D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast

We finally have a bracket, the bracket, the one with the 32 teams on the road to the Stagg Bowl. While folks associated with John Carroll and Susquehanna don’t understand why they aren’t continuing on into the playoffs (can’t say we didn’t warn you), there actually is a lot to like in this bracket. Did you see how Wheaton and North Central are on complete opposite sides of...

Alright, folks — we’re down to one week, 112 games and lurking out there in the final game of the night on Saturday is UW-Oshkosh, which can play chaos agent. If the Titans — or perhaps we should call them Agent UW-Zero — knock off UW-Whitewater, then so much hell will break loose in the virtual war room that is the NCAA committee’s conference call. So much hell. Oshk...

That’s how dark it was in Spokane, Washington, when Linfield and Whitworth were playing in overtime. That’s just one of several intriguing storylines from Saturday, including the way the Central-Wartburg game ended. You’ll want to hear Keith’s take on whether the Central receiver got the ball across the plane of the goal line in overtime, and also how he would describe the...

This is where stuff gets tight. We already have some of our traditional season-ending rivalry games going on this weekend (Bronze Turkey, The Drum, Amherst-Williams) and the chase for the Walnut and Bronze is in full swing. We start by talking about the regional rankings, first with NCAA Division III football national committee chair Jim Catanzaro, where we ask him about some of the oddities at th...

We expected some great games. Some of the great games were unexpected. And if your team is 3-5, you might well get some mention in this podcast, even if you’re not Concordia-Moorhead. Didn’t we tell you that kicking would be an issue for St. John’s? (Psst, we did, in Podcast 252 .) We check in on the big games in New York, where the Liberty League and Empire 8 had automatic bids...

The final few weeks of the regular season get started, well, now, as we have key showdowns in the state of New York, and Iowa, and Pennsylvania, among others. Plus, if you are looking for a better understanding of how the mock regional rankings that we put together work, well, we welcome back our chief bracketologist, Greg Thomas. He’ll tell you what goes into the mock rankings, and the real...

Lots of eyes on this game. Lots of views on Twitter videos. Lots of people tying to knock down Mary Hardin-Baylor’s game-winning field goal. It’s great that we live in an era when we can see all of this video in real time, and then over and over again afterward. So UMHB wins by one, but loses the No. 1 spot. All of this is worth a good amount of discussion, and that’s what Pat an...

Looking at big games in Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia and Delaware, plus predictions on games from all across the map as we get you set for Week 8 of the 2019 Division III football season. We’ve got a few teams playing from positions they’re not used to, either. This week, we’re joined by a couple of gunslingers in red and white — they are Cortland quarterback Brett...

One of Saturday’s big games was well-known, well-promoted, and lived up to the hype of 19,508 fans. The other was played in front of a little bit fewer people, and was hardly predicted. So when the Johnnies beat the Tommies, sure, we knew that would be a big deal — but when Birmingham-Southern knocked off No. 7 Berry … Berry had two chances to get back into the game in the third...

There’s a big game between huge rivals going on in Minnesota this weekend, but also another 115 games in Division III, including a battle of unbeatens in the NESCAC. We’re going to give about the same amount of time to the St. John’s-St. Thomas game as we will to Wesleyan-Middlebury, where the attraction is more than just the change of seasons and the fall colors visible from Mid...

Yes, this is podcast No. 250. At this point, the milestones come fairly frequently, so we won’t bore regular listeners with too many old clips or stories about strange places we’ve recorded this podcast, but we couldn’t let a round number go unmentioned. This is the week Chapman played its way into the D3football.com Top 25, and Bethel nearly played itself out of the Top 10, and...

This was shaping up to be a perfectly normal week with awesome Division III football games, and then the news broke, that UMHB was being told it had to give up the 2016 Division III football national title. UMHB is appealing this decision . But it could well go through. We’ll open with a sound bite from Randy O’Rear, the UMHB president, and a couple of quotes from coach Pete Fredenburg...

