When Crawfordsville and Greencastle, Indiana, found themselves beneath a total eclipse last week, it turned out to be a great time to combine a rare celestial event with a chance to talk with the...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2024/04/16/atn-podcast-352-cant-eclipse-the-monon-bell/
What's next? That's a great question this time of year, and we tackle that big question in a few ways in our January podcast, the first one of 2024. Cortland, now the reigning and defending nat...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2024/01/18/atn-podcast-351-whats-next/
We wrap up another season, here on the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast. Perhaps not as well as the Cortland defense wrapped up Luke Lehnen on the two-point conversion attempt pictured he...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/12/16/atn-podcast-350-wrapping-up-an-amazing-2023/
It's great to be back in Salem covering a Stagg Bowl, and Patrick and Greg and Frank Rossi are here to preview Stagg Bowl with North Central and Cortland. For North Central, it's the fourth tim...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/12/14/atn-podcast-349-were-here-for-stagg-bowl-50/
Just as we expected -- one amazing national semifinal and one blowout. Never mind that people generally thought it would be the other way around -- not our predictions, by the way, which did not ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/12/11/atn-podcast-348-and-then-there-were-two/
Yep, that's correct. You see the colors above, and nary a Purple Power to be found. No more UW-Whitewater, no Mount Union, and of course, none of those other prominent purple powerhouses that fai...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/12/04/atn-podcast-347-no-more-purple/
We used to do this preview podcasts all the time, before life and day jobs interfered. But it's great to get back in the saddle, and do some longer interviews in this edition of the D3football.co...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/11/30/atn-podcast-346-heading-to-the-quarterfinals/
We can't say in any way, shape or form that we called it. But in podcast 343, we did identify Alma as a team that could challenge Mount Union. But when push comes to shove, no, Alma scoring 24 po...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/11/27/atn-podcast-345-well-that-doesnt-happen-every-day/
In our first week of playoffs, the teams that should have been hosting went and won on the road anyway, and while we only had a couple of games go down to the final possession, those were certain...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/11/20/running-down-the-first-round/
Oh man. Back in 2011, Patrick wrote a piece on Selection Sunday morning with the headline "Two-loss teams need not apply," essentially calling out the NCAA football committee for not even con...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/11/13/atn-podcast-343-strength-of-what-exactly/
Since the webhost we use for D3football.com is a bit unloadable again tonight, we crosspost this story to the blog, so hopefully one of these will load for you at any given time. This jumbled mes...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/11/12/our-projected-playoff-bracket/
If you were are hoping your team can get some help in getting into the NCAA playoffs as an at-large team, we got so close to being able to give you what you wanted on Saturday. But in the end, a...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/11/06/atn-podcast-342-no-help-for-the-bubble/
The game between Johns Hopkins and Muhlenberg ended in a pretty epic way on Saturday. So did Belhaven’s unbeaten streak this season, at the hands of Maryville. And a 20-year long streak went by...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/10/30/atn-podcast-341-epic-endings/
The season of regional rankings, mock brackets and things such as Pool C teams is upon us, and how better to get things started than by having a conversation with the chair of the Division III fo...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/10/26/atn-podcast-340-a-chat-with-the-chair/
Greg Thomas starts off this podcast by quoting one of the famous philosophers of our time, and it is true about what point in the season we have reached. If you intend to play in the Stagg Bowl, ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/10/23/atn-podcast-339-halfway-there/
UW-Whitewater and UW-River Falls met in another of the big battles that should determine who goes to the playoffs out of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, whether it's one, two o...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/10/16/atn-podcast-338-midseason-reality-checks/
It seems there can be little doubt that Division III football is at its best on a Saturday afternoon when the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is playing its conference games. They m...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/10/09/atn-podcast-337-when-d-iii-football-is-at-its-best/
W is for Wartburg. W is for Wolverines. And W is for winning. The connection is purely alphabetical, but we know that the top teams had some big wins on Saturday, one for a bell that is little,...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/10/02/atn-336-week-5-is-for-big-ws/
It's not often the outcome of a single game can turn perceptions in Division III on their head, especially a game in September. But last Friday night, Endicott not only defeated No. 5 Hardin-Simm...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/09/25/atn-podcast-335-striking-a-blow-for-new-england/
This week didn't feature five games between Top 25 teams, but as we've known for years in Division III football, that doesn't make it any less thrilling. Out of 116 games, you're going to see...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/09/18/atn-podcast-334-no-less-thrilling-a-week/
It was a fun night for Trinity (Texas) fans in San Antonio, and the same for fans of Eastern on a rainy night in Philadelphia. Oberlin got a losing streak out of the way, King's looks good at 2-0...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/09/11/atn-podcast-333-a-little-fun-under-the-lights/
It really does seem as though the 2023 Division III football season is going to be just like the 2022 version. But with even more games between ranked teams, more nailbiting, more magic. Johnni...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/09/04/atn-podcast-332-right-where-we-left-off/
The 2023 Division III football season is upon us, kicking off on Thursday night, Aug. 31. Birmingham-Southern is one of those teams kicking off on Thursday, and the fact that B-SC is here at all ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/08/29/atn-podcast-331-lets-get-this-party-started/
Teams are in training camps, and if you’re new to Division III football, or awaking from a long slumber, this is a good time to get caught up. Because if you’re coming to Division III for the...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/08/21/atn-podcast-330-what-you-need-to-know-before-week-1/
Nobody at the American Southwest Conference is talking on the record — heck, there basically is nobody at the American Southwest Conference since they showed their commissioner the door, and tw...
We welcome Jace Rindahl of UW-Whitewater, the new 36-year-old head coach who was playing linebacker for the Warhawks so recently that he was the 2008 D3football.com Defensive Player of the Year. ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/03/31/atn-podcast-328-looking-ahead/
This upcoming 2023 football season will have just four at-large bids. It's getting harder and harder to make the NCAA Division III football playoffs as an at-large team, there's no denying it. Be...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2023/02/20/atn-podcast-327-how-do-we-fix-the-playoffs/
And just like that, the 2022 season, arguably the greatest season in NCAA Division III football history, is in the books. But before the podcast goes into offseason mode and becomes a monthly sho...
The Stagg Bowl comes around holiday time and really is the most wonderful time of the year. It's the time when you can't duck questions any longer, and we talk with both head coaches and offensiv...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/12/16/atn-podcast-325-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/
It's No. 1 vs. No. 2, just as everyone expected, as North Central and Mount Union advance to play in Stagg Bowl XLIX in Annapolis. While this is a rematch of teams that played in the second round...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/12/12/atn-podcast-324-the-road-to-annapolis-is-complete/
No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 12 are the four teams left in contention for a trip to Annapolis, Maryland, for Stagg Bowl XLIX. Mary Hardin-Baylor took down Bethel with a fourth-quarter surge, while...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/12/04/atn-podcast-323-down-to-a-fantastic-four/
The entertainment in the 2022 Division III playoff bracket continued into the second round, and then reverberated throughout social media on Sunday afternoon and evening. That’s when the Divisi...
We asked out loud how the Division III football playoff bracket could possibly live up to the 11-week regular season. Are you not entertained? Sure, every first round has its share of blowout...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/11/21/atn-321-seasons-craziness-continues-in-first-round/
The 2022 Division III playoff bracket is out, and we ask our usual questions: What did the committee get right here? What did they get wrong? Who got the toughest road to the Stagg Bowl? What are...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/11/14/atn-podcast-320-bubbles-burst-and-the-berea-boink/
Sure, that might not be the sexiest title for a podcast episode, but it’s important. We got a good 45 minutes with the Division III football national committee chair, subjected him to our quest...
Another week of thrilling games leaves us able to practically smell the NCAA Division III football playoffs. But while `nearly half of the 27 automatic bids to the 32-team playoff field have alre...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/11/07/atn-podcast-318-a-muddy-playoff-picture/
This post was re-uploaded on Nov. 3 after a site crash. It was originally posted Oct. 31. Susquehanna stops the two-point conversion for the final time with 49 seconds remaining and the River H...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/11/03/atn-podcast-317-the-most-entertaining-season/
Some things we can't seem to avoid talking about every week this season: The Cortaca Jug game in Yankee Stadium The University of Wisconsin-Platteville This week, Platteville made headlines ...
