SWC75
Bored Historian
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 34,337
- Like
- 66,950
NAIA
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Marian, who lost to Southern Oregon 31-55 last year, totally reversed that to win their second national championship over the Purple Raiders 31-14. The Knights thus won the Yom Osborne Trophy, named for the former Nebraska coach, who went to NAIA member Hastings College of Nebraska. They also won the championship in 2012.
The big difference, obviously, was on defense, where that gave up 41 fewer points than last year. But it helps when the offense holds onto the ball. Last year Marian had 8 turnovers: this year they had none. Last year they gave up 439 yards passing, This year it was 164. Krishawn Hogan caught 11 passes for 147 yards and a score. Incredibly, it was his 11th straight 100 yard receiving game. For the season he had 101 catches for 1824 yards (18.1) and 16TDs, a pretty fair year.
The summary: http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&ATCLID=210593935
Marian’s final line:
MARIAN (Indiana) 11-3 (628-208: 45-15) Lost to Robert Morris 21-30 and St. Francis 42-45. Rank: #6 Post Season: 14-3 (2)
NCAA Division 3
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Mount Union won its 12th national championship and continued to the streak of either the Purple Raiders or Whitewater winning it to 11 years with a 49-25 win over St. Thomas of Minnestoa. I’m not big on breaking games into parts: it all counts, but it’s worth nothing that St. Thomas took a 14-0 lead and looked like they might dominate the contest. The rest was 49-21 in favor of Mt. Union and that included a freak play where Nick Waldvogel of St. Thomas fumbled the ball but it bounced into the hands of teammate John Gould who ran 47 yards to the end zone with it. The Purple Raiders outgained the Tommies, 531-328, including 330 yards rushing. In a battle of dynamic running backs, Logan Nemeth of Mount Union topped Jordan Roberts of St. Thomas, 220 yards to 135. Both scored 2 touchdowns. for the season, Nemeth carried the ball 258 times for 1957 yards (7.6) and 29TDs. Roberts carried 355 tiems for 2,155 yards (5.9) and 34TDs. Roberts the bigger of the two, (6-0, 222 vs. 5-10 195), but he’s played his last football game. He’s a seminary student and will be going into the priesthood.
The game summary: http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2015/12/mount_union_wins_12th_national.html
Mount Union’s final line:
MOUNT UNION (Ohio) 15-0 (800-140: 53-9) Rank: #1. Post-Season: 89-14 (12)
NCAA Division 2
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Northwest Missouri won its 5th Division II championship, plowing over Shepherd University of West Virginia 34-7. There was no sudden burst of scoring that gave them control of the game. They just kept grinding away ads the lead mounted to 24-0 at halftime. What was really dominating was their defense, which held Shepherd to an incredible -39 yards rushing, thanks to 10 sacks, and 97 yards of total offense.
Summary: http://espn.go.com/college-football...at-shepherd-rams-fifth-ncaa-division-ii-title
The Bearcat’s final line:
NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 15-0 (621-191: 41-13) Rank: #1 Post Season: 43-15 (5)
NCAA FCS
SEMI-FINALS
North Dakota State stepped on Richmond’s Spiders 33-7 to advance to the finals for the 5th straight year. They looked every bit the four-time defending champions. They rushed to a 26-0 halftime lead. And it wasn’t a sudden burst of scoring. They just kept building up the lead. They rushed for 282 yards and outgained the visitors 418-209. "That is the best team I've seen in quite a while," Richmond coach Danny Rocco said. "You had the feeling they were going to control the tempo of the game."
http://espn.go.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400856848
But unlike all the preliminary games, the finals will not be on the Bison’s home field in the Fargo Dome. It will be played in Frisco- not San Francisco but Frisco, Texas. And their opponent will be more than formidable. In fact Jacksonville State will probably be the bets team NDS has faced for the title.
