D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast

Feb 05 2025 181 ep. 58 mins 53

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ATN Podcast 377: Let them play!

Feb 05 2025 86 mins

The current football student-athletes of the NESCAC are probably too young to envision a crowd of fans in the Astrodome chanting "Let them play!" about the Bad News Bears. They are too young to remember the Astrodome. And they are nothing like the Bad News Bears, but still, the powers-that-be in the New England Small College Athletic Conference have not allowed their conference tea

ATN Podcast 376: Houston, we have a champion

Jan 06 2025 61 mins

Whether it was a Red-Letter Day or a Red Dawn or Red Cardinals Fly at Night, Stagg Bowl LI was another example of the ongoing red shift in Division III football, as North Central won its third title in its five consecutive trips to the Stagg Bowl and ensured that the Walnut and Bronze would have a red tint to it for the third year in a row. Luke Lehnen reached the remaining recor

ATN Podcast 375: Taking you up to kickoff

Jan 04 2025 74 mins

North Central and Mount Union are back, and we're ready to get you to kickoff of Stagg Bowl LI on Sunday night. How healthy are each of these teams? What new wrinkles might we see offensively? How many snaps will Noah Beaudrie get at quarterback for Mount Union? How many passes will Luke Lehnen end up throwing for North Central? We give you a taste of what we hear from players fro

ATN Podcast 374: Two teams, one ring

Dec 22 2024 60 mins

We're down to the best two teams in Division III football, both of whom are playing their best games at the right time. Mount Union is certainly firing on all cylinders now on offense after some struggles during the regular season, and you'd be hard-pressed to find more than one thing that went wrong for North Central as they absolutely demolished Susquehanna. How did they get her

ATN Podcast 373: Down to four

Dec 15 2024 66 mins

Touchdown or no touchdown? Hold or no hold? Should the game have been over? So many questions, and not the ones we would prefer to be asking about a game in the Division III football national quarterfinals. And yes, there were many questions about the final moments of the Bethel-Susquehanna game, and whether they should have been the final moments, so to break it all down, we tal

ATN Podcast 372: Flipping the script

Dec 08 2024 69 mins

Yep, we all thought we knew exactly what to expect from the round of 16 of the Division III football playoffs. What did we get instead? Something way, way more interesting. That's the national champion being ousted. That's St. John's falling at home on the final play of the game. And that's a bracket with four quarterfinal games, three of which are being hosted by teams in Region

ATN Podcast 371: Measuring the fallout

Dec 01 2024 71 mins

Now everyone in the playoffs has played at least one postseason game, or if you look at it another way, more than 60% of the playoff games are already over. And people are in a hurry to dismiss the WIAC, and they're in a hurry to crown NPI, because higher seeds have won 21 of the 24 games. (Of course, higher seeds have been at home in 23 out of 24 games, which might be a factor.)

ATN Podcast 370: Much to be thankful for

Nov 27 2024 94 mins

When you're on the road on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, tune us in. We talk with North Central coach Brad Spencer about how his team adjusted to having a bye week at the beginning of the schedule, we hear from about a third of the coaches remaining in the bracket both about what they're thankful for this Thanksgiving season and how they're handling Thanksgiving with their players,

ATN Podcast 369: Easing into the playoffs

Nov 24 2024 72 mins

This slimmed-down version of the first round actually worked out pretty well. Five of the eight games went down to the final couple of minutes, and the three blowouts were against the No. 38, No. 39 and No. 40 seeds in the tournament. So now that that's out of the way, we can move on to the Round of 32. But first, we'll recap those eight games, you'll hear from some of the key play

ATN Podcast 368: Much ado about bracketing

Nov 18 2024 76 mins

Why is Endicott playing in the first round? Why is Ursinus? Why does Centre get a bye? Why does Salisbury have to face a 6 or 7 seed in its first game instead of a 9 or 10? When the teams are already identified and all boiled down to a number value by a mathematical equation, the bracket is all we can talk about, and go figure, sometimes decisions are still being made by geography