We talk about all six regions, multiple times, in each D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, For example, this week, who's lookin' alive in Region 5? Ripon is lookin' quite alive as the Red...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/10/17/atn-podcast-315-lookin-alive-in-the-5/
Spoiled. We are just spoiled this season by the great games in Division III football. There's not much more we can say. The span on Saturday afternoon in which all three games pictured here: Birm...
Well, folks, Keith McMillan has had enough, and after 30 or so podcasts on the sidelines, with Greg Thomas co-hosting, he’s back and ready to throw down. Ready to throw down about the Top 25 po...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/10/03/atn-podcast-313-all-about-the-no-1-votes/
Unexpected realizations that if Bethel had had its No. 1 quarterback healthy and won in Week 2 at UW-Platteville, perhaps we'd be in a position where someone might have given Bethel ... a No. 1 v...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/09/26/atn-podcast-312-two-big-games-one-classic/
In a week where some of us didn't really expect any upsets, instead we got a couple of big ones, where Loras got two shots at a last-second field goal to beat Central, and Case throttled Washingt...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/09/19/atn-podcast-311-breaking-through-to-the-other-side/
Most years it seems as though our first couple of weeks of the season are filled with top teams pasting teams that are clearly overmatched. And while we've still had some of that in 2022, this al...
Yeah, this was a fun first week of the Division III football season, as we were treated to a Top Five showdown right out of the gate, another matchup of national semifinal teams and much more. ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/09/05/atn-podcast-309-off-to-a-fun-start/
We're getting ready to kick it all off with the first week of Division III football games for 2022 this weekend, and this week's podcast takes you around to the big stories and big things we're w...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/09/01/atn-podcast-308-best-things-to-watch-in-2022/
Teams are in camp, with the first games coming in just 10 days, on Sept. 1! And while it is definitely too early to talk about this year's playoff bubble, we decided to visit with two of last yea...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/08/21/atn-podcast-307-in-camp-and-ready-to-rock/
This month’s podcast finishes our offseason series of conversations with new coaches at Division III playoff contenders, and we get to Podcast 306, where we talk to Carnegie Mellon head coach R...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/07/18/atn-podcast-306-from-columbia-to-division-iii/
Wittenberg played in the Stagg Bowl four times in the 1970s, winning two of them. One of those wins was against Ithaca, which played in four of the first eight Stagg Bowls and has played in seven...
Pat and Greg chat with Nate Milne, Muhlenberg's head coach, about his team's recent trip to Spain, as well as new UW-Oshkosh head coach Peter Jennings. Also on the docket: which conferences will ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/05/26/atn-podcast-304-mules-in-spain-meeting-peter-jennings/
We're continuing our offseason series diving into interviews with new coaches at Division III football powers, as we check in with Larry Harmon, the new head coach of the defending national champ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2022/04/29/atn-podcast-303-new-umhb-coach-scheduling-big-sos/
Pat Coleman stopped by in Naperville, Illinois, on a recent Division III basketball road trip and checked in on new North Central coach Brad Spencer. Spencer had been in the job for six weeks, bu...
If it seems like there is always something important about Division III football being voted on at the NCAA convention, well, we think you’re probably correct. This year, there is a significant...
It was great to have a 2021 Division III football season to have a podcast about, and since the 300th podcast fell right at the end of the season, we celebrate by bringing back an old favorite �...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/12/18/atn-podcast-300-players-of-the-year/
Oh, heck yeah -- we have one of those nice new Stagg Bowl venues with a nice new stadium smell. And no, we were never going to get 23,000 people to attend this game, but having it played in a big...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/12/17/atn-podcast-299-welcome-to-canton/
We get a new, never-before-seen matchup in the Stagg Bowl, and that's something to be excited about. In the latest edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast, Pat and Greg break down...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/12/13/atn-podcast-298-breaking-down-the-semifinals/
This is not perceived slight. This is actual, honest-to-goodness, true, verifiable slight. Near the beginning of our podcast season we had some audio Jeff Thorne said to his players on the fiel...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/12/06/atn-podcast-297-champs-with-a-chip-on-their-shoulder/
In 2019 the second round of the Division III playoffs featured a number of blowouts, and this year, yes, there were two big wins, perhaps not coincidentally by the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in our To...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/11/29/atn-podcast-296-a-new-era-of-parity/
If the committee doesn't do its due diligence to make sure it is giving the teams that have the best criteria home games in the playoffs, but the teams that benefited from this mistake ended up l...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/11/22/atn-podcast-295-how-upset-can-we-get/
Now we know who is in and who is out, and unless you are a Hardin-Simmons fan, there might not be a lot to complain about with this bracket. Yes, we thought the Cowboys would be in, and surely ma...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/11/15/atn-podcast-294-the-one-with-the-bracket/
We handed out 15 more automatic bids on Saturday, for a total of 16, and there were a number of games with big results to keep an eye on. So we break it down for you, fellas -- the big game in th...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/11/08/atn-podcast-293-all-the-playoff-ramifications/
Key games in the Centennial and Liberty League didn't finalize those conference chases. But with 27 automatic bids to a field of 32 playoff teams, we have one team which has clinched so far. That...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/11/01/atn-podcast-292-conference-races-down-to-wire/
We have no idea who the leader of the PAC is right now. None. If you have four leaders, you don’t have any — at least, that would be the coach speak version of the answer. We can’t fully cl...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/10/25/atn-podcast-291-bad-break-for-sju-tough-loss-for-wj/
Regional rankings are coming soon! Usually this would be a great time of year, but this time around, it's going to be more than a little confusing. These sorts of things are handled in the same m...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/10/22/bonus-podcast-youll-see-a-change-in-regional-rankings/
You gotta feel for the guy. Taking a knee instead of spiking the ball is not something that Colin Schuetz invented; heck, a current NFL starting quarterback did the same thing in college. But it'...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/10/18/after-the-mistake-after-the-upset/
We got a little clarification in some conferences. We had celebrations of some big wins. And we got separation -- or at least, some key players did. Week 6 of the 2021 Division III football sea...
Week 5 was witness to a number of key battles, both inside and outside of the Top 25, and if you're living life in the fast lane, you hopes for making the postseason may be already gone in the lo...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/10/04/atn-podcast-288-close-calls-from-week-5/
There were a lot of eyes on the big game of Saturday night between Mary Hardin-Baylor and Hardin-Simmons, and we talk plenty about that game, its breakout star, the aftermath and the implications...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/09/27/atn-podcast-287-classic-comebacks/
From bell reality to poll potential, there’s a lot to talk about in this week’s podcast. First off, you can hear exactly what North Central coach Jeff Thorne had to say about a lack of respec...
We got our first look at the defending national champions this past week, and against a ranked team as well. What do the Cardinals look like? Greg Thomas has his take, and it's bad news for the r...
If you have gone 650-some days between games, you can be expected to be happy, and you can be excused for being a little bit emotional as well. And when that long break culminates in a big win, w...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/09/06/atn-podcast-284-both-happy-and-emotional/
First of all, it's official: We're back. And secondly, Pat and Greg have a confession to make, perhaps some news to break about who is the No. 1 team on their preseason ballots. Meanwhile, for ma...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/09/01/atn-podcast-283-back-after-long-layoff/
At the time this episode drops, Wesley was scheduled to play one last time this upcoming weekend. It's not exactly a fitting end for a proud Division III football program, but in this 2020-21 sea...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/04/14/atn-podcast-282-wesley-memories/
There is so much here to talk about as we are midway through March in Division III football, and one of the things that Division III football coaches are pointing to right now is how all of the o...