The Gamecocks first attracted national attention by nearly upsetting Auburn, who tied them with 39 seconds left and won it in overtime:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/game?gameId=400603863
Against FCS completion, they are 13-0 and have out-scored their opposition 554-235. They’ve been ranked #1 since the Auburn game. They’ve roared through the playoffs, outscoring Chattanooga 41-35 and Charleston Southern 58-38 before crushing perennial power Sam Houston State 62-10. The Gamecocks out-gained the Bearkats 639-259. They rushed for 360 yards and scored the first 31 points of the game, leading 41-10 at halftime. "We weren't satisfied with the (Ohio Valley Conference) championship," linebacker Dawson Wells said. "We knew Frisco was the real goal."
http://espn.go.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400856849
The Championship game will be January 9, 2016 at Noon on ESPN2. The Bson will be going for an unprecedented 5th straight national championship. Here is what I wrote on this subject last eyar, when they won their fourth straight title:
The Bison were going for an almost unprecedented achievement: winning their fourth consecutive national championship. Looking at the NCAA Guide, which lists national champions chosen by all the major selectors and approved math systems, etc. In the early years, college football was totally dominated by the Ivy League, largely because they were virtually the only ones playing it. Rutgers was a “co-national champion” in 1869, (they split two games with Princeton). No non-Ivy League team got even a share of the title until 1896 when Lafayette was co-champion with Princeton. No one else broke into the club until Michigan went undefeated from 1901-1904 and is listed by some sources as co-champion with the Ivy titlist in every one of those years. During this period Princeton won four consecutive titles from 1872-75 and five in arrow from 1877-81. Yale was listed as champion or co-champion, (with Princeton) nine times in a row from 1879-1888. They had another vie year stretch from 1891-95. And Michigan had its own four year stretch from 1901-04.
I tend to dismiss this era because the sport didn’t become the sport we know until the forward pass was legalized in 1906, the same year the NCAA was created to govern intercollegiate sports. By then the diaspora of Ivy leaguers to other colleges around the country was bringing the sport to all sections and the term “national championship began to have some kind of meaning. From that point on, runs of national championships were harder to put together.
California was picked by various selectors in every year from 1920-23. But they were the consensus champion only in 1920, being picked by 5 of the 7 selectors the NCAA recognizes. Cornell, Princeton and Illinois were the consensus champs in 1921-23. Minnesota was consensus national champions from 1934-36 but that’s only three years. Army was the consensus champ in 1944-45 and an also-ran to Notre Dame in 1946. The same thing happened to Oklahoma in 1955-57. They were 10-0-0 in 1954 but finished third in the polls behind co-champions Ohio State and UCLA. None of the NCAA selectors picked them. Notre Dame actually was undefeated for four straight years from 1946-49 but a tie in 1948 with USC prevented them from getting four straight titles. Michigan was recognized by every selector that year. The Irish were the consensus champs the other three years. Alabama was recognized by at least one selector in every year from 1961-1966 except 1963 and won polls in 1961 and 1964-65, although they were the consensus champs only in 1961. Ohio State got some recognition from 1968-70 but were the consensus champs only in the first year. Oklahoma was recognized from 1973-75 and would have bee consensus champs all three years except Notre Dame nipped them 6 selectors to 5. Nebraska was listed by two selectors in 1980, one in 1981, one in 1982 and seven in 1983, none of them enough to give them a consensus title. Miami had a six year run of being picked by somebody from 1986-1991. They were consensus in 1987 and 1989, although they won the writer’s poll in 1991. Flordia State had a run from 1992-94 but were consensus only in ’93. Nebraska was consensus in 1994, 95 and 97 but go no recognition in 1996. USC was recognized by three selectors in 2002, six in 2003 and everybody in 2004.If they’d won that classic from Texas after the 2005 season they could have claimed to have “won” four titles in a row but not really. The best thing since was Alabama, the BCS and consensus champs in 2009 and 2011-12. But that big comeback Auburn had at their place in 2010 spoiled the beautiful picture. So there’s never really been a major college that won four straight consensus national championships, since the sport became what it is and went national.
