Go grab your coffee and sit down with us on a Monday morning for this week’s ATN podcast. Four games last week, two games this week. Plus, hear what Keith thought of the Wesley/Mary Hardin-Baylor game and Pat’s take on the Central/Bethel game. What’s coming up this week? Are we really destined for a threepeat Stagg Bowl?
Listen in.
So Keith McMillan and I were on the record as not being surprised at the eight teams which won in Saturday’s second round.
The margins of victory? Definitely a difference. Does it matter that Bethel/UW-Eau Claire was so close? Which conferences made big leaps forward in Week 12 and 13? Who leaves the second round of the playoffs disappointed and who leaves them with an optimistic outlook?
We’ve got two rematches and two new matchups. Now that we’re down to eight teams, who will benefit the most from the reshuffled bracket? And where will we find ourselves on Saturday?
More in the ATN podcast.
We’re not sure what was more exciting, the games themselves in the first round or the rush of 16 games all underway at once. It seemed like you couldn’t hit refresh without getting some interesting new tidbit, whether it was Curry pulling away early or TCNJ winning late, Salisbury tying Muhlenberg in the fourth quarter or N.C. Wesleyan taking W&J to overtime.
Plus, Keith and Pat, remember, both saw N.C. Wesleyan the first week of the season. Hear their hindsight on what each saw and how it colored their predictions from last week. And go through the rest of last week’s games and the ones coming up.
It’s our Around the Nation podcast, which continues through the Stagg Bowl.
Well, we survived another Selection Sunday, though the day has barely ended as I write this portion of the site. Four hours of sleep, up at 7:15, off to ESPNU, analyze the bracket, check graphics and pronunciations, go over highlights, write a script, go through a dress rehearsal and do the show. Then tape a segment for ESPNews (did anyone ever see that?) and another for online.
Thankfully, the podcast was pretty simple, too, only requiring one edit to piece two parts together.
It’s our look at the bracket, the key points in each game, etc. How many points can Capital give up and still win? Do Keith McMillan and I both like the way this was put together? Why Eau Claire instead of Whitworth?
It wasn’t quite a record day trafficwise but with the brackets being revealed so early in the morning, we didn’t expect it. But it was a great day in Division III football, both Saturday and Sunday. Hear the highlights in our ATN podcast.
Confused by tiebreakers? Oh yeah, definitely understandable. See, each conference sets its own rules for breaking ties for the automatic bid, and with the limited number of games played in any given football season, there’s not exactly a lot of data to work with.
So this week, in the Around the Nation podcast, Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman not only run down how the remaining 10 conferences’ automatic bids will be handed out, they run through the tiebreakers in leagues where they’ll be needed, and debate the merit of such tiebreakers in the first place. So get your primer on how the E8 or LL or MIAA will be won.
There were more great games than one could count this weekend, so Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman took some extra time to go through them all. What does the weekend mean for Mary Hardin-Baylor and who is the third-best team in Division III after Mount Union and UW-Whitewater?
Oddly enough, we discussed the final play of the Trinity/Millsaps game, like everyone else. What does Pool B look like after Salisbury’s first loss? Is there ever a good way to take a late-season defeat?
When you only have one game between Top 25 teams, that means we should come to expect upsets. As playoff season approaches, each upset becomes more magnified. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman examine the consequences from Week 8 in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.
Plus, the week we’ve been waiting for is finally here — five games between Top 25 teams, including the No. 2/No. 3 showdown in Whitewater.
Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman did a whirlwind tour of Chicago on Saturday, visiting six stadiums, talking to five coaches and seeing one and two-half games. The night culminated in a great Division III atmosphere at Wheaton, where the lights, turf and new video board provided the perfect frame for a great game.
Keith and Pat talk about what they saw and what happened elsewhere in Week 7 in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.
There were some puzzling results on Friday and Saturday, and while Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman try to make sense of them, you can listen along in this week’s Around the Nation podcast. What are the prospects now for upsettees Trinity (Texas), Wartburg and Baldwin-Wallace?
Keith returned from a trip to Texas this weekend and gives us his take on Mary Hardin-Baylor. Are the No. 2 Crusaders the team that can challenge Mount Union? Hear Keith’s take. Plus, we explore some of the unlikely names at the top of conference standings.
Around 6 p.m., Saturday looked like an interesting day, but nothing spectacular. Then the UW-La Crosse/UW-Whitewater game turned, St. John Fisher went down and Willamette kicked Linfield’s unbeaten D-III record to the curb.
In the end, a lot of news at the top of the poll. This week’s Around the Nation podcast focuses on those games, but also deals with Hampden-Sydney, Trinity (Conn.), Williams, TCNJ, Capital, Mount Union, Redlands, Occidental and the great games in the upcoming week.
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