My goodness - Panthers escape.

[rurallib]

Whoooooeeeeee that musta been a humdinger.
http://unipanthers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/niwa-m-footbl-body.html
14 - 13.

[Debi]

1. Panthers made 10/27 feel like 10/31! Early Halloween turing into early Thanksgiving!

:scared: I tell ya rurallib it felt like YSU was a brick wall. We could do nothing to stop their offense (up until the fourth quarter their quarterback had all the time in the world to hand-off or throw the ball and their runners always had an opening). And we couldn't run the ball beyond a couple of yards x(. The air in the Dome seemed flat and the team operated in slow motion.

But man-o-man - the fourth quarter was a dream! The fourth quarter reminded me of homecoming, the crowd was on it's feet and LOUD and the team worked, well, as a TEAM! Farley said it best in the post-game interview - something to the effect of...they had a better game-plan than we did and it took us three quarters to figure it out...:7

[rurallib]

3. It's impossilble for a team to be at the top of their game every week

Ya just hope when you hit a down week, that a ball will bounce your way and victory can be snatched from the jaws of defeat. Hang in there.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Sounds like it was a heckuva game!

A good team, such as UNI will overcome good teams and performances such as YSU had, and prevail. Congrats to the Panthers on a nice comeback. Still no. 1 I would guess.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

4. Panthers remain number one in The Sports Network Poll ...

... by two votes (http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/tsn-div-1aa-poll.htm).

And remain number two in the Coaches' Poll (http://www.ncaasports.com/football/mens/polls/fcs).

[rurallib]

5. Welcome to DU and the Iowa forum, SomeGuyInEagan

I heard the ND State is not eligible to play in the championship tournament for some reason. Does anybody know if that is true? I heard it while I was watching them beat Minnesota. Had something to do with their changing divisions. I believe they moved from Division 2 to 1AA.
Be a shame if they couldn't. I'd love to ssee a UNI/NDSU matchup.
Whoops don't put the cart before the horse.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

7. Thank you.

I'm from Cedar Falls, graduated from UNI and we still have family and friends in the area, so I keep up on Cedar Valley news and Iowa politics. It is nice to see the Panthers' success in football.

As for NDSU, not sure. I believe they (and South Dakota State) are joining UNI's football conference next year.

[Debi]

6. Woo Hoo!

I know I've posted this before...but any team that keeps Montana down in the polls is a team I like!