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Two teams with NC hopes at the beginning of the season try to seal bid into playoffs. For Villanova, they need help. JMU is likely in win or lose, but they have a chance at a seed.

Nova just needs to help themselves IMO. Win and they're in.

Nova defense and special teams need to help the Offense for a chance to win. JMU should score 24-35 points depending on turnovers. Cats have a hard time putting that many up.

What could have been if Robertson and Lee hadn't gotten hurt. Now those 2 5th year seniors, the 2014 Payton winner and would have won 2015 Payton winner, have been replaced by two 2nd yr QBs (JMU's true Soph Bryan Schor is 3 yrs removed from HS..)..VU rFr former backup Zach Bednarczyk has started 6 of 7 CAA games and Schor only 2 of 7 CAA games.

Schor passing in his 1st 2 starts:
vs W&M 17 for 27, 227 yds, 1 TD, 1 INT, against a pretty good W&M defense in his 1st start..
vs UD 18 for 32, 193 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT. Considering it was pretty damn windy and was up against a good UD defense to boot in only his 2nd start, I think the kid did pretty well..

Schor rushing vs W&M & UD was pretty similar. Combined those 2 games credited with 32 carries for 129 yds, but excluding the 5 sacks for -24, its 27 rushes for 153. He's no Vad Lee running the ball, but he is a decent runner..

Calling for low to mid 50s in Harrisonburg on Sat & not windy..

JMU still has the much better offense. Defensively VU clearly has the better defense.

Offense (CAA Games Only)

SCORING OFFENSE G TD XP 2XP DXP FG Saf Pts Avg
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1. James Madison....... 7 40 36 1 0 6 0 296 42.3
2. Richmond............ 7 32 28 2 0 10 0 254 36.3
3. William and Mary.... 7 29 28 0 1 7 0 225 32.1
4. Villanova........... 7 22 17 1 0 3 0 160 22.9
5. New Hampshire....... 7 20 15 1 0 4 0 149 21.3
6. Maine............... 7 16 12 0 0 10 0 138 19.7
Towson.............. 7 17 10 1 0 8 0 138 19.7
8. Albany.............. 7 18 18 0 0 2 0 132 18.9
9. Elon................ 7 14 13 0 0 3 0 106 15.1
10.Delaware............ 7 12 9 2 0 6 0 103 14.7
11.Stony Brook......... 7 13 12 0 0 3 1 101 14.4
12.Rhode Island........ 7 9 8 0 0 7 0 83 11.9

TOTAL OFFENSE G Rush Pass Plays Yards Avg/P TD Yds/G
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1. James Madison....... 7 1901 1763 570 3664 6.4 38 523.4
2. Richmond............ 7 1468 2071 496 3539 7.1 32 505.6
3. William and Mary.... 7 1501 1464 473 2965 6.3 25 423.6
4. Villanova........... 7 1274 1287 453 2561 5.7 22 365.9
5. Maine............... 7 991 1519 489 2510 5.1 15 358.6
6. New Hampshire....... 7 1001 1431 510 2432 4.8 19 347.4
7. Towson.............. 7 991 1304 462 2295 5.0 14 327.9
8. Albany.............. 7 1110 1015 431 2125 4.9 16 303.6
9. Delaware............ 7 1553 445 462 1998 4.3 10 285.4
10.Elon................ 7 527 1419 443 1946 4.4 14 278.0
11.Stony Brook......... 7 734 1091 488 1825 3.7 12 260.7
12.Rhode Island........ 7 636 961 439 1597 3.6 8 228.1

RUSHING OFFENSE G Att Yds Avg TD Yds/G
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1. James Madison....... 7 352 1901 5.4 21 271.6
2. Delaware............ 7 343 1553 4.5 9 221.9
3. William and Mary.... 7 289 1501 5.2 18 214.4
4. Richmond............ 7 280 1468 5.2 22 209.7
5. Villanova........... 7 274 1274 4.6 12 182.0
6. Albany.............. 7 238 1110 4.7 9 158.6
7. New Hampshire....... 7 250 1001 4.0 10 143.0
8. Maine............... 7 252 991 3.9 6 141.6
Towson.............. 7 258 991 3.8 10 141.6
10.Stony Brook......... 7 279 734 2.6 5 104.9
11.Rhode Island........ 7 246 636 2.6 4 90.9
12.Elon................ 7 204 527 2.6 6 75.3

PASS OFFENSE G Att Cmp Int Pct. Yds Avg TD Yds/G
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1. Richmond............ 7 216 132 9 61.1 2071 9.6 10 295.9
2. James Madison....... 7 218 142 6 65.1 1763 8.1 17 251.9
3. Maine............... 7 237 142 5 59.9 1519 6.4 9 217.0
4. William and Mary.... 7 184 118 1 64.1 1464 8.0 7 209.1
5. New Hampshire....... 7 260 151 8 58.1 1431 5.5 9 204.4
6. Elon................ 7 239 136 12 56.9 1419 5.9 8 202.7
7. Towson.............. 7 204 126 7 61.8 1304 6.4 4 186.3
8. Villanova........... 7 179 104 4 58.1 1287 7.2 10 183.9
9. Stony Brook......... 7 209 106 7 50.7 1091 5.2 7 155.9
10.Albany.............. 7 193 94 12 48.7 1015 5.3 7 145.0
11.Rhode Island........ 7 193 93 11 48.2 961 5.0 4 137.3
12.Delaware............ 7 119 55 5 46.2 445 3.7 1 63.6
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Defense (Again CAA games only):

