and Darren Bravo. Samuels couldnt have played a more irresponsible innings.Samuels went from fasting to sugar rush, betraying no sense of plan or

(STATS) -- Its been long enough since Mercer and Georgia Tech stepped on the same football field together that a World War broke out in the interim, but the Bears 87-mile trek up I-75 to Atlanta is more than just the first meeting with the Yellow Jackets since 1938.For Mercer, theres a bit of finality to what amounts to their first game against a major Division I team since long before it was called Division I.Weve had a lot of firsts here at Mercer. This may be our last first, coach Bobby Lamb said.Lamb was the man Mercer hired away from fellow Southern Conference member Furman in 2013 to revive its program, which hadnt played since Nov. 26, 1941. Pearl Harbor happened 11 days later, and Mercer football never made it back.The milestones have rolled in upon the Bears return to the gridiron. There was the first recruiting class, the first game and first win (40-37 over Reinhardt in 2013), the first SoCon game (a 25-20 loss to Furman in 2014), and after Saturdays season-opening 24-23 loss to The Citadel, the first vote in the FCS Coaches Poll.Being the first FBS and Power Five opponent to officially welcome the Bears program back is actually somewhat fitting for Georgia Tech (Saturday, 3 p.m. ET). After all, the Yellow Jackets first opponent on the gridiron was Mercer -- on campus in Macon -- in 1892. Then nicknamed the Baptists, Mercer won 12-6 -- the first win in school history.Things have been quite different since that first meeting, when touchdowns were worth four points and the ensuing conversion two. Mercer hasnt scored on the Yellow Jackets since Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 election, with Georgia Tech heading into Saturday on a 298-0 run in the series. The Yellow Jackets have won 11 or 13 straight meetings, depending on which athletic department you ask (Mercer, for the record, is counting two more beatdowns than Tech).But enough about the past, which is an attitude both Lamb and Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson will certainly be taking this week. In Lambs case, he has to pick his Bears up off the turf after a third straight loss by two points or fewer to SoCon power The Citadel. The result was better for Johnson -- though it took a 4th-and-19 conversion in the waning minutes for the Jackets to will their way past Boston College, 17-14 -- but itd be easy for his players minds to be elsewhere this week. Across the Atlantic, to be precise, where Tech played the Eagles in rainy Dublin and could still be getting re-acclimated to Eastern Standard Time.Throw in what some could consider a happy-to-be-there FCS opponent and itd be somewhat easy for Georgia Tech to find itself complacent Saturday. But Johnson, who spent five years as Georgia Southerns coach when the Eagles were a I-AA program, doesnt figure to be the guy to let that happen.Im sure Mercer is excited to come and play here at Bobby Dodd, Johnson said. Theyve got a number of kids from the Atlanta metro area and a lot of in-state players. I know what that would be like having been at Georgia Southern. Theyll be fired up and excited to play and we need to be as well.One thing Lambs team could find some familiarity with is the offense itll be trying to slow down. The Citadel runs a triple option very similar to the system employed by Georgia Tech, so Mercer essentially spent its fall camp planning for two games at once.We get the advantage of working (against this offense) all preseason camp, Lamb said. I thought our defense did a really good job of defending it once we got used to the speed of the game. The difference is Georgia Tech gets the ball out to the perimeter a little bit more and the speed is going to be a little bit faster.Even if a Mercer program thats only recently been revived isnt enough to scare some longtime Yellow Jackets fans, perhaps the coach himself will be. Lamb had just been elevated to the starting quarterback at Furman when the Paladins visited Georgia Tech in 1983, and the sophomore engineered a 17-14 upset -- the Jackets only loss to an FCS program in 30 games. Current Tech defensive coordinator Ted Roof was a sophomore on that Jackets team.Will Lamb bring it up to motivate the Bears prior to Saturdays kickoff?Its too far in the past, he said.TERRIERS BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE?=Mercer wont be the only SoCon team punching above its weight class Saturday. Wofford, fresh off a season-opening 21-7 win at Tennessee Tech, travels to Oxford (4 p.m. ET) to face an Ole Miss team that figures to be plenty angry after its Labor Day plans went awry. The Rebels raced out to a 28-6 lead on No. 3 Florida State in Orlando on Monday night, and less than 15 minutes later they found themselves trailing 36-28 en route to a 45-34 loss.If we are going to be any good, you bounce back from those and traditionally we have done that very well here, Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. I expect our kids to respond. It is a long season and one game doesnt make it or break it.The Rebels defense will make the awkward transition from facing a Seminoles team that threw 52 passes to a Terriers triple option that was fourth in the FCS with 300.2 rushing yards per game