ESPN.com blogger Ryan McGee highlighted the Pioneers upset over the Monmouth Scots in a recent blog post.
After last week's blog when I wondered aloud where James Madison's win over Virginia Tech ranked among the all-time greatest upsets, I received an e-mail from reader Brian Taylor, who made a pretty good argument that the Dukes might not have even had the biggest upset that weekend.
On Sept. 11 Grinnell (Iowa) College knocked off fellow NCAA Division III (non-scholarship) foe Monmouth (Ill.) College 17-15. That doesn't seem like a big deal until you consider that in their previous three meetings the Pioneers had been beaten by the Fighting Scots by a combined score of 170-0 (2007: 42-0, 2008: 69-0, 2009: 59-0). According to Taylor, Grinnell sports a 48-man roster, multiple two-way players, and carried a preseason ranking of 214th out of 238 D3 schools. Monmouth, led by the '09 D3 Player of the Year, QB Alex Tanney, was ranked 17th. I don't care what game you're playing, if you beat a guy ranked 197 spots ahead of you, that is a pretty nice upset.
Read McGee's whole post here.
Jump on board the Pioneer train because we are starting to roll!
