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Strength of schedule
Division III has abandoned the Quality of Wins Index for the 2007 season and will determine the strength of schedule component using opponents' winning percentage and opponents' opponents' winning percentage. Those numbers follow, through games of Saturday, Oct. 20, courtesy of D3sports.com partner PrestoSports. We've sorted these teams by their regional winning percentage, in order to get the playoff contenders near the top. The number next to them is where they rank in opponents' winning percentage (though without ties). Provisional Division III teams and the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, are not listed.Records and winning percentage are based on in-region games only. OWP: Opponents’ winning percentage. OOWP: Opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage. OWP rank Team Record Win pct. OWP OOWP 8 Salisbury 4-0 1.000 .692 .458 46 Wabash 7-0 1.000 .605 .539 47 UW-Whitewater 6-0 1.000 .604 .562 56 Wheaton (Ill.) 7-0 1.000 .583 .597 82 Central 7-0 1.000 .538 .599 88 Mary Hardin-Baylor 7-0 1.000 .531 .525 93 St. Norbert 7-0 1.000 .524 .485 99 St. John's 7-0 1.000 .519 .615 132 Alfred 7-0 1.000 .467 .601 144 Muhlenberg 7-0 1.000 .454 .615 155 Curry 8-0 1.000 .440 .545 179 Washington and Jefferson 4-0 1.000 .407 .619 182 Mount
Union 7-0 1.000 .405 .541 201 Waynesburg 6-0 1.000 .369 .551 205 Case Western Reserve 5-0 1.000 .357 .558 208 RPI 6-0 1.000 .344 .559 218 Occidental 6-0 1.000 .261 .551 120 St. John Fisher 7-1 .875 .483 .588 35 Plymouth State 6-1 .857 .616 .482 42 Washington U. 6-1 .857 .609 .542 66 Wartburg 6-1 .857 .569 .598 65 Franklin 6-1 .857 .569 .506 75 Capital 6-1 .857 .552 .563 83 Bethel 6-1 .857 .538 .592 105 Millsaps 6-1 .857 .514 .490 112 Mt. St. Joseph 6-1 .857 .500 .523 126 Dickinson 6-1 .857 .476 .596 141 Coast Guard 6-1 .857 .456 .536 161 Randolph-Macon 6-1 .857 .433 .649 180 Bridgewater (Va.) 6-1 .857 .407 .564 209 Albright 6-1 .857 .343 .563 3 Wesley 5-1 .833 .767 .547 21 New Jersey 5-1 .833 .633 .496 121 Trinity (Texas) 5-1 .833 .483 .513 163 Cortland State 5-1 .833 .433 .577 162 North Carolina Wesleyan 5-1 .833 .433 .576 189 Whitworth 5-1 .833 .392 .535 222 Ursinus 5-1 .833 .234 .624 18 Redlands 4-1
.800 .640 .436 57 Hope 4-1 .800 .583 .514 28 Linfield 3-1 .750 .625 .506 86 Hampden-Sydney 6-2 .750 .535 .572 107 UW-Stevens Point 3-1 .750 .512 .561 193 Rockford 6-2 .750 .382 .447 199 Concordia (Wis.) 6-2 .750 .375 .479 214 Moravian 6-2 .750 .321 .573 17 St. Olaf 5-2 .714 .648 .582 22 North Central 5-2 .714 .633 .543 25 Dubuque 5-2 .714 .627 .530 31 Illinois Wesleyan 5-2 .714 .619 .584
OWP rank Team Record Win pct. OWP OOWP 33 Wittenberg 5-2 .714 .617 .550 54 Hartwick 5-2 .714 .585 .480 62 Montclair State 5-2 .714 .576 .581 71 Pacific Lutheran 5-2 .714 .557 .506 76 Ohio Northern 5-2 .714 .552 .538 89 Carthage 5-2 .714 .531 .541 95 Northwestern (Minn.) 5-2 .714 .522 .444 108 Hobart 5-2 .714 .510 .521 128 Defiance 5-2 .714 .476 .506 127 Maryville (Tenn.) 5-2 .714 .476 .471 139 John Carroll 5-2 .714 .457 .548 150 Mississippi College 5-2 .714 .446 .553 165 Ithaca 5-2
.714 .432 .592 167 Nichols 5-2 .714 .429 .509 168 East Texas Baptist 5-2 .714 .424 .499 195 Maine Maritime 5-2 .714 .381 .507 203 Allegheny 5-2 .714 .362 .527 49 Christopher Newport 4-2 .667 .600 .503 52 Rhodes 4-2 .667 .594 .511 116 DePauw 4-2 .667 .489 .480 117 Washington and Lee 4-2 .667 .486 .496 129 Union 4-2 .667 .472 .515 135 Chapman 4-2 .667 .464 .544 151 Rowan 4-2 .667 .444 .542 156 Delaware Valley 4-2 .667 .439 .590 160 Sul Ross State 4-2 .667 .434 .510 200 Widener 4-2 .667 .372 .549 210 Crown 4-2 .667 .337 .404 19 Gettysburg 5-3 .625 .634 .464 92 Monmouth 5-3 .625 .527 .495 103 Carroll 5-3 .625 .515 .470 106 Ripon 5-3 .625 .514 .478 157 Rose-Hulman 5-3 .625 .439 .487 74 Willamette 3-2 .600 .553 .510 87 Alma 3-2 .600 .533 .569 130 UW-Eau Claire 3-2 .600 .470 .591 148 Thomas More 3-2 .600 .447 .582 9 Coe 4-3 .571 .690 .571 30 Elmhurst 4-3 .571 .620 .525 44 Gustavus Adolphus 4-3
