A new Division III football season brought new results as two teams upset Top 10 opponents.

Concordia-Moorhead built a 17-point halftime lead and withstood a fourth quarter rally by No. 8 Willamette to upset the Bearcats 24-17. Brandon Whitman's rushing touchdown pulled Willamette within seven but the Cobbers ran down the clock and left the Bearcats only with enough time for two plays. Photo gallery.

Meanwhile, No. 4 North Central punted the ball away trailing 28-19 with seven minutes left and Ohio Northern ran out the entire clock, sealing the Polar Bears' upset of the No. 4 Cardinals as the 2009 Division III football season got underway in full force. The Polar Bears picked off preseason All-American quarterback Aaron Fanthorpe three times, twice converting them into touchdowns. Photo gallery. Saturday's scores.

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This just in -- Mount Union is still good. Kurt Rocco threw three touchdown passes, all to Cecil Shorts, as the No. 1 Purple Raiders rolled past St. John Fisher 52-10. Similarly, No. 2 UW-Whitewater had little trouble with Dickinson State, a team ranked in the NAIA preseason coaches poll. Jeff Donovan completed 23 of 32 passes for 349 yards and two touchdowns in the Warhawks' 38-3 victory. Two Franklin quarterbacks combined to go 31-for-43 for 239 yards as the No. 19 Grizzlies defeated Baldwin-Wallace 38-31.

Zach Debeltz had a 74-yard punt return for a touchdown and intercepted two passes for Concordia-Moorhead. Photo by Scott Pierson, D3sports.com

Jeremy Gezella caught an 8-yard touchdown pass as time expired to tie the game in regulation and St. Norbert went on to knock off No. 17 Wartburg in overtime 42-35. Mississippi College outlasted archrival Millsaps 47-44 in double overtime. Wade Begley picked off a pass at the 1-yard line to seal a Thomas More win, 14-7, at John Carroll. Otterbein needed 21 fourth-quarter points to win at Bethany, 28-7. Wilkes surprised defending Centennial Conference champion Muhlenberg 14-12 as the MAC teams went 5-0. One of those was Lebanon Valley, which took a 41-14 lead at the half but had to hold on to win 47-42 as Gettysburg roared back.

No. 9 Wesley handled No. 20 Christopher Newport and Tunde Ogun, holding the All-American running back to 8 yards on 12 carries en route to a 34-0 win. UW-River Falls jumped out to a 17-0 lead on St. John's before the Johnnies cut it to 17-14 at the half and eventually came back to win 28-24. No. 5 Hardin-Simmons erased a first half deficit against Whitworth and notched a 48-31 victory, holding the Pirates' Adam Anderson to 74 yards on 19 carries.

Plymouth State and Division II St. Anselm needed five overtimes to settle things before the Panthers fell 41-35. After a game which had 10 lead changes and five touchdowns in the final 6:23, Waynesburg ended up on top, beating Wooster 42-39. Freshman Corey Brown came up big in his collegiate debut, picking off a pass with 1:04 left to preserve Western New England's 28-27 win against Norwich. Greenville beat Wash U for the first time in school history, picking off three passes in a 17-7 victory. Preseason All-American Mike Zweifel caught nine passes for 144 yards and two touchdowns in his family's Dubuque debut, a 60-7 win against Rockford. Hal Mumme's Air Raid offense helped McMurry nearly pick off Trinity (Texas) in a 31-26 loss.

And newcomer Castleton State got off on the right foot, in front of a home crowd of 4,000 as the program made its debut with a 42-28 win against fellow newcomer Anna Maria.