The NAIA playoffs began in 1956. Texas A&I had a great run from 1969-76 with five titles, the last three from 1974-76. They’d also won one back in ’59. (They are now Texas A&M-Kingsville). Linfield won in even years from 1982-86. Carson-Newman of Tennessee won five titles from 1983-89 in the NAIA’s Division 1. But they didn’t win in 1985 or 1987. Central Ohio won Division 1 in 1990, 1992 and 1995. But there is an NAIA team won four straight tiles: Carroll College of Montana did so, after the organization had lost many of their members to the NCAA and dropped the divisional set up, in 2002-05. Sioux Falls of North Dakota then won three of the next four, the only one they didn’t win when they lost to Carroll in the 2007 final.
The NCAA split into three divisions in 1973, the top one having no playoff. In Division 3, nine different teams won the first ten titles. Then Augustana of Illinois won four in a row from 1983-86. Then we had eight different champions in nine years. Then came the Mount Union Dynasty. They’d won the 1993 titles, then came back to win three straight from 1996-98. After losing in the semi-final in 199, the then won another three in a row. They got beaten in the final by St. John’s of Minnesota in 2003 and lost in the semi-final in 2004. Then came the Mount Union-Whitewater State (Wisconsin) era, in which they have met for the tile nine times in tem years and Mount Union beat S t. Thomas of Minnesota in the other year. Mount Union won in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2012. Whitewater in 2007, 2009-11 and 2013-14. But neither has won four in a row.
In Division 2, there had been polls from 1958 that declared the “National Small College Champion” Delaware won in 1963, 1971 and 1972, North Dakota State in 1965 and 1968-69. Sand Diego State won in 1966-68, then moved up to major college and went 11-0. They would surely have won a fourth straight title if they hadn’t gotten more ambitious. Then the playoffs began in ’73. Eight different teams won the first eight titles. Southwest Texas State, (now just Texas State) won in 1981-82, beating North Dakota State in ’81. The Bison came back to win two of their own in 1983-84 and again in 1985-86, 1988 and 1990. North Alabama won three straight titles in 1993-95. They didn’t even make the tournament the next year. They had been in the quarter-finals back in ’92. Grand Valley State of Michigan won four titles in five years from 2002-2006. They lost in the semi-finals in 2004. (Brian Kelly was their coach for the first two of those finals.) Northwest Missouri had an amazing run from 2005-2009. They lost in the finals the first four years in a row, then broke through to win in the last of those years. They’d earlier won title in 1998-99 and also won in 2013. We’ve had seven different D-2 champions in the last eight years.
Division 1AA was created in 1978 for Division 1 schools who had no real shot at the D-1 title. Instead, it has tended to be populated by former Division 2 schools. Six different schools won the first seven titles.
Georgia Southern won titles in 1985-86 and 1989-90. Then Youngstown State, (under Jim Tressel), won three in four years from 1991-94, losing by a field goal to Marshall in the 1992 final. They came back to win another in 1997. Georgia Southern was back in 1998-2000, losing a wild one to UMASS in the 1998 final, 43-55 and blowing our Youngstown 59-24 the next year and then beating Montana the following year. Paul Johnson was their coach. Appalachian State won three straight tiles, (and beat Michigan) from 2005-07, then lost in the quarter finals to eventual champ Richmond in 2008.
North Dakota State moved up to 1AA, now called the “Football Championship Subdivision” or FCS, (with the new playoff, will they have to call it something else?), in 2004. In 2011 they won the title, beating #1 ranked Sam Houston State 17-6. They were back the next year and so was Sam Houston. But this time the Bison beat them even worse, 39-13. Last year they took care of Towson State of Maryland, 35-7. Now they faced their own conference rival in their bid to win a fourth national championship in a row, meaning that their seniors would have won the national championship in every year they played for their school. If they did it, they would join Augustana in Division 3 and Carroll in the (depleted) NAIA as teams that have accomplished this feat.
