In the Bill Connelly top 766, EOU is in a cluster of teams that include Salve Regina, Western Connecticut, MSJ, ONU, and Heidelberg.  If our No. 23 loses to one of those teams, they're gonna slide out of the top 25.  Of course, the top 766 isn't a perfect science, but it gives you an idea of how teams from different divisions compare.  Whitworth, fwiw, is still ranked 80 spots higher in the 766 than EOU.  So the 766 sees that result as a pretty big upset. 

I was Column 3 this week.  Did some slight shuffling with DPU and JCU but Hope is closing the gap (all three are on my top 25 ballot). 

I'm intrigued by Adrian, but probably need to see them do something like put it on Albion on 10/4 before I move them into this top 7.  Probably won't learn much more about Adrian in their next two vs. Manchester and Olivet. 

Quote from: Whitecarrera on Yesterday at 02:15:00 PMCan you imagine a potential game winning field goal ricocheting through after bouncing off a HS post, or a doink rejection from an NFL post?

I can, yes, and that kind of thing would be unfortunate.  But I think it's fine to bet against the 1-50 odds that a game ends with that scenario and get the 4 quarters in and a complete game for the student-athletes than take away the competition opportunity just in case the wider posts might turn into a thing. 

I don't think anybody views a mid-game venue change as an ideal scenario, but sometimes you have take the least not-good option. 

BTW, Fast Five with Mikey Maloney in the pod today which should be of interest to most here. 

I'll send one in today/tonight.  Thank you for putting these together again FCGG and congrats on that big Week 1 win!

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Quote from: CollegeGolf18 on September 06, 2025, 03:55:28 PM35-14 early in the 3rd quarter and Wabash has already put in the backup (Gilbert) not sure I agree with that quite this early.

Especially when you go 3-and-out from the 50-yard line.

This felt like something that was planned to happen or maybe Campbell needed a series off for one reason or another- I'm speculating that a series for Gilbert while the game was still competitive was in the script. 

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Quote from: ICAlum16 on September 04, 2025, 02:15:27 PMBUFFALO ST. (7).  v.  BROCKPORT(45)
SLU (21)           v.  OLIVET(16)
ALFRED(14).        v.  HOBART(29)
ITHACA(22).        v.  JOHNS HOPKINS(31)
SUSQUEHANNA(41).   v.  UNION(20)
St.VINCENT (42).   v.  HILBERT(10)
RPI (28).          v   WPI(10)
ROCHESTER(24).     v.  OLIVET(17)

Olivet is really very active this week.

Split squad to really maximize the trip to NY.   

Quote from: KnightSlappy on September 02, 2025, 12:27:43 PMAll eight MIAA football teams are on the road in Week 1. It would be very nice to get 4 wins, anything more than that seems like it would be difficult for the league given the schedule. (Adrian is playing an FCS school, so leave them aside.)

This is a great stat.

False starts are common at this time of the season! That'll get cleaned up. 

Quote from: lmitzel on August 26, 2025, 10:50:19 AMHold up, you can start a network to host all of your conference's live streams and not force it behind a paywall?

10/10 no notes, CCIW.

https://cciw.org/news/2025/8/26/general-cciw-partners-with-hudl-to-launch-cciw-network.aspx

It's true.  I love this for the CCIW whose schools generally have really good broadcasts. 

Of course, I love the D3Football.com scoreboard for a one-stop shop that aggregates stream and stats links, but when I'm putting games up on the big screen, conference networks like this are by far the best way to access that content away from your laptop.  I use a Roku stick with "channels" for all of the conferences that have this kind of setup- WIAC, PAC, E8, NCAC, MAC, and on and on.  This kind of arrangement is the gold standard, IMO. 

Quote from: Captainred81 on August 21, 2025, 01:18:33 PMDefinitely the points you are making 'hold water', but my opinion is that UW schools have a longer rep of reloading rather than re building.  Many of the schools in the top 10 currently have had great success in the recent and deserve consideration, however, they will likely begin to fade as their coaches have moved on their QB's have graduated etc... The UW schools, seem to show out year after year, and I think with the limited information that we have, if I were a voter, I would be likely to put UW schools in the top 10.

I think the WIAC is hard to read ahead of this season.  Lots of good teams but not a lot of agreement on which one is best.  A lot of voters might have had a WIAC team (or two) in the top 10, but not much consensus on who those 1-2 are. 

Quote from: GusD on August 19, 2025, 02:19:33 PMSpeaking of wide receiver, I was a little surprised that North Central's Thomas Skokna wasn't selected as a pre-season AA.

* Top receiver on the undefeated 2024 National Championship team.
* 16.9 yards per catch and 13 touchdowns.
* First Team All-CCIW.
* Returning starter on the pre-season. #1 team in the country.

Skokna is super good and I think could be A-A this year if his volume goes up.  Pat mentioned that returning WRs were particularly deep for the preseason.  If I had a short list of guys not on preseason A-A that I think have a better-than-most chance at making the team at the end of the year, Skokna is on that list. 

I think hiring in May/June/July is also a totally different thing than hiring in January/February.  Lots of openings and movement just after the season finishes and before spring ball whereas hiring in the summer is going to have a smaller candidate pool and far less appetite to move right before camp starts.  I would have been surprised if Chapman didn't have an internal interim HC this fall. 

5 is higher than where I ranked the Johnnies on my ballot but in fairness, if voters shoved everybody who lost in the 1st/2nd round of the tournament and graduated a lot of good players into the 12-14 range, we would have 15 teams ranked 12-14 and nobody ranked 5-9. 

Quote from: Cardinal773 on June 06, 2025, 06:04:56 PMBeats the hell out of Garnet Chargers in my very humble opinion.  Then again Cardinals isn't exactly original.  Certainly not badass.  Golden Tornados, Red Dragons, Green Knights, Vikings.... small birds.

Any mascot that shows up in five consecutive Stagg Bowls is badass.