The first-ever February football in Division III is in the books, and Pat and Keith are here to hand out game balls and talk about the goings-on. Coaches were getting a bit of a breather in the f...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/02/28/atn-podcast-280-return-of-game-balls/
We are mere weeks away from getting games in this Division III football spring season, with nine games slated to go on Feb. 6. And one Division III prospect is getting his crack at the NFL this m...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2021/01/18/atn-podcast-279-on-the-move/
Four teams are playing games in October and all four were supposed to be playing within a few miles of each other last Saturday, Of course, Because Of The Pandemic, that didn't exactly happen. Bl...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/10/23/atn-podcast-278-octobers-classics/
This eternal offseason is destined to continue, but even into mid-August, things move so quickly that conferences, and individual schools which had been sure they were going to play football game...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/08/13/atn-podcast-277-the-teams-left-standing/
With the fall championship all but called off, schools that haven't called off their fall sports already will probably be doing so soon, and those who are looking to potentially play football in ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/07/22/atn-podcast-276-running-toward-the-spring/
In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, we held off on our May podcast episode. Whatever we had planned would not stand up to what the country was going through, and as many podcasts ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/06/25/atn-podcast-275-a-time-to-listen/
Will we see games this fall, or spring? Did D-III players miss out on their NFL chances because of the pandemic? Will all of our schools even open this fall? How does one coach on Zoom? All this ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/04/30/atn-podcast-274-who-knows-whats-next/
The fields will stand empty this spring, as college campuses across the country are devoid of student and athlete alike. The Division III football spring practice will be even more non-existent t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/03/29/atn-podcast-273-a-silent-spring/
Keith starts off this podcast by saying, "I think we are sitting on the best offseason podcast in Around the Nation history." And if you care about Division III players in the NFL, or headed to t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/02/26/atn-podcast-272-d-iiis-road-to-the-nfl/
The announcements of the departure of Vince Kehres and Larry Kehres from the Mount Union football program and athletic department are easily the most impactful news stories of the young 2020 seas...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2020/01/21/atn-podcast-271-the-post-kehres-world/
In other Division III sports, we often get to see schools experience the national championship event for the first time, and often get to see them come away a winner. In football, however, we hav...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/21/atn-podcast-270-crowning-a-new-champion/
Welcome to Championship Friday! The national championship feels like an occasion to not just make our Hits a little less Quick, but also bring in some additional experts to give their takes on St...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/20/quick-hits-predictions-for-stagg-bowl-xlvii/
This was the scene on Thursday afternoon as they were still painting the end zones in advance of Friday night's Stagg Bowl. Pat and Keith are here to get you ready for the game as well, and they'...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/19/atn-podcast-269-the-finishing-touches/
There were picks early in the game in Allentown, and late in the game in Whitewater, as North Central and UW-Whitewater booked their tickets to Shenandoah by winning their national semifinals and...
One thing we can predict with certainty- history will be made in these semifinals. North Central or Muhlenberg will reach their first Stagg Bowl. In the second semifinal, one titan of Divisio...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/13/quick-hits-predicting-the-semifinals-2/
We have two great games to be played on Saturday, with four teams who have never been to Shenandoah, with no players who have ever played in the Stagg Bowl, and with one program guaranteed to pla...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/13/atn-podcast-267-the-semifinals-are-here/
Muhlenberg shuts down Salisbury, UW-Whitewater runs past Mary Hardin-Baylor, North Central avoids a letdown against Delaware Valley and St. John’s survives a crazy ending at Wheaton. That’s t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/09/atn-podcast-266-on-to-the-final-four/
Eight teams remain in the chase for the Walnut and Bronze and those eight teams are ranked 2-9 in our Top 25. Maybe the best quarterfinal round ever? Our panelists predict winners and bring back ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/06/quick-hits-predicts-the-quarterfinals/
We're on to the third round of the playoffs, and it's a round that looks a little less purple, a little more wide-open, and has a lot less for people to complain about. Will any of the games be ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/06/atn-podcast-265-a-new-look-quarterfinals/
Highlights, reaction and analysis from across all parts of the bracket are what you find in this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast. That includes North Central coach Jeff Th...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/12/02/atn-podcast-264-the-one-with-the-second-round-shocker/
This week our panel gets you ready for all eight second round games by predicting not just winners, but final scores. Curious which games will be close? Or where to find a high scoring shootout? ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/29/quick-hits-predicts-the-second-round/
The first round of games was much more than just a preliminary, more than the appetizer to the meat and potatoes we get in round two. But that next round in our five-course meal is the second rou...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/28/atn-podcast-263-get-out-of-the-turkey-coma-right-now/
That was a pretty great first round, not gonna lie. A Top 10 team nearly went down in the first round, one team came back from 18 down and another from 24, plus two games went to overtime -- one ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/24/atn-podcast-262-the-one-with-two-overtime-games/
The story goes, one day on a long ride to a playoff game at Thiel (which tells you how long ago this happened), Pat and Keith decided to pass the time by guessing not just the winner of each firs...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/22/quick-hits-predicts-the-first-round-scores/
The games are here! We've got 16 games on Saturday that will get us started on the road to Shenandoah, Texas, where the Stagg Bowl will be held one more time this year before it moves to Canton, ...
We finally have a bracket, the bracket, the one with the 32 teams on the road to the Stagg Bowl. While folks associated with John Carroll and Susquehanna don't understand why they aren't continui...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/18/atn-podcast-260-the-one-with-the-bracket/
It's last call for the NCAA tournament this week as the final six Pool A bids will be decided. No Pool B bids this year, but there are plenty of Bowls and Bells to go around. Which games influenc...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/15/quick-hits-week-11-easy-as-a-b-c/
Alright, folks -- we're down to one week, 112 games and lurking out there in the final game of the night on Saturday is UW-Oshkosh, which can play chaos agent. If the Titans -- or perhaps we shou...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/15/atn-podcast-259-eleven-bids-to-go/
That's how dark it was in Spokane, Washington, when Linfield and Whitworth were playing in overtime. That's just one of several intriguing storylines from Saturday, including the way the Central-...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/11/atn-podcast-258-the-one-with-mass-hysteria/
We’ve reached the penultimate week of the regular season which means games with major Pool C implications, games that will decide conference champions, and a lot of teams playing the game befor...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/08/quick-hits-week-10-its-bid-clinching-season/
This is where stuff gets tight. We already have some of our traditional season-ending rivalry games going on this weekend (Bronze Turkey, The Drum, Amherst-Williams) and the chase for the Walnut ...
We expected some great games. Some of the great games were unexpected. And if your team is 3-5, you might well get some mention in this podcast, even if you're not Concordia-Moorhead. Didn't we t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/04/atn-podcast-256-the-one-with-the-top-25-on-fire/
It is a huge weekend in the East region with a pair of high profile clashes amongst conference unbeatens. Our panel tackles the Empire 8 and Liberty League showdowns as well as letting you know w...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/01/quick-hits-week-9-in-a-new-york-state-of-mind/
The final few weeks of the regular season get started, well, now, as we have key showdowns in the state of New York, and Iowa, and Pennsylvania, among others. Plus, if you are looking for a bette...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/11/01/atn-podcast-255-the-one-with-november/
Lots of eyes on this game. Lots of views on Twitter videos. Lots of people tying to knock down Mary Hardin-Baylor's game-winning field goal. It's great that we live in an era when we can see ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/28/atn-podcast-254-the-one-with-the-field-goal/
This week's main event features a top 25 showdown in Belton with major ASC and playoff implications. Our panel has thoughts on that one, which other top 25 teams have spooky matchups, and which o...
Looking at big games in Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia and Delaware, plus predictions on games from all across the map as we get you set for Week 8 of the 2019 Division III football season....
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/25/atn-podcast-253-getting-us-ready-for-week-8/
One of Saturday's big games was well-known, well-promoted, and lived up to the hype of 19,508 fans. The other was played in front of a little bit fewer people, and was hardly predicted. So when t...
