Podcasts by D3football.com

ATN Podcast 348: And then there were two from 2023-12-11T07:20:19

Just as we expected — one amazing national semifinal and one blowout. Never mind that people generally thought it would be the other way around — not our predictions, by the way, which did not h...

ATN Podcast 347: No more purple from 2023-12-04T08:09:09

Yep, that's correct. You see the colors above, and nary a Purple Power to be found. No more UW-Whitewater, no Mount Union, and of course, none of those other prominent purple powerhouses that fa...

ATN Podcast 346: Heading to the quarterfinals from 2023-11-30T06:36:45

We used to do this preview podcasts all the time, before life and day jobs interfered. But it's great to get back in the saddle, and do some longer interviews in this edition of the D3football.c...

ATN Podcast 345: Well, that doesn’t happen every day from 2023-11-27T06:04:33

We can't say in any way, shape or form that we called it. But in podcast 343, we did identify Alma as a team that could challenge Mount Union. But when push comes to shove, no, Alma scoring 24 p...

ATN Podcast 344: Running down the first round from 2023-11-20T05:30:09

In our first week of playoffs, the teams that should have been hosting went and won on the road anyway, and while we only had a couple of games go down to the final possession, those were certai...

ATN Podcast 343: Strength of what, exactly? from 2023-11-13T07:42:41

Oh man. 

Back in 2011, Patrick wrote a piece on Selection Sunday morning with the headline "Two-loss teams need not apply," essentially calling out the NCAA football committee for not eve...

ATN Podcast 342: No help for the bubble from 2023-11-06T04:24:42

If you were are hoping your team can get some help in getting into the NCAA playoffs as an at-large team, we got so close to being able to give you what you wanted on Saturday. But in the end, a...

ATN Podcast 341: Epic endings from 2023-10-30T07:26:41

The game between Johns Hopkins and Muhlenberg ended in a pretty epic way on Saturday. So did Belhaven’s unbeaten streak this season, at the hands of Maryville. And a 20-year long streak went by ...

ATN Podcast 340: A chat with the chair from 2023-10-26T05:05:03

The season of regional rankings, mock brackets and things such as Pool C teams is upon us, and how better to get things started than by having a conversation with the chair of the Division III f...

ATN Podcast 339: We’re halfway there from 2023-10-23T06:42:37

Greg Thomas starts off this podcast by quoting one of the famous philosophers of our time, and it is true about what point in the season we have reached. If you intend to play in the Stagg Bowl,...

ATN Podcast 338: Midseason reality checks from 2023-10-16T07:05:26

UW-Whitewater and UW-River Falls met in another of the big battles that should determine who goes to the playoffs out of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, whether it's one, two ...

ATN Podcast 337: When D-III football is at its best from 2023-10-09T06:23:55

It seems there can be little doubt that Division III football is at its best on a Saturday afternoon when the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is playing its conference games. They ...

ATN 336: Week 5 is for capital W’s from 2023-10-02T06:10:35

W is for Wartburg. W is for Wolverines. And W is for winning.

The connection is purely alphabetical, but we know that the top teams had some big wins on Saturday, one for a bell that is l...

ATN Podcast 335: Striking a blow for New England from 2023-09-25T04:50:30

It's not often the outcome of a single game can turn perceptions in Division III on their head, especially a game in September. But last Friday night, Endicott not only defeated No. 5 Hardin-Sim...

ATN Podcast 334: No less thrilling a week from 2023-09-18T07:42:44

This week didn't feature five games between Top 25 teams, but as we've known for years in Division III football, that doesn't make it any less thrilling. 

Out of 116 games, you're going t...

ATN Podcast 333: A little fun under the lights from 2023-09-11T06:25:20

It was a fun night for Trinity (Texas) fans in San Antonio, and the same for fans of Eastern on a rainy night in Philadelphia. Oberlin got a losing streak out of the way, King's looks good at 2-...

ATN Podcast 332: Right where we left off from 2023-09-04T08:13:46

It really does seem as though the 2023 Division III football season is going to be just like the 2022 version. But with even more games between ranked teams, more nailbiting, more magic.

...

ATN Podcast 331: Let’s get this party started from 2023-08-30T03:56:58

The 2023 Division III football season is upon us, kicking off on Thursday night, Aug. 31. Birmingham-Southern is one of those teams kicking off on Thursday, and the fact that B-SC is here at all...

ATN Podcast 330: What you need to know before Week 1 from 2023-08-21T04:04:16

Teams are in training camps, and if you’re new to Division III football, or awaking from a long slumber, this is a good time to get caught up. Because if you’re coming to Division III for the fi...

ATN Podcast 329: A new conference, state of NIL in D3, and a crazy idea for the ASC from 2023-05-30T05:38:11

Nobody at the American Southwest Conference is talking on the record — heck, there basically is nobody at the American Southwest Conference since they showed their commissioner the door, and two...

ATN Podcast 328: Three teams with reason to look ahead from 2023-03-31T05:06

We welcome Jace Rindahl of UW-Whitewater, the new 36-year-old head coach who was playing linebacker for the Warhawks so recently that he was the 2008 D3football.com Defensive Player of the Year....

ATN Podcast 327: How do we fix the playoffs? from 2023-02-20T04:24:31

This upcoming 2023 football season will have just four at-large bids. It's getting harder and harder to make the NCAA Division III football playoffs as an at-large team, there's no denying it. B...

ATN Podcast 326: Stagg Bowl, players of the year, our wish list from 2022-12-18T22:32:40

And just like that, the 2022 season, arguably the greatest season in NCAA Division III football history, is in the books. But before the podcast goes into offseason mode and becomes a monthly sh...

ATN Podcast 325: Most wonderful time of the year from 2022-12-16T05:56:21

The Stagg Bowl comes around holiday time and really is the most wonderful time of the year. It's the time when you can't duck questions any longer, and we talk with both head coaches and offensi...

ATN Podcast 324: The Road to Annapolis is complete from 2022-12-12T06:27:43

It's No. 1 vs. No. 2, just as everyone expected, as North Central and Mount Union advance to play in Stagg Bowl XLIX in Annapolis. While this is a rematch of teams that played in the second roun...

ATN Podcast 323: Down to a fantastic four from 2022-12-05T03:30:46

No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 12 are the four teams left in contention for a trip to Annapolis, Maryland, for Stagg Bowl XLIX. Mary Hardin-Baylor took down Bethel with a fourth-quarter surge, whil...

ATN Podcast 322: Saturday drama on-field, Sunday drama off of it from 2022-11-28T06:15:41

The entertainment in the 2022 Division III playoff bracket continued into the second round, and then reverberated throughout social media on Sunday afternoon and evening. That’s when the Divisio...

ATN Podcast 321: Season’s craziness continues in first round from 2022-11-21T05:23:36

We asked out loud how the Division III football playoff bracket could possibly live up to the 11-week regular season.

Are you not entertained?

Sure, every first round has its share...

ATN Podcast 320: Bubbles burst and the Berea Boink from 2022-11-14T07:01:24

The 2022 Division III playoff bracket is out, and we ask our usual questions: What did the committee get right here? What did they get wrong? Who got the toughest road to the Stagg Bowl? What ar...

ATN Podcast 319: National committee chair takes our questions from 2022-11-10T05:52:25

Sure, that might not be the sexiest title for a podcast episode, but it’s important. We got a good 45 minutes with the Division III football national committee chair, subjected him to our questi...

ATN Podcast 318: A muddy playoff picture from 2022-11-07T05:39:47

Another week of thrilling games leaves us able to practically smell the NCAA Division III football playoffs. But while `nearly half of the 27 automatic bids to the 32-team playoff field have alr...

ATN Podcast 317: The most entertaining season from 2022-11-03T17:12:02

This post was re-uploaded on Nov. 3 after a site crash. It was originally posted Oct. 31.

Susquehanna stops the two-point conversion for the final time with 49 seconds remaining and the R...

ATN Podcast 316: All eyes on Platteville, plus regional rankings from 2022-10-24T06:45:56

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...

ATN Podcast 315: Lookin’alive in the 5 from 2022-10-17T05:55:22

We talk about all six regions, multiple times, in each D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, For example, this week, who's lookin' alive in Region 5?

Ripon is lookin' quite alive as t...

ATN Podcast 314: Another classic week in D-III football from 2022-10-10T04:59:15

Spoiled. We are just spoiled this season by the great games in Division III football. There's not much more we can say. The span on Saturday afternoon in which all three games pictured here: Bir...

ATN Podcast 313: All about the No. 1 votes from 2022-10-03T08:16:42

Well, folks, Keith McMillan has had enough, and after 30 or so podcasts on the sidelines, with Greg Thomas co-hosting, he’s back and ready to throw down. Ready to throw down about the Top 25 pol...

ATN Podcast 312: Two big games; one classic from 2022-09-26T06:31:07

Unexpected realizations that if Bethel had had its No. 1 quarterback healthy and won in Week 2 at UW-Platteville, perhaps we'd be in a position where someone might have given Bethel ... a No. 1 ...

ATN Podcast 311: Breaking through to the other side? from 2022-09-19T06:08:35

In a week where some of us didn't really expect any upsets, instead we got a couple of big ones, where Loras got two shots at a last-second field goal to beat Central, and Case throttled Washing...

ATN Podcast 310: Loving this alternate reality of D-III football from 2022-09-12T07:22:03

Most years it seems as though our first couple of weeks of the season are filled with top teams pasting teams that are clearly overmatched. And while we've still had some of that in 2022, this a...

ATN Podcast 309: Off to a fun start from 2022-09-05T06:08:02

Yeah, this was a fun first week of the Division III football season, as we were treated to a Top Five showdown right out of the gate, another matchup of national semifinal teams and much more. <...

