ATN Podcast: Kickoff and KICKOFF approaching
Every August, Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman do about a 12-hour huddle to go through the process of ranking all 248 teams, ranking the conferences, editing some of the volumes of stories that come in...
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Quick Hits for Week 3
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 wouldn’t miss...
View ArticleATN Podcast: A great week in Division III!
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 consider...
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Quick Hits: Coming down to the wire
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 McMillan,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 173: What’s wrong with big scores?
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 here...
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Quick Hits: Nailed to the cathedral door
Alright, so last week the crew — mostly Keith McMillan — was unimpressed with the questions provided. Perhaps they’ll learn to be glad for what they have, because this week requires them to know some...
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Quick Hits: Who will clinch
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. Our Quick Hits crew predicts clinchers, Top 25 upsets,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 183: Here’s what’s left
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 and...
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February podcast preview
Alright, we know, last months’ podcast was long. Too long. We’re going to do our best to keep the offseason podcasts capped at one hour. With that in mind, here’s a preview, plus an outtake from one of...
View ArticleATN Podcast 192: Back for a second year
When you first become a head coach, there’s a flurry of things to do, a bunch of things to learn, and not always enough time to do it or enough people to lean on to get it done. Only after that first...
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Triple Take predictions, Week 10: This is almost it!
Tyler Holmes and Wabash will try to keep the unbeaten run alive. (Wabash photo by Howard Hewitt) Week 10. This is almost it. For a handful of teams, this is it — their season will be over by Saturday...
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Around the Nation Podcast: On the clinchers
Sam Sura had a busy day, carrying 40 times for 119 yards for St. John’s in the Johnnies’ win vs. Bethel. (St. John’s photo by Richard Larkin McLay) The playoff picture began to take shape this week, as...
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Triple take Week 11: It all comes down to this
Delaware Valley picked off Seth Klein twice in last year’s Keystone Cup game. He has thrown only two interceptions in the nine games since. (Widener athletics photo) With all due respect to the...
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Division III Playoffs, Round of 32: Triple Take’s score predictions
Hobart didn’t schedule any Empire 8 contenders the past two seasons, but the NCAA committee has sent them an Empire 8 team in the playoffs for the second year in a row. This year it’s Tom Dempsey and...
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Around the Nation Podcast: Down to 16
Linfield honored fallen teammate Parker Moore before taking the field against Chapman, then did so again on its first offensive play from scrimmage. (Photo by B. Scott Presley, d3photography.com) We...
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Triple Take, Week 3: The competition gets rougher
In quite a few places from coast to coast this weekend, the time for mismatches is over. Whether conference play is getting underway like it is in the Empire 8 and OAC, or teams are looking for one...
View ArticleAround the Nation: Big games and close calls
We might question whether some teams are as good as we think, and some Top 25 voters might be asking the same questions. Other teams are right where everyone thought they would be. And in some places,...
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Triple Take, Week 5: October is here, and so are conference rumbles
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 familar:...
View ArticleAround the Nation: Crazy endings, big showdowns and lots of sacks
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 Division...
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Triple Take, Week 7: Time for some new teams to shine
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 class of...
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Triple Take Week 11: This is what it’s all about
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. There are rivalry games; Williams...
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ATN Podcast 201: Big names take the field
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-Baylor,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 202: It’s a struggle
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 opponent,...
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Quick Hits Week 3: Please stay
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...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 206: That one game was enough, but we still got more
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 on...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 209: A big six for Week 6
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 games...
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Quick Hits: Reaching the midway point
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 crew’s...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 210: Who should be No. 1?
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 in...
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Quick Hits Week 7: Eyes on the rivalry and the streak
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 consecutive...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 222: We predict at-large teams
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 time:...
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Quick Hits: All the marbles
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 — well,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 243: The one with all the mascots
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...
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Quick Hits Week 3: Conference clashes and crossovers
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 winds...
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Quick Hits Week 4: Cracking the win column
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...
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ATN Podcast 246: The one with all the unbeatens
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 do as...
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Quick Hits Week 7: All eyes on Minnesota
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...
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ATN Podcast 252: Johnnies and Tommies and Panthers (oh my)
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 the...
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ATN Podcast 255: The one with November
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 better...
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Quick Hits Week 9: In a New York state of mind
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 which...
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Quick Hits Week 10: It’s Bid Clinching Season!
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 before THE...
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Quick Hits Week 11: Easy as A-B-C
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 influence one...
View ArticleATN Podcast 284: Both happy and emotional
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, well,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 288: Close calls from Week 5
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, your hopes for making the postseason may be already gone in the long...
View ArticleATN Podcast 305: Early D-III powers bring coaches back to D-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...
View ArticleATN Podcast 309: Off to a fun start
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. We...
View ArticleATN Podcast 311: Breaking through to the other side?
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 Washington...
View ArticleATN Podcast 312: Two big games; one classic
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 vote?...
View ArticleATN Podcast 316: All eyes on Platteville, plus regional rankings
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 again, and...
View ArticleATN Podcast 323: Down to a fantastic four
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 Mount...
View ArticleATN Podcast 337: When D-III football is at its best
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 might...
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