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A Willamette win was just out of reach in Week 1, but it hasn't kept the Bearcats from getting back into the Top 25.
Photo by Scott Pierson, D3sports.com
When the poll isn't perfect
ATN's take

Sure, the D3football.com Top 25 teams went 25-0 on Saturday. We're happy about that, but that doesn't mean the Top 25 is perfect, or that the right 25 teams are ranked.

At least, that's the take of Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan, who talk about the contradictions in the Top 25 voting process and how that results in some things that don't necessarily make sense in the poll in this week's Around the Nation podcast. Sometimes a last-second loss is good enough, if you also have a win somewhere against somebody good.

Some things make sense in some cases, but no single rule works for all teams and all comparisons.

So is Willamette better than Case Western Reserve? Should Bethel be a Top 25 team? That's the result of taking a game played on the field and putting it all on paper. Get more in this week's Around the Nation podcast.

Oh, plus, one of the two podcasters changed his No. 1 vote this week. Who and why? You'll have to listen.

Go to the podcast page and click the play button to listen. You can load the podcast page in iTunes or can also get this and any of our future Around the Nation podcasts automatically by subscribing to this RSS feed: http://www.d3football.com/dailydose/?feed=podcast

Scroll down for more Saturday coverage. Plus check out our weekend photo galleries:
Bethel at No. 6 St. John's
No. 8 Linfield at Menlo
No. 12 Wabash at Allegheny
Gettysburg at Ursinus
Hamline at Augsburg
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Statistical Spotlight
Austin Faulkner had one target in his sights on Saturday: Earl Peoples.
Randolph-Macon athletics photo
Each week during the regular season we look at some of the key statistical performances from the weekend in Division III football, highlighting one per region.

Randolph-Macon completed 20 passes for 295 yards in Saturday's 21-13 win against Washington and Lee. That in and of itself is not all that spectacular, until it's noted that junior wide receiver Earl Peoples caught all 20 of those passes, an Old Dominion Athletic Conference record. Three of Austin Faulkner's incomplete passes were intended for Peoples as well.

Tanner Kelly completed 32 of 39 passes for 436 yards and ran for 63 more as Albright beat Wilkes 43-21. More importantly, it was his fourth consecutive game without a fumble or interception. Wilkes had allowed just 240 yards passing per game in its first three contests.

Week 5: Scoreboard | Weekly ATN podcast | Photo galleries | Top 25

Augustana defeated Elmhurst 21-3 on Saturday, handing the Bluejays their first loss of the season for the fourth year in a row. The Vikings lead the all-time series 51-3-1 and have only lost at home once, in 1979. Elmhurst finished with 186 total yards on 53 plays from scrimmage.

Bryan Blum recorded 20 tackles, 10 solo, in UW-Stevens Point's 48-33 win against UW-Eau Claire, also forcing a fumble, breaking up a pass and recording half a tackle for loss.
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