ATN Podcast 308: Best things to watch in 2022 from 2022-09-01T04:33:39

We're getting ready to kick it all off with the first week of Division III football games for 2022 this weekend, and this week's podcast takes you around to the big stories and big things we're ...

ATN Podcast 307: In camp and ready to rock from 2022-08-22T02:29:07

Teams are in camp, with the first games coming in just 10 days, on Sept. 1! And while it is definitely too early to talk about this year's playoff bubble, we decided to visit with two of last ye...

ATN Podcast 306: From Columbia to Division III from 2022-07-18T04:46:07

This month’s podcast finishes our offseason series of conversations with new coaches at Division III playoff contenders, and we get to Podcast 306, where we talk to Carnegie Mellon head coach Ry...

ATN Podcast 305: Early D-III powers bring coaches back to D-III from 2022-06-27T04:00:34

Wittenberg played in the Stagg Bowl four times in the 1970s, winning two of them. One of those wins was against Ithaca, which played in four of the first eight Stagg Bowls and has played in seve...

ATN Podcast 304: Mules in Spain; Meeting Peter Jennings from 2022-05-26T15:05:50

Pat and Greg chat with Nate Milne, Muhlenberg's head coach, about his team's recent trip to Spain, as well as new UW-Oshkosh head coach Peter Jennings. Also on the docket: which conferences will...

ATN Podcast 303: New UMHB coach; scheduling big; SOS from 2022-04-30T03:05:34

We're continuing our offseason series diving into interviews with new coaches at Division III football powers, as we check in with Larry Harmon, the new head coach of the defending national cham...

ATN Podcast 302: Are the Purple Powers still at the top, plus, North Central’s new coach from 2022-03-24T04:17:55

Pat Coleman stopped by in Naperville, Illinois, on a recent Division III basketball road trip and checked in on new North Central coach Brad Spencer. Spencer had been in the job for six weeks, b...

ATN Podcast 301: Vote coming on smaller conferences, pads in practice from 2022-01-19T04:07:34

If it seems like there is always something important about Division III football being voted on at the NCAA convention, well, we think you’re probably correct. This year, there is a significant ...

ATN Podcast 300: Players of the Year from 2021-12-18T21:20:04

It was great to have a 2021 Division III football season to have a podcast about, and since the 300th podcast fell right at the end of the season, we celebrate by bringing back an old favorite —...

ATN Podcast 299: Welcome to Canton from 2021-12-17T08:54:35

Oh, heck yeah -- we have one of those nice new Stagg Bowl venues with a nice new stadium smell. And no, we were never going to get 23,000 people to attend this game, but having it played in a bi...

ATN Podcast 298: Breaking down the semifinals from 2021-12-13T06:21:22

We get a new, never-before-seen matchup in the Stagg Bowl, and that's something to be excited about. In the latest edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast, Pat and Greg break dow...

ATN Podcast 297: Champs with a chip on their shoulder? from 2021-12-06T07:20:46

This is not perceived slight. This is actual, honest-to-goodness, true, verifiable slight.

Near the beginning of our podcast season we had some audio Jeff Thorne said to his players on th...

ATN Podcast 296: A new era of parity? from 2021-11-29T07:32:20

In 2019 the second round of the Division III playoffs featured a number of blowouts, and this year, yes, there were two big wins, perhaps not coincidentally by the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in our T...

ATN Podcast 295: How upset can we get? from 2021-11-22T07:14:36

If the committee doesn't do its due diligence to make sure it is giving the teams that have the best criteria home games in the playoffs, but the teams that benefited from this mistake ended up ...

ATN Podcast 294: The one with the bracket from 2021-11-15T14:39:34

Now we know who is in and who is out, and unless you are a Hardin-Simmons fan, there might not be a lot to complain about with this bracket. Yes, we thought the Cowboys would be in, and surely m...

ATN Podcast 293: All the playoff ramifications from 2021-11-08T06:57:37

We handed out 15 more automatic bids on Saturday, for a total of 16, and there were a number of games with big results to keep an eye on. So we break it down for you, fellas -- the big game in t...

ATN Podcast 292: Conference races down to wire from 2021-11-01T05:28:37

Key games in the Centennial and Liberty League didn't finalize those conference chases. But with 27 automatic bids to a field of 32 playoff teams, we have one team which has clinched so far. Tha...

ATN Podcast 291: Bad break for SJU, tough loss for W&J from 2021-10-25T06:23:08

We have no idea who the leader of the PAC is right now. None. If you have four leaders, you don’t have any — at least, that would be the coach speak version of the answer. We can’t fully clear u...

Bonus Podcast: You’ll see a change in regional rankings from 2021-10-22T19:06:55

Regional rankings are coming soon! Usually this would be a great time of year, but this time around, it's going to be more than a little confusing. These sorts of things are handled in the same ...

ATN Podcast 290: After the mistake, after the upset from 2021-10-18T06:16:58

You gotta feel for the guy. Taking a knee instead of spiking the ball is not something that Colin Schuetz invented; heck, a current NFL starting quarterback did the same thing in college. But it...

ATN Podcast 289: Clarification, celebration and separation from 2021-10-11T05:14:07

We got a little clarification in some conferences. We had celebrations of some big wins. And we got separation -- or at least, some key players did.

Week 6 of the 2021 Division III footba...

ATN Podcast 288: Close calls from Week 5 from 2021-10-04T05:28:17

Week 5 was witness to a number of key battles, both inside and outside of the Top 25, and if you're living life in the fast lane, you hopes for making the postseason may be already gone in the l...

ATN Podcast 287: Classic comebacks from 2021-09-27T05:41:42

There were a lot of eyes on the big game of Saturday night between Mary Hardin-Baylor and Hardin-Simmons, and we talk plenty about that game, its breakout star, the aftermath and the implication...

ATN Podcast 286: The bell, the poll, and why you aren’t ranked from 2021-09-20T07:13:12

From bell reality to poll potential, there’s a lot to talk about in this week’s podcast. First off, you can hear exactly what North Central coach Jeff Thorne had to say about a lack of respect f...

ATN Podcast 285: Game balls, off the beaten path, and more from 2021-09-13T06:07:51

We got our first look at the defending national champions this past week, and against a ranked team as well. What do the Cardinals look like? Greg Thomas has his take, and it's bad news for the ...

ATN Podcast 284: Both happy and emotional from 2021-09-06T05:05:11

If you have gone 650-some days between games, you can be expected to be happy, and you can be excused for being a little bit emotional as well. And when that long break culminates in a big win, ...

ATN Podcast 283: Back after the long layoff from 2021-09-01T05:25:03

First of all, it's official: We're back. And secondly, Pat and Greg have a confession to make, perhaps some news to break about who is the No. 1 team on their preseason ballots. Meanwhile, for m...

ATN Podcast 282: Wesley memories from 2021-04-14T04:34:13

At the time this episode drops, Wesley was scheduled to play one last time this upcoming weekend. It's not exactly a fitting end for a proud Division III football program, but in this 2020-21 se...

ATN Podcast 281: Could spring games lead to spring practice? from 2021-03-18T04:32:25

There is so much here to talk about as we are midway through March in Division III football, and one of the things that Division III football coaches are pointing to right now is how all of the ...

ATN Podcast 280: Return of game balls from 2021-02-28T20:52:29

The first-ever February football in Division III is in the books, and Pat and Keith are here to hand out game balls and talk about the goings-on. Coaches were getting a bit of a breather in the ...

ATN Podcast 279: On the move from 2021-01-18T05:30:15

We are mere weeks away from getting games in this Division III football spring season, with nine games slated to go on Feb. 6. And one Division III prospect is getting his crack at the NFL this ...

ATN Podcast 278: October’s classics from 2020-10-24T01:34:48

Four teams are playing games in October and all four were supposed to be playing within a few miles of each other last Saturday, Of course, Because Of The Pandemic, that didn't exactly happen. B...

ATN Podcast 277: The teams left standing from 2020-08-13T05:41:25

This eternal offseason is destined to continue, but even into mid-August, things move so quickly that conferences, and individual schools which had been sure they were going to play football gam...

ATN Podcast 276: Running toward the spring? from 2020-07-22T06:04:02

With the fall championship all but called off, schools that haven't called off their fall sports already will probably be doing so soon, and those who are looking to potentially play football in...

ATN Podcast 275: A time to listen from 2020-06-26T03:28:37

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 podc...

ATN Podcast 274: Who knows what’s next? from 2020-05-01T03:22:54

Will we see games this fall, or spring? Did D-III players miss out on their NFL chances because of the pandemic? Will all of our schools even open this fall? How does one coach on Zoom? All this...

ATN Podcast 273: A silent spring from 2020-03-30T03:00:17

The fields will stand empty this spring, as college campuses across the country are devoid of student and athlete alike. The Division III football spring practice will be even more non-existent ...

ATN Podcast 272: D-III’s road to the NFL from 2020-02-26T19:30:44

Keith starts off this podcast by saying, "I think we are sitting on the best offseason podcast in Around the Nation history." And if you care about Division III players in the NFL, or headed to ...

ATN Podcast 271: The post-Kehres world from 2020-01-21T05:20:08

The announcements of the departure of Vince Kehres and Larry Kehres from the Mount Union football program and athletic department are easily the most impactful news stories of the young 2020 sea...

ATN Podcast 270: Crowning a new champion from 2019-12-21T21:20:17

In other Division III sports, we often get to see schools experience the national championship event for the first time, and often get to see them come away a winner. In football, however, we ha...

ATN Podcast 269: The finishing touches from 2019-12-20T03:36:25

This was the scene on Thursday afternoon as they were still painting the end zones in advance of Friday night's Stagg Bowl. Pat and Keith are here to get you ready for the game as well, and they...

ATN Podcast 268: Early picks, late picks pave road to Stagg from 2019-12-16T07:47:40

There were picks early in the game in Allentown, and late in the game in Whitewater, as North Central and UW-Whitewater booked their tickets to Shenandoah by winning their national semifinals an...

