Week 8 in the MVFC (and other games of interest)

Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:40 am

Kinda a wild week last week, but that's just how it goes in the MVFC.

Here's the other conference games going on this weekend (outside of Macomb):

Missouri State at Northern Iowa - 1 PM
Illinois State at South Dakota - 2 PM
Indiana State at Southern Illinois - 2 PM
Youngstown State at South Dakota State - 2 PM

As usual, here's my preview of this week's MVFC games (you'll probably recognize some of my comments about our game from my post over in our own football area: http://thefcswedge.com/mvfc/mvfc-week-8-preview/

And for our OOC opponents this season:
Montana at Northern Arizona - 6 PM
Murray State at Eastern Illinois - 1 PM
Buffalo at Northern Illinois - 2:30 PM

wiu712 · Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:33 am

The Missouri State at Northern Iowa game will be on Comcast Sports Net-Chicago. Game time is 1PM.

leatherneckcountry · Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:29 pm

Looking forward to watching the SDSU vs YSU every week I think YSU is overrated and they prove me wrong but there first tough road game.

Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:52 pm

leatherneckcountry wrote:Looking forward to watching the SDSU vs YSU every week I think YSU is overrated and they prove me wrong but there first tough road game.

Their offense is "middle of the pack"...good at running, but very bad at passing. That D-line though....beasts. Nobody's running on the Penguins this year.

Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:46 pm

Holy carp....I figured UNI would beat Missouri State, but they're like an entirely different team (WAY better) with Dunn at QB rather than Bailey.

I predicted UNI by 7....I should have added a decimal place...70. They're up 54-7 after 3 quarters.

EDIT - UNI pretty much just ran the ball right up the middle nearly every play in the 4th quarter...still got another TD. 61-7 was the final, UNI over MSU. I thought we'd have a chance against UNI, but now....I think maybe I'm not going to think about it. Dunn threw for 418 yards and 2 TDs (he had 300+ yards in the first half alone). That's like 3 games worth of Bailey playing.

leatherneckcountry · Sat Oct 22, 2016 5:07 pm

Bad loss for EIU.

sealhall74 · Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:17 am

It is conceivable that the five schools south of the 41st N Parallel will all be missing the playoffs this year.

Much work to do in the weeks ahead.

Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:28 pm

I guess I forgot to post the full results. Sorry, in all my excitement from the Cubs I was a bit distracted.

Anyway, here's my week in review over at theFCSWedge.com: http://thefcswedge.com/mvfc/mvfc-week-8-review/
And here's the scores:

Missouri State - 7
Northern Iowa - 61

Illinois State - 24
South Dakota - 27

Indiana State - 22
Southern Illinois - 14

Youngstown State - 10
South Dakota State - 24

And our OOC friends:

Murray State - 40
Eastern Illinois - 38

Montana - 34
Northern Arizona - 45
Nice win by the Lumberjacks

And we know for sure that NIU is at least not the worst team in the MAC because in addition to their win over Ball State a few weeks ago...
Buffalo - 7
Northern Illinois - 44

leatherneckcountry · Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:57 pm

sealhall74 wrote:It is conceivable that the five schools south of the 41st N Parallel will all be missing the playoffs this year.

Much work to do in the weeks ahead.

Almost no one knows what this means including myself.

wiu712 · Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:06 pm

Attendance at above-referenced games:

North Dakota State at Western = 5,329.
Missouri State at Northern Iowa = 12,014.
Illinois State at South Dakota = 7,416.
Indiana State at Southern Illinois = 9,603.
Youngstown State at South Dakota State = 17,730.

Murray State at Eastern Illinois = 7,907.
Montana at Northern Arizona = 7,197.
Buffalo at Northern Illinois = 11,801.