ATN Podcast: The bracket reaction
We’re still feeling really good about this bracket — about the teams selected, about the first-round pairings, about so much of it. We’ll hear from the NCAA committee chair, Jack McKiernan, gets...
View ArticleATN Podcast 177: Covering the rest of a newsy week
Aside from “the Target Field game” there were another 99 games played on Saturday, and on top of that, there was all sorts of other news in the past week to cover. Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan talk...
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Quick Hits: Picking a number to beat
There are three games between ranked teams this week, and a fourth which could have been (stares at Whitewater’s goal-line stats), But there are also other battles between unbeatens, and games worthy...
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Quick Hits: Games to keep an eye on
Lots of eyes on Iowa, where the first automatic bid of the season could be clinched, as well as on Indiana, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But also, perhaps there’s something in Connecticut to note, or...
View ArticleATN Podcast 183: Here’s what’s left
We’re under a week from Selection Sunday. Only seven automatic bids are still up for grabs, and most will be really hard to pry away from the favorites. But what if both Washington & Jefferson and...
View ArticleATN Podcast 184: A step forward?
So, we’ve become accustomed to a bracket with two flights in the first round, instead of one. Last year they told us it was no longer a one-time thing, and this year they followed through on that. But...
View ArticleATN Podcast 193: Spring is here
We are deep in the Division III football offseason. It’s already been more than 90 days since we crowned Mount Union national championship and it’s more than five months before we restart. Spring...
View ArticleATN Podcast 203: Feeling the heat in Week 3
There’s rain going on in the southern Mid-Atlantic Region, and that has cancelled games, postponed games and forced games to move up. But there’s also a discussion about heat and humidity in one...
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Quick Hits Week 3: Please stay
It’s been such a long week in Division III football, but game day is finally here. (Apologies to Guilford, Catholic and Randolph-Macon.) Our regular crew for picking games is Keith McMillan, Ryan...
View ArticleATN Podcast 204: Now that was surprising
It was a surprising win for Misericordia, a surprising comeback for Thomas More. There were some great defensive performances and there was some good kicking as well. Yes, we can give a kicker or two a...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Reports from each quarterfinal
We were down to four games this week and that means we can focus a good amount of time on each one. So we pulled in an analyst to help us talk about each game, folks who were on the sidelines or in the...
View ArticleATN Podcast: New coaches, new season
Yes, that’s right — an Around the Nation Podcast in April! Pat and Keith will be doing monthly podcasts during the offseason, and they’ll check in with newsmakers in and around Division III football....
View ArticleATN Podcast: This is what happens when we actually play
It never fails — once we start playing games, the surprise results start pouring in. Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan chat about a good number of them, then chat with Johns Hopkins coach Jim Margraff and...
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Quick Hits Week 4: The big games, upset picks
Like last week there’s one huge game in the rankings and I’ll be there. And this week, it won’t require a boarding pass. Will this one live up to the hype better than last week’s? Our guest is Gene...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast: D-III pride
There were a couple of big games and although we’ll spend a good amount of time talking about the St. Thomas-St. John’s game, that’s not all that went on this past Saturday. UW-Whitewater preserved...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Conference leaders changing hands
It was another really interesting week in Division III football, with four teams dropping out of the Top 25, two of them plummeting. Similarly, in a handful of conferences, the first-place team and the...
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Quick Hits: Coming down to the wire
Conference races are coming down to the wire, and some of those key matchups come this week. That includes the game for bragging rights between our founding Around the Nation columnist (Keith McMillan,...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Breaking down the conference races
We started our deep dive into the playoffs on last week’s edition and we know we had a lot of new listeners — now we have to really talk about some of the automatic bids. Some conferences have pretty...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Playoff picture update
About half of the automatic bids have been handed out to the Field of 32 teams which will play for the 2016 Division III football championship. But while two of the remaining ones will be battled out...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 209: A big six for Week 6
There are six huge games between ranked teams (or ranked teams and unbeaten teams) this week, and this is a week Pat will be on the road, as he is heading out to Los Angeles to see a pair of games...
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Around the Nation Podcast: Down to 16
Linfield honored fallen teammate Parker Moore before taking the field against Chapman, then did so again on its first offensive play from scrimmage. (Photo by B. Scott Presley, d3photography.com) We...
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Triple Take: Predicted scores for the second round of the playoffs
Tyre Coleman needs one sack to move into sole possession of second place all-time in the history of the NCAA tracking stats, and 4.5 to move into a tie for first. (Hobart athletics photo) Consider for...
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Around the Nation Podcast: Shaking up the bracket
Linfield’s big win was the biggest news of Saturday. (Photo by Joe Fusco, d3photography.com) Linfield upset the apple cart with its big win on Saturday, knocking off a UMHB program that had been a play...
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Triple Take: Let’s get this 2015 thing started
It’s been a long time since we last saw a Division III game that counted. The Stagg Bowl was way back on Dec. 19, a mere 258 days ago. It’s been a longer wait for the 240-odd teams whose seasons ended...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast: New beginnings
Actual games. Actual results. The 2015 Division III football season went from virtual to literal this week. What were the big surprises? What interesting games flew under the radar? Who are the teams...
