Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

We'll see how that shakes out.

And then on the back page here, Rose-Hulman still in control of their destiny in the Heartland.

And Mountain Union taking care of business, winning 58-14.

They'll play Baldwin Malls effectively for the OAC title this Saturday.

If Cortland wins, it's done.

If Brockport wins, we still have to talk about Week 11 where they take on Utica.

NCAC, it's Rose-Hulman in the lead.

Obviously, there's two teams waiting there hoping that things go wrong.

If they lose, even their best-case NPI scenarios finish below the at-large bubble.

There's a similar situation in the HCAC between Mount St. Joseph and Rose-Hulman.

Rose-Hulman needs to earn the AQ to make the playoffs.

and Mount St. Joseph could clinch a playoff bid with a win, but they would not be completely eliminated from an at-large bid with a loss.

The next game with the most playoff leverage is the matchup between Franklin and Marshall and Carnegie Mellon in the Centennial Conference.

They would make it 17-6 before halftime, and that would be the halftime score.

Third quarter, 2-19 remaining, Rose-Hulman's Alexander Marsteller.

He'll find Pater from one yard out.

It's now 17-12, Hanover leading this game, only a five-point game.

9.32 left in the fourth quarter.

Brock Zanatel darts 29 yards into the end zone for Rose-Hulman, and they are back on top here, 18-17, and they go for two to make it 20-17, in fact.

Fourth quarter, 1.32 left, and you're going to see an attempt to tie here by Hanover for a 29-yard field goal by Andrew Whitesell, and it's blocked.

Rudy Griffin with that block, and that's huge because 14 seconds later, Brock Zanatel sprints 80 yards for the touchdown.

38 passing, and he was the game's leading rusher with 156 yards and two touchdowns as well, including an 80-yard touchdown run with one minute and 18 seconds left to play.

That gave Rose-Hulman a 10-point lead.

The HCAC pad had just got very interesting now with this result.

Rose Holman there in the driver's seat as the lone remaining undefeated team in conference play.

And the door also got kicked back open for Mount St. Joseph to possibly get into a three-way championship situation pending the outcome of the suddenly massive November 7th game with Rose Holman.

Yeah, really big win for Rose-Hulman, right? You look back at what they've done this season.

They've lost two games, right? They're 5-2.

They're 3-0 in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.

He was a good kid, very bright.

The institution was Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, so a high-end engineering school and promising future.

And unfortunately, he didn't let go of the dynamite timely.

So

32-17 in favor of Wartburg.

Rose-Hulman, Hanover.

I think Hanover's turned a corner here, and I'm going to pick them here.

They know how to win close games.

Uh, they are 2-0 in the conference, 5-1 on the season.

So they're doing what they're supposed to do so far, and they'll have Rose-Hulman up next.

Yep.

This is probably the HCAC championship game in many people's minds, I think including ours at this point.

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I went to Rose-Hulman's, Rose-Hulman's at MIT in the Midwest.

I've heard that.

That's the one argument that I've heard.

I mean, Meng Chang, he had a PhD in AI, and he was really leaning into probably even more than a land-grant school should into like DOD contracts and AI and all that.

So who knows if they'll continue to steer that way.

But regardless, like, If you bring in one of these kids from Rose-Hulman or Purdue, someone who was with this background, and then you have a fractional engineer or data engineer, like as a consultant, occasionally just to check work, right? I think that's probably another option that you could take on rather than trying to bring that price on to your staff.

Yeah, I totally agree.