Monday papers

Here's the ink on the OVC this morning:

The (Clarksville, Tenn.) Leaf Chronicle says Austin Peay State's defense can at least celebrate forcing their first turnovers of the year, despite the Govs' loss to Dayton Satyurday. APSU forced four fumbles, recovering two of them.

The (Charleston, Ill.) Journal Gazette/Times-Courier heaps more praise on Eastern Illinois running back Vincent Webb, who had 208 yards against Samford on Saturday. That was enough to rank him third in I-AA so far this season, at 139.5 yards per game. The paper says tt also got him offenseive player of the week honors from the OVC (again this week, though, no release abouts weekly honos up at the OVC Web site).

The Anniston (Ala.) Star (sorry, subscribers only) says Jacksonville State coach Jack Crowe has decided UT-Martin simply had too many big men in the box on a crucial 4th-and-inches play for the quarterback sneak he called to work. You think?

The (Nashville) Tennessean says Tennessee State coach James Webster is still ticked about getting a letter from Vanderbilt saying Lamar Divens wasn't eligible to play after all. Divens had struggled academically at Vandy, and transferred to TSU this summer. At the beginning of the season, VU officials cleared him to play for the Tiger. Then, two days before the crosstown schools squared off for the first time in their history, Vandy changed its mind and Divens sat out. The real rub is that Divens is doing well in class at TSU, Webster said. In a column, Mike Organ says that hopefully, this will have been the worst week of the Tigers' season. It couldn't get much worse, after all: debilitating injuries, attempted murders and obfuscating bureacracy. Oh, and the loss. It can only get better, right?

The Nasville City Paper says at least one Commodore is boasting about Vandy's win over TSU. The story also calls TSU "one of the nation's premeir Division I-AA programs," and says Vanderbilt Coach Bobby Johnson wouldn't mind playing the Tigers again.