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D-II: Week 10 Recap/Week 11 Preview.

Nov 9

Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division News and Notes | Comments off

Six more teams grabbed titles, or shares thereof, last week. This week, the regular season ends, and everything will be settled with three official conference championship games, three de facto title games, and a smattering of other contests to sort out the rest.

Conference titles already won:
Great American Conference: Ouachita Baptist
Great Lakes Football Conference: Urbana
Gulf South Conference: Delta State
Lone Star Conference: Midwestern State
Northeast-10: New Haven (share)
Northern Sun: Minnesota State-Mankato (share)
Rocky Mountain: Colorado State-Pueblo (share)

bold indicates team will win their conference title outright with a victory.
bold italics indicates team could win their conference title outright with a victory, depending on other results.
normal italics indicates team will win a share of their conference title with a victory.

5-5 Western New Mexico at #2 Colorado State-Pueblo
7-3 Elizabeth City State at #4 Winston-Salem State (CIAA)
7-3 Central Missouri at #6 Washburn (Mid-America)
#7 New Haven at 1-8 Saint Anselm
#24 Slippery Rock at #8 Kutztown (Pennsylvania)
3-6 Missouri Southern at #9 Pittsburg State (Mid-America)
8-2 Minnesota State-Mankato at #10 Minnesota-Duluth (Northern Sun)
6-3 Valdosta State at #13 North Alabama
6-4 Western Oregon at #14 Humboldt State (Great Northwest)
6-4 Miles at #16 Albany State (SIAC)
6-3 Concord at #19 West Virginia Wesleyan (West Virginia)
5-5 Findlay at #22 Wayne State (MI) (Great Lakes South)
5-5 Carson-Newman at #23 Mars Hill (South Atlantic)
#25 Saginaw Valley State at 7-3 Grand Valley State (Great Lakes North)
7-3 Hillsdale at 0-10 Tiffin (Great Lakes South)
6-3 Lenoir-Rhyne at 3-7 Catawba (South Atlantic)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.

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FCS: Week 10 Recap/Week 11 Preview.

Nov 8

Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off

One team is definitely in the playoffs; at least one more will join them this week, and possibly as many as five others.

Automatic playoff bids already claimed:
Southland Conference: Sam Houston State

Key games this week:
bold indicates team will claim their conference’s autobid with a win.
bold italics indicates team can claim their conference’s autobid with a win, depending on other outcomes.

5-4 Youngstown State at #1 North Dakota State (Missouri Valley)
#4 Georgia Southern at #9 Wofford (Southern)
8-2 Georgetown at #6 Lehigh (Patriot)
#7 New Hampshire at #12 Towson (Colonial)
5-4 Massachusetts at #13 Maine
5-3 Pennsylvania at #18 Harvard (Ivy; no autobid, just conference title)
#21 Jackson State at 7-2 Alabama A&M (SWAC East)
#22 Norfolk State at Morgan State (Mid-Eastern)
3-6 Southern at #23 Alabama State (SWAC East)
5-3 Tennessee Tech at #25 Eastern Kentucky (Ohio Valley)
6-4 Dayton at 8-2 Drake (Pioneer; no autobid, just conference title)
4-5 Prairie View A&M at 3-5 Alcorn State (SWAC West)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
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NAIA: Week 9 Recap/Week 10 Preview.

Nov 3

Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, NAIA | Comments off

For the second time this year, #1 Saint Xavier will face off against the #2 team in the country. Ottawa secured at least a share of the KCAC title, and a playoff berth provided they remain in the top 20 of the rankings.

Conference champions determined thus far:
Dakota Athletic Conference (no auto-bid): Valley City State
Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference: Ottawa

bold indicates team will claim at least a share of their conference title, as well as securing all tiebreakers, with a win.
bold italics indicates team can claim at least a share of their conference title, as well as securing all tiebreakers, with a win and other results.
italics indicates team will claim a share of the title, but not the automatic bid consideration, with a win.

#1 Saint Xavier at #2 Marian (Mid-States Mideast)
2-7 Montana Tech at #3 Carroll (MT) (Frontier)
6-2 Lindsey Wilson at #4 Georgetown (KY) (Mid-South East)
#6 Morningside at 4-5 Concordia (NE) (Great Plains)
#8 William Penn at #12 Saint Ambrose (Mid-States Midwest)
#10 Azusa Pacific at Menlo (Independent bid would be assured)
#14 Cumberland (TN) at 4-5 Belhaven (Mid-South West)
0-9 Texas College at #19 Langston (Central States)
5-3 Hastings at #20 Morningside

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
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D-III: Week 9 Recap/Week 10 Preview.

