Lets take a look at the match-ups from last week and I'll give you some thoughts from the games.
First off I'd like to start a segment called "The OUCH of the week" I think we can all kinda guess what it's about.
Couple teams were fighting for "The OUCH of the week" and they didn't even know it existed yet!
The winner this week is going to be Minnesota Morris! Not only losing the game 44-9 to Greenville at home, but the real ouch was the -19 yards rushing on the game. Also I would say a second ouch throw at you for the 3 fumbles lost in the game. I gave Morris a lot more credit than what I should've in my season previews since they quickly move to the "OUCH" section in week one.
Let's do a little recap of the Greenville @ Morris game.
It's tough to tell what this game really meant since we don't know who is good yet, but I gotta say Greenville looking pretty solid with a big road victory to start off UMAC play. Not as much of a fall off from losing their starting quarterback from last year as I suspected. So that means as always Greenville is a big threat for the UMAC Championship. I will chuck up a little of this lopsided affair to the three fumbles lost by Morris, but still it seems that Greenville is once again in the top 3 of the conference.
Eureka heads to Greenville this Saturdays and It should be interesting as the Red Devils head to Greenville in a Christmas colors battle royal. (Get it? Red and Green) yea I know that was dumb...
Next game let's talk about the scariest team in the UMAC as Northwestern faced off against Euerka. I don't think I've seen Euerka take a beating like that at home since the regular season finale of 2011 when "Mr. Unstoppable" Alex Thiry and the Saints came in and steam rolled them with a score I believe was 48-7 (don't quote me on that and I don't want to go look it up) this is just a sign that Eureka isn't the team I thought they were and also Northwestern is everything I feared they would be this year. Can they be stopped? Sadly I don't believe so... I think the only thing that can stop them might be a fluke win similar to the one they got in 2012 against CSS in Duluth. Or maybe a shoot-out with Greenville that doesn't go their way. Either way just looking at Northwestern and their 512 total yards offense and their ability to recruit every brother of anyone on the team I think the UMAC is theirs to lose this year. I really hope Eureka is just a bad team this year,but I find that kinda hard to believe.
Northwestern gets to face Martin Luther at home and I'm not sure who to feel more sorry for... Martin Luther or the person that has to take Northwestern's offensive stats. I'll be sitting by my phone looking anxiously for the biggest upset in UMAC history.
This next game kinda hurt me because it was the only one I got wrong this week, but to be honest it's my fault for thinking that things had changed. Westminster seems to have returned to the 2010-2011 Versions of themselves and actually maybe would be a contender if it wasn't for those teams like Northwestern,Greenville, and CSS. That being said I think they could beat one of those three teams this year, but no way they take all three of them. Fumbles and interceptions were a clear deciding factor in this game and actually Crown didn't look terrible either, but they look incredibly one dimentional this year and that's kinda the way they've always been. If you can stop the dive you most likely will beat Crown this year.
Westminster heads to MacMurry this week and I think sadly they will ruin that one game winning streak they've got going this year. I'll give more details of that on my Friday breakdown. I can't give away too much...
The game I'm actually excited to talk about was the "upset" of Martin Luther in a loss to MacMurry. I received a little flack for predicting that they were going to beat Martin Luther and lookie here what happens... This game involved both teams getting over 400 yards on offense and the time of possession was incredible lopsided in the favor of the losing team 40:03 to 19:57 and that just goes to show you that MacMurry was scoring on bigger plays and that a big run can be used against Martin Luther this year. I think this was both teams only shot at a victory and I gotta tip my hat to MacMurry for making my prediction correct and for their win! Not surprised one bit that Patrick Hall had 150 yards in this game and 3 touchdowns. He's one of the better running-backs in the UMAC, but I think most teams will be able to bottle him up with more solid defense.
Both teams head to play good teams and face a uphill battle... but that hill they are going up is probably a mountain. Once again I always cheer for an upset that isn't against Scholastica!
Last game to breakdown here today is The Scholastica vs IWC
first off... you can not be serious with the camera feed that they had going... I mean I was glad there was a live feed, but I couldn't see a single play happen. I had to watch to see which team jumped up and down to know which team did well on the play. Good luck telling who was the person that scored. I will send $10 to IWC for a new camera if they ask for it... Start a kickstarter project or something.
