Trine will not lose to K-Zoo, they are too good

 Coach Kreps is a class person and deserves the schools full backing. Hope has played a very difficult pre-season that got them behind the 8-ball early. Yes they are having a down season but I'll bet before the season is over they trip somebody up they weren't suppose to. Rest assured all you Hope faithful....Hope will be back!

The final 4 regional D-III football calls occur after all games are completed on Saturday night, November 15th. The selection of the teams takes place later that night after all the regional calls have been completed and usually lasts well into the morning (2-3-4 am). ESPN will release the brackets on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 PM (I think) on November 16th.

I read with interest your article about AQ's, conference championships and the like. I think it is really interesting that D-III has so many AQ's and so little room for at-large teams. The AQ's are great for each league and they emphasize 'conference play'...but is it the best way to go? Now I realize the D-III football play-offs is the longest championship within the NCAA, and I am not advocating for adding a sixth week (that would never happen)...but it will really be interesting this year when the 6 Pool C at-large berths come up for selection. With 23 AQ's, that means there are at least 23 second place teams that may only have 1 or possibly 2 losses. In several leagues this year there are still 3 & 4 teams vying for the championhsip this late in the season (as you said in your feature). The task to compare 'apples to apples' when trying to look across four regions that stretch from coast to coast and Canada to almost Mexico is next to impossible, especially when there are no common opponents. Throw into that mix the numbers game the NCAA statisticians have come up with (OWP, OOWP) that aren't nearly as reliable for sports that play so few games as football...now you've got a real headache. The Pool B teams look to be OK as basically it appears 9 teams are trying to fit into 3 spots (thanks guys)...but man the POOL C's are a whole different world. There still are like 21 undefeated teams in D-III and 28 teams with only one loss.....somehow all those teams don't fit into a total of 29 spaces. As the season winds down, we all realize some of this will take care of itself...but in all but 2-3 cases this year each of the 23 AQ conferences has 2 or more really good teams. Somebody is going to get left out......and thats the toughest part...more than 75% of the good second place football teams don't get the opportunity to play in the play-offs and almost none of the third place teams that are in great conferences...I wish there was a way to fix it.....anybody have ideas that keeps an ultimate championship in place?