Week 0 Game Thread

[ctrabs74]

I am pretty sure a blocked PAT is a dead ball, only a 2PC is a live ball.

I can't access the NCAA football rule book at the moment due to site maintenance, but I seem to recall that if the blocked PAT crosses the line of scrimmage, then it's a dead ball. If the ball goes away from the line of scrimmage or otherwise doesn't cross the line of scrimmage, then the defense can recover and return it for a defensive conversion.

A blocked PAT attempt is a dead ball regardless of where the ball lands (ahead or behind line of scrimmage) in high school football.

(It's 2:30am on a Sunday night and I'm sore from working an 8+ hour shift at SMU football's season opener so I'm a bit exhausted. I'll try to remember to confirm this if/when the NCAA publications site goes back online.)

[frosty55]

Fairmont was and has been an average MEC team. They were 6-5 last year and finished 6th in the MEC. I wouldn't say they were a perceived good team, but a solid OOC opponent for Seton Hill. Last year Fairmont blew the doors off Seton Hill, so the result this year was certainly an improvement on that.

A little early in the year to start this conference superiority puffing the chest thing. A good MEC team will give a good PSAC team everything they can handle.

The conference superiority stuff from fans NOT of IUP, Slippery rock, Kutz and cal is just funny

[IUPbigINDIANS]

The conference superiority stuff from fans NOT of IUP, Slippery rock, Kutz and cal is just funny

I hope (1) team wins each week. I'd prefer the other West teams lose every week. I could personally give a rats a$$ about the conference hyperbole.

[RocknTheSnackBar]

Translation: The message was typed but we chickened out pressing enter.

If you only held timeouts as tightly as grudges

[IUPbigINDIANS]

If you only held timeouts as tightly as grudges

Wasn't funny at the time but all the barbs about it years later make me laugh every time. Still hard to believe.

[Iupgh]

I can't access the NCAA football rule book at the moment due to site maintenance, but I seem to recall that if the blocked PAT crosses the line of scrimmage, then it's a dead ball. If the ball goes away from the line of scrimmage or otherwise doesn't cross the line of scrimmage, then the defense can recover and return it for a defensive conversion.

A blocked PAT attempt is a dead ball regardless of where the ball lands (ahead or behind line of scrimmage) in high school football.

(It's 2:30am on a Sunday night and I'm sore from working an 8+ hour shift at SMU football's season opener so I'm a bit exhausted. I'll try to remember to confirm this if/when the NCAA publications site goes back online.)

Live ball in college. Dead ball in High School.

[EyeoftheHawk]

Interesting results in the first week but I wouldn’t get too high or low based on how your team did. The first week is the toughest to predict and some teams are just more prepared than others to start the season for whatever reason. Of course, we’ve been waiting months for football so it’s easy to get excited and overreact.

Probably the biggest surprise to me was Shepherd giving up 41 to Frostburg State and getting beat. It’s worth pointing out it was 27-20 early in the 4th quarter and 34-27 late before Frostburg put it out of reach, but it was a back and forth game otherwise.