View ArticleAround the Nation: Big games and close calls
We might question whether some teams are as good as we think, and some Top 25 voters might be asking the same questions. Other teams are right where everyone thought they would be. And in some places,...
View ArticleAround the Nation: A great week for D-III football
Let’s see — the No. 1 Division III team beat the NAIA’s No. 1 team, SportsCenter spent significant time on two Division III campuses and we had a great, gutsy schedule of a non-conference game turn...
View ArticleA crack in the purple armor
Well, there you go — a crack in the purple armor favored by UW-Whitewater. This gives hope to a lot of people around Division III, but should it? What have we really learned from this weekend’s games?...
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Triple Take Week 11: This is what it’s all about
It’s Week 11. Do we even need an intro? Everyone’s got a big game this week, either playing for the final time this season or competing for the opportunity to play on. There are rivalry games; Williams...
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Division III playoffs: Triple Take sets the expectations for the Round of 32
Welcome to the most exciting Saturday of the postseason. Thirty-two of the nation’s best teams meet in 16 first-round playoff games. Eight kick off at noon Eastern Time, and seven more at noon Central,...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Let’s wipe our hands of that first round
Phew, that was ugly. UG-ly, with a capital U. And a G. In this case, we’re talking about most of the first round of the playoffs we have a coach talking about winning ugly, and another talking about...
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Triple Take: Our guesses at the Round 2 scores
The road to Salem gets a little more rugged in Round 2. Photo by Jamie Wilson, d3photography.com Here are the matchups by Top 25 ranking: No. 10 St. Johns at No. 4 St. Thomas No. 9 Thomas More at No. 7...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Now those were some playoffs!
After a disappointing first round, this was exactly what Division III football needed, including competitive games, a big play for the ages and more. Pat and Keith talk about each second round game,...
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Quarterfinals: The road to Salem gets much more difficult
Wesley will bring some offense to Alliance. Will that be enough?Photo by Mike Wilson, d3photography.comThe 2015 playoff bracket | Bracket challenge leaders | Playoff feature stories So let’s make...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 217: It’s not who you think
Our Friday podcast is our game day special, the one you listen to when you know to know everything about the upcoming week’s games. Pat and guest co-host Frank Rossi of In the Huddle go through a...
View ArticleAround the Nation 218: The bid-clinching has begun!
Yep, three teams have clinched their automatic bids to the NCAA Division III football playoffs, with 23 more to go, plus five true at-large bids. And it’s those at-large bids which will receive a ton...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 220: Saturday’s scenarios
This is where we get to crunch time. We could hand out as many as 15 of the 23 remaining automatic bids to the NCAA Division III playoffs on Saturday, and so you can follow along, we go through each of...
View ArticleAround the Nation Podcast 222: We predict at-large teams
Often this time of year we do a projected Division III NCAA Tournament field, but this year we’re so busy making podcasts that we didn’t do one. Instead, Pat and Keith are doing both at the same time:...
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Quick Hits: All the marbles
This is it — the last regular-season weekend of the season. Maybe there’s snow on the ground where you are. Maybe you have a bitter rival coming to town and an epic tailgate with old friends — well,...
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Quick Hits Week 2: Titanic games on tap
This week we’ve got our eyes on two big games featuring midwestern Titans, plenty of contests with titanic travel, a throwback Texas showdown, and a huge game between East region powers. Our regular...
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Quick Hits Week 4: Cracking the win column
This week the panel looks at a top-12 clash in the OAC, some big games down south, and which teams are poised to get their first win of 2019. Our regular crew is Keith McMillan, Ryan Tipps, Pat...
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ATN Podcast 247: The one with buy or sell
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...
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Quick Hits Week 10: It’s Bid Clinching Season!
We’ve reached the penultimate week of the regular season which means games with major Pool C implications, games that will decide conference champions, and a lot of teams playing the game before THE...
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Quick Hits Week 11: Easy as A-B-C
It’s last call for the NCAA tournament this week as the final six Pool A bids will be decided. No Pool B bids this year, but there are plenty of Bowls and Bells to go around. Which games influence one...
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Quick Hits predicts the first round scores
The story goes, one day on a long ride to a playoff game at Thiel (which tells you how long ago this happened), Pat and Keith decided to pass the time by guessing not just the winner of each...
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ATN Podcast 262: The one with two overtime games
That was a pretty great first round, not gonna lie. A Top 10 team nearly went down in the first round, one team came back from 18 down and another from 24, plus two games went to overtime — one of...
View ArticleATN Podcast 275: A time to listen
In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, we held off on our May podcast episode. Whatever we had planned would not stand up to what the country was going through, and as many podcasts and...
View ArticleATN Podcast 316: All eyes on Platteville, plus regional rankings
Some things we can’t seem to avoid talking about every week this season: The Cortaca Jug game in Yankee Stadium The University of Wisconsin-Platteville This week, Platteville made headlines again, and...
View ArticleATN Podcast 359: Definitely not a slow week
Sometimes Week 2 of the Division III football season can be a bit of a letdown. We know — teams generally improve the most between Week 1 and Week 2, says every football coach ever. But for the fans,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 366: Understanding the playoffs
Most years, we dedicate some space on the website or some time in our podcast to really give newcomers to Division III football a bit of a primer as to how the playoffs are structured, how at-large...
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