Nov 2

Posted by Jon Morse in Division III, Division News and Notes | Comments off

Eight teams claimed automatic bids last week; this week thirteen more can join them (and five absolutely will one way or another). Also, TWO new all-divison career record were set (both previously held by players from Westminster (MO), which was not even remotely coincidental), and you’ll just have to read to find out what those records were.

Automatic bids already claimed:
Centennial Conference: Johns Hopkins
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Albion
Midwest Conference: Monmouth (IL)
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Saint Thomas (MN)
Presidents’ Athletic Conference: Thomas More
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Cal Lutheran
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Saint Scholastica
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Wisconsin-Whitewater

bold indicates team will clinch their conference’s automatic bid with a win.
italics indicates team may clinch their conference’s automatic bid with a win, depending on other results.

7-1 Baldwin-Wallace at #2 Mount Union (Ohio)
2-6 Sul Ross State at #4 Mary Hardin-Baylor (American Southwest)
7-1 Wittenberg at #10 Wabash (North Coast)
#12 Delaware Valley at 7-1 Lycoming
#13 Wheaton (IL) at #6 North Central (CCIW)
7-1 Saint John Fisher at #11 Salisbury (Empire Eight)
#17 Montclair State at 5-3 Rowan
#25 Centre at #18 Trinity (TX) (Southern CAC)
#21 Illinois Wesleyan at 5-3 Carthage
#22 Franklin at 0-8 Earlham (Heartland)
3-4 Rensselaer at #24 Hobart (Liberty)
6-3 Norwich at 7-1 New York Maritime (ECFC)
8-1 Dubuque at 5-3 Coe (Iowa)
6-2 Benedictine (IL) at 0-8 Rockford (Northern)
8-1 Washington & Lee at 7-1 Hampden-Sydney (Old Dominion)
6-2 Ferrum at 6-2 Christopher Newport (USA South)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
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D-II: Week 9 Recap/Week 10 Preview.

Nov 1

Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division News and Notes | Comments off

It’s the next to last week of the D-II regular season, and as a result all sorts of fun things are about to happen. Last week, three teams won divisional titles outright and berths in their conference championship games; one of the two remaining divisional races features a three-way fight resting on the results of two games. One team also won an outright conference title last week, and you can find out all about that following the jump, which follows this rather large list of games involving ranked teams, playoff implications, and conference titles at stake:

bold indicates team will win their conference title outright with a victory.
bold italics indicates team could win their conference title outright with a victory, depending on other results.
normal italics indicates team will win a share of their conference title with a victory.

#18 West Alabama at #1 Delta State (Gulf South)
#9 Washburn at #2 Pittsburg State (MIAA)
#3 Northwest Missouri State at #25t Missouri Western
1-8 Western State at #4 Colorado State-Pueblo (Rocky Mountain)
#20 West Texas A&M at #5 Midwestern State (Lone Star)
#6 Saint Cloud State at 6-3 Bemidji State (Northern Sun North)
#7 Winston-Salem State at 7-2 North Carolina-Pembroke
1-7 Pace at #10 New Haven (Northeast-10)
#11 West Virginia Wesleyan at 3-6 Charleston (WV) (WVIAC)
#12 Bloomsburg at #13 Kutztown (PSAC East)
#21 Albany State at 2-7 Fort Valley State (SIAC East)
#24 Wayne State (MI) at 7-2 Indianapolis
7-2 Minnesota State-Mankato at 3-6 Southwest Minnesota State (Northern Sun South)
7-2 Morehouse at 6-3 Kentucky State (SIAC East)
7-2 North Greenville at 6-3 Wingate
6-2 Ouachita Baptist at 2-6 Southeastern Oklahoma State (Great American)
1-8 Cheyney at 5-4 Long Island-C.W. Post (PSAC East)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.

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FCS: Week 9 Recap/Week 10 Preview.

Oct 31

Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off

We still have no playoff tickets punched, and unbelievably there is only one team which can clinch a playoff spot this week (Sam Houston State). The only honors claimed by any team thus far: Cal Poly-SLO has clinched a share of the Great West title. This week’s action isn’t nearly as bombastic as last week’s, but there are still some games you should keep an eye on:

#1 North Dakota State at #21 Indiana State
#2 Montana State at 3-5 Weber State (MSU would claim a share of the Big Sky title with a win)
#4 Sam Houston State at 2-6 Southeastern Louisiana (SHSU would claim a share of the Southland title, and the autobid, with a win)
#14 Towson at #7 Maine
#13 James Madison at #9 New Hampshire
5-3 Eastern Kentucky at #18 Jacksonville State
6-2 Jacksonville at 7-2 Drake
6-2 San Diego at 6-3 Dayton
5-3 Cal Poly-SLO at 2-6 Cal-Davis (CPSLO will convert shared title to outright with a win)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
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NAIA: Week 8 Recap/Week 9 Preview.