ATN podcast 267: The semifinals are here! from 2019-12-13T08:15:04

We have two great games to be played on Saturday, with four teams who have never been to Shenandoah, with no players who have ever played in the Stagg Bowl, and with one program guaranteed to pl...

ATN podcast 266: On to the final four from 2019-12-09T06:25:43

Muhlenberg shuts down Salisbury, UW-Whitewater runs past Mary Hardin-Baylor, North Central avoids a letdown against Delaware Valley and St. John’s survives a crazy ending at Wheaton. That’s the ...

ATN Podcast 265: A new-look quarterfinals from 2019-12-06T06:15:40

We're on to the third round of the playoffs, and it's a round that looks a little less purple, a little more wide-open, and has a lot less for people to complain about. Will any of the games be ...

ATN Podcast 264: The one with the second-round shocker from 2019-12-02T07:39:29

Highlights, reaction and analysis from across all parts of the bracket are what you find in this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast. That includes North Central coach Jeff T...

ATN Podcast 263: Get out of the turkey coma right now from 2019-11-29T01:00:45

The first round of games was much more than just a preliminary, more than the appetizer to the meat and potatoes we get in round two. But that next round in our five-course meal is the second ro...

ATN Podcast 262: The one with two overtime games from 2019-11-25T03:23:14

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...

ATN Podcast 261: Sixteen games on the road to the Stagg Bowl from 2019-11-22T06:28:20

The games are here! We've got 16 games on Saturday that will get us started on the road to Shenandoah, Texas, where the Stagg Bowl will be held one more time this year before it moves to Canton,...

ATN Podcast 260: The one with the bracket from 2019-11-18T07:23

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 continu...

ATN Podcast 259: Eleven bids to go from 2019-11-15T05:59:59

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 sho...

ATN Podcast 258: The one with mass hysteria from 2019-11-11T04:57:41

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...

ATN Podcast 257: The one with the bronze and the turkey from 2019-11-08T07:58:52

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...

ATN Podcast 256: The one with the Top 25 on fire from 2019-11-04T07:27:09

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 ...

ATN Podcast 255: The one with November from 2019-11-01T05:48:21

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 bett...

ATN Podcast 254: The one with the field goal from 2019-10-28T04:26:40

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...

ATN Podcast 253: Getting us ready for Week 8 from 2019-10-25T07:16

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...

ATN Podcast 252: Johnnies and Tommies and Panthers (oh my) from 2019-10-21T04:20:05

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 ...

ATN Podcast 251: The one where everyone learns to pronounce Allianz from 2019-10-18T06:01:04

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 th...

ATN Podcast 250: The one with the milestone from 2019-10-14T04:47:37

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...

ATN Podcast 249: The one with the Cru reaction from 2019-10-11T06:43:32

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 nat...

ATN Podcast 248: The one with fourth-quarter comebacks from 2019-10-07T06:44:09

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 gam...

ATN Podcast 247: The one with buy or sell from 2019-10-04T05:10:25

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 Aroun...

ATN Podcast 246: The one with all the unbeatens from 2019-09-30T04:22:57

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 ...

ATN Podcast 245: The one with the woodwork from 2019-09-27T05:15:14

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 we...

ATN Podcast 244: The one with the upsets after dark from 2019-09-23T02:01:21

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 wit...

ATN Podcast 243: The one with all the mascots from 2019-09-20T07:33:39

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 ...

ATN Podcast 242: The one with guest host Jim Catanzaro from 2019-09-16T01:09:45

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 N...

ATN Podcast 241: The one with the guy asleep at the keyboard from 2019-09-13T06:40:02

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.<...

ATN Podcast 240: The one with all the surprises from 2019-09-09T06:03:56

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...

ATN Podcast 239: The one with actual games from 2019-09-05T12:10:47

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 ...

ATN Podcast 238: Time to get going! from 2019-08-30T04:42:01

The podcast is back! It almost wasn't, as Pat Coleman explains. And just when you think you have D-III figured out, you have teams jumping conferences, conferences dumping teams and conferences ...

ATN Podcast 237: Plenty to shout about from 2019-05-22T05:14:08

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 MIA...

ATN Podcast 236: Spring just in under the wire from 2019-04-01T03:18:39

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 footb...

ATN Podcast 235: Doing right, doing wrong, doing new from 2019-02-28T05:23:25

We're joined this month by new Aurora coach Don Beebe, whom you might better know as a former NFL player, one who played in six Super Bowls and provided a quite memorable highlight in one of the...

Around the Nation Podcast 234: The aftermath from 2019-01-24T06:30:37

We're all still generally in the aftermath of the 2018 Division III football season, and we talk with three people who are in that realm as well. Our offseason podcasts typically include three l...

Around the Nation Podcast 233: Wrapping up 2018 from 2018-12-15T22:04:29

The 44th D3football.com Around the Nation podcast of the calendar year is the one in which we get to talk about Stagg Bowl XLVI, the 24-16 win by Mary Hardin-Baylor, and discuss the postseason a...

Around the Nation Podcast 232: We’re doin’it live in Texas from 2018-12-14T01:09:23

The crew is all in place for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, and Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan are joined by Frank Rossi and Greg Thomas. (Adam Turer was in a big old jet airliner.) We'll get you u...

Around the Nation Podcast 231: Breaking down the semifinals from 2018-12-10T07:56:51

Same faces in a new place, as Mount Union and Mary Hardin-Baylor will head down to Shenandoah, Texas, this week. Keith was in Alliance and Pat was in Belton to cover the semifinals and give thei...

Around the Podcast 230: Down to the Final Four from 2018-12-07T08:03:24

Staggered starts! One game at noon, the other at 3:30! Replay! Video review! That's what the semifinals are all about. In both of them, we have teams which have met before. In the case of Mary H...

Around the Nation Podcast 229: Gutting it out from 2018-12-03T08:16:30

Whether pounding the rock, running a non-wildcat, throwing deep down the field or just being what we thought you were, there's a storyline for each game on Saturday. Jackson Erdmann finishes the...

Around the Nation Podcast 228: Down to four games from 2018-11-30T06:51:22

We've got one national semifi... no, sorry, four national quarterfinals, and we think three of them are shaping up to be pretty good, as RPI can certainly hold its own against Johns Hopkins, UW-...

Around the Nation Podcast 227: No place like home from 2018-11-26T06:34:02

Well, how about that, with RPI getting a big upset win, and Johns Hopkins getting a large win to send Frostburg to Division II on, and St. Norbert giving a valiant effort and Mount Union looking...

Around the Nation Podcast 226: Four hours with eight games from 2018-11-23T04:37:46

Sixteen teams play eight games over a course of four hours on Saturday, in the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs. And we should be in line for some great games, now that we've gotte...

Around the Nation Podcast 225: Just good enough from 2018-11-19T08:38:26

Keith McMillan pleaded for a first round of the playoffs that didn't stink. And he got it, if nothing else, because his alma mater, Randolph-Macon, upset John Carroll. Now, your mileage may have...

Around the Nation Podcast 224: Prelude to a bunch of barnburners from 2018-11-16T09:02:52

If the second round of the playoffs is your big turkey dinner with all the trimmings and every side you could want, then the first round is like that tray of vegetables and dip that you end up n...

Around the Nation Podcast 223:‘It’s definitely not what we want’ from 2018-11-12T07:41:21

That line up top is what the national committee chair told us when talking about new restrictions on travel for the NCAA playoffs, as the NCAA clawed back one of the first-round flights the comm...

Around the Nation Podcast 222: We predict at-large teams from 2018-11-09T08:54:45

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...

Around the Nation Podcast 221: What do you want to know? from 2018-11-05T08:33:52

The number of teams in the tournament now is up to 13 teams which have clinched automatic bid to the 2018 Division III playoffs. But even though some parts of the Division III playoff picture go...

Around the Nation Podcast 220: Saturday’s scenarios from 2018-11-02T08:20:08

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 ...

Around the Nation Podcast 219: Breaking down the regional rankings from 2018-11-01T02:24:01

The first set of regional rankings came out on Wednesday, and our team went through all four regions and looked to see what made sense and what was out of place. You see, the first regional rank...

Around the Nation 218: The bid-clinching has begun! from 2018-10-29T08:28:28

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 ...

Around the Nation Podcast 217: It’s not who you think from 2018-10-26T07:58:51

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 ...

Around the Nation Podcast 216: Committee chair explains it all from 2018-10-25T19:00:24

Are you new to Division III football? Is your team in playoff contention for the first time in a while? Are you a coach of a team which hopes to be in the playoffs someday? Or do you feel like y...

Around the Nation Podcast 215: Three weeks to Selection Sunday from 2018-10-22T08:03:16

Well, there were some interesting losses and some unexpectedly narrow wins on Saturday. While that didn't change the playoff picture as much as it changed the Top 25, there were still some key c...

Around the Nation Podcast 214: Staying high and dry from 2018-10-19T06:47:03

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 Keith go through a half-dozen big games, then a half-d...

Around the Nation Podcast 213: Taking your questions from 2018-10-16T18:12:29

Every Sunday night we take questions from listeners and followers on Twitter with the intent of answering the best one on the Monday podcast. When listeners turn around and give us 10 additional...

Around the Nation Podcast 212: Taking down the big dog from 2018-10-15T07:23:45

The Johnnie-Tommie game definitely fits the bill of someone taking down the big dog, and so does WashU's win vs. Wheaton. Both get a good amount of discussion, especially with the state of the C...

Around the Nation Podcast 211: The Tommie-Johnnie game, and more from 2018-10-12T05:12:50

This weekend's key games include one game for first place, and a bunch of games that could help determine who remains in the playoff hunt. And now, heading into Week 7, there's just enough reaso...

