Thursday gamenight update
Just got a chance to check in on the scores. Both OVC Games tonight are still in progress, and both gave me a bit of a surprise. (Scores are from the OVC scoreboard at SportsNetwork.com.
In the third quarter at Murfreesboro, it's Middle Tennessee State 16, Tennessee Tech 0. At halftime the score was 3-0 MTSU. That's a much better showing than I would have given Tech credit for ahead of time. Of course, I have no idea what's happened in the game, but looking at that score the game isn't out of reach for the Golden Eagles.
Meanwhile, down in Homewood, Austin Peay State and Samford are tied in the second quarter, 3-3. That's much tighter than I would have predicted. I expected Samford to be walking all over the Govs.
Stay tuned for final scores. Looks like an interesting night in the O-Valley.
EDIT (8:30 p.m.): Update ... as soon as I hit "refresh," things looked a little bit worse for the league. MTSU's now up 23-0 with the third quarter about to expire, and it's still 3-3 just into the third frame in the APSU-Samford game.
EDIT (9:02 p.m.): It's getting worse for Tech. MTSU's now up 37-0 with a little over 2 minutes to play. At least TTU played a half of good football. Meanwhile, both teams have had a touchdown in the third to keep the score tied between Samford and AP. It's now 10-10 with just under 9 minutes to go in the fourth.
EDIT (10:17 p.m.): All over now. MTSU apparently did all they could to make it look like a slaughter at the end, running it up to 44-0. The Blue Raiders only managed 301 yards of offense for all those points. Reports over at AnyGivenSaturday.com from those watching the game on ESPNU say it was sloppy throughout on both sides. Six turnovers in all, five of them by TTU. They're gonna have to work on that. It's a shame Tech couldn't break through for a score. Why was this game televised?
Samford escapes with a 17-10 victory over Austin Peay. Much better showing by the Govs' defense than in the 38-13 game against Southeast Missouri State a week ago.
posted by Jax42 @ 8:27 PM
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44-0, MTSU. Kinda stinks to lose that way to a bitter rival. In fact, it is the 2nd worst loss in the series, only the 1988 game (51-0) surpassing it.
But there are always positives. Our defense played as one possessed for the first half, where have those guys been the past two weeks? If they keep playing like that for the OVC slate.... could be interesting.
Offense had a few drives that seemed promising but there was always a letdown at the end.
And now, in the inevitable part of the post where I bash Middle....
Their replay system doesn't work, apparently. They stopped the game for seven or eight minutes trying to get it to work, but in the end they just gave up on it. How typically Middle. Don't they have any engineers at that place? Oh wait, engineers go to Tech, stoners go to Middle. Speaking of which....
With about 12 minutes to go in the game, an obviously inebriated student rushed onto the field and tried to take the goalpost down all by himself. He didn't fare too badly, managing to bend it to a pretty nice angle before being apprehended by a dozen police officers. Middle fans cheering for the delinquent the entire time. You have to forgive them, though. They don't know how to handle their victories down in Murfreesboro.
The game was televised because they were willing to move it to Thursday night for ESPNU. I guess Middle got some good national exposure from this, wahoo.
Hopefully we can make a better showing next week on ESPNU. First ever nationally-televised game from Cookeville, so maybe we'll be fired up. Maybe.
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