Get ya some small school asswhoopins right here 🏈

[underpants]

Small school asswhoopins

Gallaudet 34
U. New England 31

Howard 31
Morehouse 0

Limestone 40
Carson-Newman 37
2 OTs

Lagrange 44
Ferrum 38 (0-3)

Hampden Sydney 70
Greensboro 28

Wartburg 62
Luther 0

Colorado School of Mines first win 84
Adams State 10
Top scorer 🏆

John's Hopkins 70
Juniata 0

App State's Hail Mary to beat Troy. Last play of the game.

[mikeysnot]

1. SIU beat Northwestern

In Evanston! 31-24

[House of Roberts]

2. Re: App State

As Hannibal Smith would say "I love it when a plan comes together".

One announcer said, after they viewed the catch and score: 'This makes next week's game against James Madison appointment TV' or something to that effect.

[underpants]

3. Gameday was there

I don’t know if it was planned (I’d expect it was) or a result of their upset of A&M last week but they picked a helluva a game to be there for.

[JT45242]

4. App state is not a small school

It has almost 20,000 undergrad students.

[underpants]

5. I know

I just wanted to throw that highlight in there.

[Sneederbunk]

6. A 3 point difference has never met my definition of asswhoopin.

[underpants]

9. I edit this to include interesting scores

And historic rivalries. I have friends with connections to Carson Newman and it was the most OT’s this week. Gallaudet is just interesting to watch and enjoy their success.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. You might enjoy this.

The Massey Ratings "transitive path" tool.
https://masseyratings.com/path?s=cf2022

I used it on Ohio State after the 2014 season (when they won the first FBS "playoff" title), because the Buckeyes lost an early-season game to Virginia Tech that year. It indicated that some lowest-division football team, which only won a couple games that year against other tiny schools, would beat Ohio State by something like 100+ points. LOL! I mean, if transitive paths were taken seriously at all -- e.g., Team A beat Team B by 7 points, and Team B beat Team C by 10 points, so Team A would beat Team C by 17 points if they played.

Edit: That's not how Massey ranks teams, of course. It's just a "fun" tool from the website.

[underpants]

8. It heads us down a slippery rock

The Rock Mystique, a college football phenomenon for more than 50 years, can be traced back to a 1936 controversy over which team, Minnesota or Pitt, deserved the No. 1 ranking.

Both the Associated Press and the Dickinson System ranked Minnesota first. The Football Annual and various coaches polls, including the United Press International ranking, picked Pittsburgh.

Slippery Rock beat Westminster, which beat West Virginia Wesleyan, which beat Duquesne, which beat Pitt, which beat Notre Dame, which beat Northwestern, which beat Minnesota.

How could anyone argue with that logic?

Readers of the article, which was reprinted by newspapers all over the country, apparently enjoyed a story that poked fun at big football schools and supported a small one. They loved the name "Slippery Rock." As a name for a typical small school, it seemed almost too good to be true.

https://rockathletics.com/news/2004/3/25/FB_032504aab_650.aspx

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. LOL! Thanks for sharing that story!

Yes, transitive path is indeed a slippery slope.

I later looked up the tiny school that would supposedly crush the Buckeyes if they played (using transitive path reasoning), and their football team was composed of guys who looked ridiculously small per a team photo. As if most of them had never even lifted weights.

[underpants]

10. I'd bet it was Mount Union, St. John's MN, or Grand Valley

Powerhouses in small football. There are some schools in the Wisconsin system that are pretty dominant too.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. No, it was some tiny school...

... with a losing record against very weak competition. They had upset another poorly-ranked team, which had upset another weak team, and so on. It eventually reached Virginia Tech, which had been upset, and then Ohio State... which was upset by Virginia Tech.