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Previewing 2012: Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (D-III)

Aug 21

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The ECFC hasn’t offered anything up regarding the upcoming season, and even information from the members is sparse.  Therefore, you get my unvarnished opinion.  New York Maritime was the pick last year, and did well but faltered when it mattered.  Norwich started slowly and then picked up steam.  This coming year, a lot of what made Maritime go the last two seasons will be gone, while Mount Ida’s been building something slowly; I’m going to predict the Mustangs move up to second this year.  Norwich will still be led by Kris Sabourin and their crazy effective option attack, and shouldn’t have much trouble repeating.

Sorry for such a short preview, but here we are.

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Previewing 2012: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (D-III)

Aug 21

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The CCIW is another conference which is behind the curve getting media information out.  For the CCIW, this has been a thing both pre-season and even in-season for the entire time I’ve been doing this blog.  Hopefully they’ll improve soon (and in fairness, they did present live chat sessions with the coaches for media days this year), but for now all I really have to work with is the pre-season poll and some random bits from the schools.  As a result, no team capsules here.

That said, North Central and Wheaton are, as usual, the front-runners.  It’s a clear edge for North Central in first-place votes, but not in overall poll points where the margin was much narrower; there was support for Illinois Wesleyan in the #2 spot, as one might expect from a playoff team from last year, from voters who picked Wheaton at #1.  The one thing everyone agrees on, however, is that North Park is going to finish dead last, and I mean that literally.  Every single ballot had them in eighth place.

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Previewing 2012: Centennial Conference (D-III)

Aug 21

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Johns Hopkins rolled the league last year behind a ridiculous offense that outscored the second-best offense in the league by over 25% and a defense which was twice as stingy as the league’s fourth-best.  However, the top four teams in the conference lose over half their starters, and while Hopkins still appears to be the odds-on favorite, that sort of chaos leaves things wide open for a team which adds the right parts.

Note the Centennial does not name a pre-season all-conference team.  However, they are on top of things enough to allow me to provide team capsules after the jump.

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Previewing 2012: American Southwest Conference (D-III)

Aug 21

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With McMurry gone, moving to D-II, fourth-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor is the runaway favorite to win the ASC this year.  Louisiana and Hardin-Simmons could give them a challenge, but picking the Cru is a pretty safe bet.  It’s likely that the second-place team here will find their way into the D-III playoffs, though.  Of course, the important question here goes beyond the conference championship: can Mary Hardin-Baylor get over the hump and break the Whitewater-Mount Union stranglehold on the Division III championship game?

The ACS doesn’t name a pre-season all-conference team, but they do pick three pre-season player of the year selections.  UMHB QB LiDarral Bailey was the pick for Offensive Player of the Year, while his teammate LB Javicz Jones was chosen as the Defensive Player of the Year.  Special Teams Player of the Year went to Texas Lutheran placekicker Allen Cain.

No team capsules for this preview.

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Ehrmahgehrd, It’s 2012.

Aug 21

Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division III, Division News and Notes, FCS, Introductions, NAIA | Comments off

This is just a quick hello, and a welcome back for our third year here at TOG.

As I said back in February, things are going to be changing here; I won’t be doing a weekly recap for each division.  This will be more of a “hey, pay attention to this” rather than “hey, pay attention to everything” format.  However, one thing that will be happening over the next couple of weeks as we lead into the commencement of hostilities is that I’ll be making posts previewing each conference.  Each day, expect one conference from each division (three D-III conferences per day, otherwise I wouldn’t get the previews done until mid-September).

Just to get you on the right path for today’s initial previews, the pre-season top 25 for each division:

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D-II/D-III/NAIA Championship Previews

Dec 15

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It’s finally here: the end of the 2011 season in three divisions is upon us. Brief recaps of the D-II and D-III semifinals, and previews of the D-II, D-III, and NAIA Championship Games follow.

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D-II/D-III Semifinal Previews (and an NAIA note).

Dec 9

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I’m not providing actual recaps this week, because… well, because this week has been hell. Previews, team capsules, and predictions for the semifinal D-II and D-III playoff games this week follow. No NAIA game this week, as they take a week off between their semifinal and championship weeks.
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D-III: Week 14 Quick Roundup.

Dec 7

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Another #1 seed fell this week, but it was to a #2 seed so not a huge upset. That leaves a pair of 1v2 games for the semifinals, and we’ll find out whether we get Game Seven between Mount Union and Whitewater on Saturday. Scores, SID recaps, updated standings, and this week’s schedule after the jump. The actual text is getting sparse, so apologies for the fact that for the next three weeks this is mostly just updated standings.

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D-III: Second Round Recaps/QF Previews, Mount Union/UMHB Brackets.

Dec 2

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Notes on the second round of the D-III playoffs (Mount Union and Mary Hardin-Baylor brackets), and previews and predictions for the quarterfinals follow the leap. Please note: the full recaps I’ve been writing will not appear from this point forward. Real life interferes, and frankly I feel as though I’m just digesting a box score. I’d rather talk about the game. I came to this realization last weekend, but forged ahead on FCS and D-II for continuity’s sake; realizing that time was catching up made the decision for me.

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D-III: Second Round Recaps/QF Previews, Whitewater/Delaware Valley Brackets.

Dec 2

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Notes on the second round of the D-III playoffs (Whitewater and Delaware Valley brackets), and previews and predictions for the quarterfinals follow the leap. Please note: the full recaps I’ve been writing will not appear from this point forward. Real life interferes, and frankly I feel as though I’m just digesting a box score. I’d rather talk about the game. I came to this realization last weekend, but forged ahead on FCS and D-II for continuity’s sake; realizing that time was catching up made the decision for me.

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