The Bison are also looking to reclaim their record for national championships: Mount Union had tied them at 12. This would be #13: 1965, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 if they can win it. They are also going for their 20th consecutive post season win.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Marian, who lost to Southern Oregon 31-55 last year, totally reversed that to win their second national championship over the Purple Raiders 31-14. The Knights thus won the Yom Osborne Trophy, named for the former Nebraska coach, who went to NAIA member Hastings College of Nebraska. They also won the championship in 2012.
The big difference, obviously, was on defense, where that gave up 41 fewer points than last year. But it helps when the offense holds onto the ball. Last year Marian had 8 turnovers: this year they had none. Last year they gave up 439 yards passing, This year it was 164. Krishawn Hogan caught 11 passes for 147 yards and a score. Incredibly, it was his 11th straight 100 yard receiving game. For the season he had 101 catches for 1824 yards (18.1) and 16TDs, a pretty fair year.
The summary: http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&ATCLID=210593935
Marian’s final line:
MARIAN (Indiana) 11-3 (628-208: 45-15) Lost to Robert Morris 21-30 and St. Francis 42-45. Rank: #6 Post Season: 14-3 (2)
NCAA Division 3
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Mount Union won its 12th national championship and continued to the streak of either the Purple Raiders or Whitewater winning it to 11 years with a 49-25 win over St. Thomas of Minnestoa. I’m not big on breaking games into parts: it all counts, but it’s worth nothing that St. Thomas took a 14-0 lead and looked like they might dominate the contest. The rest was 49-21 in favor of Mt. Union and that included a freak play where Nick Waldvogel of St. Thomas fumbled the ball but it bounced into the hands of teammate John Gould who ran 47 yards to the end zone with it. The Purple Raiders outgained the Tommies, 531-328, including 330 yards rushing. In a battle of dynamic running backs, Logan Nemeth of Mount Union topped Jordan Roberts of St. Thomas, 220 yards to 135. Both scored 2 touchdowns. for the season, Nemeth carried the ball 258 times for 1957 yards (7.6) and 29TDs. Roberts carried 355 tiems for 2,155 yards (5.9) and 34TDs. Roberts the bigger of the two, (6-0, 222 vs. 5-10 195), but he’s played his last football game. He’s a seminary student and will be going into the priesthood.
The game summary: http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2015/12/mount_union_wins_12th_national.html
Mount Union’s final line:
MOUNT UNION (Ohio) 15-0 (800-140: 53-9) Rank: #1. Post-Season: 89-14 (12)
NCAA Division 2
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Northwest Missouri won its 5th Division II championship, plowing over Shepherd University of West Virginia 34-7. There was no sudden burst of scoring that gave them control of the game. They just kept grinding away ads the lead mounted to 24-0 at halftime. What was really dominating was their defense, which held Shepherd to an incredible -39 yards rushing, thanks to 10 sacks, and 97 yards of total offense.
Summary: http://espn.go.com/college-football...at-shepherd-rams-fifth-ncaa-division-ii-title
The Bearcat’s final line:
NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE 15-0 (621-191: 41-13) Rank: #1 Post Season: 43-15 (5)
NCAA FCS
SEMI-FINALS
North Dakota State stepped on Richmond’s Spiders 33-7 to advance to the finals for the 5th straight year. They looked every bit the four-time defending champions. They rushed to a 26-0 halftime lead. And it wasn’t a sudden burst of scoring. They just kept building up the lead. They rushed for 282 yards and outgained the visitors 418-209. "That is the best team I've seen in quite a while," Richmond coach Danny Rocco said. "You had the feeling they were going to control the tempo of the game."
http://espn.go.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400856848
But unlike all the preliminary games, the finals will not be on the Bison’s home field in the Fargo Dome. It will be played in Frisco- not San Francisco but Frisco, Texas. And their opponent will be more than formidable. In fact Jacksonville State will probably be the bets team NDS has faced for the title.
