The Ladder 2025 - Conference Championships - Deadline is 3/11 (Sun) at 11 p.m.
 

Welcome to season 15 of the Ladder! Let me know who you'd like to see on your OOC schedule.

Ole Miss is set with red shirts and the recruiting board.

For games:

Mississippi State
Memphis
Navy
Vanderbilt
Rochester
Wyoming

Stanford
Cal
Oklahoma
Louisville
Florida State
Fresno State

(will do redshirts and stuff soon - hopefully by tonight.)

USC is all set :)

Hardest schedule I can play, I'll get redshirts and recruiting done today more than likely.

Thanks, Julio. I will hopefully get a chance to do everyone's OOC schedules tonight and get us rolling.

Wk 8 vs. Vanderbilt
Wk 11 vs. Mississippi St
Wk 12 at #8 Navy

Wk 2 at Stanford
Wk 3 vs #7 FSU
Wk 7 vs Cal

Wk 2 at #6 WVU
Wk 4 vs #4 South Florida
Wk 6 vs #8 Navy

Human vs Human games:
Wk 1 #18 Ole Miss at #5 UTSA
Wk 6 #1 Indiana at #2 USC

Gramm gets thrown into the fire in Week 1 at UTSA in SEC action.

Can't tell if you're done, so we'll hold on advancing to Week 1 for now.

Getting on to get this done in a few minutes. Sorry for the hold up. Got started on it a few days ago, but gotta finish still.

All set.

Okay. Will advance when I get home. Can't advance using website or we'll lose the OOC changes.

Week 1 - Deadline is Sunday (12/10) at 11 p.m.
 

It's go time!

#18 Ole Miss at #5 UTSA

All right Gramm, looks like one of us is starting with a loss. When do you want to determine that? I'm available all day today, but then I'll be out til next Friday.

USC is done recruiting. We had a very nice 1st week! :)

I'm good today, what time works for you?

How about 8 pm EST?

Gramm and I got our game in, and it came down to the final play.. I got lucky and his guy mishandled a TD pass that could have tied the game.

Not a pretty start, but we hit some big plays and managed to make 2 defensive plays to give us enough cushion to win.

Week 2 - Deadline is Thursday (12/14) at 11 p.m.
 

Week 1 Results

UTSA 42, Ole Miss 35
FAU 24, Alabama 13


Week 2 Games

#1 Indiana (0-0) at Nevada (0-0)
#2 USC (0-0) at Stanford (0-0)
#3 Florida Atlantic (1-0) at #21 Ole Miss (0-1)
#5 UTSA (1-0) at #12 West Virginia (0-1)

Ole Miss is ready to advance.

I was torn on which QB to start. We had a veteran RS SR in James Johnson who has a lot of skill and talent and we have a young RS FR in Jimmy Thomas who has the fastest speed I've ever had at QB with a strong arm. I decided to start the veteran...

He fumbled on his first drive.

Thomas came in on the 2nd drive and we never looked back. Thomas was nearly perfect for 3 1/2 quarters. He threw for over 500 yards and 5 TD's. He did throw 1 stupid pick. He also added tremendous speed and had over 100 yards rushing and 6 rushing TD's.

We crushed Stanford.

Other notable performers:

WR T.J. Adams bounced back from last year's devastating injury with 14 catches for 301 yards and 3 TD's as his deep speed is better than ever.

True Freshman HB Paul Fine did more than expected as he is very good at catching out of the backfield. He had 6 catches for 71 yards and also had 3 rushes for 30 yards and a TD.

SR DE Michael Nolan had 9 tackles, 8 for a loss, 7 sacks!

SR CB Eric Allen had 2 picks including a pick 6. He also returned a kickoff for a TD and almost broke a punt for a TD.

In total, our defense forced 10 sacks and 3 interceptions as it played nasty most of the game but also gave up several long plays where we gambled incorrectly.

We also had a good day on the recruiting trail as we got another commit this week.

USC is all set to advance! :)

We are ready ass well.

Week 3 - Deadline is Sunday (12/17) at 11 p.m.
 

Week 2 Results

Indiana 63, Nevada 3
USC 105, Stanford 28
UTSA 59, West Virginia 14
Ole Miss 77, FAU 13


Week 3 Games

#1 Indiana (1-0) at #10 Florida Atlantic (1-1)
#6 Florida State (1-0) at #3 USC (1-0)
#14 Ole Miss (1-1) at Clemson (0-1)

Wow. I kick butt and drop from 2 to 3. Maybe there is something to the thought that too many points confuses the rankings.

recruiting done.

I played slightly tipsy (mmmmmm Egg Nog) and I tried to slow down the pace to really focus on my defense and keeping our defensive statistics good. We still crushed #6 FSU, 77-3.

RS FR QB Jimmy Thomas was nearly perfect with the exception of 1 very bad throw. He was 35 of 41 for 478 yards with 7 TD's, 1 INT. He also rushed for 89 yards and a TD.

RS SO WR T.J. Adams is so good with his combo of size, speed, and hands. He had 15 catches for 275 yards and 2 TD's.

FR Paul Fine added 50 yards receiving and 41 on the ground.

