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Post by mumd on Sept 12, 2022 21:03:24 GMT -5
Was Morehead State bad or were we good? Regardless, I'll take the win. Morehead State is a top-tier FCS Pioneer Football League (PFL) Team. Mercer was a Top-Tier PFL Team in 2013 with 98 walk-on Freshmen on their roster. Now, they were mostly Georgia High School Football boys (which is a huge advantage) and most of ‘em had a year of practice (which certainly helped), and a few of ‘em were “scholarship recruits” to other schools who had transferred to Mercer anticipating the program would move quickly to scholarship ball. So, they were not exactly your typical PFL non-scholarship Team. We’ll know more about Morehead when they face FCS #4 Montana State next Saturday (9/10), but they most likely are not very good. Massey Ratings, which FUBeAR does not like, has the Eagles ranked 124th out of 130 FCS Teams and 255th out of 261 D1 Teams. Auburn is 16th and Mercer is ranked 147th in D1, according to Massey. All that said, Mercer looked quite good. It’s hard to execute Offensively as well as the Bears did ‘on air,’ much less when a Defense (even a not very good Defense) is trying their best to stop you. The Mercer Defense was not as dominant as FUBeAR expected, but they seemed as if they were hoping for a bit more of a challenge and then sort of lost interest. Auburn will certainly challenge Mercer’s D on Saturday. Special Teams were a mixed bag. A couple of units (won’t say which) concern FUBeAR, but he has no doubt they will certainly receive a great deal of attention this week and will show improvement. The Bobcats beat Morehead by the exact same score as Mercer. So da Bears should be ranked number 4 now… |
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Post by Clueless Fan on Sept 15, 2022 14:50:15 GMT -5
#20 Mercer will welcome The Citadel to Macon this weekend. While not ranked, the Bulldogs stunned ETSU with a last-second field goal to win in Charleston.
Mercer should and must win this game.
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Post by Clueless Fan on Sept 21, 2022 12:20:34 GMT -5
#16 Mercer Bears travel to Boiling Springs, North Carolina to play surprising Gardner-Webb. Sure G-W has lost both real games, but they played a solid Coastal Carolina close (lost by 4) and lost to Elon by 6. Elon killed Wofford and was competitive against Vandy.
So, at the beginning of the season, I had this game as an easy win. I still think it is a win, but the Bears will have to work for it.
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Post by Clueless Fan on Sept 25, 2022 9:07:45 GMT -5
I know there are three games before the UTC game, but that UTC game is starting to look like the SoCon Championship game.
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Post by BearDownMU on Sept 25, 2022 16:47:40 GMT -5
I know there are three games before the UTC game, but that UTC game is starting to look like the SoCon Championship game. Eh. A lot to do other than UTC. Furman is good. Sanford appears to have a defense and I think their QB is real good. Western’s offense is real good. ETSU appears to be struggling but who knows. And while Wofford has been awful this season, they looked better this past weekend. The back of our schedule is brutal and we have to get through a lot of good teams to win a conference title. |
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Post by mumd on Sept 25, 2022 21:04:31 GMT -5
I know there are three games before the UTC game, but that UTC game is starting to look like the SoCon Championship game. Eh. A lot to do other than UTC. Furman is good. Sanford appears to have a defense and I think their QB is real good. Western’s offense is real good. ETSU appears to be struggling but who knows. And while Wofford has been awful this season, they looked better this past weekend. The back of our schedule is brutal and we have to get through a lot of good teams to win a conference title. Any news on the injury report? FP ended up walking off under his own power but it looked scary for a minute there. Is he ok? |
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