna, 49-23. That makes the win over Hopkins perhaps less remarkable than it seemed last week. Still a very good win, but with maybe a little less shine on it now.

Quote from: WUPHF on September 17, 2026, 08:30:45 PMJust thinking about one of the other themes here, many colleges and universities today were founded as academies, seminaries, one-year normal schools and through mergers.

For the latter, there is the previously mentioned Case Western Reserve and Carnegie Mellon as the obvious examples, but also:

UW-Platteville was a merger of the first normal school in Wisconsin with the local polytechnic.

Southwestern (TX)

Brevard College

University of Hartford involved a merge of independent art and music schools along with a liberal arts college.

My wife graduated from Southwestern. If I'm not mistaken, it's a uniting of four different institutions.