Around the Nation Podcast 210: Who should be No. 1? from 2018-10-08T07:45:04

A weekend of big games begged the question for D3football.com Top 25 voters as to which team should be No. 1. While there are 19 voters who picked Team Alliance Purple as No. 1, there are now si...

Around the Nation Podcast 209: A big six for Week 6 from 2018-10-05T07:23:41

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 gam...

Around the Nation Podcast 208: Going for 2 from 2018-10-01T07:49:57

We love a gutsy call. Sure, our job isn't being put on the line when a coach makes the decision to go for two at the end of a key game, but this is Division III -- the coach's job isn't really o...

Around the Nation Podcast 207: Fred’s back from 2018-09-28T05:31:48

While the rest of you were no doubt glued to C-SPAN or your news network of choice to watch a certain hearing of sorts from Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Pat and Keith were listening to a certai...

Around the Nation Podcast 206: That one game was enough, but we still got more from 2018-09-24T08:23:03

We could spend a lot of time talking about the Mount Union-John Carroll game, and all of its ramifications -- so we'll do that. For a while, for sure. But there were plenty of other games of not...

ATN Podcast 205: Something unexpected in Week 4 from 2018-09-21T05:26:47

There could be even more blowouts than usual in the Week 4 Top 25 schedule, so we're hoping for perhaps a couple of surprises, as well as a great showdown between No. 1 Mount Union and No. 15 Jo...

ATN Podcast 204: Now that was surprising from 2018-09-17T07:49:49

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 o...

ATN Podcast 203: Feeling the heat in Week 3 from 2018-09-14T05:08:41

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...

ATN Podcast 202: It’s a struggle from 2018-09-10T06:55:20

It was a struggle for UW-Oshkosh to get anything going on offense on Saturday, and in light of that, it's a struggle for Top 25 voters. What do you do with a team which lost to a Division II opp...

ATN Podcast 201: Big names take the field from 2018-09-07T04:48:34

Week 2 is here, and Pat and Keith are ready to tackle it. It starts with three Top 10 teams who are taking the field for the first time this season, and for one in particular, No. 2 Mary Hardin-...

ATN Podcast 200: What people don’t want to admit from 2018-09-03T05:57:50

We are getting back into the flow in the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. This is the 200th edition of this podcast, entering its 12th season, and Pat and Keith use it to run down the W...

ATN Podcast 199: What’s coming in Week 1 from 2018-08-29T04:28:56

Pat and Keith open the August podcast with some really big news about the future of the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. It's probably considered good news for people who like the podca...

ATN Podcast 198: Trying to break through from 2018-07-30T03:46:38

This is really the end of the offseason, right here. Kickoff is out in a week-plus and training camps open at the same time. Coaches are taking the last days off until November, and we're talkin...

ATN Podcast 197: Getting through the dog days from 2018-06-30T05:29:11

The month of June is the last month of serious offseason. By the time we get to the end of July, our Top 25 and preseason All-America teams are out and you can throw away those magazines that gi...

ATN Podcast 196: Remembering Mike Drass from 2018-05-15T05:41:47

It was shocking to hear the news come out on Monday afternoon that Wesley football coach Mike Drass, just 57 years old, had died. And while Pat and Keith add their condolences to the outpouring ...

ATN Podcast 195: Face to face from 2018-05-14T17:16:43

With Pat Coleman in the midwest and Keith McMillan on the east coast, our podcasters don't often have the opportunity to meet in person and record an interview, let alone an entire podcast, but ...

ATN Podcast 194: Beating the odds from 2018-04-20T06:27:43

At the end of an April with a lot of Division III news, we're hoping for some even bigger news -- an NFL draft pick. Those don't come every year in D-III, but Wesley offensive lineman Matthew Go...

ATN Podcast 193: Spring is here from 2018-03-26T05:59:35

On this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, we chat with new Washington & Lee coach Garrett LeRose  (@coachlerose on Twitter) about taking over the position as a 2007 g...

ATN Podcast 192: Back for a second year from 2018-02-26T02:55:18

On this edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation podcast, we're talking with three head coaches who are now through that first year and ready to re-evaluate. We chat with Dan Swanstrom of...

February podcast preview from 2018-02-24T18:20:03

Here's a preview of our February podcast, plus an outtake from one of our interviews. We're chatting with Ithaca coach Dan Swanstrom, Northwestern (Minn.) coach Matt Moore and Baldwin Wallace co...

ATN Podcast 191: Breakout teams, big stage from 2018-01-29T02:58:42

To wrap up January, we talked with Wooster offensive lineman Patrick Mohorcic, the captain of the AFCA's Good Works team, about his work combating violence against women, Wooster's challenging s...

ATN Podcast 190: A farewell to 2017 and Salem from 2017-12-16T17:45:29

Pat and Keith, Adam Turer and Frank Rossi and the D3football.com crew were joined by guests who could talk about the long history of the Stagg Bowl in Salem, Virginia, former NCAA liaison Wayne ...

ATN Podcast 189: Twas the day before Stagg Bowl from 2017-12-14T08:02:49

Wait, a podcast on a Thursday? Yep, that's right -- Pat Coleman and guest analyst Frank Rossi step up to the mic in Salem for a special edition of the D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast fo...

ATN Podcast 188: And then there were two from 2017-12-11T09:45:25

We're pretty sure you already know what this podcast is about: two teams left, two epic performances, one in the comeback from 25 points down in 24 minutes and the other being another stifling d...

ATN Podcast 187: Last gasps, final kicks, big picks from 2017-12-04T09:04:54

Quarterfinals week -- or semifinals, if you're already looking ahead, is part of a nutritious Division III diet. Whether it's a last-second field goal, an unexpectedly expected quarterback chang...

ATN Podcast 186: Blowing it all out from 2017-11-27T08:02:19

OK, yes, this second round of the playoffs was bad, in an epic way. No doubt. How bad? We'll talk about that, for sure. But that doesn't mean there isn't anything we can learn from this week's p...

ATN Podcast 185: Fun first round, for starters from 2017-11-20T09:25:54

Yes, two top 10 teams are eliminated who should have had a better chance to advance into the second round, and it's crazy that we have to wait until Sundays to find out who is hosting each round...

ATN Podcast 184: A step forward? from 2017-11-13T09:35:32

Rather than a step forward, this bracket is like a trip back in time. In fact, this bracket features something that hasn't been in a Division III football bracket since 2009. Also, you do not wa...

ATN Podcast 183: Here’s what’s left from 2017-11-06T10:00:10

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 & Jeffer...

ATN Podcast 182: Eight teams for five at-large slots from 2017-10-30T07:35:25

Sure, UW-Platteville losing theoretically opened up a playoff spot, but that doesn't mean anyone should breathe easy. Even if you don't count Platteville, there are at least eight more teams vyi...

ATN Podcast 181: How it all ties together from 2017-10-23T08:39:50

There were more than a couple of games that all came down to exciting endings at about the same time on Saturday, and there are plenty of games from this past week and future weeks that are fair...

ATN Podcast 180: Heavy on lightning, light on thunder from 2017-10-16T07:40:17

A little bit of rain (OK, a lot of rain), a little lightning, half the usual Thunder and a few unbeaten teams getting their first loss made up a good part of the news in Week 7. This was definit...

ATN Podcast 179: Big games lead to playoff talk from 2017-10-09T06:33:22

All of a sudden we drop a few big games into the mix, set a couple of Top 25 ballots on fire, and then it's not too early to talk about strength of schedule, and the playoffs, and how at-large b...

ATN Podcast: The end of one purple era from 2017-10-02T07:40:57

Once upon a time, this patient got up off the table, but now Pat or Keith (hint, not both) is ready to call an end to the UW-Whitewater dynasty. See, yes UWW has lost three games before in a sea...

ATN Podcast 177: Covering the rest of a newsy week from 2017-09-26T04:20:33

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...

ATN Podcast 176: Bonus podcast from Tommie-Johnnie game from 2017-09-24T04:46:23

Pat Coleman and Adam Turer hand out game balls for the Tommie-Johnnie game, talk with the coaches, describe the atmosphere and what this means for Division III football. Former SJU beat writer F...

ATN Podcast 175: Defenses keep showing up from 2017-09-18T04:40:51

Offensive numbers catch the eye, whether it's 98 points or this week's 79 or 332 receiving yards and six touchdowns. But Keith has this thing about defense also being part of the game, and that'...

ATN Podcast 174: Evaluating the surprise winners from 2017-09-11T07:03:04

We certainly spent some time talking about teams that have lost unexpectedly through the first two weeks: UW-Whitewater, St. Thomas, UW-Whitewater again, Thomas More to name a few. But in this w...

ATN Podcast 173: What’s wrong with big scores? from 2017-09-04T07:09:46

Lots of cool and interesting things happened in the opening weekend of Division III football. Of course, many of them were overshadowed by the 98-0 win by St. John's over St. Scholastica. Nobody...

ATN Podcast 172: Getting ready to start from 2017-08-28T04:01:35

It's been a busy August around D3football.com, with Pat and Keith spearheading all the coverage in Kickoff 2017 and Pat driving a thousand-plus miles to talk to visit six Division III football p...

ATN Podcast: Top 25, blue turf, new bowls, how you can help from 2017-07-11T05:45:14

We've got an extra-long podcast for you this month, because we have to talk about the Top 25, the blue turf at Luther, finding the match at Muhlenberg, finding relevancy at King's and getting ye...

ATN Podcast: Talking Oshkosh, new conferences and more from 2017-06-16T04:39:58

This month, Keith McMillan is out on assignment, but we found someone to fill in who's only written about a hundred fewer ATN columns. Pat Coleman and Adam Turer chat with UWO running back Dylan...

