FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[D3fanboy]

Which one of you will be the first to credit Wheaton? Seems I read that the difference between these two teams was 66-7 or something of that sort before the game. (Hat top to the guy who called out that ridiculous take.)

This was a game that was fairly even. Except this time it was Mount Union who had to make the long bus trip into unfamiliar territory. Both teams made mistakes. Both teams had bunches of newbies in the lineup.

Mount Union hurt themselves with tons of undisciplined penalties. Wheaton hurt themselves with red zone turnovers. You're going to see what you want to see on the overturned catch at the 4. I was surprised it was overturned, but not  shocked. It was that close.

If #12 could catch the ball, Mount Union has three more touchdowns. If Wheaton finishes off drives into the red zone, there's two more scores.

It was a classic football game between two very good teams that should be playing ball into November and probably December as well.

Good luck to you guys. We'll be hoping you go 9-1. (We'll take all the NPI points we can get.)

Hats off to Wheaton.  They jumped on Mount and gave themselves a little room to have first game mistakes.  I was certainly not blaming the refs.  Wheaton deserved the win 100%, I wonder if Dartt didn't realize that the kick got bumped up an hour?