This week our Quick Hits panel delivers takes on Johnnie-Tommie, of course, but also points out upsets brewing out east, undefeated runs coming to an end, and which teams are going to go home vi...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/18/quick-hits-week-7-all-eyes-on-minnesota/
There's a big game between huge rivals going on in Minnesota this weekend, but also another 115 games in Division III, including a battle of unbeatens in the NESCAC. We're going to give about the...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/18/atn-podcast-251-everyone-learns-to-pronounce-allianz/
Yes, this is podcast No. 250. At this point, the milestones come fairly frequently, so we won't bore regular listeners with too many old clips or stories about strange places we've recorded this ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/14/atn-podcast-250-the-one-with-the-milestone/
Week 6 features key games at the top of the MIAC, NJAC, PAC, SAA, and SCIAC. Not every team is playing for control of their league, and our panel also takes a look at teams likely to get their se...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/11/quick-hits-week-6-where-the-rubber-meets-the-road/
This was shaping up to be a perfectly normal week with awesome Division III football games, and then the news broke, that UMHB was being told it had to give up the 2016 Division III football nati...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/11/atn-podcast-249-the-one-with-the-cru-reaction/
We've often said in the course of writing about and covering Division III that you can find everything in Division III. That is definitely true in football, where when you have more than 110 game...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/07/atn-podcast-248-the-one-with-fourth-quarter-comebacks/
Our Quick Hits panel is back with (Little Brass) bells on to get you ready for the second month of the season. This week we're looking at big games in the Liberty League and the MIAA, who is circ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/04/quick-hits-week-5-ringing-in-october/
There are lots of teams in Division III which you have questions about, and you're not alone. We have the same questions about a handful of teams, and in this edition of the D3football.com Around...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/10/04/atn-podcast-247-the-one-with-buy-or-sell/
We come through the first month of the 2019 NCAA Division III season with a significant number of teams which are unbeaten, but not ranked. We hardly have time to talk about them all, but we’ll...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/30/atn-podcast-246-the-one-with-all-the-unbeatens/
This week the panel looks at a top-12 clash in the OAC, some big games down south, and which teams are poised to get their first win of 2019. Our regular crew is Keith McMillan, Ryan Tipps, Pat C...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/27/quick-hits-week-4-cracking-the-win-column/
North, South, East and West, we'll be looking for great games to come out of the woodwork. Nothing is going to stack up to the awesomeness that was Week 3, but whenever you feel like a week doe...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/27/atn-podcast-245-the-one-with-the-woodwork/
It was a strong day of games when we had our noon kickoffs, and it got even better by 7:00. Then when the 10 p.m. games kicked off, and heated up, and ended up in upsets, we knew we had just witn...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/22/atn-podcast-244-the-one-with-the-upsets-after-dark/
This week our panel has their eyes on a pair of Top 25 games to start CCIW play, another key conference opener down south, and a crossover challenge as non-conference play across the country wind...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/20/quick-hits-week-3-conference-clashes-and-crossovers/
This week is the last gasp of non-conference play for some schools, where the Northwest and SoCal will be battling it out all down the line, and the MIAA and NACC will be doing so as well. Plus c...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/20/atn-podcast-243-one-with-all-the-mascots/
With Keith McMillan on assignment this week, it was left to Pat Coleman to find a new co-host. No small task, perhaps, to find someone to sit in for the guys who wrote more than 100 Around the Na...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/15/atn-podcast-242-the-one-with-guest-host-jim-catanzaro/
We nearly had to break the glass and bring out our emergency guest host, but eventually Keith McMillan awoke from his short fall's nap and joined Pat Coleman for another edition of the podcast. ...
This week we've got our eyes on two big games featuring midwestern Titans, plenty of contests with titanic travel, a throwback Texas showdown, and a huge game between East region powers. The po...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/13/quick-hits-week-2-titanic-games-on-tap/
When you have actual football games to base opinions off of, rather than just what you see or know on paper, your preconceived notions get challenged, rewritten, or perhaps affirmed. And for Pat ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/09/atn-podcast-240-the-one-with-all-the-surprises/
Welcome to Quick Hits 2019! If you’ve just discovered us, this is where we get together six Division III writers and observers to give you their takes on where the best games are each week, whi...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/05/quick-hits-week-1-ready-set-go/
If you are new to Division III football with the start of the season, welcome. If you are new to this podcast, welcome. If you are a longtime listener, hey, you're welcome as well and it's nice t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/09/05/atn-podcast-239-the-one-with-actual-games/
The podcast is back! It almost wasn't, as Pat Coleman explains. And just when you think you have D-III figured out, you have teams jumping conferences, conferences dumping teams and conferences w...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/08/30/atn-podcast-238-time-to-get-going/
If you're Muhlenberg, coming off a trip to the national quarterfinals with very few seniors, there's a lot to make noise about, and meanwhile, there's a lot of reason that St. Thomas and the MIAC...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/05/22/atn-podcast-237-plenty-shout-about/
Bet you thought we forgot. No, spring is here, spring practice is underway in many places and yes, there is/was a March podcast.This month we start looking forward at the 2019 Division III footba...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/03/31/atn-podcast-236-spring-just-in-under-the-wire/
We're joined this month by new Aurora coach Don Beebe, whom you might better know as a former NFL player, one who played in six Super Bowls and provided a quite memorable highlight in one of them...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/02/28/atn-podcast-235-doing-right-doing-wrong-doing-new/
We're all still generally in the aftermath of the 2018 Division III football season, and we talk with three people who are in that realm as well. Our offseason podcasts typically include three lo...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2019/01/24/around-the-nation-podcast-234-the-aftermath/
The 44th D3football.com Around the Nation podcast of the calendar year is the one in which we get to talk about Stagg Bowl XLVI, the 24-16 win by Mary Hardin-Baylor, and discuss the postseason aw...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/12/15/around-the-nation-podcast-233-wrapping-up-2018/
We have one game left, and we are beyond quick predictions, and beyond six predictions at that. So for the big game, we bring out a couple more experts, and we give everyone a couple hundred word...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/12/14/quick-hits-predictions-for-stagg-bowl-xlvi/
The crew is all in place for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, and Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan are joined by Frank Rossi and Greg Thomas. (Adam Turer was in a big old jet airliner.) We'll get you u...
Same faces in a new place, as Mount Union and Mary Hardin-Baylor will head down to Shenandoah, Texas, this week. Keith was in Alliance and Pat was in Belton to cover the semifinals and give their...
With three Purple Powers and the newcomers in blue, we have a slightly different look to our national semifinals. Or, if you prefer, playing the role of the Wesley Wolverines in this year's Week ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/12/07/quick-hits-predicting-the-semifinals/
Staggered starts! One game at noon, the other at 3:30! Replay! Video review! That's what the semifinals are all about. In both of them, we have teams which have met before. In the case of Mary Ha...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/12/07/around-the-podcast-230-down-to-the-final-four/
Whether pounding the rock, running a non-wildcat, throwing deep down the field or just being what we thought you were, there's a storyline for each game on Saturday. Jackson Erdmann finishes the ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/12/03/around-the-nation-podcast-229-gutting-it-out/
We're down to four games, so it's time to bring a little commentary back -- here's our take on the national quarterfinal games, with, perhaps, something resembling explanation. The post Quick H...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/30/quick-hits-we-predict-the-quarterfinals/
We've got one national semifi... no, sorry, four national quarterfinals, and we think three of them are shaping up to be pretty good, as RPI can certainly hold its own against Johns Hopkins, UW-W...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/30/around-the-nation-podcast-228-down-to-four-games/
Well, how about that, with RPI getting a big upset win, and Johns Hopkins getting a large win to send Frostburg to Division II on, and St. Norbert giving a valiant effort and Mount Union looking ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/26/around-the-nation-podcast-227-no-place-like-home/
Eight games times six people leaves 48 predictions, and the result is not unanimous. The post Quick Hits: Our crew predicts the second round appeared first on D3football.com .
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/23/quick-hits-our-crew-predicts-the-second-round/
Sixteen teams play eight games over a course of four hours on Saturday, in the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. And we should be in line for some great games, now that we've gotten...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/23/around-the-nation-podcast-226-four-hours-eight-games/
Keith McMillan pleaded for a first round of the playoffs that didn't stink. And he got it, if nothing else, because his alma mater, Randolph-Macon, upset John Carroll. Now, your mileage may have...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/19/around-the-nation-podcast-225-just-good-enough/
Keith McMillan, Ryan Tipps, Pat Coleman, Adam Turer, Frank Rossi and Greg Thomas each take their guesses at scores for each first-round game. Plus, we have Logan Hansen's odds to advance and at t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/16/quick-hits-predicting-the-first-round-scores/
If the second round of the playoffs is your big turkey dinner with all the trimmings and every side you could want, then the first round is like that tray of vegetables and dip that you end up ni...