ATN Podcast: Our new Texas hosts, two-a-days and more from 2017-04-22T15:52:18

It's time to meet the first of our new Stagg Bowl hosts, as we talk with the person in charge of the Stagg Bowl at Shenandoah, Texas. Plus we talk about what's next for football preseason practi...

ATN Podcast: An end to two-a-days? from 2017-03-30T22:40:08

One of the big topics of discussion right now in Division III, and in college football as a whole, is preseason practice time, including what seems to be likely -- the end to two-a-day practices...

ATN Podcast: Chasing the NFL dream from 2017-02-28T06:11:44

Members of this past year's senior class are chasing their dreams of pro football right now, and next year's senior class has players hoping to do the same. In light of that, the February editio...

ATN Podcast: Welcome to 2017 from 2017-01-30T05:01:07

The D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast returns to offseason mode, including discussion of the latest news from Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan as well as interviews with new John Carroll co...

ATN Podcast: The MVP, players and coach of the year from 2016-12-17T14:54:43

It was a tension-filled battle to decide Stagg Bowl XLIV and a great game to boot Pat and Keith were joined by the rest of the on-air crew from the D3football.com Stagg Bowl XLIV audio broadcast...

ATN Podcast: Breaking down the semifinals from 2016-12-12T07:51:36

Our podcast team was truly around the nation this week, as Keith McMillan was in Belton, Texas, and Pat Coleman was in Oshkosh, Wis., for the two national semifinals. What results is an informat...

Around the Nation Podcast: New faces the reason for excitement from 2016-12-05T09:42:48

You've been asking for this for years, haven't you? John Carroll and UW-Oshkosh advanced to the national semifinals, meaning there will be at least one team in the Stagg Bowl for the first time....

Around the Nation Podcast: A day for the defenses from 2016-11-28T07:38:38

When you're down to just 16 teams and eight games, we can take the time to go through each of them, and it was a week which made Keith very happy. There was a lot of defense to talk about for th...

Around the Nation Podcast: Tense moments from 2016-11-21T00:02:09

Whether you were among the excited, with no rooting interest, or among the tense, with your season hanging in the balance, the 3 p.m. hour-plus in the Eastern Time Zone on Saturday was a great t...

ATN Podcast: The bracket reaction from 2016-11-14T09:28:44

We'll hear from the NCAA committee chair, Jack McKiernan, gets Keith's view on watching his alma mater clinch an automatic bid and talk about that John Carroll-Mount Union game. Plus, we'll disc...

ATN Podcast: Playoff picture update from 2016-11-07T08:08:36

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 battle...

ATN Podcast: Breaking down the conference races from 2016-10-31T08:21:36

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 ...

ATN Podcast: It’s truly time to talk playoffs from 2016-10-24T07:36:28

It's finally time to talk in-depth about the postseason -- picks, prognostications, problems and the like. If you're new to Division III, we'll give you a quick roundup of how it's set up and if...

ATN Podcast: Conference leaders changing hands from 2016-10-17T07:28:35

In a handful of conferences, the first-place team and the highest-ranked team in our poll changed over based on Saturday's results. Pat and Keith break down where things changed in the Empire 8,...

ATN Podcast: A great week in Division III! from 2016-10-10T07:39:57

We had a game with 17,000-plus fans, a top five team save its bacon in the final seconds, and just a ton of great finishes all around the nation this week. In fact, it's pretty clear we can cons...

Around the Nation Podcast: Purple ponderings from 2016-10-03T06:48:26

Hard to start anywhere but with UW-Whitewater and Mount Union this week, as Whitewater comes away with a key win and the Purple Raiders looked a little shaky in their win vs. Ohio Northern. Plus...

Around the Nation Podcast: D-III pride from 2016-09-26T06:09:34

We'll spend a good amount of time talking about the St. Thomas-St. John's game, but that's not all that went on this past Saturday. UW-Whitewater preserved Division III pride as the No. 2 Warhaw...

ATN Podcast: Shaking off the big loss from 2016-09-19T06:15:03

It was definitely a tough weekend for Linfield and Washington & Jefferson, and a great weekend for Mary Hardin-Baylor and Thomas More, and we had people at both games and talk with the peop...

ATN Podcast: If you’re 0-2, there’s still hope from 2016-09-12T06:57:11

Benedictine avoided going 0-2 this week thanks to a big win, and Utica is on the opposite side of the ledger, starting off 2-0. Lots of discussion of Utica beating Ohio Northern, but also, some ...

ATN Podcast: This is what happens when we actually play from 2016-09-05T06:59:09

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 Marg...

ATN Podcast: Kickoff and KICKOFF approaching from 2016-08-18T14:15:22

Every August, Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman meet to go through the process of ranking all 248 teams, ranking the conferences, editing some of the volumes of stories that come in for Kickoff and...

ATN Podcast: Moving to the next level from 2016-07-27T05:09:51

One of the questions we've focused on this year in our slate of offseason podcasts and interviews is to ask coaches what it would take for their school to get to the next level. Earlier this off...

ATN Podcast: Getting ever closer from 2016-06-13T04:38:56

Guests this month include Franklin coach Mike Leonard, Washington & Lee coach Scott Abell, Lawrence head coach Rob McCarthy and Lawrence offensive coordinator Mark Speckman.

The post...

ATN Podcast: Pro prospects from 2016-05-04T04:59:43

One of the best stories of the offseason has been a player from last year's draft class, Concordia-Moorhead quarterback Griffin Neal. He talks about his year playing overseas in Germany and how ...

ATN Podcast: New coaches, new season from 2016-04-04T06:02:07

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 foo...

ATN Podcast: Season’s over from 2015-12-19T08:25:33

The 43rd championship season of Division III football is over, with Mount Union hoisting the trophy. But there was a little more business to do, including handing out game balls (which differed,...

ATN Podcast: The Road to Salem is complete from 2015-12-14T07:26:37

It's just Mount Union and St. Thomas still standing with a shot at Walnut and Bronze in Division III football for 2015, and they each got there in dominating fashion. Pat and Keith talk about ea...

ATN Podcast: Reports from each quarterfinal from 2015-12-07T07:32:27

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...

ATN Podcast: Now those were some playoffs! from 2015-11-30T08:03:39

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 g...

ATN Podcast: Let’s wipe our hands of that first round from 2015-11-23T08:26:19

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 a...

ATN Podcast: There won’t be a rematch from 2015-11-16T08:16:47

So, one thing we know is there won't be a rematch, a 10th game in the Stagg Bowl series in which UW-Whitewater leads Mount Union 6-3. We'll talk about the committee's choice to place the two tea...

ATN Podcast: Two results throw it wide open from 2015-11-09T08:04:57

Wesley and Hardin-Simmons could have made it easy on the committee and on all the bracketologists in Division III who are trying to figure out where they'll go in the playoffs. Instead, Salisbur...

ATN Podcast: About those locks for at-large bids from 2015-11-02T04:01:31

There are lots of teams looking for at-large bids to the playoffs. Problem is, there's only six of them. If you are new to Division III, or new to playoff contention and don't know how the D-III...

ATN Podcast: Let the speculation begin from 2015-10-26T06:55:34

Lots of good showdowns this weekend to talk about, and we hit on a bunch, but that's just the beginning. What we're really here to do is talk about the playoffs! Where do we know more about aut...

ATN Podcast: One big shakeup from 2015-10-19T06:51:06

There was one huge upset this week, but that left a lot of room to talk about other games as well. So in addition to Dubuque-Wartburg, let's take a few minutes to focus on the "middle class" of ...

A crack in the purple armor from 2015-10-12T06:57:09

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...

Around the Nation: Crazy endings, big showdowns and lots of sacks from 2015-10-05T05:25:31

Impressive midseason matchups lead to some readjustment, not just in the Top 25 poll but in playoff positioning. No, it's not too early to talk about some conference races. Plus there was a Divi...

Around the Nation: A great week for D-III football from 2015-09-28T06:30:42

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 into a f...

Around the Nation: Big games and close calls from 2015-09-21T05:54:02

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 p...

Around the Nation Podcast: Getting a fresh start from 2015-09-14T05:24:35

Some of the teams getting a fresh start this week are ones that didn't play in Week 1, such as three of the top five teams in the country. Others are young programs who picked up signature wins,...

Around the Nation Podcast: New beginnings from 2015-09-07T04:27:26

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 on the rise after one we...

Around the Nation Podcast: We couldn’t wait either from 2015-08-17T04:29:42

Typically we're not dropping the first Around the Nation Podcast episode of a particular season until after the first week of games, but the 2015 season is coming quickly and we're looking forwa...

Around the Nation Podcast: Wrapping it up from 2014-12-20T19:18:44

Keith makes a great case for an unexpected name as the D3football.com Coach of the Year. Hear who, and why. And they also came to a consensus on the D3football.com Offensive and Defensive Player...

Around the Nation Podcast: Here we go again from 2014-12-15T06:46:03

We know what you're thinking. How can this outcome, UW-Whitewater vs. Mount Union Part IX, possibly be good for the sport of Division III football. There's no sugar-coating at this point and Pat...

Around the Nation Podcast: A near-miss from 2014-12-08T06:30:30

Pat and Keith hand out their game balls for Saturday, plus talk to people who were on-site covering all four of the quarterfinal games, to get more of a feel of what it was like and help you fin...

Around the Nation Podcast: Shaking up the bracket from 2014-12-01T02:01:59

Linfield upset the apple cart with its big win on Saturday, knocking off a UMHB program that had been a play or two from making the Stagg Bowl the past two years. Plus Wartburg, John Carroll and...

Around the Nation Podcast: Down to 16 from 2014-11-24T08:26:35

We can't have 16 great first-round games. It just can't happen. But even from a blowout, we could learn something. And there were close games as well that provided a lot of insight, as well as a...

Around the Nation Podcast: Bracket breakdown from 2014-11-17T07:36:36

Maybe we don't agree with all the choices, but Keith and Pat don't find much to complain about who got in the bracket for the Field of 32. So we'll complain about something else.

