Super Region 3, Round 1 | On the menu: Burnt Bulldogs and Bison burgers

[Aaron Heintzelman]

No. 5 Minnesota-Duluth (10-1, 10-1 NSIC) at No. 8 Missouri Western (10-1, 9-1 MIAA) Click Me --> Western, Northwest face ground-giddy QBsPrediction: An instant classic, this game is going to propel the Partridge and Hill combination into an MIAA discussion into a Division II phenomenon. And duh, David Bass is going to do something silly (in a good way). Missouri Western 43 UMD 39

No. 15 Harding (9-1, 8-1 GAC) at No. 10 Northwest Missouri (9-2, 8-2 MIAA)Side-by-side --> Harding v Northwest Missouri: By the numbersnot having all-purpose running back Jordan SimmonsPrediction: Northwest Missouri 34 Harding 20

Other playoff picks. Just for the heck of it

@IUP over Shepherd
@Shippensburg over Bloom
WTAM over @Chadron
Midwestern State over @Indianapolis
@Lenoir-Rhyne over Fort Valley
@West Alabama over Miles

Gee, thanks, BCat. You warned us! How good of you. Except, we knew. Chase Vogler had the game of his life. (I honestly feel bad for him, how it ended with him getting his foot stepped on by his TE.) Except, we knew he was really good. I wonder how the vaunted Bearcat defense would have done against him. Just sayin'.

Also @BCat: Thanks for graciously declaring that a "wins (sic) a win." When are you (and Aaron) going to give the team (the TEAM) its due props? Aaron finally gave Travis some praise--as he always does with DBass and MHill--but our team is those guys but many others who step up. Witness Terrell Downing and his YAC against your beloved Bearcats. But that's history. Hopefully we'll see you again in a couple of weeks.

[BCat9000]

@Wiley I don't know what you're being so sore about. I said nothing to bring down MO West, they had a tough opponent and they found a way to win - that's what good teams have to do (something that Northwest couldn't find a way to do to win the MIAA this year).

I have no idea how far the Bearcats will go, however their chances seem every bit as good as the Griffons on every level. There's literally no point in talking smack at this point.