That line up top is what the national committee chair told us when talking about new restrictions on travel for the NCAA playoffs, as the NCAA clawed back one of the first-round flights the commi...
This is it -- the last regular-season weekend of the season. Maybe there's snow on the ground where you are. Maybe you have a bitter rival coming to town and an epic tailgate with old friends -- ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/09/quick-hits-all-the-marbles/
Often this time of year we do a projected Division III NCAA Tournament field, but this year we're so busy making podcasts that we didn't do one. Instead, Pat and Keith are doing both at the same ...
The number of teams in the tournament now is up to 13 teams which have clinched automatic bid to the 2018 Division III playoffs. But even though some parts of the Division III playoff picture got...
We detail in the game day podcast how many teams might clinch on Saturday. Here our crew will tackle the game of the week, potential upsets, and tell you who might clinch today aside from, say, M...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/02/quick-hits-clinching-time/
This is where we get to crunch time. We could hand out as many as 15 of the 23 remaining automatic bids to the NCAA Division III playoffs on Saturday, and so you can follow along, we go through e...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/11/02/around-the-nation-podcast-220-saturdays-scenarios/
The first set of regional rankings came out on Wednesday, and our team went through all four regions and looked to see what made sense and what was out of place. You see, the first regional ranki...
Yep, three teams have clinched their automatic bids to the NCAA Division III football playoffs, with 23 more to go, plus five true at-large bids. And it's those at-large bids which will receive a...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/29/around-the-nation-218-the-bid-clinching-has-begun/
Week 9 this year is too early for anyone to clinch a bid to the playoffs, but those days are coming, and a couple of the games that will be key in deciding automatic bids are being played this we...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/26/quick-hits-whats-left-to-do-lots/
Our Friday podcast is our game day special, the one you listen to when you know to know everything about the upcoming week's games. Pat and guest co-host Frank Rossi of In the Huddle go through a...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/26/around-the-nation-podcast-not-who-you-think/
Are you new to Division III football? Is your team in playoff contention for the first time in a while? Are you a coach of a team which hopes to be in the playoffs someday? Or do you feel like yo...
Well, there were some interesting losses and some unexpectedly narrow wins on Saturday. While that didn't change the playoff picture as much as it changed the Top 25, there were still some key ch...
Eagles, Cardinals -- perhaps not more fierce than Bears or ... more Bears, I suppose. But those are the focus this week in Week 8 of the 2018 Division III football season. The post Quick Hits...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/19/quick-hits-for-the-birds/
Our Friday podcast is our game day special, the one you listen to when you know to know everything about the upcoming week's games. Pat and Keith go through a half-dozen big games, then a half-do...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/19/around-the-nation-podcast-214-staying-high-and-dry/
Every Sunday night we take questions from listeners and followers on Twitter with the intent of answering the best one on the Monday podcast. When listeners turn around and give us 10 additional ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/16/around-the-nation-podcast-213-taking-your-questions/
The Johnnie-Tommie game definitely fits the bill of someone taking down the big dog, and so does WashU's win vs. Wheaton. Both get a good amount of discussion, especially with the state of the CC...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/15/around-the-nation-podcast-212-taking-down-the-big-dog/
In addition to the big game between St. Thomas and St. John's, there are lots of other key games, including one at the other end of the rankings. That's where Earlham, which has lost 49 consecuti...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/12/quick-hits-week-7-eyes-on-the-rivalry-and-the-streak/
This weekend's key games include one game for first place, and a bunch of games that could help determine who remains in the playoff hunt. And now, heading into Week 7, there's just enough reason...
A weekend of big games begged the question for D3football.com Top 25 voters as to which team should be No. 1. While there are 19 voters who picked Team Alliance Purple as No. 1, there are now six...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/08/around-the-nation-podcast-210-who-should-be-no-1/
It's hump week in Division III football: five weeks down, and five weeks remaining after this one. Does it feel like a Wednesday to you? If so, it can only be the best Wednesday ever! Here's our ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/05/quick-hits-reaching-the-midway-point/
There are six huge games between ranked teams (or ranked teams and unbeaten teams) this week, and this is a week Pat will be on the road, as he is heading out to Los Angeles to see a pair of game...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/05/around-the-nation-podcast-209-a-big-six-for-week-6/
We love a gutsy call. Sure, our job isn't being put on the line when a coach makes the decision to go for two at the end of a key game, but this is Division III -- the coach's job isn't really on...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/10/01/around-the-nation-podcast-208-going-for-2/
Little Brass Bells will be ringing this week, in the eyes and ears of our panel. In a week of big games, that rivalry is the biggest for our panel. The post Quick Hits Week 5: Quick hats appea...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/28/quick-hits-week-5-quick-hats/
While the rest of you were no doubt glued to C-SPAN or your news network of choice to watch a certain hearing of sorts from Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Pat and Keith were listening to a certain...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/28/around-the-nation-podcast-207-freds-back/
We could spend a lot of time talking about the Mount Union-John Carroll game, and all of its ramifications -- so we'll do that. For a while, for sure. But there were plenty of other games of note...
The crew is picking the Cougars to make some noise this week, as well as the Colonels, while everyone has their eyes on the clash in the OAC. The post Quick Hits Week 4: Unleashing the Cougar...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/21/quick-hits-week-4-unleashing-the-cougars/
There could be even more blowouts than usual in the Week 4 Top 25 schedule, so we're hoping for perhaps a couple of surprises, as well as a great showdown between No. 1 Mount Union and No. 15 Joh...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/21/atn-podcast-205-something-unexpected-in-week-4/
It was a surprising win for Misericordia, a surprising comeback for Thomas More. There were some great defensive performances and there was some good kicking as well. Yes, we can give a kicker or...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/17/atn-podcast-204-now-that-was-surprising/
It's been such a long week in Division III football, but game day is finally here. (Apologies to Guilford, Catholic and Randolph-Macon.) Our regular crew for picking games is Keith McMillan, Ryan...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/14/quick-hits-week-3-please-stay/
There's rain going on in the southern Mid-Atlantic Region, and that has cancelled games, postponed games and forced games to move up. But there's also a discussion about heat and humidity in one ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/14/atn-podcast-203-feeling-the-heat-in-week-3/
It was a struggle for UW-Oshkosh to get anything going on offense on Saturday, and in light of that, it's a struggle for Top 25 voters. What do you do with a team which lost to a Division II oppo...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/10/atn-podcast-202-struggle/
Thirty-one teams didn’t start their season with the rest of us last week, and while 10 of those are from the NESCAC and would just never play in Week 1 and one was Occidental, which played a ga...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/07/quick-hits-welcome-to-the-season/
Week 2 is here, and Pat and Keith are ready to tackle it. It starts with three Top 10 teams who are taking the field for the first time this season, and for one in particular, No. 2 Mary Hardin-B...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/07/atn-podcast-201-big-names-take-the-field/
We are getting back into the flow in the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. This is the 200th edition of this podcast, entering its 12th season, and Pat and Keith use it to run down the We...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/09/03/atn-podcast-200-what-people-dont-want-to-admit/
Quick Hits returns for the 2018 season! If you’re new to Division III football or D3football.com, this is our weekly predictions page. We assemble a crew of a half-dozen Division III football w...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/08/30/quick-hits-welcome-to-2018/
Pat and Keith open the August podcast with some really big news about the future of the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. It's probably considered good news for people who like the podcas...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/08/29/atn-podcast-199-whats-coming-in-week-1/
This is really the end of the offseason, right here. Kickoff is out in a week-plus and training camps open at the same time. Coaches are taking the last days off until November, and we're talking...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/07/29/trying-break-through/
