SoCon Week 5

[The Jackal]

Samford @ Furman
Mercer @ Wofford
The Citadel @ App State
VMI @ Western Carolina
UTC @ ETSU

Two huge games on the slate this week with Samford/Furman and UTC/ETSU.

WCU needs to avoid a let down with VMI. Cats are the better team, but VMI plenty good enough.

Would love to see the Citadel beat App, I just don't think it's going to happen.

Mercer on back to back road games. I think this will be an interesting barometer for Wofford. If they are blown out here, it's going to be a long season.

[FUBeAR]

Samford @ Furman
Mercer @ Wofford
The Citadel @ App State
VMI @ Western Carolina
UTC @ ETSU

Two huge games on the slate this week with Samford/Furman and UTC/ETSU.

WCU needs to avoid a let down with VMI. Cats are the better team, but VMI plenty good enough.

Would love to see the Citadel beat App, I just don't think it's going to happen.

Mercer on back to back road games. I think this will be an interesting barometer for Wofford. If they are blown out here, it's going to be a long season.

*Mercer has never won (since rebirth) in Spartanburg.
* Won’t say who, but 2 key Players - 1 on each side of the ball - limped off for Mercer near the end of the game. They did not return, but with the score as it was they may have just not needed to.
* Wofford prolly gained a lot of confidence @ Kennesaw. They played the Owls about as close as they ever have. If their QB just releases the ball, they prolly complete the 2 point conversion near the end of that game and it certainly could have gone in the other direction.
* With WCU (always chippy games with Mercer) up the following week and Mercer getting a lot more love in the polls with their Gardner-Webb beatdown…

…this week has all of the elements of a “trap game” for the Bears. We’ll see if they can handle ‘prosperity.’

[Davemeister]

Visions of Ankle-Biters setting Bear traps in the woods.

[DungeonRealm]

A very interesting week in the SoCon, no doubt

[AllTimeFU]

Any thoughts on UTC at ETSU? Big game.

[The Jackal]

Any thoughts on UTC at ETSU? Big game.

Game is in Johnson City. UTC hasn't played an FCS team the caliber of ETSU yet. Bucs cannot afford to lose any more SoCon games.

I think we'll find out a good bit more about what UTC is made of as well.

[The Jackal]

I realize there's been upheaval in the SoCon the last 10 years or so.

Still, it's kinda fun to look at the schedule and see big games every week.

It wasn't that long ago there were really on three big games a season in conference play: Furman/App, App/GSU, Furman/GSU.

[FUBeAR]

Any thoughts on UTC at ETSU? Big game.

ETSU is going to have to find a way to give Riddell time to throw and/or be very good in the quick game or they have no chance in this game.

OR

Chatt could make a plethora of (perhaps weather-related) Special Teams gaffes that determine the outcome. They’ve been known to spit the bit on the regular.

[DungeonRealm]

I realize there's been upheaval in the SoCon the last 10 years or so.

Still, it's kinda fun to look at the schedule and see big games every week.

It wasn't that long ago there were really on three big games a season in conference play: Furman/App, App/GSU, Furman/GSU.

However, those were not just big socon games, they were 'giant' FCS games

[Davemeister]

However, those were not just big socon games, they were 'giant' FCS games

Especially the game in Boone when ASU tore down their own goalpost and used them to skewer the GSU Team bus.