Note: This is the final installment of conference previews at RFC. To see previous installments of the series, visit http://realfootballcentral.blogspot.com, click on the months of May, June, July, and August under the 2010 portion of the "Blog Archive", and click on the conference preview of your choice.
What it is: The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) ranks among the oldest conferences in the nation, getting its start in 1915. As the name implies, all of the current members of the SCIAC are located in or near Los Angeles. The vast majority of the institutions, in fact, call Los Angeles County home. Of the eight current members, only Cal Tech currently doesn't have a football program.
As hard as it might be to believe, current Pac 10 Conference member UCLA was once a member of the SCIAC, as the Bruins were members from 1920-1927. Also, the clash between USC and UCLA isn't the only rivalry in Southern California, as the game between Occidental and Pomona-Pitzer is one of the oldest rivalries west of the Mississippi River, with the first game being played in 1895.
Website: http://www.thesciac.org/
Predicted order of finish (2009 overall record in parentheses, projected champion in BOLD type)
1. Cal Lutheran (8-2): Ben McEnroe enters his fourth season at the Kingsmen helm. He hopes to coach them to their third SCIAC title in four years.
2. Occidental (7-2): Both of the Tigers losses in 2009 came to eventual D-III playoff teams: Linfield and Cal Lutheran.
3. Redlands (7-2): The Bulldogs have won 28 SCIAC titles all-time, 10 of them in the last 20 years.
4. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (5-4): The Stags enter the 2010 season with a coaching change. Rick Candaele announced his retirement as head coach of August 15. Steve Retzlaff takes over as the interim head coach this fall.
5. Pomona-Pitzer (4-5): The Sagehens are a combined 6-12 over the last two seasons.
6. Whittier (3-6): The Poets haven't had a winning season since 1998, when they finished 7-2 overall, and went unbeaten in the SCIAC at 6-0 en route to the conference championship that year.
7. LaVerne (0-9): There's only one way for the Leopards to leap after a winless season, and that's up.
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