The month of June is the last month of serious offseason. By the time we get to the end of July, our Top 25 and preseason All-America teams are out and you can throw away those magazines that giv...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/06/30/atn-podcast-197-getting-through-the-dog-days/
It was shocking to hear the news come out on Monday afternoon that Wesley football coach Mike Drass, just 57 years old, had died. And while Pat and Keith add their condolences to the outpouring o...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/05/15/atn-podcast-196-remembering-mike-drass/
With Pat Coleman in the midwest and Keith McMillan on the east coast, our podcasters don't often have the opportunity to meet in person and record an interview, let alone an entire podcast, but t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/05/14/atn-podcast-195-face-to-face/
At the end of an April with a lot of Division III news, we're hoping for some even bigger news -- an NFL draft pick. Those don't come every year in D-III, but Wesley offensive lineman Matthew Gon...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/04/20/atn-podcast-194-beating-the-odds/
On this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, we chat with new Washington & Lee coach Garrett LeRose (@coachlerose on Twitter) about taking over the position as a 2007 grad o...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/03/26/atn-podcast-193-spring-is-here/
On this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, we're talking with three head coaches who are now through that first year and ready to re-evaluate. We chat with Dan Swanstrom of ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/02/25/atn-podcast-192-back-for-a-second-year/
Here's a preview of our February podcast, plus an outtake from one of our interviews. We're chatting with Ithaca coach Dan Swanstrom, Northwestern (Minn.) coach Matt Moore and Baldwin Wallace coa...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/02/24/february-podcast-preview/
To wrap up January, we talked with Wooster offensive lineman Patrick Mohorcic, the captain of the AFCA's Good Works team, about his work combating violence against women, Wooster's challenging se...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2018/01/28/atn-podcast-191-breakout-teams-big-stage/
Pat and Keith, Adam Turer and Frank Rossi and the D3football.com crew were joined by guests who could talk about the long history of the Stagg Bowl in Salem, Virginia, former NCAA liaison Wayne B...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/16/atn-podcast-190-a-farewell-to-2017-and-salem/
We have one game left, and somehow it seems that six predictions, and quick ones, are no longer appropriate. So we bring out a couple more experts, and we give everyone a couple hundred words to ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/14/quick-hits-predicts-stagg-bowl-xlv/
Wait, a podcast on a Thursday? Yep, that's right -- Pat Coleman and guest analyst Frank Rossi step up to the mic in Salem for a special edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast foc...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/14/atn-podcast-189-day-before-stagg-bowl/
We're pretty sure you already know what this podcast is about: two teams left, two epic performances, one in the comeback from 25 points down in 24 minutes and the other being another stifling de...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/11/atn-podcast-188-and-then-there-were-two/
Well, we've spent this past week talking about these games, envisioning what these semifinals look like and now it's time to get down to the finish and tell you how the games will go. Hopefully w...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/08/the-quick-hits-takes-on-the-semifinals/
Quarterfinals week -- or semifinals, if you're already looking ahead, is part of a nutritious Division III diet. Whether it's a last-second field goal, an unexpectedly expected quarterback change...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/04/atn-podcast-187-last-gasps-kicks-picks/
We're down to four games, so it's time to bring a little commentary back -- here's our take on the national quarterfinal games, with, perhaps, something resembling explanation. The post Quick H...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/12/01/quick-hits-predicting-the-quarterfinals/
OK, yes, this second round of the playoffs was bad, in an epic way. No doubt. How bad? We'll talk about that, for sure. But that doesn't mean there isn't anything we can learn from this week's po...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/27/atn-podcast-186-blowing-it-all-out/
After an entertaining, but difficult-to-predict first round, our crew is back to give it another shot. So, we look at all eight second-round games and predict the final scre Do we expect a close ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/24/quick-hits-take-on-second-round-scores/
Yes, two top 10 teams are eliminated who should have had a better chance to advance into the second round, and it's crazy that we have to wait until Sundays to find out who is hosting each round ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/20/atn-podcast-185-fun-first-round-for-starters/
Keith McMillan, Ryan Tipps, Pat Coleman, Adam Turer, Frank Rossi and Greg Thomas each take their guesses at scores for each first-round game. We also looped in the Hansen Ratings, updated with pl...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/17/quick-hits-predicts-the-first-rounds-scores/
Rather than a step forward, this bracket is like a trip back in time. In fact, this bracket features something that hasn't been in a Division III football bracket since 2009. Also, you do not wan...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/13/atn-podcast-184-a-step-forward/
Whether playing for a playoff spot, playing out the string, playing for a bell (Monon or Victory), or playing in a rivalry with no trophy at all, there should be lots of intrigue here in Week 11....
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/10/quick-hits-rivalries-taking-center-stage/
We're under a week from Selection Sunday. Only seven automatic bids are still up for grabs, and most will be really hard to pry away from the favorites. But what if both Washington & Jefferson an...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/06/atn-podcast-183-heres-whats-left/
This weekend is all about who will clinch automatic bids, on top of all the things that typically go on in a Division III football weekend. The post Quick Hits: Who will clinch appeared first ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/11/03/quick-hits-clinchers/
Sure, UW-Platteville losing theoretically opened up a playoff spot, but that doesn't mean anyone should breathe easy. Even if you don't count Platteville, there are at least eight more teams vyin...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/30/atn-podcast-182-eight-teams-for-five-at-large-slots/
Lots of eyes on Iowa, where the first automatic bid of the season could be clinched, as well as on Indiana, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But also, perhaps there's something in Connecticut to note,...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/27/quick-hits-games-to-keep-an-eye-on/
There were more than a couple of games that all came down to exciting endings at about the same time on Saturday, and there are plenty of games from this past week and future weeks that are fairl...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/23/atn-podcast-181-how-it-all-ties-together/
Alright, so last week the crew -- mostly Keith McMillan -- were unimpressed with the questions provided. Perhaps they'll learn to be glad for what they have, because this week requires them to kn...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/20/quick-hits-nailed-to-the-cathedral-door/
A little bit of rain (OK, a lot of rain), a little lightning, half the usual Thunder and a few unbeaten teams getting their first loss made up a good part of the news in Week 7. This was definite...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/16/atn-podcast-180-heavy-lightning-light-thunder/
We're on the downhill slope now to Selection Sunday. Six weeks down, and five weeks left, with lots of questions to be answered. We'll try to answer part of one-fifth of those questions here with...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/13/quick-hits-on-flip-side/
All of a sudden we drop a few big games into the mix, set a couple of Top 25 ballots on fire, and then it's not too early to talk about strength of schedule, and the playoffs, and how at-large bi...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/09/atn-big-games-playoff-talk/
While we're thinking with heavy hearts about the late Mike Donnelly and the Muhlenberg football program, we also have attention to give to the full slate of Week 6 games, including one particular...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/06/quick-hits-for-duke/
Once upon a time, this patient got up off the table, but now Pat or Keith (hint, not both) is ready to call an end to the UW-Whitewater dynasty. See, yes UWW has lost three games before in a seas...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/10/02/atn-podcast-the-end-of-one-purple-era/
There are three games between ranked teams this week, and a fourth which could have been (stares at Whitewater's goal-line stats), But there are also other battles between unbeatens, and games wo...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/29/quick-hits-number-to-beat/
Aside from "the Target Field game" there were another 99 games played on Saturday, and on top of that, there was all sorts of other news in the past week to cover. Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/26/atn-podcast-177-newsy-week/
Pat Coleman and Adam Turer hand out game balls for the Tommie-Johnnie game, talk with the coaches, describe the atmosphere and what this means for Division III football. Former SJU beat writer Fr...
