Weekly Recaps

My back and arm are so sore right now... Sometimes it can be hard to pat yourself on the back after an amazing week. This week I decided to pull out all the stops. I've been 4/5 each week to this point when I pulled out a solid 5/5 on my predictions. Once again I have proven that my knowledge of Scholastica Football is clearly the best of anyone. Let's just enjoy how close my prediction was. My prediction for the final score was 34-24 (actual score was 31-24) I think that's close enough for a victory. I said this "I think Westminster will have the lead in this game, but Scholatica will come back and win it." can you guess what happened? Yep, once again I was correct. Let's go to the part where I said Tyler Harper would throw 4 touchdowns to 4 different people, turns out to be 3 to 3 different people.(I'm still gonna pat myself on the back) I also said that Robinson would get a receiving touchdown and boom look what happened. (Though I also said he would get a rushing one, but O'Neil stole that 1 yard touchdown carry) so I'll give myself 50% on that. Matt pint also helped out my prediction of "a solid forced fumble" on a return and helped the Saints tie it up at 17. Sooooo now that I have tooted my own horn for my extremely close predictions I can probably admit a lot of it was luck, but for right now please refer to me as Mr. Cleo (I took her last name because she was so famous)

Well enough about me.. let recap this past weekends games.

Ouch of the week goes to Morris from their lack of ability to score on turnovers. (See below)

Morris @ Eureka

Eureka tried so hard and I mean so hard to give Minnesota Morris this win. We all kinda were cheering for them to win it too. Six turnovers... SIX! how do you win when you have six turnovers? Easy I guess, they got some turnovers back from Morris and made enough of them count to win this game late. The game was tied at 10 for the longest time and all I could think of was... how is this happening? Eureka came into this season seeming so promising, but alas that no longer is the case. Just keep fighting Morris hopefully you can find a big win here this season. Though I'm sure that 27 yard touchdown with 16 seconds left might haunt you for a little while. Just remember Taylor Swift once said "Shake it off" and she seems to be doing alright for herself. 

 Greenville @ Martin Luther College

 I want to say that the close score on this game means a lot, but I think the only thing it means is that Martin Luther is just a tough team to face in New Ulm. Once again I disrespected Martin Luther with a blow-out score prediction, but I gave them a little more credit on offense too.. so we will call evens. I like the way that Martin Luther is playing right now, but they just don't have what it takes to be in the running for the UMAC. I do fully believe that they could maybe pull up a big upset still this season with how solid their defense looks and if they can make a big turnover. This game just came down to the face that Greenvilles offense is just too high powered to keep stopping all day and when Martin Luther hit a slump on offense Greenville was going to take control of the game.

Northwestern @ Crown

This game was one of those games where I knew that Northwestern was going to win big, but give up a couple garbage touchdowns at the end like every team has against crown. My score prediction was 38-13 and the final score was 40-14, so I think it's safe to say I kinda know how things are working right now for a lot of the UMAC teams.(especially CSS and Northwestern) Right now Northwestern just seems to have it all, arguable the best defense in the sense of how balanced they are and an offense that will score enough to get them the W.  Obviously this week will be the week where everything will most likely be decided.

MacMurry @ IWC

I picked against IWC last week and just because they proved me wrong I decided to go with them on this week. To be honest I didn't see any of this game or even the stats from the game, but I'm pretty sure neither of these teams have players that read my blog... so whatever.  Keep it up IWC!

CSS @ Westminster

Usually I leave the CSS game for the last one to force people to read all the other games before they get to read this one. (If you scrolled down the others straight to this one... quit being a jerk and go back through them) I really don't have much to say about this game that wasn't in my intro about how awesome I am about predictions, but I'll still say a few things. Westminster could possibly be in the top 3 teams in the UMAC. Obviously with the loss to CSS they are at best 2nd, but I think they could pull off a win vs Northwestern or Greenville if things worked out for them. So many games left in the UMAC, but over half the teams in the UMAC have their tombstones engraved. Westminster has the West part on the tombstone but if they can pull off winning the rest of the season maybe they can fight for that number one spot. Just to recap some individual performances... I liked what I saw in Robinson and I'm hopefully he is willing to put himself in a "Team on my back" roll next week, because they might need every yard he can get. Tyler Harper had statically one of his better games, but still needs one more step up this week to do what he does best.. (That is win games) So far I think "The Irish Blessing" (Shane Finnegan) is playing well and I think he is about to become a big part of this team on offense if he is up to the challenge.