Ursinus College

8.05 remaining, and it's Lewis Parris diving in from two yards out to make it 28-10.

Final score would be 35-17, FNM winning it and taking Ursinus' undefeated tag away from them.

Tristan Machado for Ursinus, 22 for 46, 193 yards, one passing touchdown.

Jaden Princevalley, 171 pass yards, 52 rush yards for 223 total, three passing touchdowns on the day.

In the Empire 8, St. John Fisher at Cortland.

I took opera lessons because my parents knew that I liked to sing and they had the foresight and the wherewithal to say, well, if you're going to learn to sing, you should learn to do it at the highest level, so we'll sign you up for some opera lessons.

And that was actually a really pivotal moment for me right off the jump because my instructor, Michael Ashby, who might still be, but was teaching at Community Music School in Trapp, is also a professor at Ursinus and assists with the Philadelphia Boys Choir.

He was just a prolific instructor, and I took to his instruction style right away and then also the style of music right away as well.

So it really started with a formal classical approach for singing.

Not quite there.

A little bit on the outside looking in, taking some votes away from Ursinus.

But I think that's what I think about when I think about them is, you know, they didn't quite get it done last year at home when they could and they lost a lot of those key guys.

And we ranked the Centennial the third best conference in the division.

Yep, that's what I just said.

Losses for Del Valle are to Eastern by 14 and Ursinus by 3.

I'm picking Misericordia.

Things I didn't think I'd ever say in my life.

She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center, CUNY.

She runs the writing and speaking program and teaches at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Talia Argandese, welcome to Teaching in Higher Ed.

Hi, Bonnie.

university and then I wrote a satirical piece, I might want to just jokingly at our next meeting say, hey, you know, isn't it funny how universal these things are? I don't know.

Was there any sorts of either not necessarily asking for permission, but just sort of that gut check to say like, oh, maybe I should give a heads up or anything like that?

Well, I work on I work at Ursinus College, which is a small liberal arts college outside Philadelphia.

And it's a it's a great place.

The Centennial.

Ursinus and Carnegie Mellon are your undefeated teams right now at 3-0.

Sure, that's, uh, how, exactly how I would have drawn it up.

But Franklin & Marshall-

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... with the big game against Ursinus this week, um, you know, s- that's one...

I, I've said it, I'm gonna keep saying it, I think Franklin & Marshall's still the best team right now in that conference-

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Some of those teams play each other later in the year, so it's impossible for all 17 to finish undefeated.

In descending order of their average NPI in my simulations if they finish undefeated, those 17 teams are UW-Platteville, Cortland, UW-Whitewater, Wheaton, Hope, Hardin-Simmons, Endicott, Christopher Newport, Merchant Marine, Baldwin-Wallace, Washington U, Ursinus, St. John's, Wesleyan, Calvin, Trinity Connecticut, and Amherst.

Looking at the most likely at-large teams right now, the teams most likely to earn a bid are North Central, Utica, Mount St. Joseph, John Carroll, Heidelberg, Merchant Marine, Hardin-Simmons, DePauw, and some combination of two WIAC teams, most likely UW-Whitewater and UW-River Falls.

Same as last week, if you're a fan of a team on the bubble, root for the teams I just mentioned to lose and for your team's non-conference opponents to win.

Chris Rozelle @GapGolfer asking, "So which team is in the Centennial Conference driver's seat?" Yeah, great question.

We've talked a little bit about a bunch of other games in the Centennial Conference this season.

We haven't talked a ton about Ursinus.

Decisively, the team I would think that's in the driver's seat in this conference.

Um, I think the Presidents are probably big favorites here, but hey, you never know.

Elsewhere in Region 2, Frank, I guess, um, Hopkins, Ursinus could be interesting.

Um, can the Bears, you know, keep rolling? Will, will Hopkins keep sort of falling? Like, they've had a really tough season.

Um, uh, we g- let's see what else we got in here.

And, you know, while I don't necessarily see the Captains as highly ranked as, like, you know, Flow and some other places have them posted, I think, you know, 13 to 20 range is probably, probably right.

But, um, yeah, I'll go with, I'll go with Captains-

Hopkins, Ursinus.

Th- oh, I was just finishing my, uh, CMU pick.

Um, so shout out to those guys, uh, for just being cool.

Um, also I wanted to shout out, uh, Joseph Jamison, uh, director of men's and women's wrestling at Ursinus College, and I wanted to shout him out 'cause I think it was around COVID or, like, shortly into COVID, he had posted something about maybe it was something Calvin and Hobbes related or whatever, right? Or he was reading Calvin and Hobbes to his kids, and I was like, "Oh, that's awesome." And he's like, "Yeah, you can buy, like, the whole series." And I was like, "Shit, all right." And I immediately did it.

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And so now my oldest son has been, I mean, he's been reading them for the last several years, and he still dives into them every once in a while.