A lot of football remains to be played among the five teams with winning conference records. Most importantly:

10/25 WEST @ GCC
11/01 CWRU @ W&J
11/08 GCC @ CWRU
      W&J @ GEN
11/15 GEN @ CWRU

If you're wondering, GEN does not play WEST

Lots of combinations and permutations are possible.

BTW if no head-to-head the tiebreaker is NPI.

https://d3datacast.com/npi/fb/

Win over 0-1-1 team isn't a quality win.

Championship? Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." If Westminster beats W&J says "Very doubtful."

How so? They've got no quality wins and have a bad loss to Marietta, who just got blasted by ONU.

W&J beat GCC, the pre-season favorite to win the PAC. Their two losses were to top 25 type teams.

We'll know in six days who the front runner is.

Meanwhile DeTillio picked a good week to lay an egg. 3 picks and sub 50% completion.

Quote from: Ole Ollie 76 on May 27, 2025, 03:25:12 PMClass of 2029 commits
Brandeis -- Gur Dhillon -- Brewster Academy NH by way of Texas; Asher White, Fox Chapel PA; Landon Sullivan IMG Academy Fla.
Carnegie Mellon -- Luke Seltzer Andover Academy Ma.; Carter Klaus, North Central Ind.
CWRU -- "Junior" McFadden Malvern Pa.; Alex Vincent Oak Park/River Forest Ill; Gideon Greenberg Posnack School Fla; Simon Moshin Highland Park Ill; Michael Ngo Maumee OH; Will Taylor Woodson  Va.
Chicago - Ryan Ward Cushing Academy Ma.; Drew Kuhn Nobles & Greenough Ma.; Jacob Randall Severn Md.
Emory - Gus Fried New Hampton School NH; AJ Mickens Hun School NJ; Giacomo Kaplan Belmont Hill School Ma.
NYU - Chase Garcia Millbrook School NY; Zach Koloja Blair Academy NJ.
Rochester - Jackson Labkon St. Andrew's School RI; MJ Young Baldwinsville NY; Zach Koloja Blair Academy NJ; Jordan Owuso Pennington School NJ; Tariq Bridges St. Pius Cal.
Wash U -- Josh Kim Andover KS; Theo Rocca Evanston Ill; Colby Smith New Trier Ill.

Please add additional commits to this list when identified.

Neither McFadden nor Ngo are on Spartan's 2025-26 on-line roster. But there are 15 newcomers. 3 xfr and 12 FY


https://athletics.case.edu/sports/mens-basketball/roster/2025-26?view=2

Quote from: Pat Coleman on September 15, 2025, 03:49:25 PMSeeing 28 in the box score isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all. At some schools there is less emphasis given to making sure the game participation report is perfect.

You didn't admonish Wally for using participation numbers in this week's ATN Podcast.

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Quote from: Whitecarrera on September 17, 2025, 09:35:05 AMDr - that is a perfect example, as this Twitter post confirms. And if you look at the pictures you'll see two sets of hash marks (pic 1) and adjustable goalposts (pic 2).

https://x.com/ohiostadiums/status/690325494827474945?s=46&t=57Idl2kdBt4XRffKcNPGpA

Whitecarrera, Did you see both teams and the NCAC officials allowed the Oberlin / John Carroll game to have 12 minute quarters instead of 15 minutes?  Perfect example if both teams agree to a slight change from the normal NCAA regulations, it is fine.  The shorter game potentially hurt John Carroll players from making more yardage or setting records, and thus not getting potential awards or recognition.  But the shorter game was for player safety, so a good move.

The announcers stated that all NCAC coaches agreed that their games against Oberlin would be 12 min quarters.. I cannot confirm that is the case, but guess we'll see with each game for Oberlin moving forward? Either way, as a new member to the conference, I cannot help but wonder how long will Oberlin field a team? Is there a world where they drop football outright? Obviously one big reason schools have been fielding, or adding, football was for the enrollment boost; but with Oberlin being a school that has no worries of closing while only fielding 30 plus players, it does not seem that they need football? Just curious as the Newb to the NCAC

I think there is a legitimate concern that Oberlin doesn't even finish this season, much less field a team in the future.  Football hasn't been a priority for years, and they clearly aren't using football to help drive enrollment or raise money.  Tough situation but short of a seismic shift in their universe where somebody cares enough to make it viable, I fear the end is near for that program.

I'm not sure how one measures whether a sport is a priority. Oberlin built a new stadium in 2014. Oberlin has the heritage of being Heisman's first coaching stop. Their current coach is grandson of CFB HOF Coach John Pont. And they were the last Ohio team to beat OSU.

That said, I hope that they do drop football and NCAC invites CWRU as an affiliate like Wash U which was added to replace Hiram. CWRU was one of the charter members of NCAC (also OAC, PAC, UAA (like WashU), and MAC (Western Reserve).

Quote from: DagarmanSpartan on September 17, 2025, 11:43:31 AMInteresting moves.

Either this recruiting class is really good.........or certain veterans must have disappointed.

At any rate, we need to stop the bleeding this weekend.

Injuries

Quote from: HCAlum86 on September 22, 2025, 02:57:59 PMI hated to see that rain delay because I think it killed Hiram's momentum - but well played game by Waynesburg and good job on their part battling back

Tough loss Passing game is putting up big #s  4 highest pg ave in D3.

St Vincent is a team Hiram could beat with a couple of breaks.

Thiel, Bethany and Allegheny could also be wins if all goes well.

Six players from week 1's 2-deep are not on week 3's. 3 FY are now on the 2-Deep, a starter at ILB and both back-up CBs.

Denison ran the single wing from 77-92. CWRU won the first NCAC title in 1984 beating Denison 45-13. In CWRU's last offensive series, the scout team went in and ran the single wing against Denison.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on September 15, 2025, 03:49:25 PMSeeing 28 in the box score isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all. At some schools there is less emphasis given to making sure the game participation report is perfect.

Having tracked Participation for CWRU's stats crew from 2010-15, I know the commitment involved. We had one person tracking each team. But even if all 33 of Oberlin's players who dressed played and not 28, they were still well outmanned. Even if there were inaccuracies, Hiram fielded about half again as many players.

Surprise! In his final season after 33 years as Geneva's HC, Coach DeMarco has scrapped the triple option. Geneva's passing line vs Widener was 27-45-2 258 3 TDs and vs Shenandoah 22-36-1 260 1 TD

In an interview with Pat Coleman Coach DeMarco cited the elimination of cut blocks and the difficulty in finding HS QBs who have run the offense as reason for the change. He also stated that the change would help whoever succeeded him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYEkqvbBz0Q&t=269s

If you use CC the auto-caption or read the transcript it has "our president,
uh, Dr. Trump," instead of Dr Troup

Quote from: HCAlum86 on September 14, 2025, 07:55:05 PMI was thrilled with the way Hiram played - though I fully realize it was against a badOberlin team - it was still a solid performance.

I prefer to refer to Oberlin as being outmanned not "bad." They only have 38 players and only 28 played.

Congrats  to Hiam for the win.

Why couldn't the refs have spotted the ball approximating the college hash when necessary?

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