College football week 14 thread: The Last Boise Scout

Interesting. Marietta won its first eight or nine games, then lost a close one to Mount Union before being blown out by John Carroll. They might be the Indiana University of DIII, losing handily to anyone good they played. JCU made the playoffs as the last seed, rolled someone in the first round of the playoffs, and now heads to Mount Union to continue the rivalry the Purple Raiders dominate. JCU had the lead in the fourth quarter before losing by six in the regular season.

Mount is 38-3-2 all-time vs. JCU, winning 74 consecutive regular-season games since losing to the Blue Streaks in 2016. Of course, they need about four more consecutive undefeated seasons to break their record of 112 wins in a row, which was snapped by John Carroll in that 2016 game. The Purple Raiders have gone undefeated in the regular season 33 times.

Mount is 156-1 (it might be better, my math could be off) in the regular season since 2006 with five championships and eight runners-up trophies. So they have made the DIII finals 13 of the past 18 seasons.

 

Division III has joined the chat.
Either Mount Union, Wisconsin-Whitewater or Mary Hardin-Baylor played in every D-III championship game from 2000 to 2022. If you go back to 1996, there was only one game in that span (1999) that didn't involve one of those teams. Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater played each other seven years in a row and nine of 10 at one point.
Cortland State and North Central finally broke the logjam last year, although now North Central has now been to four in a row — two of those vs. Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater — to become another head of the hydra.

The only division with anything approaching parity is Division II.

 

Eastern Washington beat Delaware in the first FCS bowl played in Frisco. I was there.

 

Get a load of the word salad in this release.
If it's supposed to create clarity, it has failed. Multiple outlets are reporting that Arizona State and Iowa State are in if they win this weekend, but this release does not say so.
It appears to enumerate a scenario in which ASU can win and get left out and another in which the Cyclones can experience the same angst.

IRVING, Texas -- Entering Week 14, nine teams are still in contention for the Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship. The following details tiebreaking scenarios for ties among teams with 7-2 Big 12 records:

• Two-team tie scenarios:
  • The two tied teams at 7-2 will be the Championship game participants.

• Three-team tie scenarios:
  • Colorado loss: Arizona State vs. Iowa State
  • Arizona State loss: Iowa State vs. BYU
  • Iowa State loss: Arizona State vs. BYU
  • BYU loss:
    • If Texas Tech defeats West Virginia, then
      • If Baylor beats Kansas and Cincinnati beats TCU: Colorado vs. Iowa State
      • Otherwise: Colorado vs. Arizona State
    • If West Virginia defeats Texas Tech: Arizona State vs. Iowa State

• Four-team tie scenario:
  • Arizona State vs. Iowa State

• For teams who are 5-3 entering the week, they must win and see at least three of the four 6-2 teams take a loss.

2024 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship Tiebreakers Update

 

Historic College Football Program Expecting up to 50 Players to Transfer Amid NCAA Rule Change

I have no idea if this story is true, but holy fuck, 50 players leaving Nebraska?

PS: My bad. Buried at the bottom of the story us the note that most of those players will be walkons, they have 150 or so on the roster and it will be capped at 105 next year. I feel totally catfished and worthy of the lake of fail.

Peru and Chadron States will have a hell of a team next year.

 

You're not the only one. This is one of the problems with breathless discussion of the transfer portal. The reported volume means relatively little if we don't know how many entrants are scholarship recipients and how many are tackling dummies in practice uniforms.

 

Not my ticket. But someone decided to invest in the specific parlay that would send West Virginia to the Big 12 title game.

 

This is awesome, and one of those reasons to love sports.
Michael Lindauer retired from football in the spring and became a graduate assistant for Southern Illinois. Because of a wave of injuries to SIU's quarterbacks, he had to petition the NCAA to play again earlier this season and spent a few weeks as the backup. Then the third-stringer pulled his hamstring and Lindauer was elevated to starter for the season finale against Murray State.
Not only was it his first start, he'd never thrown a pass in a college game before coming in the previous week against South Dakota State.
So in his first, last, and only college start against Murray State he threw a school-record seven touchdown passes in a 62-0 win on senior day, and then was named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week.

Recap | Lindauer sets TD passing record as Football blanks Murray State, 62-0 - Southern Illinois University Athletics

 

Shades of Dr. Larry Ochab, a graduate student in the dentistry department, who wound up starting at quarterback in the season finale for the winless and hapless 1979 Florida Gators against Miami because the first four QBs on the roster were injured. I believe he's now a real estate executive in Brevard County but Dr. O will always be revered for throwing 16 interceptions during his short but memorable Gator career, although he did account for eight touchdowns as well.

Larry Ochab Splits | StatMuse

 

Very close to Archie Manning's sophomore season at Ole Miss.