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Around the Nation Podcast: On the clinchers from 2014-11-10T05:54:05

The playoff picture began to take shape this week, as 14 of the 24 automatic bids were claimed. Pat and Keith talk through the teams who are in, who has yet to clinch and who might be in line fo...

Around the Nation Podcast: Bringin’the intrigue! from 2014-11-03T05:42:24

Now, we finally get some intrigue. Admittedly, when UW-Whitewater is tied at the half and Mary Hardin-Baylor is down and Linfield trails and goes on to lose, sometimes that's what counts for int...

Around the Nation Podcast: A bit about elite teams from 2014-10-27T04:26:01

Whether there is a separation at the top of the poll, whether it's the top four teams, the top six or seven, or some other combination, one thing is for sure: they certainly separated themselves...

Around the Nation Podcast: Still many unbeatens from 2014-10-20T05:34:01

A few unbeaten but unranked teams had the opportunity to prove themselves against opponents with a little more prestige on Saturday. But in the end, Chicago, Gustavus and Emory & Henry coul...

Around the Nation Podcast: Shootout weekend from 2014-10-13T05:01:07

No offense, but if you like defense, there wasn't a lot to like about Week 6. But if you like big totals on the scoreboard, then this was the week for you.

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Around the Nation podcast: Surprises? from 2014-10-06T05:00:23

It's not a surprise that Washington and Jefferson beat Thomas More, but the margin of victory? Definitely surprising. And perhaps it shouldn't have been a surprise that Salisbury beat St. John F...

Podcast: Finally, some upsets from 2014-09-29T04:04:09

They're probably not too upset in Stevens Point, Wis., or Collegeville, Minn., but it's always good to have something to analyze and talk about.

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Podcast: Strange, and happy endings from 2014-09-22T05:05:04

What's the sound of a team snapping a 31-game losing streak? Or of a team's dreams vanishing in a last-second mistake? You'll hear both of those, and get Keith and Pat's take on it in this week'...

Did you hear about that Rose-Hulman game? from 2014-09-15T05:00:37

Long after the sun had set, however, Rose-Hulman and Illinois College were still playing, attracting the attention of college football fans across the country and ending up on a little program c...

A new podcast for the new season from 2014-09-08T04:10:19

Is it better to schedule down or schedule up in non-conference games? Pat and Keith give their opening week opinions. Plus, please let us know how you feel about the new podcast format, as we co...

ATN podcast: Wrapping up the season from 2013-12-22T15:38:01

In addition to wrapping up the game, Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman talked about which players might have played themselves into All-America status, discussed how they would rank the teams at th...

ATN podcast: 2 times 1 equals 8 from 2013-12-16T06:56:16

With Mount Union and UW-Whitewater needing two one-point games to reach their eighth Stagg Bowl meeting, it should be clear that the two are very close to the pack.

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Around the Nation podcast: Down to four from 2013-12-09T06:56:41

An epic shootout, a sacktastic comeback, a quarterback change and a blowout are what we got in our four quarterfinal games on Saturday.

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Around the Nation podcast: Almost quite as expected from 2013-12-02T07:17:16

Crazy comeback on the west coast, a Midwest game with more subplots than a [insert your cliche here] and in all, a good second round of action. Pat and Keith were on-site at Wesley, calling thei...

Around the Nation podcast: Stories of the first round from 2013-11-25T05:15:15

There were some great games in the first round. Some of them were supposed to be great games between evenly matched teams, and in most cases, we got them.

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What the committee chair said from 2013-11-18T23:44:14

Duey Naatz, the athletic director and former head football coach at UW-Stout, gave more than a half-hour of his time to our friends at In the HuddLLe, the weekly show covering the Liberty League...

Around the Nation podcast: The playoff field from 2013-11-18T07:25:33

Johns Hopkins either got a fine matchup or the shaft, depending on whom you ask.

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Around the Nation podcast: Playoff picture takes place from 2013-11-11T09:39:34

Hardin-Simmons wasn’t a threat to Linfield, Willamette or UMHB but crushed Texas Lutheran. Hardin-Simmons athletics photo Subscribe to the Around the Nation Podcast in iTunes. So let’s see, John...

Around the Nation podcast: Your questions, Mount answers from 2013-11-04T07:31:01

Mount Union answered a big challenge on Saturday but that was not the only question we had this week, nor was it the only question you had this week either.

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Around the Nation podcast: McKoy and the conference showdowns from 2013-10-28T05:24:53

If you are a regular listener to the Around the Nation podcast, you already knew who Western Connecticut running back Octavias McKoy is. We also started to find out a little about the pecking or...

ATN podcast: Road trips, memory lane, playoff chase from 2013-10-21T06:08:05

Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan both went out on the road this week, with Pat taking one of D3football.com's Best road trips and Keith taking in his 15th class reunion.

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ATN podcast: Jumbled standings from 2013-10-14T04:35:47

In addition to the way the NJAC, MAC, PAC and SCIAC races turned on Saturday, we also now have enough information to talk playoffs, at least for Pool B. More in the ATN podcast.

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ATN podcast: The surprise unbeatens, winless and more from 2013-10-07T05:10:53

That's teams such as Hartwick, Gallaudet, Olivet, Greenville, Millsaps, Lake Forest, Pacific and others listed in the tags at the bottom of the page. None of those are in the Top 25, and most fa...

ATN podcast: A week for the rest of us from 2013-09-30T04:16:35

The games involving the elite teams were generally snoozefests, blowouts without much to write home about. Thankfully, it was a week in which there were some great stories to talk about elsewher...

Around the Nation podcast: Reshaping the top five from 2013-09-23T04:27:23

In a week where two top five teams lost, one to another top five team and one to an archrival, it presented an interesting conundrum to the Top 25 voters. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman discuss ...

Around the Nation podcast: Playing the questions game from 2013-09-16T05:28

There's plenty of questions at this point in any season. Are there a lot of answers? Maybe not, definitely not as many as there are questions, but Pat and Keith give it a try.

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Around the Nation podcast: Welcome to 2013 from 2013-09-09T04:41:21

Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman break down the first week's action and analyze it all for you. The Around the Nation podcast is our weekly discussion of what went down and what's about to happen....

Around the Nation podcast: Season wrapup from 2012-12-15T05:38:33

The season is over, sadly. But we had plenty of things to talk about after the game, nonetheless. We had to decide who our Players of the Year and Coach of the Year would be, and Pat and Keith w...

Around the Nation Podcast: Stagg Bowl XL preview from 2012-12-10T07:30:15

A Salem regular and a Salem newbie will meet Friday night for the 2012 Division III football national championship, as No. 1 Mount Union will face No. 4 St. Thomas in yet another matchup of purp...

Around the Nation podcast: We’re semi-fine with it from 2012-12-03T07:40:02

We talk about all four national quarterfinals, including the great plays, the special teams miscues. And, of course, the big bracket miscue that results in the No. 1 and No. 2 teams meeting this...

ATN Podcast: Down to the final eight from 2012-11-26T08:35:57

Pat and Keith give their strengths and weaknesses for each of the eight remaining teams, looking at the matchups.

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ATN Podcast: When a surprise isn’t a surprise from 2012-11-19T08:04:07

Maybe an upset isn't an upset when 76 percent of you pick it to happen.

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ATN Podcast: Pat and Keith discuss the bracket from 2012-11-12T08:11:30

Where are the great first-round games in this bracket? Who is likely to pull off an upset? What are some of the great stories from Week 11 that led to teams getting into the playoffs, or getting...

ATN Podcast: Guest Brad Bankston, committee chair from 2012-11-12T04:13:46

Division III football committee chair was about as frank as any national committee chair has been on tape with us in the past decade. This is not just the party line. Listen in.

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ATN Podcast: Who’s still in contention? from 2012-11-05T07:47:22

If you are new to this process in Division III football, this is your primer, your instruction manual, perhaps your Selection Sunday master class.

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ATN Podcast: There will be a new champ from 2012-10-29T06:25:45

Now at least we know we will have no more than one Purple Power in Salem for the Stagg Bowl, after the elimination of UW-Whitewater from any reasonable playoff hopes.

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ATN podcast: Will they get in? from 2012-10-22T06:00:04

Since the advent of the automatic bid, the defending national champion has never been on the bubble on Selection Sunday. But UW-Whitewater may well be there even if it wins out.

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Around the Nation Podcast: The big shuffle from 2012-10-15T08:02:45

Let's see, there's only a ton of good games from Saturday to talk about, and Pat and Keith try to hit it all in an hour.

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Around the Nation Podcast: A crushing finish from 2012-10-08T06:47:03

Well, the week that was had a huge game with an ending that will be talked about for years to come. Pat and Keith break down Bethel-Concordia, but much more in Division III football.

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ATN Podcast: Welcome to October from 2012-10-01T07:15:13

With Mount Union firing on all cylinders on offense, crushing it on defense and by the way, also doing so on special teams, it seems like a foregone conclusion that the Purple Raiders are going ...

ATN Podcast: Past performance not indicative from 2012-09-24T05:57:08

As much as the Division III landscape was turned upside down last week, it reset this weekend, with Buffalo State losing big to Alfred, Brockport State losing at Kean and UW-Whitewater winning b...

A view to an upset from 2012-09-17T07:37:08

If you're looking for the last time a team ranked No. 1 in the D3football.com Top 25 lost in the regular season, you can stop checking.

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ATN Podcast: A tangled, tangled web from 2012-09-10T05:54:16

Pat and Keith talk about the past week's big games, plus teams that are surprisingly 2-0, teams surprisingly 0-2, and whether we need to re-evaluate teams such as Delaware Valley, Rowan and the ...

ATN Podcast: Welcome back! from 2012-09-03T07:16:06

Week 1 of the 2012 Division III football season was a long, strange trip.