Oct 29

Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, NAIA | Comments off

We missed last week, but we didn’t really miss much as almost everything went according to form. This week has only a couple of major games to deal with:

#14 Ottawa at #18 Bethany (KS) (Ottawa wins KCAC title with win)
#23 Dakota Wesleyan at #22 Northwestern (IA)

The weekly recaps are going to be missing game details from here on out, unless something truly special happened and I happened to catch it. This is because I’ve been brought on as a contributing author at Bring on the Cats, the Kansas State Wildcats blog at SBNation, and that’s going to have to take priority. Unfortunately, the “mining press releases for neat stat tidbits and game story notes” is by far the most crushing and time-consuming aspect of the process of writing these recaps. In order to at least keep you abreast of the progress of conference races, that’s just going to have to be sacrificed.

(When the playoffs roll around, we should get back to more details. No worries there.)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
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D-III: Week 8 Recap/Week 9 Preview.

Oct 29

Posted by Jon Morse in Division III, Division News and Notes | Comments off

Because I’m late with this, I get to announce that the first spot in this year’s playoff field has been filled. Congratulations to Saint Scholastica on their Upper Midwest Athletic Conference championship and their impending trip to the post-season (the league’s first playoff representative).

Big games this week (bold indicates team will win conference title and autobid — or divisional title and not autobid, as noted — with a win; italics means they can do so):

Friday night: 8-0 Saint Scholastica 70, Presentation 20 – Saint Scholastica wins UMAC title and autobid

Saturday:
1-6 Gustavus Adolphus at #3 Saint Thomas (MN)
#11 Salisbury at #7 Wesley (DE)
#8 Thomas More at 5-2 Westminster (PA)
5-2 Ursinus at #14 Johns Hopkins
5-2 Rowan at #18 Kean
6-2 Central (IA) at 5-2 Wartburg
4-3 Albion at 7-0 Adrian
6-1 Lycoming at 5-2 Lebanon Valley
7-1 Monmouth (IL) at 6-2 Carroll (WI)
1-6 Coast Guard at 5-2 Framingham State (NEFC Bogan Division)
8-0 Endicott at 7-1 Western New England (NEFC Boyd Division)
6-0 Lewis & Clark at 4-2 Pacific Lutheran
5-2 Chicago at 6-1 Case Western

The weekly recaps are going to be missing game details from here on out, unless something truly special happened and I happened to catch it. This is because I’ve been brought on as a contributing author at Bring on the Cats, the Kansas State Wildcats blog at SBNation, and that’s going to have to take priority. Unfortunately, the “mining press releases for neat stat tidbits and game story notes” is by far the most crushing and time-consuming aspect of the process of writing these recaps. In order to at least keep you abreast of the progress of conference races, that’s just going to have to be sacrificed.

(When the playoffs roll around, we should get back to more details. No worries there.)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
Read the rest of this entry »

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D-II: Week 8 Recap/Week 9 Preview.

Oct 27

Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division News and Notes | Comments off

Both divisions of the GLIAC race went HAM on us, while everywhere else things are steaming toward some sort of resolution.

#5 North Alabama at #23 West Alabama
#6 Minnesota-Duluth at #11 Saint Cloud State
#13 New Haven at 5-2 Merrimack
5-2 Saginaw Valley State at #15 Wayne State (MI)
#24 California (PA) at 5-2 Indiana (PA)
6-2 Indianapolis at 5-3 Ferris State
5-3 Findlay at 5-3 Ashland
5-3 Missouri S&T at 5-3 Urbana (GLFC title on the line)
5-3 Augustana (SD) at 6-2 Minnesota State-Mankato
5-3 Miles at 6-2 Stillman (de facto SIAC West title game)

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.

The first Super Regional rankings of the year are out, and this is what the NCAA uses to determine the playoff field. I’ll note which teams are ranked in their Super Regional poll for each conference. At the end of the recap, I’ll also note who’d make the playoffs and what the pairings should be if the season ended today.

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FCS: Week 8 Recap/Week 9 Preview.

Oct 25

Posted by Jon Morse in Division News and Notes, FCS | Comments off

A quarterback returns from injury and has a 400-yard, 5 TD day the week after his backup did the very same thing. The MEAC went topsy-turvy. A top five team bit the dust, and this week two more teams are going to as we get to witness two titanic showdowns. All the goodies after the jump.

#1 Georgia Southern at #5 Appalachian State
#2 Northern Iowa at #3 North Dakota State
#9 James Madison at #15 Old Dominion
#21 Delaware at #13 Towson
#25 Tennessee Tech at #14 Jacksonville State
#16 Alabama State at 5-2 Alabama A&M
4-2 Pennsylvania at 5-1 Brown

I have composed a handy primer for playoff formats and guidelines, because we’re getting very very close to starting to hand out bids.
Read the rest of this entry »

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