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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...
View ArticleATN 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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