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ATN Podcast: Wrapping up 2011 from 2011-12-19T03:21:15

Pat and Keith run down the final award winners and wrap up Stagg Bowl XXXIX from Salem.

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ATN Podcast: Game Seven arrives from 2011-12-12T08:07:40

And we're down to it, the same two teams. How is this not bad for D-III? The guys explain.

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ATN Podcast: Can they be challenged? from 2011-12-05T07:45:50

Now that we've reached the semifinals, will someone challenge UWW and Mount Union?

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ATN Podcast: The comebacks from 2011-11-28T07:56:51

Pat and Keith talk about all eight second-round games and the four upcoming quarterfinals

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ATN Podcast: A week in the books from 2011-11-21T08:04:04

Pat and Keith take a close look at the 16 first-round games and preview the next round.

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ATN Podcast: What they got right from 2011-11-14T07:11:20

What did the committee blow and what did they get right? Listen in.

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ATN Podcast: Our take on the clinchers from 2011-11-07T07:35:41

Pat and Keith give their take on the 12 teams that clinched bids this week and talk about the five yet to come.

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ATN Podcast: Snow, records, clinching from 2011-10-31T06:46:38

Records fell, as did snowflakes and the chances of anyone else winning any of eight conference titles.

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ATN Podcast: All about the defense from 2011-10-24T06:54:04

Records could fall, we have at-large bid front-runners, an upset and three big ranked games.

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ATN Podcast: Looking at playoffs from 2011-10-17T06:23:24

As the playoffs approach, the conference races begin to make more sense and the numbers have more meaning.

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ATN Podcast: That first loss from 2011-10-10T07:30:37

Pat and Keith talk about key teams that picked up their first losses of the season.

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ATN Podcast: Big games, unbeatens from 2011-10-03T05:35:33

Pat and Keith talk all about signature wins and the remaining undefeated teams.

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ATN Podcast: Wide-open conferences from 2011-09-26T07:11:54

For all of the expected that happened on Saturday, Mount Union rolling, Mary Hardin-Baylor beating Hardin-Simmons, etc., there was plenty of unexpected.

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ATN Podcast: Time to re-evaluate? from 2011-09-19T04:49:07

Do you like to play the comparative scores game? Some results from this past weekend make it difficult.

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ATN Podcast: Too soon to panic from 2011-09-12T12:45:38

Losses by St. John's, Coe and Wesley were certainly demoralizing but not the end of anyone's chances.

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ATN Podcast: Starting 2011 with a bang from 2011-09-05T05:23:35

The weekly podcast returns, as Pat and Keith discuss and analyze the week that was in D-III football.

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ATN Podcast: Wrapping up 2010 from 2010-12-20T22:38:30

One last podcast of the season. Hear our discussion of our postseason awards, our recap of Stagg Bowl XXXVIII, memories of the 2010 season and wishes for 2011.

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ATN Podcast: Boring? Not really from 2010-12-13T04:47:40

Pat and Keith talk about the semis, preview the Stagg and tell why it's not bad to have Mount and UWW back.

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ATN podcast: Four games, plus awards from 2010-12-06T08:39:56

Quarterfinals, semifinals, Gagliardi finalists and the D3 Senior Classic, all covered in under an hour.

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ATN podcast: Down to eight from 2010-11-29T08:21:26

Playing strong defense and having a good ground game kept eight teams alive on Saturday.

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ATN podcast: One round down from 2010-11-22T08:19:08

Pat and Keith discuss the first-round games and look forward to round two.

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What the chair said from 2010-11-15T20:48:50

Joy Solomen, chair of the national selection committee, answers some questions about the selections and seedings.

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ATN podcast: All about the bracket from 2010-11-15T07:34:02

In this week's podcast, Pat and Keith don't come to a lot of consensus, but there's certainly a lot of good discussion.

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ATN Podcast: Tiebreakers, bids and rivalries from 2010-11-08T06:49:49

Just a big long list of things to talk about this week, including three-way ties.

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Podcast: Building from the ground up from 2010-11-03T18:29:58

Pat Coleman sat down with Andy Carr, the first head coach at Presentation, which starts play in 2011.

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ATN Podcast: East implodes? from 2010-11-01T06:08:27

Pat and Keith talk about the shakeup in Pool B, the East, and Keith's trip to UW-Whitewater.

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ATN Podcast: Looking at Pool C from 2010-10-25T05:55:20

Pat and Keith run through the first, big pool of at-large playoff candidates.

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ATN podcast: Re-drawing the Top 25 from 2010-10-18T06:27:34

A few times a season, a set of upsets comes along that force a conscientious voter to rip up their ballot and start over. Pat and Keith go through the process.

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ATN Podcast: Eliminated already from 2010-10-11T13:40:44

Some prominent teams are basically out of the playoff hunt already, while others are unbeaten and seemingly unrecognized. Pat and Keith discuss that and much more.

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ATN Podcast: Weekend aftermath from 2010-10-04T03:19:38

A big weekend of games leads to some clarity and some movement.

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ATN Podcast: Three big showdowns from 2010-09-27T05:55:35

Pat, Keith tackle the three Top 25 games plus more from Week 4; look ahead to Week 5.

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ATN Podcast: Comparing conferences from 2010-09-20T05:25:29

Pat and Keith discuss Week 3 games, preview Week 4.

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ATN Podcast: Couple upsets from 2010-09-13T04:57:13

Pat and Keith discuss Week 2 games, preview Week 3.

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ATN podcast: Implications already from 2010-09-06T07:27:29

Pat and Keith discuss Week 1 games, preview Week 2.

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ATN podcast: Welcome to 2010 from 2010-08-19T01:19:21

Weekly podcast: Will this be Year Six of purple on purple?

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ATN Podcast: Stagg Bowl wrapup from 2009-12-21T20:14:14

As is traditional, our final Around the Nation podcast of the season comes straight out of our Stagg Bowl XXXVII postgame show. In this week’s podcast, Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan and Frank Ross...

ATN Podcast: How we got back here from 2009-12-14T08:51:33

Keith McMillan was in Alliance, Ohio, and Pat Coleman was in Whitewater, Wis., and while surely there are fans who probably are less interested in a Stagg Bowl with Mount Union and UW-Whitewater...

ATN Podcast: A fab Final Four from 2009-12-07T07:31:03

Almost anyone could have come out of the “West” bracket. But those other three brackets, well, that’s another story. When we did our playoff predictions in Around the Nation, Mount Union, Wesley...

ATN Podcast: Do their runs end? from 2009-11-30T07:59:49

Johns Hopkins and Albright are the surprises of the bracket, without a doubt. One problem. Albright’s run takes it to Mount Union next week, while Johns Hopkins’ road may be shorter but its odds...

ATN Podcast: Wrapping round 1 from 2009-11-23T05:10:01

If it seemed like all the good games were clustered in one time zone on Saturday, well, yeah, you’re right. The 1 p.m. ET games featured some great finishes, with onside kicks coming minutes apa...

ATN Podcast: Bracket breakdown from 2009-11-16T09:47:32

Thirty-two teams, 16 games and one fairly controversial Pool C decision. What does the selection of Washington and Jefferson mean for future NCAA playoffs? What message does it send to coaches w...

Interview with the committee chair from 2009-11-16T08:09:51

Joy Solomen sat down with In the HuddLLe (two L’s for Liberty League, don’t ask) to talk about the Division III playoff bracket, how it was put together, and ask some of the tough questions from...

ATN podcast: All the playoff info you need from 2009-11-09T06:07:55

Thirty-two playoff spots. Twelve are secure. How will the other 20 shake out? That’s the focus of this week’s Around the Nation podcast. Some conferences are easy to figure, with head-to-head ga...

ATN podcast: QB changes, changing of the guard from 2009-11-02T06:11:32

Four teams clinched. A couple teams played their way out of at-large bids. A few new quarterbacks took the field and the PAC had a … wait, a not-so-new champion. Suddenly, it seems Washington an...

Game Day gets an early start from 2009-10-30T17:38:19

You had to get here pretty early in the morning to follow what might well end up being the most exciting game of the week. In the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference’s annual Dome Day, MacMurray a...

ATN podcast: Showdowns, Pool B and more from 2009-10-26T04:56:41

It’s the time of year where playoff implications abound. Where conference races begin to make sense. Where it’s no time for a letdown, but occasionally it’s time for a wake-up call. The wake-up ...

ATN Podcast: Beginning to make sense from 2009-10-19T05:49:08

A few conference races came into focus. A few big plays decided a few big games. And we march ever closer to Selection Sunday. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman break down the games and look at the...

Podcast: FDU’s one-man army from 2009-10-14T21:20:11

You don’t have to look at FDU-Florham’s statistics long to know the key to the Devils’ offense. Heading into Saturday’s game at Delaware Valley, quarterback Bill Winters accounted for 345 of the...

ATN Podcast: Do we re-evaluate Mount Union? from 2009-10-12T05:20:01

A handful of voters switched their No. 1 vote this week, giving UW-Whitewater six nods for the top spot compared to Mount Union’s 19. But what do we make of Mount Union’s close win at Capital? W...

ATN Podcast: The poll isn’t perfect from 2009-10-05T06:28:44

Sure, the D3football.com Top 25 teams went 25-0 on Saturday. We’re happy about that, don’t get me wrong. But that doesn’t mean the Top 25 is perfect, or that the right 25 teams are ranked, at le...

ATN Podcast: Sold or not sold? from 2009-09-28T05:19:52

By this point in the season, it’s hard to call teams flukes, and teams that have gone above and beyond what we expected of them have to be dubbed something else, perhaps surprise teams. If you’v...

ATN Podcast: Whirlwind weekends from 2009-09-21T05:31:15

Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman each picked up some frequent flyer miles and logged hundreds of miles behind the wheel in search of new Division III football frontiers, with Keith finding his in ...

