FB: Southern Athletic Association

[Ron Boerger]

Pretty unimpressive week for anyone in the SAA not named Millsaps this week.

Trinity was up 31-3 at one point but McMurry gets a couple of late TDs against the second string defense to make it look reasonable.  Tiger offense struggled in the air and Franklin continues to have a miserable time throwing the ball (1-8 tonight with an interception).  Welker's not getting anything deep going either.  Defense held McM to negative rushing before all the subs came in. 

Southwestern is down nine at TLU and just turned the ball over with under two minutes to play.

Millsaps is bombing Centenary 57-0 and when you look at how everyone has performed so far may be the team to beat, or at least will have a say about the conference in its last season.

 

[D3Navy]

Is Tavarez hurt for Trinity? Have not seen him. Huge loss for the offense if he is out

Was in street clothes tonight.  I've heard he was hurt and they are gradually bringing him back.

[Cowboy2]

Is Tavarez hurt for Trinity? Have not seen him. Huge loss for the offense if he is out

Was in street clothes tonight.  I've heard he was hurt and they are gradually bringing him back.

He's a threat. Hope to see him soon!

[Ron Boerger]

Bill Connelly's SP+ Top 772 predictions for the week:

@Berry 43.7, LaGrange 8.0
Hanover 27.2, @Maryville 16.0
Millsaps 46.4, @Centenary 11.1
@Austin 36.8, Rhodes 24.7
@Brevard 39.4, Sewanee 19.1
@TLU 33.6, Southwestern 23.3
@Trinity 40.7, McMurry 12.1

Hansen Ratings predictions:

@Berry 36.5, LaGrange 15.6
Hanover 30.1, @Maryville 12.3
Millsaps 39.4, @Centenary 16.3
Rhodes 30.4, @Austin 26.8
@Brevard 36.1, Sewanee 17.0
@TLU 38.3, Southwestern 26.3
@Trinity 36.5, McMurry 15.6
 

Actual results:

• Berry 20 LaGrange 17
• Hanover 43 Maryville 26
• Millsaps 57 Centenary 0
• Austin 23 Rhodes 17
• Brevard 39 Sewanee 14
• TLU 19 Southwestern 16
• Trinity 31 McMurry 17

SP+ 7-0, Hansen 6-1 - though the Berry win was much closer than either predicted.

This week's SP+ predictions:

• CMU 16.0, @Berry 36.3
• Maryville 16.4, @RMC 37.2
• NC Wesleyan 33.9, @Sewanee 17.0
• LaGrange 16.3, @Centre 18.5
• Hendrix 18.0, @Millsaps 37.9
• Southwestern 26.0, @Schreiner 27.8
• PLU 8.2, @Trinity 42.9

This week's Hansen predictions:

• CMU 17.5, @Berry 30.0
• Maryville 14.3, @RMC 31.3
• NC Wesleyan 30.8, @Sewanee 21.5
• LaGrange 17.5, @Centre 17.2
• Hendrix 25.8, @Millsaps 40.9
• Southwestern 41.3, @Schreiner 19.8
• PLU 15.3, @Trinity 35.7

The two differ on LaGrange-Centre and much more noticeably on Southwestern-Schreiner, where Hansen only gives the Mountaineers an 8.5% chance of winning.

[The Third Division]

Was at Berry LaGrange game - before game started, D2 Shorter (also in Rome, GA), was playing D2 UNC-Pembroke - ran into a familiar face in the stands there.

LaGrange played excellent as they did in the playoff game last year. Berry has lots of fresh meat this year and came out on top.

Must be really nice to have a competitive in-state OOC rivalry

[MCScots2013]

They'll need a few more games like that and a handful of LaGrange wins before we can call it competitive.