We’ve often said in the course of writing about and covering Division III that you can find everything in Division III. That is definitely true in football, where when you have more than 110 games, there are bound to be interesting and unexpected performances. For example, Pat and Keith this week bring you multiple games in which teams rallied from fourth-quarter two-touchdown deficits to wi...

There are lots of teams in Division III which you have questions about, and you’re not alone. We have the same questions about a handful of teams, and in this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan tackle a few of them. Are they on track or overperforming so far? It’s buy or sell on the podcast. And then, we have lots of questions for Sa...

We come through the first month of the 2019 NCAA Division III season with a significant number of teams which are unbeaten, but not ranked. We hardly have time to talk about them all, but we’ll do as many of them as possible in this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast. And of course, there were a number of thrilling games, including one significant upset, on Saturday. Pat...

North, South, East and West, we’ll be looking for great games to come out of the woodwork. Nothing is going to stack up to the awesomeness that was Week 3, but whenever you feel like a week doesn’t have much to watch for, that’s when things will blow up. This edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast is sponsored by Gotta Have It: 3D Fan Foam Wall Signs for the D-II...

It was a strong day of games when we had our noon kickoffs, and it got even better by 7:00. Then when the 10 p.m. games kicked off, and heated up, and ended up in upsets, we knew we had just witnessed one of the great sets of games in … years? Hard to tell. This edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast is sponsored by Gotta Have It: 3D Fan Foam Wall Signs for the D-III fan in...

This week is the last gasp of non-conference play for some schools, where the Northwest and SoCal will be battling it out all down the line, and the MIAA and NACC will be doing so as well. Plus conference play gets started with two huge games in the CCIW, and the MIAC gets underway. Guest Mike Schmidt, the head coach at UW-La Crosse, talks about his team’s 2-0 start and how he and his staff...

With Keith McMillan on assignment this week, it was left to Pat Coleman to find a new co-host. No small task, perhaps, to find someone to sit in for the guys who wrote more than 100 Around the Nation columns and has co-hosted about 239 podcast episodes. But it turned out it wasn’t hard to find someone to step in. Enter Lake Forest head coach and NCAA committee chair Jim Catanzaro. (And cue t...

We nearly had to break the glass and bring out our emergency guest host, but eventually Keith McMillan awoke from his short fall’s nap and joined Pat Coleman for another edition of the podcast. This week on our game day podcast edition, we were joined by Hobart coach Kevin DeWall, who talked about his team’s big win against Brockport, as well as coaching his alma mater, what kind of ca...

When you have actual football games to base opinions off of, rather than just what you see or know on paper, your preconceived notions get challenged, rewritten, or perhaps affirmed. And for Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan, that’s one of the best things about getting the season started. Who expected to see Brockport go out and get blown off the blocks? Or to see Montclair State lose to Southe...

If you are new to Division III football with the start of the season, welcome. If you are new to this podcast, welcome. If you are a longtime listener, hey, you’re welcome as well and it’s nice to have you back. It’s nice to have games back as well. After a nine-month offseason, Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan are pleased to have actual games to talk about and get ready to kick of...

This felt like a long offseason, and there was a chance that D3football.com itself was never going to recover, that not only might there not be a podcast for the 2019 season, but there might not even be a website. No kidding. It’s been a rough year or so for the spirit of Division III, regardless of who’s defining it. But Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan are here to say that no, we&#8217...

If you’re Muhlenberg, coming off a trip to the national quarterfinals with very few seniors, there’s a lot to make noise about, and meanwhile, there’s a lot of reason that St. Thomas and the MIAC could make noise going into 2019, except nobody’s talking. That, and the longtime CCIW commissioner, a former Division III football national committee member joins us to talk about...

Bet you thought we forgot. No, spring is here, spring practice is underway in many places and yes, there is/was a March podcast. This month we start looking forward at the 2019 Division III football season, chatting with Gagliardi Trophy winner Jackson Erdmann of St. John’s about what’s ahead for the Johnnies this season, the state of his throwing shoulder and how he’s spending h...