The biggest show in Division III is coming to a major league baseball stadium. Perhaps you’ve heard. But there are 100 other games on Saturday as well, and if you’re not named Tommie or Johnn...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/22/quick-hits-the-35000-foot-view/
How many hazing incidents do we need to hear about on college campuses before people finally figure it out? Enough is enough. The post Hazing: Enough is enough appeared first on D3football.com...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/19/hazing-enough-is-enough/
Offensive numbers catch the eye, whether it's 98 points or this week's 79 or 332 receiving yards and six touchdowns. But Keith has this thing about defense also being part of the game, and that's...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/18/atn-podcast-175-defenses-keep-showing-up/
We all know what the big game is this week and you don't need a poll on social media to tell you. But there are 110...109... make that 108 other games this week, at least as of Friday at midnight...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/15/quick-hits-name-rivalry/
We certainly spent some time talking about teams that have lost unexpectedly through the first two weeks: UW-Whitewater, St. Thomas, UW-Whitewater again, Thomas More to name a few. But in this we...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/11/atn-podcast-174-evaluating-the-surprise-winners/
On our podcast, Keith previewed a Week 2 which might not have as much star power as Week 1, but we still have some key non-conference games, such as Bethel facing Carthage and Cortland meeting Fr...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/08/quick-hits-week-2-some-teams-just-getting-started/
Lots of cool and interesting things happened in the opening weekend of Division III football. Of course, many of them were overshadowed by the 98-0 win by St. John's over St. Scholastica. Nobody ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/09/04/atn-podcast-173-whats-wrong-with-big-scores/
Quick Hits is back for the 2017 season, continuing the format of two six-packs — a half-dozen panelists and a half-dozen questions. (Or, if you’re already in midseason tailgating form, you ca...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/08/31/quick-hits-returns-week-1/
It's been a busy August around D3football.com, with Pat and Keith spearheading all the coverage in Kickoff 2017 and Pat driving a thousand-plus miles to talk to visit six Division III football pr...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/08/28/atn-podcast-172-getting-ready-to-start/
We've got an extra-long podcast for you this month, because we have to talk about the Top 25, the blue turf at Luther, finding the match at Muhlenberg, finding relevancy at King's and getting yet...
This month, Keith McMillan is out on assignment, but we found someone to fill in who's only written about a hundred fewer ATN columns. Pat Coleman and Adam Turer chat with UWO running back Dylan ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/06/15/atn-podcast-talking-oshkosh-new-conferences-and-more/
It's time to meet the first of our new Stagg Bowl hosts, as we talk with the person in charge of the Stagg Bowl at Shenandoah, Texas. Plus we talk about what's next for football preseason practic...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/04/22/atn-podcast-our-new-texas-hosts-two-a-days-and-more/
One of the big topics of discussion right now in Division III, and in college football as a whole, is preseason practice time, including what seems to be likely -- the end to two-a-day practices ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/03/30/atn-podcast-an-end-to-two-a-days/
Members of this past year's senior class are chasing their dreams of pro football right now, and next year's senior class has players hoping to do the same. In light of that, the February edition...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/02/28/atn-podcast-chasing-the-nfl-dream/
The D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast returns to offseason mode, including discussion of the latest news from Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan as well as interviews with new John Carroll coa...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2017/01/30/atn-podcast-welcome-2017/
It was a tension-filled battle to decide Stagg Bowl XLIV and a great game to boot Pat and Keith were joined by the rest of the on-air crew from the D3football.com Stagg Bowl XLIV audio broadcast,...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/12/17/atn-podcast-the-mvp-players-and-coach-of-the-year/
Six Quick Hits were not enough for this week -- they never are. We always expand our panel for the Stagg Bowl and this week we've done so as well, with guests who cover Mary Hardin-Baylor and UW-...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/12/15/quick-hits-predicts-stagg-bowl-xliv/
Our podcast team was truly around the nation this week, as Keith McMillan was in Belton, Texas, and Pat Coleman was in Oshkosh, Wis., for the two national semifinals. What results is an informati...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/12/12/podcast-breaking-down-semifinals/
We've got a rematch of a season opener and a rematch of the 2004 and 2012 semifinals, and we're expecting two great games that will be great examples of Division III football to the audience on E...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/12/09/the-quick-hits-take-on-the-semifinals/
You've been asking for this for years, haven't you? John Carroll and UW-Oshkosh advanced to the national semifinals, meaning there will be at least one team in the Stagg Bowl for the first time. ...
Is there enough offense in Anthony Moeglin’s right arm to overcome a stout Whitewater defense? Can Oshkosh manage to put enough points on the board to win at St. Thomas, or, for that matter, ca...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/12/02/quick-hits-on-the-quarterfinals/
When you're down to just 16 teams and eight games, we can take the time to go through each of them, and it was a week which made Keith very happy. There was a lot of defense to talk about for thi...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/28/around-the-nation-podcast-a-day-for-the-defenses/
If the predictions hold, we are in for a great second round of games. The consensus of our group isn’t that any game will be out of hand. Both rematches should be closer than the first meeting,...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/25/quick-hits-second-round-score-picks/
Whether you were among the excited, with no rooting interest, or among the tense, with your season hanging in the balance, the 3 p.m. hour-plus in the Eastern Time Zone on Saturday was a great ti...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/20/around-the-nation-podcast-tense-moments/
The story goes, one day on a long ride to a playoff game at Thiel (which tells you how long ago this happened), Pat and Keith decided to pass the time by guessing not just the winner of each firs...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/18/quick-hits-predicting-first-round-playoff-scores/
We'll hear from the NCAA committee chair, Jack McKiernan, gets Keith's view on watching his alma mater clinch an automatic bid and talk about that John Carroll-Mount Union game. Plus, we'll discu...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/14/atn-podcast-the-bracket-reaction/
As this portion of the Quick Hits season draws to a close, we tackle the big rivalry games, the playoff picture and all the rest. Our guest prognosticator is Frank Rajkowski, who covers St. John'...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/11/quick-hits-one-last-week-for-all-the-marbles/
About half of the automatic bids have been handed out to the Field of 32 teams which will play for the 2016 Division III football championship. But while two of the remaining ones will be battled...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/07/atn-podcast-playoff-picture-update/
And as the end of the football regular season approaches and a bunch of schools turn their sights on basketball, we figured it was time to bring in a basketball expert to join us on Quick Hits. H...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/11/04/quick-hits-eyes-on-texas-new-york/
We started our deep dive into the playoffs on last week's edition and we know we had a lot of new listeners -- now we have to really talk about some of the automatic bids. Some conferences have p...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/31/atn-podcast-breaking-down-the-conference-races/
Conference races are coming down to the wire, and some of those key matchups come this week. That includes the game for bragging rights between our founding Around the Nation columnist (Keith McM...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/28/quick-hits-coming-down-wire/
It's finally time to talk in-depth about the postseason -- picks, prognostications, problems and the like. If you're new to Division III, we'll give you a quick roundup of how it's set up and if ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/24/atn-podcast-its-truly-time-to-talk-playoffs/
It's too early for this group to be peaking and on the way down, so we've exhorted our panel to continue to bring their best here in Week 8. The post Quick Hits: Bringing your ‘A’ game app...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/21/quick-hits-bringing-your-a-game/
In a handful of conferences, the first-place team and the highest-ranked team in our poll changed over based on Saturday's results. Pat and Keith break down where things changed in the Empire 8, ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/17/atn-podcast-conference-leaders-changing-hands/
Last week was such a great one in Division III that it might be hard to follow, but we will do our best, since there are quite a few great games and some really intriguing ones on tap. The post...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/14/quick-hits-hard-act-to-follow/
We had a game with 17,000-plus fans, a top five team save its bacon in the final seconds, and just a ton of great finishes all around the nation this week. In fact, it's pretty clear we can consi...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/10/atn-podcast-a-great-week-in-division-iii/
We’re right at the midpoint of the Division III football regular season. Or, if you’re Mount Union, you’re about done warming up. Five weeks before this one and five weeks after, and yes, t...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/07/quick-hits-week-6-welcome-to-hump-week/
