The national championship - harding vs ferris.

[bigmrg74]

ESPN should include a half hour of Pregame coverage, help work out all of the kinks in the broadcast.

[FoothillBison]

GAMEDAY! Praying for a clean game and safe travels. Should be a classic. Go Bisons!!!

[FSUBulldog27]

All crap talk and back and forth aside I’m glad we get to all enjoy this matchup between two well coached and good football teams. I pray every player and fan is safe today in travel and play and no matter the outcome I will be pulling for the winner to be the kings of D2 come the end of the playoffs. Best of luck to both sides and GO BISONS!

Hopefully everyone gets to the game safe from wherever you are travelling from. Look forward to a great game today and it will be the last with the region set up as it all changes next year. I believe the D2 champion will come out of today's game.

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!

[UniBison]

All crap talk and back and forth aside I’m glad we get to all enjoy this matchup between two well coached and good football teams. I pray every player and fan is safe today in travel and play and no matter the outcome I will be pulling for the winner to be the kings of D2 come the end of the playoffs. Best of luck to both sides and GO BISONS!

[FSUBulldogs]

Game day, boys! Finally, and being so, we can look at what the predicted weather is supposed to be with confidence. It looks like it’s warmed up today compared to what it was supposed to be earlier this week. How many Harding fans will come with their bellies all painted up? I think you probably have enough guys at the game to spell Bison out 🤙

[BillyGV]

I'll leave that comment alone....😂

The trash talking is fun. Honestly this is probably the last week we get to do it. I don't think any of the other SR posters are going to trash talk Ferris/Harding..whoever comes out the winner, that would be a mistake. Then we have to wait until week 0 to start back up.

Honestly with the MIAA being down this year, and GV sucks (as always), the benevolent folks from Searcy are all us Bulldogs have left to scratch our itch.

Except sucky GV beat you twice last year and sent you home crying losing the conference championship and the playoffs - so…

[BisonOL]

From D1 Lacrosse player of the year to being everyone's nightmare in D2 Football - Should have been Harlon Hill winner if not hurt for a couple of games. Tyson Bagent wins it but after his performance against Ferris the committee wanted to give it to Jared.

Was a very good team no doubt and dominant playoff run

[FSUBulldog27]

Man that 2021 team was killer! If we had a 2020 season, Jared B. would've been at Ferris for two seasons and we would have been going for a 5 peat with that logic. One of my favorite teams to watch go through Ferris.

From D1 Lacrosse player of the year to being everyone's nightmare in D2 Football - Should have been Harlon Hill winner if not hurt for a couple of games. Tyson Bagent wins it but after his performance against Ferris the committee wanted to give it to Jared.

[FSUBulldog27]

Thought this was about stats since the teams can’t play ea other. Harding wins again lol

2024 Harding

Total Off 506.1
Scoring Off 51.3 *
Total Def 181.2 *
Scoring Def 9.5 *

2021 Ferris

Total Off 512.6 *
Scoring Off 47.2
Total Def 275.6
Scoring Def 18.3

Ha ha Playoffs only --- your 2024 team is trending well

[BisonOL]

I would put our 2021 team against any D2 team through the years - Undefeated then playoff scores we 54-20 gvsu, 41-20 NWMS, 55-7 Sheppard and 58-17 final against Valdosta State = Playoff average scoring 52 points a game versus 16 given up a playoff game. So we will trump your 2023 Harding Team - 3 Peat and playing for a 4 peat.

Thought this was about stats since the teams can’t play ea other. Harding wins again lol

2024 Harding

Total Off 506.1
Scoring Off 51.3 *
Total Def 181.2 *
Scoring Def 9.5 *

2021 Ferris

Total Off 512.6 *
Scoring Off 47.2
Total Def 275.6
Scoring Def 18.3

[FSUBulldogs]

I would put our 2021 team against any D2 team through the years - Undefeated then playoff scores we 54-20 gvsu, 41-20 NWMS, 55-7 Sheppard and 58-17 final against Valdosta State = Playoff average scoring 52 points a game versus 16 given up a playoff game. So we will trump your 2023 Harding Team - 3 Peat and playing for a 4 peat.

Man that 2021 team was killer! If we had a 2020 season, Jared B. would've been at Ferris for two seasons and we would have been going for a 5 peat with that logic. One of my favorite teams to watch go through Ferris.

[FSUBulldog27]

Being that our off and def stats the past 2 yrs were for the most part better than Ferris in ‘21 and ‘22, if we win then we will be requesting both of those and call this year a 4 peat.

I would put our 2021 team against any D2 team through the years - Undefeated then playoff scores we 54-20 gvsu, 41-20 NWMS, 55-7 Sheppard and 58-17 final against Valdosta State = Playoff average scoring 52 points a game versus 16 given up a playoff game. So we will trump your 2023 Harding Team - 3 Peat and playing for a 4 peat.

[FSUBulldogs]

Being that our off and def stats the past 2 yrs were for the most part better than Ferris in ‘21 and ‘22, if we win then we will be requesting both of those and call this year a 4 peat.

Nah, you're going too far back, and the teams have changed too much since then. Nice try though haha

[BisonOL]

One interesting thing I was looking at this morning as I was listening to the show that Wit, Tony, and BD did last night. One person said that Harding's defense was down compared to last year. It doesn't look like that's the case. In all, Harding's team is better than last year besides the categories where you look at the sum of the data collected. So if Ferris wins on Saturday they will request the 2023 trophy from Harding too haha

TEAM STATISTICS (2023)
	Harding	OPP
SCORING	703	163
Points Per Game	46.9	10.9
Average Per Game	410.7	68.8
TDs Rushing	79	8
Average Per Game	48.1	178.1
TDs Passing	9	13
Average Per Game	458.7	246.9
TEAM STATISTICS (2024)
	Harding	OPP	Difference Between Years
SCORING	667	124	-36	-39
Points Per Game	51.31	9.54	4.41	-1.36
Rushing Average Per Game	435.8	70.3	25.1	1.5
TDs Rushing	71	7	-8	-1
Passing Average Per Game	70.31	110.9	22.21	-67.18
TDs Passing	13	7	4	-6
Average Per Game	506.1	181.2	47.4	-65.7

Being that our off and def stats the past 2 yrs were for the most part better than Ferris in ‘21 and ‘22, if we win then we will be requesting both of those and call this year a 4 peat.

[Divisiontwo]

I don’t really see what they’re referencing when they say the defense is down. They lost one real contributor off the defense from last year. He won a bunch of awards but didn’t have his best season last year. The guy who he split time with did. And he’s back.

it’s all still a game of matchups at this point. We’ll see how they match up with Ferris. But HU’s defense hasn’t taken a step back overall.

Side Bar: last year’s numbers there do include a somewhat historic offense that was UCM. Take that for what it’s worth.