FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[CCIWFan69]

.... This led to freshman Blake Lehnen getting his first extensive action of the season, and he seems to have moved ahead of a couple of seniors on the depth chart....

Last name sounds familiar but don't remember why....

[Gregory Sager]

Logan 34-4 (89%) straight up in CCIW game predictions.

The 4 games that went the other way:

NPU @ Millikin
IWU @ Augie
Wheaton @ NCC
IWU @ Millikin

No, it's now five games where Logan has had it wrong. He had Carthage as a one-point favorite over North Park last week.

[Gregory Sager]

Glad your mind went there.  My immediate thought was that NCUN detractors would start appending a cerTain letter to the end.

Hadn't even thought of that one, and I'm glad that I didn't. I can ride an opponent with the best of them (currently fighting an urge to reply to Big Blue Ben with, "What, Wesleyan, arrogant? What could ever make someone think that?!"), but I'd like to think that whenever I ride I ride on the high road.

Which reminds me that I have to ask Lucas if North Central is going to comp his hotel room in Minneapolis if he ever gets called up to work P.A. for a game at the main campus.

[CarollFan]

How Millikin Pulled Off the Upset Over Illinois Wesleyan

The most fascinating part of Millikin's upset over Illinois Wesleyan wasn't just that Millikin won. It was watching Illinois Wesleyan play as though they didn't believe they were in any real danger of losing until it was too late.

Wesleyan played like a team that expected to win by 21 points simply by showing up and being the more talented team. They never seemed to fully appreciate that Millikin was capable of beating them, and that arrogance showed up repeatedly in their play calling.

Go back and watch some of those fourth-down decisions. One of them was Wesleyan going for a 4th and 11 at midfield early in 4th... WHY?) Those are the kinds of risks you take when you believe you're so much better than your opponent that the consequences of a mistake don't really matter. Except Millikin kept making them pay. Over and over again, Millikin showed that they could compete, make plays, and put Wesleyan under pressure. And over and over again, Wesleyan seemed unwilling to adjust its approach.

I went back and looked at this. I think you got it a little off.
There were 3 4rth down plays in the 4rth Q.
Early in the 4rth IWU scored on 4rth and 2.
On the last drive they hit a 66 yard pass on the 4rth down and then their last offensive play was on 4rth down.

There was a 4rth and 11 with about 2 minutes left in the 2nd Q from the Millikin 31 that they missed. The score was Millikin 14-7 at the time but if your not kicking the FG alot of coaches would go from there instead of punting. I know Carroll's would