The Gamecocks first attracted national attention by nearly upsetting Auburn, who tied them with 39 seconds left and won it in overtime:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/game?gameId=400603863
Against FCS completion, they are 13-0 and have out-scored their opposition 554-235. They’ve been ranked #1 since the Auburn game. They’ve roared through the playoffs, outscoring Chattanooga 41-35 and Charleston Southern 58-38 before crushing perennial power Sam Houston State 62-10. The Gamecocks out-gained the Bearkats 639-259. They rushed for 360 yards and scored the first 31 points of the game, leading 41-10 at halftime. "We weren't satisfied with the (Ohio Valley Conference) championship," linebacker Dawson Wells said. "We knew Frisco was the real goal."
http://espn.go.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400856849
The Championship game will be January 9, 2016 at Noon on ESPN2. The Bson will be going for an unprecedented 5th straight national championship. Here is what I wrote on this subject last eyar, when they won their fourth straight title:
The Bison were going for an almost unprecedented achievement: winning their fourth consecutive national championship. Looking at the NCAA Guide, which lists national champions chosen by all the major selectors and approved math systems, etc. In the early years, college football was totally dominated by the Ivy League, largely because they were virtually the only ones playing it. Rutgers was a “co-national champion” in 1869, (they split two games with Princeton). No non-Ivy League team got even a share of the title until 1896 when Lafayette was co-champion with Princeton. No one else broke into the club until Michigan went undefeated from 1901-1904 and is listed by some sources as co-champion with the Ivy titlist in every one of those years. During this period Princeton won four consecutive titles from 1872-75 and five in arrow from 1877-81. Yale was listed as champion or co-champion, (with Princeton) nine times in a row from 1879-1888. They had another vie year stretch from 1891-95. And Michigan had its own four year stretch from 1901-04.
I tend to dismiss this era because the sport didn’t become the sport we know until the forward pass was legalized in 1906, the same year the NCAA was created to govern intercollegiate sports. By then the diaspora of Ivy leaguers to other colleges around the country was bringing the sport to all sections and the term “national championship began to have some kind of meaning. From that point on, runs of national championships were harder to put together.
California was picked by various selectors in every year from 1920-23. But they were the consensus champion only in 1920, being picked by 5 of the 7 selectors the NCAA recognizes. Cornell, Princeton and Illinois were the consensus champs in 1921-23. Minnesota was consensus national champions from 1934-36 but that’s only three years. Army was the consensus champ in 1944-45 and an also-ran to Notre Dame in 1946. The same thing happened to Oklahoma in 1955-57. They were 10-0-0 in 1954 but finished third in the polls behind co-champions Ohio State and UCLA. None of the NCAA selectors picked them. Notre Dame actually was undefeated for four straight years from 1946-49 but a tie in 1948 with USC prevented them from getting four straight titles. Michigan was recognized by every selector that year. The Irish were the consensus champs the other three years. Alabama was recognized by at least one selector in every year from 1961-1966 except 1963 and won polls in 1961 and 1964-65, although they were the consensus champs only in 1961. Ohio State got some recognition from 1968-70 but were the consensus champs only in the first year. Oklahoma was recognized from 1973-75 and would have bee consensus champs all three years except Notre Dame nipped them 6 selectors to 5. Nebraska was listed by two selectors in 1980, one in 1981, one in 1982 and seven in 1983, none of them enough to give them a consensus title. Miami had a six year run of being picked by somebody from 1986-1991. They were consensus in 1987 and 1989, although they won the writer’s poll in 1991. Flordia State had a run from 1992-94 but were consensus only in ’93. Nebraska was consensus in 1994, 95 and 97 but go no recognition in 1996. USC was recognized by three selectors in 2002, six in 2003 and everybody in 2004.If they’d won that classic from Texas after the 2005 season they could have claimed to have “won” four titles in a row but not really. The best thing since was Alabama, the BCS and consensus champs in 2009 and 2011-12. But that big comeback Auburn had at their place in 2010 spoiled the beautiful picture. So there’s never really been a major college that won four straight consensus national championships, since the sport became what it is and went national.
