The Bobcats beat the Rams 66:27 in the regular season on 16 October, a scoreline that tells you everything and nothing about the game itself. The margin of 39 points is the kind of result that makes you look for context, but the raw numbers are what matter first.
The Bobcats had been finding their feet recently, with a 63:10 win over the Cardinals and a 49:35 victory against Minnesota sitting alongside three losses. That second loss was particularly telling—7:59 to the Longhorns showed they could still be outclassed. By then they were building something, if not consistency.
The Rams arrived with mixed fortunes. They had beaten the Roadrunners 45:59 and the Thunderbirds 58:24, but their defeats to the Beavers and Cougars suggested vulnerability. Playing the Cougars twice in the same month raises questions about scheduling, though that's not for us to answer here.
What we can say is that the Bobcats got their substitutions spot on if this is how they played. Sixty-six points is not a number you reach by accident, and the Rams did not look like a side that had come to contain an attack of that scale. The wheels came off early, one suspects.
The Bobcats extend their unbeaten run to three games if we count the two wins and the single loss before this one. The Rams drop further behind, though the table does not tell us where yet—there is not enough season played for standings to mean much.
What this means is simple. The Bobcats are now five points clear if we assume the rest of the fixtures balance out, and the Rams are running out of games where they can salvage something. That scoreline does not lie.
