Good, Bad, Incredible Week 11

Sorry for the delay, here is the Good, Bad In-Betweencredible for Week 11.

GOOD
Troy clinched full bowl eligibility on the road against future Sun Belt member Western Kentucky. Haugabook had 187 yards rushing and passing and threw for one TD. Kenny Cattouse added 112 yards on 19 carries and another TD. The Troy defense was lit up for 416 yards but earned three turnovers and returned a fumble for a TD in the 21-17 win. Troy controls its own fate hosting FAU and MTSU the only teams mathematically still in the race. Troy can afford a loss to MTSU but not to FAU if FAU defeats FIU.

Louisiana Lafayette all but ended MTSU’s bowl hopes as Desormeaux ran for 175 yards and threw for 152 and two touchdowns. Fenroy ran for one TD and Deon Wallace caught one TD and ran for another. The Cajuns posted 528 yards offense against the Blue Raiders.

Florida Atlantic kept its Sun Belt hopes alive with a Rusty Smith touchdown run and three touchdown passes, the last coming with 2:49 remaining to take the lead against ASU. Turnover nearly killed the Owls as ASU posted 17 points off turnovers. FAU has to defeat FIU and Troy to have a shot take the New Orleans Bowl berth.

Louisiana Monroe knocked off Grambling State behind two Calvin Dawson touchdown runs. Goodin added another rushing TD as each runner topped 100 yards. Lancaster threw for one TD and 178 yards with two interceptions. ULM held Grambling to -4 yards rushing and 165 yards total offense.

BAD
Middle Tennessee State needs help to get a Sun Belt title after falling to ULL. Dasher and Craddock combined for only 118 yards passing with Craddock throwing for two TD’s that gave MT a 14-0 lead. MTSU managed only 246 yards offense as the defense yielded 528. MTSU is eliminated from the New Orleans Bowl. A tie for the conference is still possible with a win over Troy coupled with FAU defeating Troy and FIU beating FAU, HOWEVER in that scenario under conventional tie-breaking, Troy is eliminated from the tie by losing to both tied teams and FAU takes the head-to-head tiebreaker with MT, but under NCAA rules since Troy would be the only tied team with 7 or more wins (assuming FAU loses at Florida) Troy would be the New Orleans Bowl representative.

Arkansas State lost an 11 point fourth quarter lead to lose any chance at a 7 win season. Reggie Arnold rushed for two TD’s and a pass reception for another. ASU had only 256 yards offense but capitalized on FAU turnovers.

INCREDIBLE
North Texas had 15 possessions against Navy, two ended on interceptions, two on punts, one on a safety, one ended the half. The other NINE ended with touchdowns and North Texas still lost. The 74-62 loss was the FBS record for combined points and it was all done in regulation. If North Texas had been successful on its two point attempt UNT would hold the record for most points scored by losing team. Navy out-gained North Texas 680 to 635. Vizza had 8 touchdown passes and two interceptions. The prior record for points in a game was a 4 OT game between Nevada and Boise that ended 69-67 but was 44-44 at the end of regulation, UNT led 49-45 AT THE HALF.