All eyes on the homies from Carlisle, Pennsylvania to tell Davidson to suck my Dickinson College!!!

Central game at Gustavus is moved up to 10 AM. I hope you have your pick-ems in!

Meanwhile, Howard Payne putting BTA on Pacific...

Lots of upsets in Region X!

CMS 1 - Trinity (TX) 0

Not a great game for the Tigers, who looked like they sorely missed Luke Mayfield (not to mention Luke Chandler) on the backline and some creativity up top, but CMS gets a lot of credit for tightening up once they had a lead.  That's huge for a CMS team that just barely managed to get the victory over UC Santa Cruz in their opener.  Gomez was big for the team and their backline was fantastic.  Nice way for them to open up the new stadium too.

East Texas Baptist 3 - Southwestern 1

Southwestern lost a lot from last season, but I did not see this coming.  A 1-1 game at the half quickly turned in ETBU's favor with a goal in the 67th minute and then a PK late to add an insurance goal.  Southwestern held the edge in shots, but that's what happens when you're playing from behind most of the game.  ETBU's GK, Ryan Lord, had a massive game, making 14 saves.

Chapman 2 - Pacific Lutheran 1

I wasn't sure what to expect from either team, but PLU regularly competes for the NWC title was playing at home in its opener and Chapman had to travel for this game, so I figured PLU would come out hard.  It did score first in the 41st minute, but Chapman responded almost immediately with a goal of their own in the 43rd minute and got the game winner in the 58th.  PLU had trouble generating much offensive rhythm, possibly knocked off their game by a physical Chapman team that was whistled for 15 fouls.

Puget Sound 3 - Lake Forest 0

Lake Forest lost to Elmhurst 2-0 in its opener, so I had a clue that this wasn't the same team that went 19-2 last season, winning the MWC and making it to the NCAA tournament, but I didn't expect Puget Sound, which went 7-7-5 last season and was playing its opener, to handle them this easily.  After all, this was a team that tied Lewis & Clark in 2025.  Nevertheless, Puget Sound dominated, scoring in the 15th and 29th minutes and adding an insurance goal on a PK in the 77th.

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Quote from: USee on September 02, 2026, 12:18:34 PM-WR Brayden Harris: He is from Northfield OH and was teammates with backup QB Charley Levak (who is younger bro to S Ricky Levak). He only played in 7 games last year (injury?) but caught balls for 230 yds and 7 TD's. Tall, athletic WR who makes a lot of contested catches. Looks like a great get for the Raiders

Those are 13-game numbers.

Not according to Brayden: https://x.com/BraydenHar13

Seriously? You're going to question me when I personally saw every single one of his high school games?

You speculated about whether he was injured? (He was not.)

The 26 quarters are because his team put a running clock on 11 of 13 opponents.

He's a really good get for Mount Union. Was the #1 WR in a state championship caliber Wing T offense. Good blocker. Outstanding defensive back. And catches nearly every one of the few balls thrown his way.

I hope he has a great career.

Quote from: y_jack_lok on Yesterday at 10:00:19 AMOver on the ODAC Pick-ems board, here's how HSCTiger74 has the odds for ODAC teams this week:

Roanoke [-11.5]  @  Virginia-Lynchburg  9/3
Bridgewater [-4.5]  @  Stevenson  9/4
Shenandoah [-8.5]  @  Methodist  9/4
#25 Randolph-Macon [-17.5]  @  Dickinson. 9/4
NC Wesleyan [-12.5]  @  Averett
Guilford [-9.5]  @  Greensboro
Hampden-Sydney  @  orv Wabash [-15.5]
Wittenberg  @  Washington & Lee [-13.5]

Last night Roanoke easily beat the spread with a 37-7 win.

Three interesting games tonight with all three ODAC teams favored. In Saturday's games Guilford and W&L are favored while Averett and H-SC are underdogs.

Well, you can't say I didn't warn you that I basically make them up as I go along. 

Quote from: IC798891 on Yesterday at 09:38:05 PMI simply do not get offensive coordinators.

Hobart is up 24-17, 2nd and 6 on their own 48, clock running just under 3 minutes. They have the best RB in the conference, if not the best player in the conference, and they try to get cute and run a reverse, the pitch of which is fumbled. Alfred recovers and returns it to the 28. They were lucky it wasn't taken to the house.

The Saxons drive to the 12 before Hobart's defensive line -- which ate Alfred's line alive all night -- finished the game off.

Like, what are we doing calling trick plays here guys? Give the ball to your workhorse, tell him to pick up six yards on two carries, and bring it home. If he can't, punt away from midfield, and tell your D-line, which had already sacked Parker 5 times, to pin their ears back and get more.

Sometimes I wish teams would lose when they do boneheaded things like that

Amen . Horrible call , up by 7 with 3 minutes to go on third down on your own 30 and call a reverse .... Fumble and give the ball back to Alfred. Parker played tough all night despite being sacked 7 times , he was one pass away from saving the game for Alfred. I had visions of one Parker TD pass followed by a two point conversion  and a win for Alfred based on an unnecessary reverse call. Luckily the defense held and Hobart avenged last years opening season loss.
EJ Taylor was a total stud with over 130 yards rushing and 70 yards receiving with 2 TDs and a two point conversion. He pretty much won the game single handidly . Billy Brosko was a beast at DT all night, as Parker will have nightmares tonight with Billy throwing him down repeatedly. These two players deserved their AA preseason awards. Hopefully the rest of the team will be inspired by them.