Hard to start anywhere but with UW-Whitewater and Mount Union this week, as Whitewater comes away with a key win and the Purple Raiders looked a little shaky in their win vs. Ohio Northern. Plus ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/10/03/around-the-nation-podcast-purple-ponderings/
Month No. 2, Week No. 5, and one big game right at the top of the Top 25 list to talk about this week. Our guest picker is Ray Biggs, who we think of more specifically as the managing editor of D...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/30/quick-hits-week-5-welcome-to-october/
We'll spend a good amount of time talking about the St. Thomas-St. John's game, but that's not all that went on this past Saturday. UW-Whitewater preserved Division III pride as the No. 2 Warhawk...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/26/around-the-nation-podcast-d-iii-pride/
Like last week there’s one huge game in the rankings and I’ll be there. And this week, it won’t require a boarding pass. Will this one live up to the hype better than last week’s? Our gu...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/23/quick-hits-week-4-the-big-games-upset-picks/
It was definitely a tough weekend for Linfield and Washington & Jefferson, and a great weekend for Mary Hardin-Baylor and Thomas More, and we had people at both games and talk with the people inv...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/19/atn-podcast-shaking-off-the-big-loss/
Sure, we’d all love to be in Hawaii, where Pacific is playing Occidental, but the D3football.com budget is really tight. We’re lucky to be able to send one person to Texas, but we really woul...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/16/quick-hits-for-week-3/
Benedictine avoided going 0-2 this week thanks to a big win, and Utica is on the opposite side of the ledger, starting off 2-0. Lots of discussion of Utica beating Ohio Northern, but also, some d...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/12/atn-podcast-what-youve-missed-if-youre-0-2/
Some teams can't go 0-2 because they won last week and some can't because they didn't play. But either way, you don't want to be 0-2 after Week 2. The post Quick Hits: Don’t go 0-2 appeared ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/09/quick-hits-dont-go-0-2/
It never fails -- once we start playing games, the surprise results start pouring in. Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan chat about a good number of them, then chat with Johns Hopkins coach Jim Margr...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/05/when-we-actually-play/
Triple Take has had a nice long run — nine years of appearing in this space on Friday mornings with our predictions for the week. But it’s time for Version 2.0, and this is it: Quick Hits. We...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/09/01/quick-hits-week-1/
Every August, Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman meet to go through the process of ranking all 248 teams, ranking the conferences, editing some of the volumes of stories that come in for Kickoff and ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/08/18/atn-podcast-kickoff-and-kickoff-approaching/
One of the questions we've focused on this year in our slate of offseason podcasts and interviews is to ask coaches what it would take for their school to get to the next level. Earlier this offs...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/07/27/atn-podcast-moving-to-the-next-level/
Guests this month include Franklin coach Mike Leonard, Washington & Lee coach Scott Abell, Lawrence head coach Rob McCarthy and Lawrence offensive coordinator Mark Speckman. The post ATN Podcas...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/06/12/atn-podcast-getting-ever-closer/
One of the best stories of the offseason has been a player from last year's draft class, Concordia-Moorhead quarterback Griffin Neal. He talks about his year playing overseas in Germany and how ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/05/03/atn-podcast-pro-prospects/
Yes, that's right -- an Around the Nation Podcast in April! Pat and Keith will be doing monthly podcasts during the offseason, and they'll check in with newsmakers in and around Division III foot...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2016/04/04/atn-podcast-new-coaches-new-season/
The 43rd championship season of Division III football is over, with Mount Union hoisting the trophy. But there was a little more business to do, including handing out game balls (which differed, ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/12/19/atn-podcast-season-over/
Friday night is significant in many ways. This particular Stagg Bowl is the culmination of another great Division III football season, one in which a record 247 teams and likely more than 20,000...
It's just Mount Union and St. Thomas still standing with a shot at Walnut and Bronze in Division III football for 2015, and they each got there in dominating fashion. Pat and Keith talk about eac...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/12/14/atn-podcast-the-road-to-salem-is-complete/
We can honestly envision any of these teams losing on Saturday, or winning it all. So whatever Division III lacks in final four variety, it makes up for with competitive intrigue. The post Semi...
We were down to four games this week and that means we can focus a good amount of time on each one. So we pulled in an analyst to help us talk about each game, folks who were on the sidelines or ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/12/07/atn-podcast-reports-each-quarterfinal/
So let’s make something clear from jump. Give or take a Hardin-Simmons, Wheaton, St. John’s or Johns Hopkins, we’re down to the eight best teams in the country. They’re all elite, and it�...
After a disappointing first round, this was exactly what Division III football needed, including competitive games, a big play for the ages and more. Pat and Keith talk about each second round ga...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/30/atn-podcast-now-those-were-some-playoffs/
The road to Salem gets a little more rugged in Round 2. Here are the matchups by Top 25 ranking: No. 10 St. Johns at No. 4 St. Thomas No. 9 Thomas More at No. 7 Wabash No. 25 Cortland State at No...
Phew, that was ugly. UG-ly, with a capital U. And a G. In this case, we're talking about most of the first round of the playoffs we have a coach talking about winning ugly, and another talking ab...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/23/atn-podcast-lets-wipe-our-hands-of-that-first-round/
Welcome to the most exciting Saturday of the postseason. Thirty-two of the nation’s best teams meet in 16 first-round playoff games. Eight kick off at noon Eastern Time, and seven more at noon...
So, one thing we know is there won't be a rematch, a 10th game in the Stagg Bowl series in which UW-Whitewater leads Mount Union 6-3. We'll talk about the committee's choice to place the two team...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/16/atn-podcast-there-wont-be-a-rematch/
It's Week 11. Do we even need an intro? Everyone's got a big game this week, either playing for the final time this season or competing for the opportunity to play on. The post Triple Take Week...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/13/triple-take-week-11-this-is-what-its-all-about/
Wesley and Hardin-Simmons could have made it easy on the committee and on all the bracketologists in Division III who are trying to figure out where they'll go in the playoffs. Instead, Salisbury...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/09/atn-podcast-two-results-throw-it-wide-open/
Week 10. Here's where the fun really begins. And for four-fifths of Division III, it's 10 days from ending. The post Week 10: The clock ticks down on the 2015 season appeared first on D3footba...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/06/week-10-the-clock-ticks-down-on-the-2015-season/
There are lots of teams looking for at-large bids to the playoffs. Problem is, there's only six of them. If you are new to Division III, or new to playoff contention and don't know how the D-III ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/11/02/atn-podcast-about-those-locks-for-at-large-bids/
Week 9 isn’t quite the week of marquee games that Week 8 was, but there are three clashes that pit top-20 teams against one another. And besides, with three weeks left in the regular season, we...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/30/triple-take-week-9-several-down-and-three-to-go/
Lots of good showdowns this weekend to talk about, and we hit on a bunch, but that's just the beginning. What we're really here to do is talk about the playoffs! Where do we know more about autom...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/26/atn-podcast-let-the-speculation-begin/
Everything that Week 7 was not, in terms of big matchups, Week 8 is. There are no fewer than five nationally significant major clashes, plus several more games that will greatly impact conference...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/23/triple-take-week-8-the-biggest-week-so-far/
There was one huge upset this week, but that left a lot of room to talk about other games as well. So in addition to Dubuque-Wartburg, let's take a few minutes to focus on the "middle class" of D...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/19/atn-podcast-one-big-shakeup/
Some weeks stand out because of stadium-filling rivalries and top-25 games that attract interest across the nation. This isn’t one of those weeks. That, however, opens the door for the middle c...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/16/triple-take-week-7-time-for-some-new-teams-to-shine/
Well, there you go -- a crack in the purple armor favored by UW-Whitewater. This gives hope to a lot of people around Division III, but should it? What have we really learned from this weekend's ...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/12/crack-in-purple-armor/
When Bridgewater State and Mass-Dartmouth kick off on Friday night, it will mark the beginning of Week 6 in Division III, the first of 106 games. In our traditional 11-week season, it also means...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/09/triple-take-week-6-crossing-the-halfway-point/
Impressive midseason matchups lead to some readjustment, not just in the Top 25 poll but in playoff positioning. No, it's not too early to talk about some conference races. Plus there was a Divis...
https://www.d3blogs.com/d3football/2015/10/05/around-nation-crazy-endings-big-showdowns-sacks/
Believe it or not, the first month of the season has gone by. And as the calendar flips from September to October, the Dubuque at Pacific and Wesley at North Central matchups turn to the more fam...