Not a good week if you like exciting finishes. The margins of victory in the SoCon this week: 25, 23, 51, 23 and 25. Elon blew a backdoor shot at becoming the third SoCon team in the FCS playoffs.
No. 2 Appalachian State beat Western Carolina 35-10.
The Mountaineers won comfortably without quarterback Armanti Edwards, out with […]
Samford beat Chattanooga 30-7 yesterday to finish 6-5, 4-4 in the Southern Conference. Here’s how Samford did on the five goals I set for them before the game:
1. Winners, not losers: Success. Samford handled the 1-11 Mocs. The win allows the Bulldogs to feel good about their progress going into the offseason with their first winning […]
Here are my five goals for Samford in the final game of the 2008 season:
1. Winners, not losers: Beat the 1-10 Mocs and Samford secures its first winning season since 2003. Lose, and Samford ends the fifth straight losing season with a collapse. Last week’s game against No. 9 Wofford turned into a disaster. A loss […]
James Madison held onto a sizeable lead at No. 1 as teams grind out the last few weeks in search of a spot in the FCS playoffs.
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1. James Madison
2. Appalachian State
3. Cal Poly
4. Northern Iowa
5. Montana
6. Villanova
7. Richmond
8. Weber State
9. Wofford
10. Southern Illinois
11. New Hampshire
12. Elon
13. Central Arkansas
14. McNeese State
15. South Carolina State
16. […]
No shockers this week, but other than the Samford game, there were three close matchups. It looks like Wofford and Appalachian State have seperated themselves as the probable SoCon representatives in the FCS playoffs.
No. 2 Appalachian State beat No. 11 Elon 24-16.
Appalachian State secured the conference’s automatic birth with a win over Elon and can clinch […]
The calm before the storm.
When I ran track at Hoover High School and again at Samford, that’s what my teammates and I dubbed the last few minutes of inactivity before the gun went off. In between warming up and some last-minute strides, we’d lay down with our feet elevated for a few brief minutes, embracing […]
Wofford’s running game decimated Samford, confusing them with multiple formations and forcing the Bulldogs to account for several options on every play. Samford lost 28-7, in their least-competitive game all season.
Here’s how they did on the five goals I set for them before the game:
1. Line up: Failure. Wofford ran the ball 73 times for […]
BIRMINGHAM — Like an owner tricking their cat with a toy mouse, Wofford toyed with Samford’s defense.
If the Bulldogs draped defenders on the up-back, Wofford optioned toward the sideline. If Samford crept both safeties up, Wofford threw over their heads. Whatever Samford tried, the Fighting Terriers countered, gaining 468 yards of total offense in a […]
BIRMINGHAM — There are a lot of red faces in the Samford stands, and it’s not because of the cool weather and intermittent rain.
Samford played their worst half of football to date against Wofford as the Fighting Terriers are embarrassing the Bulldogs. Wofford’s vaunted rushing offense had Samford thoroughly baffled, tackling players that didn’t have […]
Samford has a chance at a winning conference record, but to get there, they’ll have to beat a ranked FCS team — something they’ve failed to do three times this season.
Wofford’s rushed for over 330 yards in seven games and have scored three or more rushing touchdowns against every FCS team they’ve played this season. […]