.571 .607 .517 50 Otterbein 4-3 .571 .600 .529 58 Tri-State 4-3 .571 .583 .469 59 Westfield State 4-3 .571 .582 .460 84 Olivet 4-3 .571 .536 .565 114 Husson 4-3 .571 .493 .506 136 Bridgewater State 4-3 .571 .463 .473 140 Martin Luther 4-3 .571 .457 .418 145 Adrian 4-3 .571 .452 .500 146 Rochester 4-3 .571 .449 .531 158 Worcester Polytech 4-3 .571 .439 .495
OWP rank Team Record Win pct. OWP OOWP 176 Baldwin-Wallace 4-3 .571 .410 .523 207 Puget Sound 4-3 .571 .355 .553 1 Frostburg State 1-1 .500 .900 .600 4 Brockport State 2-2 .500 .756 .503 10 Emory and Henry 3-3 .500 .687 .437 37 Concordia-Moorhead 3-3 .500 .611 .579 45 UW-Oshkosh 3-3 .500 .606 .506 53 Luther 3-3 .500 .589 .552 61 Worcester State 4-4 .500 .577 .444 104 Lakeland 4-4 .500 .515 .456 138 Guilford 3-3 .500 .458 .437 142 Whittier 3-3 .500 .456 .451 152 Westminster (Mo.) 3-3 .500 .444 .430 154 Catholic 3-3
.500 .441 .557 166 Mass-Dartmouth 4-4 .500 .432 .493 171 Centre 3-3 .500 .417 .466 173 Benedictine 3-3 .500 .414 .464 172 UW-Stout 4-4 .500 .414 .551 183 Chicago 3-3 .500 .405 .502 188 Cal Lutheran 3-3 .500 .394 .538 196 Ferrum 3-3 .500 .378 .516 211 Illinois College 4-4 .500 .333 .494 217 Greenville 3-3 .500 .274 .427 7 Carnegie Mellon 3-4 .429 .695 .446 13 Springfield 3-4 .429 .665 .545 15 Augsburg 3-4 .429 .652 .559 26 Simpson 3-4 .429 .627 .531 32 Heidelberg 3-4 .429 .619 .507 39 Buena Vista 3-4 .429 .610 .553 70 Hardin-Simmons 3-4 .429 .560 .496 77 Oberlin 3-4 .429 .552 .460 85 Augustana 3-4 .429 .536 .529 118 Carleton 3-4 .429 .486 .493 169 Colorado College 3-4 .429 .419 .453 177 Lawrence 3-4 .429 .408 .460 184 Aurora 3-4 .429 .405 .431 212 Manchester 3-4 .429 .333 .468 213 William Paterson 3-4 .429 .329 .553 48 Westminster (Pa.) 2-3 .400 .602 .436 96 UW-La Crosse 2-3 .400 .520 .544 206 Bethany 2-3
.400 .357 .509 219 SUNY-Maritime 2-3 .400 .252 .480 43 Grove City 3-5 .375 .608 .508 109 Lake Forest 3-5 .375 .509 .480 185 Knox 3-5 .375 .405 .450 204 Concordia (Ill.) 3-5 .375 .360 .408 38 St. Lawrence 2-4 .333 .611 .474 100 Ohio Wesleyan 2-4 .333 .519 .555 101 Kean 2-4 .333 .517 .498
OWP rank Team Record Win pct. OWP OOWP 174 Pomona-Pitzer 2-4 .333 .414 .468 175 Austin 2-4 .333 .413 .490 197 Minnesota-Morris 2-4 .333 .378 .414 216 Greensboro 2-4 .333 .278 .455 2 Johns Hopkins 2-5 .286 .825 .441 11 Millikin 2-5 .286 .677 .550 23 Wooster 2-5 .286 .629 .419 55 Endicott 2-5 .286 .585 .474 63 Norwich 2-5 .286 .573 .454 68 Utica 2-5 .286 .565 .470 73 St. Thomas 2-5 .286 .557 .560 72 Hamline 2-5 .286 .557 .511 81 Louisiana College 2-5 .286 .541 .510 113 FDU-Florham 2-5 .286 .500 .432 115 Loras 2-5 .286 .490 .564 124 Earlham 2-5 .286 .479 .496 133 Framingham State 2-5
.286 .466 .480 149 Wisconsin Lutheran 2-5 .286 .447 .497 153 Wilkes 2-5 .286 .443 .449 178 MIT 2-5 .286 .408 .465 186 Lebanon Valley 2-5 .286 .403 .478 221 Macalester 2-5 .286 .248 .456 12 Western Connecticut 1-3 .250 .675 .460 51 Western New England 2-6 .250 .595 .504 69 Huntingdon 1-3 .250 .563 .541 131 McMurry 2-6 .250 .469 .467 159 Mount Ida 2-6 .250 .438 .498 170 Massachusetts Maritime 2-6 .250 .418 .470 191 Blackburn 2-6 .250 .383 .367 34 Albion 1-4 .200 .617 .537 36 Hanover 1-4 .200 .614 .439 123 UW-Platteville 1-4 .200 .480 .490 181 Kenyon 1-4 .200 .407 .393 192 Kalamazoo 1-4 .200 .383 .489 194 Howard Payne 1-4 .200 .382 .502 5 UW-River Falls 1-5 .167 .747 .513 6 Thiel 1-5 .167 .714 .443 40 Buffalo State 1-5 .167 .610 .464 90 Marietta 1-5 .167 .528 .520 102 Anderson 1-5 .167 .517 .482 110 Denison 1-5 .167 .506 .412 143 Cornell 1-5 .167 .456 .578 164 Methodist 1-5 .167 .433 .507 14 McDaniel 1-6
