Who lost? Oh, #1, #3, #4, and #12 for good measure, shaking up the entire top half of the poll.

Only one game this week matches teams in the top 25, but several other ranked teams face major tests against dangerous foes:

#7 Northwest Missouri State at #19 Central Missouri
4-1 Colorado Mines at #11 Colorado State-Pueblo
#13 Valdosta State at 3-1 Ouachita Baptist
#14 Shepherd at 5-0 West Virginia Wesleyan
4-1 Minnesota State-Mankato at #17 Saint Cloud State
#21 New Haven at 4-1 Southern Connecticut State
4-1 Slippery Rock at #25 Edinboro

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Well, I’m just doing this for my own gratification now. It might be a good time to let me know you actually get some benefit out of this, before it goes away.  Cold hard facts: my pageviews are off 90% from last year (despite the fact that last year, I wasn’t even tweeting links to new content), and given the amount of spam comments I have to trash each day, I simply don’t know whether there’s anyone actually READING this thing outside of a couple of guys who want to contribute, and there’s not much point letting them proceed for no reason.

I don’t mean to be butthurt here; I can accept not providing value for your entertainment $0.00, I just really would like to know if I’m just wasting my time here.  I mean, I could be killing zombies or watching Justified or hanging out in a local dive bar instead of doing this, if it doesn’t matter to anyone.  Or, put another way, it’s not butthurt… it’s desperation.

To be fair, I could probably be doing a better job pimping myself, but it’s not in my nature.  So if you really give a crap about what I’m doing… help me out a little.  If you like it, retweet or otherwise pimp.  If you’re ambivalent, tell me why, tell me how I can improve.  If you hate the site… well, shit, if you hate the site you’re not even reading this anyway.

Oh… right.  Football.

Games to keep an eye on:
#15 Pittsburg State at #1 Northwest Missouri State
#25 Ouachita Baptist at #6 Delta State
#9 Wayne State (MI) at 3-1 Northern Michigan
3-1 Western Oregon at #11 Abilene Christian
#13 Albany State vs 3-1 Kentucky State (at Indianapolis)
#24 Hillsdale at 3-0 Saginaw Valley State
3-1 American International at 3-1 Bentley
3-1 Winona State at 3-1 Minnesota State-Mankato

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This week’s D-II preview will be truncated due to time issues; the upcoming games are not included in the post, but I will discuss the important ones. Next week, we should be on a proper schedule, especially since the realignment drama in FBS seems to have screeched to a halt. Last week, the reigning #1 fell, and five teams in the top 10 lost all told.
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