College football week 13 thread: The Adventures of Buckeye Banzai Across the Big 10th Dimension

I can't remember what the realignment thread is called, so I'll put this here.
Division II Mississippi College announces, two days after its final game of the season and apparently with no warning to players or coaches, that it is discontinuing its football program effective immediately.
Mississippi College played its first game in 1907. Its early coaches included College Football Hall of Famers Edwin "Goat" Hale and Dana X. Bible, and it won the 1989 Division II national championship — which was later vacated because of recruiting violations.

 

Apparently it announced this at the same time it announced it will be changing its name to Mississippi Christian University. No word if it will also be getting a nose piercing, a red convertible and will be moving to Fire Island.

 

A little surprised they were still D-II. I thought they dropped to D-III many years ago.

 

As opposed to Mississippi Muslim University, I presume.

 

They were in Division II in the 1980s (I messed up the original post; the 1989 national title that was vacated was in Division II, not III), went down to D-III in the 90s, then came back to D-II around 2010. They have not done well since coming back to D-II. Their last winning season was in 2009.
Lately, they've been putting up passing numbers that would make Army look like it's running the Air Raid. In their last game of existence, the quarterbacks were a combined 4-for-7 passing for 105 yards. In the four games before that — combined — they were 1-for-6 for 38 yards. They did not attempt a pass in their penultimate game, a 35-7 win over Northeastern State.

 

They still played football games in Handmaid's Tale.

 

Mississippi College's kicker unloaded both barrels, then reloaded and fired two more.
Also, it appears the school's athletics website has gone kaput. I was on it earlier this evening, looking up old rosters to find out when some of the locals I was trying to reach played there, and it went down and hasn't been back up since.

 

MC isn’t some fly by night school either. Nearly 200 years old. But they may be facing the same undertow we’ve been describing on the other thread.

 

I can’t remember the last time big NBC had a 10:30 EST kick on a Saturday night.

 

Looking them up on Wikipedia, when they won the D-2 semifinal in 1989, they beat Indiana (Pa), 26-4.

That probably was a Scoregami if one existed back then.