Today, we’ll be on the east coast. Our first stop: Pennsylvania, with a brief excursion to Baltimore, as we pay a visit to the Centennial Conference.
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One of the strangest conferences in recent history writes its final chapter this fall. The Atlantic Central Football Conference will close up shop after 13 seasons.
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In 1976, several small colleges in Texas formed the third incarnation of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association. They churned along happily for the next two decades before the goals of the individual schools got in the way; some wanted to move to Division II, some wanted to stay in Division III. The result? In 1996, the American Southwest Conference was formed.
Division III: Week Seven.
Oct 13
As I stated in the introductory post, Division III is very well covered by two fantastic sites, D3football.com and D3hoops.com. If you’re really interested in digging deeper, I cannot, cannot, cannot recommend them more highly.
My attempt at ranking the conferences in Division III simply does not work, unfortunately. Here’s the problem: there are only 40 voters in the AFCA D-III poll. There are 38 D-III football conferences, plus the independents. There are 25 slots on each ballot.
I’m sure you can see the problem now. Using my rankings, five conferences plus the independents would score a big fat zero, and another 8 conferences would have scores so low that they’re completely irrelevant — including one that actually has a ranked team.
So we’re not using that method here; indeed, I’m not even going to bother posting it as a comment like I did with Division II. Massey it is.