St. Cloud State won’t have to get rid of football after all, an FBS problem child gets benched in D-II too, some coaching news, and scores and schedules broken down by conference after the jump.
Archive for category Division II
A ton of offense marked the first round of the playoffs, and while division bullies Grand Valley and Northwest Missouri advanced on Saturday, the other two #3 seeds bit the dust. Details on the action and previews of second-round matches after the jump.
The playoff field is set, Division II has a new career passing champion, and what on earth is going on in the Gulf South? All this and more, next.
Heading into the final week of regular season play, three idle teams are merely waiting for Thanksgiving weekend; Albany State is almost definitely in the playoffs, while Central Missouri is probably in and Morehouse should be in as well, barring some major resume-boosting performances by teams behind them. Scenarios and more after the jump.
Only two ranked teams lost to unranked teams Saturday — but one of them was #1. The first regional polls were released this week, and I’ll let you know who’d be in the playoffs if they started today, along with lots of other news, after the jump.
North Alabama loses their second in a row, the South Atlantic race becomes a traffic jam, and two top-six teams stumble.
An athlete is killed by police, after which the rest of this news is secondary. Two top-five upsets, one of which involved a baseball score, heartbreak induced by three placekicking failures (the first of which was with four seconds left on the clock), a bunch of realignment news I forgot to tell you about last week, a major format change and more after the jump.
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Administrative note the first: Week eight precaps will go up as soon as I catch the new polls and incorporate. Expect that in the future.
Administrative note the second: Knocking two Get to Knows a day out? Rough. Perhaps even “foolhardy”, “insane”, or even “impossible”. Might only get one on days when I have to do precaps; we’ll see how that works. Tweaking the format some as well.
Onward; we’ll step south from Pennsylvania to the Piedmont for our first look at a D-II conference with the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
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Division II: Week Seven.
Oct 13
My conference rankings for Division II… well, let’s just say they’re not nearly as instructive as the rankings I did for FCS. That’s because the Division II poll only has 26 voters, which creates the exact opposite situation that the FCS poll creates as far as using total votes as a metric.