Bears reaching peak in November, final two games look to be pivotal, exciting

The Bears football team hit a school benchmark last week during its win over the Southeastern Louisiana Lions. The win on Saturday gave the Bears their first five-game win streak in the conference since joining the Southland and becoming a Division I Football Championship Subdivision member.
The homecoming game was also an impressive feat for other reasons, including senior quarterback Nathan Dick’s five touchdown passes. What the Bears take out of this game and the lessons they learn from it could be the deciding factor at this pivotal point in the season.
There are only two games left in the season and the race for the playoffs is getting more exciting every week. The thing I see as being the most important for the Bears is to keep this positive momentum rolling. They have left a path of destruction in their wake for the past five weeks, although sometimes it has been a close call or the Bears have had a slow start.
This week I had to ask a burning question to coach Clint Conque. Before I could even finish the question he immediately said, “ain’t looking forward. We are not looking at Texas State. We are all about the Demons.”
While as a journalist, the usual norm for not getting an answer to a question can sometimes bring about some problems, not so with this response from Conque. That simple statement answered so many questions.
The Bears are focused. They want to win and they want to win every week. The past five weeks have shown that. Conque has his team on a regiment that is working wonders despite going without a bye week this season. I agree with Conque. The Bears should be focused on the Demons, but I’m going to look a little ahead just to see some of the possibilities.
The Bears are playing the Texas State Bobcats in Estes Stadium next weekend. The Bears are undefeated this season at home. That is an intimidating fact for any team that walks onto First Security Field. The Bobcats do have a home game before facing us, but they are going into this weekend on a two-game losing streak to Southeastern Louisiana and to Northwestern State. This season, the Bobcats are 2-3 on the road and they are coming into Estes Stadium as the Bears’ last game of the season.
Even though Conque and his team are focused on the Demons, which they should be, I can’t help but look forward and see what the possibilities are. If the Bears can get a win this week, they have a good chance of winning out the season with a seven-game win streak.
Conque and the players over the past few weeks have been rehashing the idea that every game to them is a playoff game, and in reality they should be thinking that because it is. Having that mentality, even before FCS playoff possibilities, will prepare them even more should the best happen.
Taking all of the good things the Bears have had going for them, the first two weeks in November are looking to be exciting.