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[TheJeff]

Once again, I think Amherst is still yet to play their best football.

Amherst does not have personnel that can match Wesleyan (or Trinity) yet they pulled off another huge win today against the Wesleyan arsenal of talent. They always mange to pull off wins like this. Once again I will attribute their success to the best HCOF in the conference year in and year out-- EJ Mills. I gotta take my hat off to him once again. I can only look at the boxscore at this point. It looks like the Mammoths outplayed a Wes team I thought was close to perfect.
Mills finds a way to win big games while the Wes publicity syndicate sometimes has a tendency to look ahead to that "final game against Trinity". Heartbreaking loss for the Cards, I was really pulling for them to get a playoff berth.  This loss makes their path a little more difficult, however, if they can beat Trinity in "that final game" I think they will be  in good shape based on my limited knowledge of the D3 playoff process and criteria.
I think Trinity will snap out of todays slumber and pound the Mammoths next week unless EJ schools Devanney the way he out schemed Dice Baby today, don't think so. Don't think Mills can pull off another coup next week against the Bantams.
I think we are looking at an undefeated Trinity club against a dangerous but unpredictable Wesleyan team in Hartford in the final game.
Lets hope we have 2 NESCAC teams in the playoffs.

Did you watch any of the game? I couldn't make it up, but I watched the livestream and would say they were pretty evenly matched talent wise. Let's stop acting like it's a coincidence and miracle Amherst has won 6 games, one of which over a previously 5-0 Wesleyan team who everyone hyped up. At some point it's not Amherst getting lucky, they're just actually a good team. Good teams win games, Amherst has won games.

[Bantamsdad69]

Rivalry games are always difficult to predict so I don't think it's a complete shocker that an undefeated Amherst team could pull out that win. This is the first game Amherst was able to run the ball effectively aswell. Wesleyan seems to be getting out coached this year, with this loss to Amherst and their near loss to Hamilton earlier in the season. Right now the team that has the only combination of top tier talent and top tier coaching is Trinity

[ItsATuftSituation]

I just wanna take a second to shout out Tufts and their coaching staff over the last couple of weeks. It was clear that something wasn't working with the personnel so they have definitely changed where people are being deployed and it's certainly helping. I don't think this Tufts team beats Williams the way they were configured three or four weeks ago.

That's really good coaching by their staff. It also does help getting Shapiro back yesterday, it takes a lot of the pressure off of a young quarterback. I think it also gave the team a lot of confidence. Wanted to shout out Granville Anderson as well, banged up, made an absolute gutsy catch on fourth down in the final drive. Got hit, held on in traffic. He's a kid that wants to do whatever to win.

I'm excited to see how the Jumbos use this momentum into next week's game against an undefeated Amherst team. Mammoths should definitely be favored but who knows.