in 2015 and piled up 346 on the ground in their opener.This is a tough turnaround, Freeze said. We got back at 4 a.m. and have got to play the triple option this Saturday, which wasnt real smart on our scheduling. It is totally different, usually you would like to have two weeks to get ready for it and we basically have two days.Ole Miss already depleted secondary took a hit in the FSU game, when starting cornerback Ken Webster tore -- as Freeze put it -- every ligament in his knee. But Brad Butler and the Terriers arent the team to exploit that weakness with a passing game thats inept even by triple-option standards. Wofford completed an FCS-low 54 passes last season -- two for touchdowns -- and attempted only eight against Tennessee Tech.The Rebels allowed just 3.3 yards per carry last season, 13th nationally, and nine touchdowns. Only Boston College and Alabama yielded fewer.AROUND THE SOCON=- Chattanooga at No. 6 Presbyterian (2 p.m. ET): The Mocs faced a D-II team in their opener and the Blue Hose visited MAC member Central Michigan, but still: theres a 112-point gap between these two in terms of point differential. We didnt learn much about Chattanooga in its 66-0 rout of Shorter -- though allowing 16 yards on 43 total plays is impressive regardless of the competition -- but saw perhaps all we need to know about this matchup last season. The Mocs ran for 293 yards while chewing up nearly 39 minutes of the clock, and they held Presbyterian to 117 total yards in a 21-0 win. Expect more of the same.- No. 15 The Citadel at Furman (6 ET): The Paladins didnt quite go toe-for-toe with Michigan State, but they were within one possession of the 12th-ranked Spartans deep into the fourth quarter before losing 28-13. They held whats typically a solid MSU running game to 4.3 yards per tote, but now comes one of college footballs best ground attacks in The Citadels triple option. The Bulldogs have racked up 795 yards on the ground -- 5.6 per carry -- and scored nine TDs in winning the last two meetings with Furman. Citadel coach Brent Thompson hasnt said whether Jordan Black, who started the opener, or Dominique Allen, who started 13 games last season, will get the nod at quarterback in the 94th meeting of this rivalry.- VMI at Morehead State (6 ET): The Keydets were within two points of Akron in the fourth quarter last Saturday before falling apart late in a 47-24 loss, but they could bounce back here. Morehead State gave up 498 rushing yards while getting clobbered 80-7 by No. 12 James Madison in Week 1. VMI beat Morehead State 43-40 in one of the more exciting contests of the FCS season a year ago, walking off with a win on Dillon Christophers 34-yard field goal at the gun.- Gardner-Webb at Western Carolina (6 ET): The Big Souths Runnin Bulldogs lived up to their name in Week 1, gashing Elon for 327 yards and four TDs on the ground in a 31-6 rout. One would think that would bode well against a Catamounts squad that gave up 688 yards of offense -- and 7.2 yards per carry -- while getting blasted 52-7 at East Carolina. But nine-point favorite Western Carolina should find things far easier back home, where they can get running back Detrez Newsome untracked and unleash Tyrie Adams after the quarterback got his freshman jitters out last week.- Samford at Central Arkansas (7 ET): Central Arkansas could find itself in the STATS FCS Top 25 with a win over the Bulldogs, who are eyeing those rankings themselves after closing last season with three straight wins and blasting Division II Mars Hill 77-7 in their opener. Samford got the best of the Bears last season in Birmingham, riding Michael Eubanks arm (372 yards, four TDs) to a 45-16 win. Things wont be as easy on the purple-striped field at Estes Stadium, where Central Arkansas will want revenge for a loss that likely kept it out of the playoffs following a 7-4 campaign in 2015. Watch out for the Hayden Hildebrand-to-Jatavious Wilson connection in what should be one of the better FCS games this week.Wholesale NMD R1 . Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and the Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win on Saturday night. NMD_R1 Shoes Australia . It was the kind of score that might make everyone else wonder which course he was playing. Except that Graeme McDowell saw the whole thing. Crouched behind the 10th green at Sheshan International, McDowell looked over at the powerful American and said, "Ive probably seen 18 of the best drives Ive seen all year in the last two days. http://www.nmdaustraliasale.com/ . All of the scoring came in the final 20:04. Lucic scored on a power play at 15:46 of the third period, when he tipped a shot over Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen for a 3-1 lead. Ultra Boost 1.0 Australia . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. On a day filled mostly with qualifying matches, fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain also entered the second with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia, while Guido Pella of Argentina defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 6-4 to advance. Adidas Superstar Pink Australia . They were putting most of their energy into a record-setting offensive display.India 353 (Ashwin 118, Saha 104, Cummins 3-54) and 217 for 7 decl. (Rahane 78*, Cummins 6-48) beat West Indies 225 (Brathwaite 64, Bhuvneshwar 5-33) and 108 (Bravo 59, Shami 3-15) by 237 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsOn Thursday, the third day of the St Lucia Test, India saw rain wash a whole days play out, with runs having been scored at about 2.5 an over on the first two days. The bowlers last memory of having taken a wicket was 79.2 overs ago. By the end of the play on Saturday, the fifth day, India had taken 17 wickets in 63.5 overs to complete an incredible Test and series win, one that was borne as much out of belief and intent as out of West Indies lack of resistance after what hopefully wasnt a false dawn in Jamaica. India began the final day believing they could still win; West Indies did nothing to make India doubt it. After Bhuvneshwar Kumars swing masterclass left India 285 in lead at the end of the fourth day, India quickly ran away to 60 runs in nine overs to leave West Indies with no chance of winning and 87 overs to survive.That was a big difference between Jamaica and St Lucia: there, one counterattack put the hosts within sight of parity and gave them direction. Here they didnt know where to go. Feet stopped moving, brains got muddled, plans went absent, and India stayed relentless. The victory, the first time India won two Tests in a series outside Asia since 2005 and the first time ever in the West Indies, arrived before tea.The gulf in the class and awareness between the teams was glaring on the fifth day. It began with awareness and intent. India knew the outfield was slow, they knew they were short on time, so they came out running runs as if in street cricket. Tip and run, runs to slip, second runs with the ball in the fielders hand, thirds because of panicked throws and poor backing-up, India almost literally stole these runs from under West Indies noses. A six-wicket haul for Miguel Cummins as the batsmen went after the bowling was the only silver lining on a dark day for West Indies cricket. Ajinkya Rahane, not surprisingly, top-scored with an unbeaten 78.Then came the question of class. West Indies still had only 87 overs to survive on a pretty reliable surface. Except that the batting was not reliable. Coming into this innings having lost their last seven first-innings wickets in 16.2 overs, West Indies needed a solid start. It wasnt to be. On a new-ball pitch, the India quicks were soon going to be all over them. This was going to call for gumption, especially if West Indies lost a wicket early on. Which they duly did, with new opener Leon Johnson fending Mohammed Shami to short leg.Bhuvneshwar, who had cracked the game open with a quick five-for on day four, then had Kraigg Brathwaite - not the onlly West Indies batsman who prefers to stay back - with a really full delivery.dddddddddddd The inswinger held its line a little, Brathwaite played across its line and was caught dead plumb. With openers gone in the fifth over, there was extra responsibility on the most experienced West Indies batsmen, Marlon Samuels and Darren Bravo. Samuels couldnt have played a more irresponsible innings.Samuels went from fasting to sugar rush, betraying no sense of plan or direction to his batting. He faced the first 12 balls of his innings responsibly, avoiding the short-pitch barrage nicely. With no run to his name, and no intent to score any until then, out of nowhere he looked for a lofted off drive to the 13th ball he faced. Having survived that rush of blood, having scored his first run off the 21st ball he faced, Samuels got two half-volleys from R Ashwin, boundaries off which should have settled down nerves.Samuels, though, went on a hitting spree. He was lucky he mistimed his next big shot, an attempted loft with a long-on in place. This one fell short, but Samuels, having been dormant for the first half of the innings, struggled to calm himself down. The feet didnt move, the bat went high, an inswinger from Ishant Sharma burst through the gate and sent the off stump on a cartwheel.Three wickets had been lost in 13.2 overs, but Roston Chase and Bravo batted more sensibly and saw West Indies through to lunch. Post lunch, Ishant produced the delivery of the innings to remove the centurion from Jamaica, Chase. India had got their act together for Chase, bowling fuller than they did in Jamaica, giving him less time to recover should there be any misbehaviour off the pitch. This one misbehaved massively, seaming back in from a full length to take the off stump out.Jermaine Blackwoods attacking ways were less likely to work here; India had anyway cut off his runs by not bowling in his zone. A frustrated big drive - trying to save a Test with parity nowhere in sight - brought an on-the-line stumping, and half the side was gone even before the ball became old and settled down.After about the 30th over, the pitch settled down a little. The edges began to die, as R Ashwin found out with Bravo who reached his first fifty in eight innings. The seam movement ceased. A main batsman would have found this period easier to negotiate, but Shane Dowrich fell to a disciplined spell from Shami, who followed on from a seven-over interrogation by Bhuvneshwar. Jason Holder ran himself out, and with the tail in the middle it was just a consolation that West Indies managed to cross 100 and didnt succumb to their lowest total against India. ' ' '