Leatherneck Nation

And MVFC Season begins with all 10 teams facing off against each other in 5 games. Outside of our own game at South Dakota State, here's what else is going on:

#18 Illinois State at #1 North Dakota State – 1 PM
Missouri State at #24 Indiana State – 2 PM
South Dakota at #20 Youngstown State – 3 PM
Southern Illinois at #12 Northern Iowa – 4 PM

All games are available on ESPN3/WatchESPN.com
You can check out my preview of all MVFC games along with my predictions here: http://thefcswedge.com/mvfc/mvfc-week-5-preview/

And other games of interest outside the conference:

#13 Eastern Illinois at Southeast Missouri State at 6 PM (game should be available for streaming here: http://www.ovcdigitalnetwork.com/watch/?Live=4766 )

Northern Arizona at Northern Colorado at 2 PM (should be available for streaming here: http://eversport.tv/big-sky/football/20 ... n-colorado)

Northern Illinois at Ball State at 2:30 PM (available on ESPN3/WatchESPN.com)

And the results:

NDSU beats ISUr, 31-10
MSU beats ISUb, 45-24
YSU beats USD, 30-20
UNI beats SIU, 42-21

And our OOC opponents this season:
Northern Colorado beats Northern Arizona, 21-18 (Cookus out with shoulder injury sustained in EWU game)
SEMO beats Eastern Illinois, 21-14
NIU beats Ball State, 31-24

So, not a great day for our OOC teams making our schedule look better. Non-conference opponents are now 5-10 on the season...5-7 when not playing us.

Attendance at Saturday's Games:

Western at South Dakota State = 14,155
Illinois State at North Dakota State = 18,907
Missouri State at Indiana State = 6,871
South Dakota at Youngstown State = 15,151
Southern Illinois at Northern Iowa = 13,710


Other games:

Northern Arizona at Northern Colorado = 5,476
Eastern Illinois at Southeast Missouri State = 4,892
Northern Illinois at Ball State = 7,249

Cornell at Monmouth College = 2,100. This was Monmouth's Homecoming, and I was there for the game. Monmouth turned in a school-record 710 yards – 306 on the ground – in a 57-14 Homecoming win over Cornell Saturday at April Zorn Memorial Stadium.

Jacob Poore (QB) from Macomb is a freshman on the team.

Here's my weekly review of the MVFC games if you're interested: http://thefcswedge.com/mvfc/mvfc-week-5-review/