TE Mike Harris had 5 catches for 55 yards but was very efficient in the redzone with 4 TD's.

JR LB Sterling Brown had 16 tackles, 3 for a loss and a sack.

SR DE Michael Nolan with 5 sacks to continue his incredible start to the season.

Eric Allen continues his great play with another pick and a punt return for a TD. He is our most dangerous punt returner in several years.

USC is set to advance.

We're on to Week 4. Details to come later.

I'll be playing my game shortly.

Our offense had a fumble and an interception but we had 2 special teams return TD's, 1 punt, 1 kickoff by Eric Allen to help us cruise past Iowa 80-20.

Jimmy Thomas got knocked out of the game for part of a quarter but still completed 29 of 35 passes for 420 yards, 6 TD's, 1 INT. He also ran it 14 times for 149 yards and a TD.

T.J. Adams had 14 catches for 234 yards and 4 TD's.

Michael Nolan had another 3 sacks this game for a team leading 15 already.

Eric Allen had an interception, kickoff return TD, punt return TD, and generally shut his man down all day.

Ole Miss is ready to advance.

Week 5 - Deadline is 1/3 (Sun) at 11 p.m.
 

Week 4 Results

USC 80, Iowa 20
Indiana 91, Purdue 20
UTSA 66, USF 20
Ole Miss 55, Georgia Tech 36


In a bit of a scheduling quirk, only Julio has a game this week.

Week 5 Games

#3 UTSA (3-0) at #20 Alabama (3-1)

I'll get that in shortly I think. Keep this thing moving, heh.

Looks like Julio got his game in last night.

Yeah, I played, got my recruiting done too. I'm ready to roll.

Week 6 - Deadline is 1/6 (Sat) at 11 p.m.
 

We're on to Week 6. EF - When would be a good time for you? I'm off until 1/2.


Week 5 Results

UTSA 63, Alabama 28


Week 6 Games

#3 Indiana (3-0) at #1 USC (3-0)
#13 Navy (2-1) at #2 UTSA (4-0)
Wake Forest (3-1) at #6 Ole Miss (3-1)

I started up the Xbox 360 all set to play my game and just realized it was against Indiana!

I don't suppose you are available in the next hour?

This weekend is tough because we are having company come in from out of town for the New Year Holiday. I might be able to play one evening next week. Alternatively, I can play one of the mornings of next weekend, probably Sunday.

Why don't we aim for Sunday the 7th?

Sounds good!

9 a.m. tomorrow?

Sounds good! :)

We had a chance to go up 2 TDs in the second half, but played it safe on 4th and 2 and punted it. Things went down hill with the help of a couple of interceptions, and USC kept the streak alive of the home team winning every game in this series. Good game, EF. We'll see you in the conference championship game.

Week 7 - Deadline is 1/14 (Sun) at 11 p.m.
 

Week 6 Results

USC 23, Indiana 17
UTSA 108, Navy 14
Ole Miss 65, Wake Forest 7
FAU 56, Missouri 21


Week 7 Games

Cal (2-3) at #1 USC (4-0)
#6 Ole Miss (4-1) at Virginia Tech (2-2)
#25 Notre Dame (3-2) at #7 Indiana (3-1)
#8 FAU (3-2) at Florida (0-6)

Good game Kodos. Glad we got those picks.

USC had a completely dominant game against Cal resulting in an 84-0 win.

A few highlights:

RS FR QB Jimmy Thomas had a perfect 1st half except 1 drop by his WR. In total throughout the game, he completed 33 of 39 passes for 533 yards, 6 TD's, 1 INT (stupid decision by me early in the 3rd.) He also ran for 192 yards and 4 TD's.

T.J Adams had 15 catches for 338 yards and 3 TD's.

SR DE Michael Nolan had 12 sacks!

SR S Ben Simpson had an interception (he also had 1 in the Indiana game and has been really playing great football.)

We held Cal to under 75 total yards of offense on the day.

USC is all set to advance.

I'll get my recruiting done shortly.

EDIT: Done.

Week 8
 

We're on to Week 8.

Week 7 Results

USC 84, Cal 0
Indiana 63, Notre Dame 7
Ole Miss 63, Virginia Tech 27



Week 8 Games

#1 USC at Nevada
Nebraska at #2 UTSA
#9 Minnesota at #6 Indiana
Vanderbilt at #5 Ole Miss

In crushing Nevada, USC RS FR QB Jimmy Thomas set records for me despite a slow start that included a fumble and interception in the first quarter. But, he bounced back with a historic day: 32 of 44 for 625 yards, 9 TD's, 1 INT. He also rushed 15 times for 274 yards and 2 TD's.

All teams set to advance!

Week 9 - Deadline is 1/30 (Tues) at 11 p.m.
 

Week 8 Results

USC 98, Nevada 3
Indiana 63, Minnesota 7
UTSA 83, Nebraska 7
Ole Miss 63, Vanderbilt 10


Week 9 Games

BYU (4-2) at #1 USC (6-0)
#2 UTSA (6-0) at Texas A&M (3-3)
#6 Indiana (5-1) at #16 Buffalo (4-2)