Today's games
Wesley (4-3) at Salisbury (7-0)
Site: Sea Gull Stadium, Salisbury
Time: 1 p.m.
Radio: WICO (1320 AM)
Series: Wesley leads 8-4
Last week: Salisbury defeated Newport News Apprentice, 31-6; Wesley lost to Davidson, 31-0.
Outlook: Salisbury continues to march along as the only unbeaten NCAA football team in the state, with freshman QB Dustin Johnson rolling up remarkable chunks of yardage in the Sea Gulls' option offense. Last week he exploded for 181 yards and three touchdowns on 20 carries in an MVP performance in the Oyster Bowl in Hampton, Va. The Gulls remain No. 20 in Division III in the nation this week, and they also are the nation's No. 1 rushing team with a 388.7 yards a game average. Wesley isn't the dominant team it once was in the Atlantic Central Football Conference, being pounded by Frostburg State, 37-18, earlier this season. But the Wolverines have beaten Salisbury six straight times.
Morris Brown (1-7) at Morgan State (4-4)
Site: Hughes Stadium
Time: 1 p.m.
Radio: WEAA (88.9 FM)
Series: Morris Brown leads 2-1
Last week: Morgan defeated Delaware State, 35-28; Morris Brown lost to Samford, 20-7.
Outlook: First-year Morgan coach Donald Hill-Eley has been talking like a winner since the first day he took the job, and now his players are starting to back up that talk with three straight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference wins. The Bears will try to go over the .500 mark against a struggling Morris Brown team whose quarterback, Ralph Gordon, has been intercepted eight times and thrown only one touchdown pass. Morgan QB Bradshaw Littlejohn missed last week's game with an ankle injury and is listed as probable today.
Towson (5-3) at Monmouth (1-6)
Site: Kessler Field, West Long Branch, N.J.
Time: 1 p.m.
Radio: WTMD (89.7 FM)
Series: Towson leads 6-1
Last week: Towson lost to Colgate, 9-7; Monmouth lost to Wagner, 7-6.
Outlook: Monmouth should be the perfect tonic for Towson's bad case of the blues, after last week's bitter Patriot League loss to Colgate on a last-second, 39-yard field goal by Lane Schwarzberg. That setback virtually eliminated the Tigers from the Patriot title chase and severely damaged any Towson hopes for an NCAA Division I-AA tournament berth.
Dickinson (3-4) at Johns Hopkins (5-2)
Site: Homewood Field
Time: 1 p.m.
Series: Hopkins leads 26-25-4
Last week: Hopkins lost to Randolph-Macon, 17-12; Dickinson defeated Kean, 21-14.
Outlook: Hopkins has lost two straight since a 5-0 start, and both losses have come with senior RB Kevin Johnson out with a knee injury. Johnson is listed as week-to-week. Dickinson has won three of its past four games and is 10-1-1 against Hopkins in the past 12 meetings.
McDaniel (6-1) at William Paterson (1-6)
Site: Wightman Field, Wayne, N.J.
Time: 1 p.m.
Radio: WTTR (1470 AM)
Series: McDaniel leads 1-0
Last week: McDaniel defeated Franklin & Marshall, 10-6; William Paterson lost to SUNY-Cortland, 32-0.
Outlook: McDaniel won kind of ugly last week, as both quarterbacks, Orion Canine and Scoots Crowell, were ineffective. That leaves coach Tim Keating no choice but to keep alternating the two. There is no quarterback controversy because neither has staked a claim to the starting job. William Paterson is led by WR Brian Lowenstein, who has 24 receptions for 404 yards and six touchdowns.
Bowie State (5-3) at Fayetteville State (7-1)
Site: Luther "Nick" Jaralds Athletic Complex, Fayetteville, N.C.
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Series: Fayetteville leads 11-10-1
Last week: Bowie State idle; Fayetteville beat Johnson C. Smith, 30-6.
Outlook: Bowie runs up against a streaking Fayetteville State team (five straight wins) that has clinched the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Western Division title. Bowie hopes to wrap up the CIAA Eastern Division championship with victories today and next week, meeting Virginia State at home next week. But Fayetteville State has the top scoring offense (29.4 points per game) in the league, along with the No. 1 scoring defense (allowing 12.6 points a game) and is first in the league in total offense (311.5 yards a game).
Westminster (Pa.) (5-2) at Frostburg State (4-3)
Site: Greenway Avenue Stadium, Cumberland
Time: 3 p.m.
Series: Westminster leads 6-1
Last week: Frostburg defeated Ursinus, 35-14; Westminster defeated Grove City (Pa.), 19-7.
Outlook: The Grant Burrough passing show has been moved from Frostburg's Bobcat Stadium to an artificial turf stadium in nearby Cumberland due to the heavy rains and ice storms that hit Frostburg this week. Also, the game will start two hours later because of a scheduling conflict at Greenway Avenue Stadium. Westminster is a first-year Division III school, after winning six national football championships at the NAIA Division II level from 1970 to 1997.