The final Saturday of October began out as a deal with for spoiler-minded groups however became a nightmare as a number of Faculty Soccer Playoff contenders survived scares.
Listed below are our winners and losers from Week 9, or “Comeback Saturday,” of the school soccer season.
Winner: SEC Faculty Soccer Playoff crashers
No. 8 Ole Miss Rebels (7-1, 4-1 in SEC) and No. 10 Vanderbilt Commodores (7-1, 3-1 in SEC) moved nearer to crashing the Faculty Soccer Playoff celebration with first-time bids after scoring high 25 wins.
Ole Miss started the day with a 34-26 win at No. 13 Oklahoma Sooners (6-2, 2-2 in SEC), outscoring the Sooners 9-0 within the fourth quarter one week after collapsing within the remaining quarter-hour at Georgia. Vanderbilt withstood a gritty efficiency by the No. 15 Missouri Tigers (6-2, 2-2 in SEC) in a 17-10 house win.
Of the 2 groups, the Rebels have the extra favorable schedule the remainder of the common season, with their hardest recreation coming within the regular-season finale on the Mississippi State Bulldogs (4-4, 0-4 in SEC). The Commodores, in the meantime, play at No. 22 Texas Longhorns (6-2, 3-1 in SEC) subsequent Saturday and finish their season at No. 17 Tennessee Volunteers (5-2, 2-2 in SEC). Whereas a playoff spot is way from assured for both coming into November, it is not wild to suppose each will play significant video games in December.
Loser: Missouri Tigers
The Tigers’ loss proved pricey. Not solely did their playoff odds drop to 16 % in accordance with ESPN’s playoff predictor, however in addition they may very well be with out quarterback Beau Pribula for some time, if not the remainder of the common season, after he was taken off the sector in an aircast brace and wanted a wheelchair heading into the tunnel following a cease on 4th-and-goal on the Vanderbilt 1-yard line.
Making the loss much more painful, backup quarterback Matt Zollers’ Hail Mary try on the finish of the regulation, dominated an incompletion on the sector, was overturned to a completion, however receiver Kevin Coleman Jr. was dominated wanting the tip zone, holding the outcome the identical however with an additional twist of the knife.
Winner: Memphis Tigers
Coming off an inexplicable loss at UAB (3-4, 1-3 in American), Memphis (7-1, 3-1 in American) revived its playoff hopes by remaining in The American Convention championship recreation image because of a rousing 34-31 comeback win over No. 18 South Florida Bulls (6-2, 3-1 in American). The Tigers trailed by 14 following a 73-yard landing run by South Florida working again Sam Franklin, however outscored the Bulls 17-0 within the fourth to emerge with the comeback victory.
At one level on Saturday, South Carolina (3-5, 1-5 in SEC) and Mississippi State, groups with one SEC win mixed coming into the day, had been on their strategy to pulling off two of the largest upsets within the convention this season. As an alternative, the SEC afterthoughts fell in painful vogue.
The Gamecocks led No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide (7-1, 5-0 in SEC), 22-14, within the fourth quarter after changing an Alabama turnover right into a landing. However they choked away the lead within the 29-22 loss, first permitting a tying landing then turning the ball over on a fumble from quarterback LaNorris Sellers, resulting in Alabama’s successful rating with 34 seconds left.
The Bulldogs endured an excellent worse collapse of their sixteenth consecutive SEC loss, falling 45-38 to Texas after squandering a 38-21 lead with underneath 10 minutes remaining. Neither group has had a lot to have a good time this season, and as shut as that was to altering in Week 9 makes the stumbles harder to simply accept.
BYU improved to 8-0 for the second 12 months in a row — the primary time in program historical past it is completed so — on the heels of a comeback win of its personal, defeating Iowa State (5-3, 2-3 in Huge 12), 41-27, after falling right into a 14-point first-half gap.
True freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeier will get higher every week and had arguably his finest recreation of the season, going 22-of-35 for 307 yards and two touchdowns. The outcome units up an enormous recreation for BYU at No. 14 Texas Tech Pink Raiders (7-1, 4-1 in Huge 12) following its Week 10 bye.
No. 9 Miami (6-1, 2-1 in ACC) rebounded from its first lack of the season with a 42-7 win over Stanford, but it surely was onerous to inform because of its questionable wardrobe alternative.
