FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[devildog29]

None shall pass!

(Insert comment about Augie offense here)

[79jaybird]

All right!  Who's ready to kick the football season off and relieve some of this football energy??

[diehardfan]

All right!  Who's ready to kick the football season off and relieve some of this football energy??

mmm... can't you just smell the manicured grass and white spray paint?

oh wait, never mind, everyone has fake fields now 

nevertheless... football season starts in eight days... woo! (yes, the world does revolve around Wheaton, IL, thank you) 

[Mr. Ypsi]

Sorry, but the world does NOT revolve around Wheaton.

For many of us, the season begins later today!

[RedmenFB44]

GO REDMEN BEAT CARROLL!!!

[79jaybird]

Let's remember to keep Coach Walker in our thoughts as we go the football games this weekend.  He was a great man and will be missed.

[dansand]

Augie wins 53-7 at MacMurray. 

It sounded like a pretty workman-like performance. Their offense took a while to get going, but eventually got it in gear, ending up with 413 total yards. They were able to play on a short field all day. The defense was dominant. The Highlander offense crossed mid-field once all day (on about a 55-yard TD pass against the Viking reserves that was their only score) and only had 62 yards of total offense (-6 rushing) according to the MacMurray broadcast. McGinnis threw the ball a little bit (I'm guessing maybe 8-10 attempts) with mixed results.

Any word on the other CCIW contests. The only score on the D3 board has Millikin trailing Illinois College 14-10 at the half. 

[vikes35]

Augie gives up only 62 yards of offense and 54 come on the one TD MacMurray had. Not a bad start for the Vikings, although I think everyone knows the road gets tougher once they get into conference.

[WLCALUM83]

Final:  Carthage 10, Carroll 6.

[mr_b]

Final:  Carthage 10, Carroll 6.

Wow, that is a close score!  Carroll must be greatly improved.

[Ditka]

Millikin beat Illinois College 24-21

Wallick had 117 yards and Joey Albin threw 2 TDs

[diehardfan]

Augie gives up only 62 yards of offense and 54 come on the one TD MacMurray had. Not a bad start for the Vikings, although I think everyone knows the road gets tougher once they get into conference.

and against a semi decent team? i have no idea how any of the people in the pickem picked macmurray... or suggested that it wasn't the easiest game to call.... that one will probably baffle me until the day I die

carroll played carthage really close last year too, at carthage... my wrong pick was based on the fact that they lost a similar number of players and carthage had to play away, and in some places, home team advantage is pretty significant... apparently it didn't matter today in wisconsin though

[usee]

any wheaton fans go to the wabash scrimmage and can offer a report?

[usee]

couple of notes from yesterdays cciw action:

augie-no surprise to me

carthage-87 yds of total offense?? vs carroll?? (30 rushes for 32 yds, 7-15 for 55 yds--including 1 pass for 41yds)looks like the carthage D played well but if thats it from the redmen offense its gong to be a long year

millikin-had to score 14 pts in the 4th quarter to come from behind and win. wallick had only 20 touches (note to niebhur--please only give him 20 carries if you want to be 5-5)

[Augie6]

Jaybird,

Read in the paper that Kudyba went down for the season with a knee injury early in yesterday's game.  Is that the case?  If so, I'm sorry to hear it.  After last season, he seemed primed to have a big year.  Don't know anything about his back-up (I think his name is LaFluer), so how do you think this will impact the team?  Sounds like the defense played very well, although, like Augie's game against Mac, I'm not sure if it tells us much about the season by beating up on weak teams from what may be the worst conference in DIII.  Anyway, regardless of who our teams played, it always good to get through the first game with a win.  Congrats to the Jays.