Scholastica did their usual slow start to the game and even let IWC get on the board first. This is just something that can not happen against other teams in the UMAC. That's really about all I have to say negatively, except maybe I was a little disappointed in rushing game, but sometimes it's just not there. IWC had some real fight in them at the start of the game, but The CSS defense played a great overall game and that really just outweighed any momentum that they would have at any point in the game. Tyler Harper once again didn't have the greatest completion percentage, but somehow finds a way to win games so who really cares on that front. He's doing a great job of leading his team into battle, but he will need to bring that percentage up a little if he wants to lead the saints to some victories over the other powerhouses of the UMAC. One last negative thing actually... 2 for 14 on 3rd downs? That's gotta change and really quickly. It was nice to see Preston Robinson get going in the rushing game and hopefully that is a sign of things to come. The IWC defense did a great job of keeping "The Gas" in the can, but I think we will shake that one off as a one time thing. My score prediction on this game was relatively close which means I know at least a little about how things work for the Saints. I think with linebacker core that CSS has they have a chance to bottle up the run game for a lot of teams this year, and they're going to need it when they face against the run happy Crown on Saturday.
That's just a little look at week 1 of the UMAC recaps.
Player of the Week: Eric Northey. With 11-17 and 2 touchdown passes combined with 168 yards rushing and a two touchdowns rushing I think this one was kinda easy to call.
Well I'm signing off... Please post negative comments below.
Northwestern gets to face Martin Luther at home and I'm not sure who to feel more sorry for... Martin Luther or the person that has to take Northwestern's offensive stats. I'll be sitting by my phone looking anxiously for the biggest upset in UMAC history.
This next game kinda hurt me because it was the only one I got wrong this week, but to be honest it's my fault for thinking that things had changed. Westminster seems to have returned to the 2010-2011 Versions of themselves and actually maybe would be a contender if it wasn't for those teams like Northwestern,Greenville, and CSS. That being said I think they could beat one of those three teams this year, but no way they take all three of them. Fumbles and interceptions were a clear deciding factor in this game and actually Crown didn't look terrible either, but they look incredibly one dimentional this year and that's kinda the way they've always been. If you can stop the dive you most likely will beat Crown this year.
Westminster heads to MacMurry this week and I think sadly they will ruin that one game winning streak they've got going this year. I'll give more details of that on my Friday breakdown. I can't give away too much...
The game I'm actually excited to talk about was the "upset" of Martin Luther in a loss to MacMurry. I received a little flack for predicting that they were going to beat Martin Luther and lookie here what happens... This game involved both teams getting over 400 yards on offense and the time of possession was incredible lopsided in the favor of the losing team 40:03 to 19:57 and that just goes to show you that MacMurry was scoring on bigger plays and that a big run can be used against Martin Luther this year. I think this was both teams only shot at a victory and I gotta tip my hat to MacMurry for making my prediction correct and for their win! Not surprised one bit that Patrick Hall had 150 yards in this game and 3 touchdowns. He's one of the better running-backs in the UMAC, but I think most teams will be able to bottle him up with more solid defense.
Both teams head to play good teams and face a uphill battle... but that hill they are going up is probably a mountain. Once again I always cheer for an upset that isn't against Scholastica!
Last game to breakdown here today is The Scholastica vs IWC
first off... you can not be serious with the camera feed that they had going... I mean I was glad there was a live feed, but I couldn't see a single play happen. I had to watch to see which team jumped up and down to know which team did well on the play. Good luck telling who was the person that scored. I will send $10 to IWC for a new camera if they ask for it... Start a kickstarter project or something.
Scholastica did their usual slow start to the game and even let IWC get on the board first. This is just something that can not happen against other teams in the UMAC. That's really about all I have to say negatively, except maybe I was a little disappointed in rushing game, but sometimes it's just not there. IWC had some real fight in them at the start of the game, but The CSS defense played a great overall game and that really just outweighed any momentum that they would have at any point in the game. Tyler Harper once again didn't have the greatest completion percentage, but somehow finds a way to win games so who really cares on that front. He's doing a great job of leading his team into battle, but he will need to bring that percentage up a little if he wants to lead the saints to some victories over the other powerhouses of the UMAC. One last negative thing actually... 2 for 14 on 3rd downs? That's gotta change and really quickly. It was nice to see Preston Robinson get going in the rushing game and hopefully that is a sign of things to come. The IWC defense did a great job of keeping "The Gas" in the can, but I think we will shake that one off as a one time thing. My score prediction on this game was relatively close which means I know at least a little about how things work for the Saints. I think with linebacker core that CSS has they have a chance to bottle up the run game for a lot of teams this year, and they're going to need it when they face against the run happy Crown on Saturday.
That's just a little look at week 1 of the UMAC recaps.
Player of the Week: Eric Northey. With 11-17 and 2 touchdown passes combined with 168 yards rushing and a two touchdowns rushing I think this one was kinda easy to call.
Well I'm signing off... Please post negative comments below.
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