The NAIA playoffs began in 1956. Texas A&I had a great run from 1969-76 with five titles, the last three from 1974-76. They’d also won one back in ’59. (They are now Texas A&M-Kingsville). Linfield won in even years from 1982-86. Carson-Newman of Tennessee won five titles from 1983-89 in the NAIA’s Division 1. But they didn’t win in 1985 or 1987. Central Ohio won Division 1 in 1990, 1992 and 1995. But there is an NAIA team won four straight tiles: Carroll College of Montana did so, after the organization had lost many of their members to the NCAA and dropped the divisional set up, in 2002-05. Sioux Falls of North Dakota then won three of the next four, the only one they didn’t win when they lost to Carroll in the 2007 final.
The NCAA split into three divisions in 1973, the top one having no playoff. In Division 3, nine different teams won the first ten titles. Then Augustana of Illinois won four in a row from 1983-86. Then we had eight different champions in nine years. Then came the Mount Union Dynasty. They’d won the 1993 titles, then came back to win three straight from 1996-98. After losing in the semi-final in 199, the then won another three in a row. They got beaten in the final by St. John’s of Minnesota in 2003 and lost in the semi-final in 2004. Then came the Mount Union-Whitewater State (Wisconsin) era, in which they have met for the tile nine times in tem years and Mount Union beat S t. Thomas of Minnesota in the other year. Mount Union won in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2012. Whitewater in 2007, 2009-11 and 2013-14. But neither has won four in a row.
In Division 2, there had been polls from 1958 that declared the “National Small College Champion” Delaware won in 1963, 1971 and 1972, North Dakota State in 1965 and 1968-69. Sand Diego State won in 1966-68, then moved up to major college and went 11-0. They would surely have won a fourth straight title if they hadn’t gotten more ambitious. Then the playoffs began in ’73. Eight different teams won the first eight titles. Southwest Texas State, (now just Texas State) won in 1981-82, beating North Dakota State in ’81. The Bison came back to win two of their own in 1983-84 and again in 1985-86, 1988 and 1990. North Alabama won three straight titles in 1993-95. They didn’t even make the tournament the next year. They had been in the quarter-finals back in ’92. Grand Valley State of Michigan won four titles in five years from 2002-2006. They lost in the semi-finals in 2004. (Brian Kelly was their coach for the first two of those finals.) Northwest Missouri had an amazing run from 2005-2009. They lost in the finals the first four years in a row, then broke through to win in the last of those years. They’d earlier won title in 1998-99 and also won in 2013. We’ve had seven different D-2 champions in the last eight years.
Division 1AA was created in 1978 for Division 1 schools who had no real shot at the D-1 title. Instead, it has tended to be populated by former Division 2 schools. Six different schools won the first seven titles.
Georgia Southern won titles in 1985-86 and 1989-90. Then Youngstown State, (under Jim Tressel), won three in four years from 1991-94, losing by a field goal to Marshall in the 1992 final. They came back to win another in 1997. Georgia Southern was back in 1998-2000, losing a wild one to UMASS in the 1998 final, 43-55 and blowing our Youngstown 59-24 the next year and then beating Montana the following year. Paul Johnson was their coach. Appalachian State won three straight tiles, (and beat Michigan) from 2005-07, then lost in the quarter finals to eventual champ Richmond in 2008.
North Dakota State moved up to 1AA, now called the “Football Championship Subdivision” or FCS, (with the new playoff, will they have to call it something else?), in 2004. In 2011 they won the title, beating #1 ranked Sam Houston State 17-6. They were back the next year and so was Sam Houston. But this time the Bison beat them even worse, 39-13. Last year they took care of Towson State of Maryland, 35-7. Now they faced their own conference rival in their bid to win a fourth national championship in a row, meaning that their seniors would have won the national championship in every year they played for their school. If they did it, they would join Augustana in Division 3 and Carroll in the (depleted) NAIA as teams that have accomplished this feat.
The Bison are also looking to reclaim their record for national championships: Mount Union had tied them at 12. This would be #13: 1965, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 if they can win it. They are also going for their 20th consecutive post season win.
