Saturday--jan 8, 2011

Well the Eastern Washington Eagles won the National Championship game last night by absolutely dominating the Hens in the fourth quarter. Bo Levi Mitchell picked apart Delaware's defense in the last fifteen minutes. On the second-to-last drive, the Hens tried rushing three and dropped everybody back. That didn't even slow Mitchell down. On the Eagles last scoring drive, Delaware tried dialing up the pass rush, and he was deadly accurate on the move. The missed extra point was probably not an issue as I believe the Eagles would have gone for two points and would have made it.

On defense, Eastern Washington collapsed the pocket on Devlin on almost every play in the fourth quarter. And so it was on the last play of the game. Devlin had to throw an inaccurate pass that might have brought the Hens into field goal range.

Delaware's athletic dept writeup

ESPN's writeup.

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I missed the fact that former UMass assistant Ted Roof is the DC at Auburn. This article (at the end) talks about Roof vs Kelly back in the nineties.

Rivals.com talks about Kelly's days in the Northeast (mentions UMass).

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Matty V says Tyler Holmes will still be eligible for the Buck Buchanan award in 2011 because even if the Minutemen make the decision to go to FBS they'll still be playing a FCS schedule in 2011.

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James Ihedigbo says the Jets are New York's team.

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