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Quote from: Brady12 on September 03, 2026, 11:10:55 AMWilliams record of; 3-6 5-3 5-3 last three years make me think back to this years senior class, If they can stay healthy this could be the year.  In 2023 they brought in Johansen, McHugh, Renzella at QB.  Stahelski, Gering at WR along with Carroll, Baker, and others I thought that class has a chance to be special. Getting them all on the field will be the challenge.  Back then I thought Johansen may end up at LB as he was a wrecking ball in high school. Adding in the talent at WR and TE will allow players like Gering to concentrate on defense. I will take the over on 5.2 

OK, we'll bite on the under...

I'll take that bet Nescacman! I'd be very surprised if the Ephs lose 4 games this fall.


On a separate note; I stumbled across the official NESCAC Football Tie-breaking Procedures for determining which team earns the conference's NCAA playoff bid in the event of a tie:

• Best record among tied teams, against one another (head-to-head).
• Comparison of results of conference games played against top 4 teams (including all teams at the 4th spot).
• Comparison of results of conference games played against top 8 teams (including all teams at the 8th spot).
• Comparison of results of conference games played against conference teams in rank order. Comparisons shall be made one team at a time starting with the highest ranked team.
• If the tie remains after comparing results against the highest ranked team, the results against the next team in rank order shall be used. This process is continued until a winner is determined.
• Coin flip or similar random action involving all tied teams (names being pulled out of a hat-the first team pulled will be the automatic qualifier).

Interesting that they will continue awarding "Co-Champion" and "Tri-Champion" status and only use the tie-breaker for the AQ bid process. Obviously, in the case of two teams finishing with the same record head-to-head is the determining factor.

The dreaded "random action" is the sixth and final option. However, in the event that three Championship teams are tied with a single round-robin style loss then literally pulling a name out of a hat is their solution to determine the Automatic Qualifier. GROSS!

Additionally, if I'm interpreting this correctly, then I also vehemently disagree with the most likely 3-way tie-breaking scenario for teams with 2 losses. For example; let's say Trinity, Wesleyan and Williams all finish 7-2.

Trinity's losses are to Williams and Middlebury (who finishes 6-3, 4th place)
Williams' losses are to Wesleyan and Amherst (who finishes 5-4, 5th place)
Wesleyan's losses are to Trinity and Bates (who finishes 2-7, 8th place)

In this scenario Wesleyan, who would have by far the worst loss of the three championship teams, would get the AQ playoff bid. Trinity who had the least egregious defeat, a loss to 4th place Middlebury, would be the first team eliminated. Then Williams would be eliminated due to their head-to-head loss to Wes.

Is it me or is this completely backwards? Shouldn't the team with the worst loss be eliminated first?
Am I interpreting this correctly? What are everyone else's thoughts?

I realize there's not many good ways to break a three-way tie but rewarding a team for the poorest result is baffling. For what it's worth, my preference for breaking a three-way tie among championship teams with more than 1 loss is point differential among in the games played between the Championship teams.

Brady through out the challenge, but we'll take any action Hs7-2...you're on...loser buys the Turducken in week 9...

Quote from: Captainred81 on Yesterday at 12:46:55 PMI usually agree with the Hansen ratings, but giving Wheaton a 6.5 point edge?   Seems high to me.  I know its the math, but 6.5...  Doesn't 38 years of opening week wins mean anything? 

IN truth, I am nervous.  A lot of these young guys traveling 8 hours for their first game.  Wheaton will be trying to play fast and tough right from the start.  Mount will need to get some quick stops and control the clock.  I expect offensively Wheaton to come out with high percentage passing, quick outs, bubble screens, TE over the middle.  I'd love to see a nickel package and with some zone blitzing. 

For Mount, I'd like to some read pass option, and big plays.  Throw the ball down the field. 

How the hell is Logan supposed to put "we've won nearly 40 years of season openers" into his model LOL.

I do feel like a lot of Mount fans kinda just wrote off the game against Wheaton as "letting off the gas" and then just ignored what Wheaton did the rest of the year.

This is a team that made a deep playoff run losing only to NCC and UWR after UMU and they played UWR

FWIW Massey ratings has us favored by 5.

Personally I'm thinking 42-28 UMU.

Quote from: Macon on Yesterday at 08:08:34 PMRMC has a HUGE QB problem!!!

Dickinson 27, RMC 14. Kudos to Dickinson. Clearly the better team tonight on both sides of the ball. The RMC defense only forced one punt, and that was with about five minutes remaining and trailing 27-7. The punt was blocked and recovered by RMC in the Dickinson end zone for a TD. I watched that play back and the rush on the punter was more serious than any I've seen RMC undertake in years. The Jackets got an interception in Dickinson territory early in the 2nd quarter and scored two plays later. Those were about the only two bright spots for the Jackets. The were deep in Dickinson territory two other times and failed to score, throwing an INT in the end zone on one of those possessions. The defense couldn't stop the Dickinson rush or passing game, got very little pressure on the QB, who ran for several first downs and a TD. Tackling was problematic at best. Dickinson's two running backs and their OL dominated. Missed tackles on Dickinson's third play from scrimmage in the second half led to a 75 yard TD run.

So, back to Macon's post about the QB problem. Yes, definitely something to figure out there. But there are a lot of other problems as well.

Jacket running back Devin Bryant, a transfer from Emory & Henry, looked tough and had a couple of good rushing attempts.

It will only be tougher next week vs Johns Hopkins. The coaches have a huge task ahead of them.

In other games, Shenandoah downs Methodist 30-3 while Bridgewater gets shut out 17-0 by Stevenson.

ODAC is 2-2 so far in week #1.