ATN Podcast: Shaking it up from 2009-09-14T05:22:35

One of the things for us about traveling a long distance for a game is that it’s like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates. We get on an airplane for a highly touted matchup and sometimes it becomes...

ATN Podcast: What’s Week 1 worth? from 2009-09-07T08:21:41

Sometimes things get clearer, sometimes they get more muddy. Saturday’s two big upsets gave us one of each. Readers of the Triple Take might have suspected Willamette would lose — they were pick...

How we rank the teams, 1-238 from 2009-08-27T06:03:35

No, this isn’t a listing of the 238 teams in order — only Kickoff subscribers get that. But Keith McMillan and I thought it might be interesting to take you guys through the process of how we ra...

Stagg Bowl XXXVI archive from 2008-12-22T18:36:58

Last year we broke this file up into four pieces, but only the first piece made it into the RSS feed and was downloaded in iTunes. So this is a big file, but it’s all here. We pick up this broad...

ATN Podcast: Live from Salem from 2008-12-19T23:13:10

Keith McMillan and Gordon Mann have landed in Salem. On their feet. And everything. And we’re ready to go for Stagg Bowl XXXVI. We discuss, what else, the Stagg Bowl. Listen. You can load the po...

Sideline Guy: A Night of Celebrations from 2008-12-19T08:15:01

[Note: This is an entry of an ongoing Stagg Bowl blog by sideline commentator Frank Rossi. To read his previous entries, click here for the first entry or here for his second entry.] The officia...

ATN Podcast: First look at Stagg matchup from 2008-12-15T08:07:40

The same, but different. That’s about all you can really say about this upcoming Stagg Bowl matchup, as UW-Whitewater and Mount Union meet for the fourth time. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman tal...

The Thunder, up front from 2008-12-11T18:05:23

One look at the Wheaton depth chart tells you that the Thunder’s offensive line is unusual. The nine players who fill out the two deep are from nine states, none of which are Illinois. The impro...

ATN Podcast: Cutting the field down from 2008-12-08T07:22:21

First of all, props to the four teams eliminated this weekend on fine seasons. Though none of the scores looked close by the end … and one of them was a blowout 10 minutes in … the road to Divis...

ATN Podcast: High fives, sevens from 2008-12-01T14:01:04

So our predictions weren’t great this week. But picking five road teams to win in the second round of the playoffs was more than a lot of people could have pictured. Two seventh seeds advancing?...

ATN Podcast: Shootouts, upsets from 2008-11-24T04:46:02

A lot of things went according to plan this week. Triple Take was a more accurate predictor of who would win than the NCAA’s actual seedings were. And yes, all four No. 7 seeds advanced. Plus, K...

Bracket analysis, podcast from 2008-11-16T23:37:26

If you think this bracket is good … and I do, at least a little … you should’ve seen the first version that went out. It had one extra flight in it, and that made a world of difference. Instead,...

ATN podcast: All playoff scenarios from 2008-11-10T07:26:15

We are down to our last “next week” for the 2008 season, with nine automatic bids yet to be handed out and, of course, all the at-larges. In our weekly podcast, Keith McMillan and I run down the...

ATN podcast: No miracles needed from 2008-11-03T08:06:08

Keith McMillan was in San Antonio to get a first-hand look at Millsaps and found that and some more for this week’s Around the Nation podcast. Plus, Keith and Pat look at the week that was, on a...

ATN podcast: Some serious looking ahead from 2008-10-27T05:41:15

Hmm, yes, it’s getting late in the season and slowly but surely there are a lot fewer variables in the playoff picture. Keith and I run through some of them, plus discuss the Top 25 distress fro...

ATN podcast: Standings get a new look from 2008-10-20T05:49:50

This weekend not only put a new twist on a couple of rivalries, it put a new twist on some conferences’ standings as well. It’s not just the new mess at the top of the MAC, MIAC, and the like — ...

ATN Podcast: Eyes on New York from 2008-10-13T05:42:57

Keith took the car out for a trip to upstate New York and came back with a pretty good game. What did Cortland State show Saturday in its win against Montclair State? Keith (and Cortland coach D...

ATN Podcast: Which races got clearer? from 2008-10-06T06:00:24

In this week’s Around the Nation podcast, Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman talk about the conference races that got more clearer, those that got less clear, and they take a first look at the race ...

ATN Podcast: What conferences are rising? from 2008-09-29T07:33:11

Every preseason we rank the conferences for Kickoff, and while the rankings are based mostly on last season and a little on projections, as games get played things tend to change. It’s clear the...

ATN Podcast: Who’s looking good? from 2008-09-22T05:35:20

There are plenty of teams we can point to in the early going this season who are playing poorly. Three of them got upset on Saturday. So while we talk about what happened in the West Region this...

ATN Podcast: Surprise teams from 2008-09-15T05:58:03

There were surprise games and surprise teams in Week 2, from Delaware Valley to the Mississippi and points west. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman attempt to cover them all in this week’s Around th...

ATN podcast: Week 1 analysis from 2008-09-08T14:32:16

The Around the Nation podcast is back for a second season and this year, with Keith McMillan and I on opposite ends of the Division III landscape, it’s presented us some new challenges. Before, ...

One fan’s road to the Stagg Bowl from 2007-12-21T03:39:39

Although there were 5,099 in paid attendance at the Stagg Bowl this past weekend, and many who traveled a long way despite not having their team there to root for, it’s highly unlikely anyone drove...

ATN podcast: Wrapping it up from 2007-12-17T14:14:25

Gordon Mann joins Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman to help wrap up the 2007 Division III football season. Hear a lively debate on who should be No. 2 when the final poll is released, as well as their...

Stagg Bowl: Hear it again from 2007-12-16T21:18

Although more then 2,500 of you listened to our broadcast of Stagg Bowl XXXV, we thought others might want to tune in. Given the podcast capabilities, I thought we’d post it here.

The post...

Game Day from Salem from 2007-12-15T16:06:12

Alright, so here we are, at the culmination of more than 1,100 games and after 236 teams have been eliminated from contention for the 2007 Division III football national championship, with Mount Un...

ATN Podcast: With the committee chair from 2007-12-12T04:21:39

Keith McMillan and I broadcast the Mount Union/Bethel game Saturday from Alliance, Ohio, and although we had more than 4,000 people listening live at various points throughout the game, you may not...

ATN Podcast: Time to head to Salem from 2007-12-10T07:18:14

Fifteen weeks and 1,100 games have led to this, Stagg Bowl XXXV, between Mount Union and UW-Whitewater.
If you’re new to Division III, these teams have met in the Stagg Bowl each of the previou...

ATN Podcast: The final four from 2007-12-03T14:58:46

Go grab your coffee and sit down with us on a Monday morning for this week’s ATN podcast. Four games last week, two games this week. Plus, hear what Keith thought of the Wesley/Mary Hardin-Baylor g...

ATN podcast: Only the scores surprised from 2007-11-26T15:25:55

So Keith McMillan and I were on the record as not being surprised at the eight teams which won in Saturday’s second round.
The margins of victory? Definitely a difference. Does it matter that B...

ATN Podcast: A flurry of games from 2007-11-19T07:07:37

We’re not sure what was more exciting, the games themselves in the first round or the rush of 16 games all underway at once. It seemed like you couldn’t hit refresh without getting some interesting...

ATN Podcast: Wild weekend, wild pairings from 2007-11-12T14:28:25

Well, we survived another Selection Sunday, though the day has barely ended as I write this portion of the site. Four hours of sleep, up at 7:15, off to ESPNU, analyze the bracket, check graphics a...

ATN podcast: Breaking ties from 2007-11-05T14:39:07

Confused by tiebreakers? Oh yeah, definitely understandable. See, each conference sets its own rules for breaking ties for the automatic bid, and with the limited number of games played in any give...

ATN podcast: What a weekend from 2007-10-29T15:01:04

There were more great games than one could count this weekend, so Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman took some extra time to go through them all. What does the weekend mean for Mary Hardin-Baylor and w...

ATN Podcast: A rank weekend from 2007-10-22T14:25:54

When you only have one game between Top 25 teams, that means we should come to expect upsets. As playoff season approaches, each upset becomes more magnified. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman examine...

ATN podcast: Looping Chicago from 2007-10-15T13:42:55

Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman did a whirlwind tour of Chicago on Saturday, visiting six stadiums, talking to five coaches and seeing one and two-half games. The night culminated in a great Divisio...

ATN podcast: Solving the puzzlers from 2007-10-08T13:54:29

There were some puzzling results on Friday and Saturday, and while Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman try to make sense of them, you can listen along in this week’s Around the Nation podcast. What are ...

ATN podcast: Top 10 upheaval from 2007-10-01T13:53:16

Around 6 p.m., Saturday looked like an interesting day, but nothing spectacular. Then the UW-La Crosse/UW-Whitewater game turned, St. John Fisher went down and Willamette kicked Linfield’s unbeaten...

ATN podcast: Breakout teams from 2007-09-24T13:24:19

Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan may not have traveled very far this weekend but the week that was in Division III did not escape them.
This week’s Around the Nation podcast focuses on three team...

ATN’s thoughts on Week 3 from 2007-09-17T13:31:35

Around the Nation went across the nation this past weekend to see what all the Catdome hype was about in the Pacific Northwest. Hear Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman talk about the Linfield/Hardin-Si...

Our look around Week 2 from 2007-09-10T04:33:32

Miss the weekend games? Did you take the weekend off when your team did? Get up to date with the ATN podcast.
Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman discuss Week 2 in Division III, from the mild surpri...

Around the Nation’s take from 2007-09-04T05:08:49

Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman saw a couple of games this weekend and followed the other 80-some from afar. Hear the gurus’ take on Week 1 action below.
Click the play button to listen. This is...