SCORING DEFENSE G TD XP 2XP DXP FG Saf Pts Avg
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1. Villanova........... 7 14 9 1 0 6 0 113 16.1
2. William and Mary.... 7 17 11 2 0 4 0 129 18.4
3. Maine............... 7 16 15 0 0 7 0 132 18.9
4. Stony Brook......... 7 18 17 0 0 4 0 137 19.6
5. Towson.............. 7 18 18 0 0 5 0 141 20.1
6. Delaware............ 7 16 14 1 0 11 0 145 20.7
7. Rhode Island........ 7 21 19 0 0 5 1 162 23.1
8. New Hampshire....... 7 22 18 2 0 4 0 166 23.7
9. Richmond............ 7 23 21 0 0 5 0 174 24.9
10.Elon................ 7 25 20 0 0 7 0 191 27.3
11.Albany.............. 7 25 22 0 0 7 0 193 27.6
12.James Madison....... 7 27 22 2 1 4 0 202 28.9

TOTAL DEFENSE G Rush Pass Plys Yards Avg TD Yds/G
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1. Maine............... 7 540 1348 434 1888 4.4 16 269.7
2. Stony Brook......... 7 983 1129 455 2112 4.6 16 301.7
3. Delaware............ 7 994 1160 444 2154 4.9 13 307.7
4. Towson.............. 7 927 1232 450 2159 4.8 16 308.4
5. Villanova........... 7 1047 1230 443 2277 5.1 11 325.3
6. William and Mary.... 7 1126 1265 474 2391 5.0 14 341.6
7. New Hampshire....... 7 1479 1109 482 2588 5.4 22 369.7
8. Richmond............ 7 1004 1605 475 2609 5.5 22 372.7
9. Rhode Island........ 7 1333 1280 459 2613 5.7 20 373.3
10.James Madison....... 7 1353 1448 518 2801 5.4 26 400.1
11.Elon................ 7 1463 1377 548 2840 5.2 24 405.7
12.Albany.............. 7 1438 1587 534 3025 5.7 25 432.1

RUSHING DEFENSE G Rushes Yards Avg. TD Yds/G
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1. Maine............... 7 226 540 2.4 7 77.1
2. Towson.............. 7 265 927 3.5 3 132.4
3. Stony Brook......... 7 268 983 3.7 10 140.4
4. Delaware............ 7 257 994 3.9 7 142.0
5. Richmond............ 7 236 1004 4.3 8 143.4
6. Villanova........... 7 253 1047 4.1 9 149.6
7. William and Mary.... 7 267 1126 4.2 12 160.9
8. Rhode Island........ 7 279 1333 4.8 12 190.4
9. James Madison....... 7 297 1353 4.6 19 193.3
10.Albany.............. 7 309 1438 4.7 12 205.4
11.Elon................ 7 313 1463 4.7 17 209.0
12.New Hampshire....... 7 295 1479 5.0 16 211.3

PASS DEFENSE G Att Cmp Int Pct. Yds Avg TD Yds/G
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1. New Hampshire....... 7 187 96 10 51.3 1109 5.9 6 158.4
2. Stony Brook......... 7 187 109 5 58.3 1129 6.0 6 161.3
3. Delaware............ 7 187 101 3 54.0 1160 6.2 6 165.7
4. Villanova........... 7 190 104 11 54.7 1230 6.5 2 175.7
5. Towson.............. 7 185 119 4 64.3 1232 6.7 13 176.0
6. William and Mary.... 7 207 117 8 56.5 1265 6.1 2 180.7
7. Rhode Island........ 7 180 107 4 59.4 1280 7.1 8 182.9
8. Maine............... 7 208 115 7 55.3 1348 6.5 9 192.6
9. Elon................ 7 235 137 8 58.3 1377 5.9 7 196.7
10.James Madison....... 7 221 116 5 52.5 1448 6.6 7 206.9
11.Albany.............. 7 225 145 13 64.4 1587 7.1 13 226.7
12.Richmond............ 7 239 133 9 55.6 1605 6.7 14 229.3

JMU with early 14 seven lead

38-29 final
Nova gives up a pick 6, a fumble recovery for 6 a kickoff return for 6 a recovered inside kick and four turnovers by the qb and somehow was still driving to win the game with 3 minutes left. That's when the fumble for 6 occurred.

Freshman QB. Needs to learn how to take care of the ball. Overall, an entertaining season and a gritty group that rallied well after losing John Robertson.

Go CA A in the playoffs. I am more optimistic than most.

To get a seed JMU needed to

-Take care of business bs VU- check

Have 2 of the below 6 get upset, then 3 of 5 after Citadel over SC. Well, got 3 of 5! Could get 4 pending PSU/EWU..

-Liberty over CCU- check
-UR over W&M- check
-S Dakota over ILSU- no
-WIU over SDSU- check
-EWU over PSU-still playing

Seeds could be:
1. JSU (10-1/8-0)
2. MCNeese (10-0/8-0)
3. ILSU (9-2/7-1)
4. NDSU (9-2/7-1)
5. PSU if beat EWU (9-2/6-2)
-CSU (9-2/6-0)
-Citadel (8-3/7-1)
-JMU (9-2/6-2)

The only way I see JMU not getting it is if they take UR (8-3/6-2) because they won head to head over JMu and the CAA AQ. But they lost. 2 of their last 3, and the only 8-3 I see possibly getting a seed is El Cid..