OBU vs Tarleton State - C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl

freethrow · November 21, 2013, 03:59:11 pm

C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. The 7-3 Tigers will face the 7-3 Tarleton State Texans, who claimed a share of the Lone Star Conference title.

OPoraquê · November 21, 2013, 05:25:48 pm

Gonna be a LOT of purple in that one.

Glad to see HSU in the playoffs and HU plus OBU going to a bowl.

It would even be cooler for A) Bennie (our pet name up here for Bentonville) to land the NCAA Division II championship game for a few years as they're a finalist to do so, and; B) one of the aforementioned three teams to make it to the DII national championship next year. OBU will lose a lot of defensive firepower plus their main RB; HSU will lose some all-conference o-linemen, but return (if he returns) a guy who may end up being statistically the best NCAA D II QB to date; HU had until this week D II's best rushing attack.

BTW, HSU's backup QB Dallas Hardison will be no slouch...his senior year Bentonville was at one point ranked #1 in the USA Today computer poll, and went 25-1 his two years as a starter. Had Hardison had literally just a couple more pass completions (he was almost always pulled in the second quarter because Bentonville was mercy ruling the other team) he would have ended up #2 in "season passing completion" all-time nationally behind a guy who was a pretty good athlete himself, Tim Couch.

Long way of saying, there are some fascinating things happening in Arkansas at the DII level right now that I hope can occur at DI as well (and DIII for Hendrix).