.143 .654 .400 27 Texas Lutheran 1-6 .143 .626 .448 29 Franklin and Marshall 1-6 .143 .621 .411 41 Shenandoah 1-6 .143 .610 .411 64 Wilmington 1-6 .143 .571 .519 67 Menlo 1-6 .143 .567 .446 79 Lycoming 1-6 .143 .548 .395 94 North Park 1-6 .143 .524 .523
OWP rank Team Record Win pct. OWP OOWP 98 Fitchburg State 1-6 .143 .520 .465 97 Grinnell 1-6 .143 .520 .460 111 Susquehanna 1-6 .143 .502 .458 125 Salve Regina 1-6 .143 .478 .430 147 Becker 1-6 .143 .449 .457 190 Eureka 1-6 .143 .384 .409 202 Maranatha Baptist 1-6 .143 .365 .385 16 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 0-5 .000 .650 .423 20 King's 0-7 .000 .634 .430 24 LaGrange 0-6 .000 .628 .512 60 Merchant Marine 0-8 .000 .579 .439 78 La Verne 0-6 .000 .550 .379 80 Muskingum 0-7 .000 .548 .470 91 Sewanee 0-6 .000 .528 .456 119 Averett 0-7 .000 .486 .410 122 Lewis and Clark 0-6 .000 .483 .399 134 Juniata 0-7
.000 .465 .488 137 MacMurray 0-7 .000 .459 .407 187 Beloit 0-8 .000 .402 .432 198 Bluffton 0-7 .000 .377 .444 215 Principia 0-7 .000 .318 .362 220 Hiram 0-7 .000 .250 .449 223 Gallaudet 0-2 .000 .100 .363
Permalink | Oct 23, 2007
Lemons in limelight
The Lemon brothers at Linfield, Meadowlark Lemon's grandsons, played Saturday in front of their grandfather and special guests.
Around the Region
Plenty of programs have had four brothers or more filter through at one time or another, or more than one brother on the team or even on the field at once. But Linfield has been making lemonade out in Oregon all season, with four Lemon brothers on the field at once on the punt team. Chet, Chase, Bubba and Mychal got a special visit from their grandfather, former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon, with father Meadow Lemon on the sidelines as always as cornerbacks coach. Oh, and they got a visit from Adam Johnson, too. More in this week's Around the West . Gallaudet hasn't had the easiest transition from the club level to Division III play this season, but the Bison have benefited from a pair of brothers themselves. Robin and Shawn Shannon tell Ryan Tipps about their competitiveness, both with each other and the opposition, in Around the Mid-Atlantic . It's not just the ACFC title on the line, or even a Pool B bid. It's the pride of U.S. 13 -- not to mention perhaps a recruiting edge -- when Wesley and Salisbury meet Saturday. Adam Samrov gets a take from Wesley coach Mike Drass and Salisbury's Sherm Wood in Around the East . Now, if you're a quarterback and your name is Jacob Manning, you may wish you were a brother of some other well-known football players. Alas, it's not the case, but Hope's quarterback takes it all in stride. Matt Florjancic has the story in Around the Great Lakes . Plus, an appreciation of former Baldwin-Wallace coach Bob Packard, who died this past week at age 64. Illinois Wesleyan has been one of the surprises of the season so far, but as Clyde Hughes writes in Around the Midwest , coach Norm Eash wants to tell you they've really been one step away since their last CCIW title in 2001. Will the NESCAC ever come out and test itself with the rest of Division III in the playoffs? Perhaps not, but some other changes would be
welcome. Tom Haley explores in Around the Northeast . That and more in this week's Around the Region .
Permalink | Oct 23, 2007