Saturday had a little bit of everything. Humboldt State turned heads with a win against the FCS, Central Washington exacted plenty of revenge against Western Oregon and Simon Fraser took three, heart-stopping overtimes to get their first ever win over a Division II and GNAC team.

While Humboldt's win over UC-Davis might be more significant in terms of momentum and staying undefeated, but in terms of how it affects Division II, Central Washington's overwhelming win over Western Oregon probably takes precedence.

Unless something crazy happens within the ranks of the MIAA and LSC, Central is not considered a playoff contender and its win over Western relegated the Wolves to the same distinction with its 41-10 dismantling of the squad in Ellensburg.

Central Washington gained possession at the WOU 14-yard line after a fumble and promptly scored. Western Oregon responded with a field goal on its next possession. There were no more responses after that as Central would score the next 34 points to extend the lead to 41-3 before a very late touchdown.

Stats don't tell the whole story, but in this case, they tell a lot. WOU rushed for -21 yards on 23 carries. Evan Mozzochi threw for 296 yards, but he and Corey VonAppen combined to throw 3 picks and Mozzochi was sacked four times. CWU was displaying defenses of the last couple of years with 14 TFLs, including 2.5 sacks by DE Andrew Oney, fresh off an ankle injury, and a 41-yard pick-6 by Genesis Fonoimoana, fresh off a one-game suspension.

Levi Taylor had his second straight 100-yard rushing game (116 yards, 3 TDs) for the Wildcats and Ryan Robertson threw for 198 yards and two TDs. Western Oregon countered with 3-for-13 on third down conversions (23%) and 115 yards in penalties.

As much as Central Washington needed this win over Western Oregon, it really needs Western Oregon to upset 25th-ranked Humboldt State sometime before the end of the season to have any chance of staking claim to another GNAC championship. Of course, CWU would need to hold up its end of the bargain by upsetting HSU as well next week.

Speaking of the Lumberjacks, Humboldt State went into the enemy territory of an FCS team that has four times the amount of scholarships as HSU, but that didn't matter as UC-Davis stumbled at home and lost to the 'Jacks, 23-17.

UC-Davis had more first downs (25 to 15), an advantage on third downs (10-for-18 vs. 8-for-17) and threw for 40 more yards (287 to 247), but Humboldt did enough to be better.

And while Humboldt is 5-0 for the first time since 1969, it's back to the real challenge of the GNAC.

"As big as this game is - and we're certainly going to enjoy it - it has no impact on a conference championship," said Smith in the HSU release after the game. "That's been our number one goal since day one and that race begins this week. We're going to enjoy this win, but we'll get back to work on Monday and get ready for Central Washington."

Simon Fraser was ready for Dixie. The Clan had this game circled on the calendar seconds after losing to the Red Storm in St. George four weeks ago.

Up until this week, Dixie had rushed for less than 60 yards in four of the previous five games (263 in its win over SFU in September) and the Red Storm again found success in its ground game, this time for 140 yards. Simon Fraser's aerial attack hasn't hurt many people this year, throwing for more than 100 yards just once this year, but netted 306 against Dixie on Saturday.

Dixie State was tagged with 12 penalties for 107 yards and Stefan Cantwell was sacked four times, giving Dixie 37 sacks against its offense in six games.