Alright, here we go. Pat and Keith are heading to the tailgate shortly and will greet the early arrivals! Meanwhile, join us in the live chat below as well, or tweet with the #d3fb hashtag.

Mount Union · Purple · Stagg Bowl · Stagg Bowl XXXIX · UW-Whitewater

If you want to keep UW-Whitewater and Mount Union from meeting in Stagg Bowl XXXIX, your options are down to one pair of games on Saturday: Wesley has the last shot at Mount Union and St. Thomas has the last chance to take down UW-Whitewater. In the preseason D3football.com Top 25, UW-Whitewater was No. 1, Mount Union No. 2, Wesley No. 3 and St. Thomas was No. 5, so these matchups are four months in the making.

Join us on the live chat. Watch the games on television if you’re in one of the local markets, or on ESPN3.com via links on the D3football.com scoreboard. Use the #d3fb hashtag. Send up smoke signals, I don’t care. It’s game day!

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Mike Asiedu and the Wesley defense face a potent UMHB offense. Wesley athletics photo

We have two interesting cross-region quarterfinals, where two East teams can give the region some long-awaited credibility with games against West Region opponents. We also have a 2002 quarterfinal rematch and a multiple-time rematch in the South. You’ve already seen our picks, and thanks to those who have weighed in there as well.

We’ll be following along all day with our live chat below, and you can join in the chat window or by using the #d3fb hashtag on Twitter. Just one noon game and three 1 p.m. games, so Mount Union-Wabash gets center stage to start off.

Not that you can watch it.

Mary Hardin-Baylor · Mount Union · playoffs · Salisbury · St. John Fisher · St. Thomas · UW-Whitewater · Wabash · Wesley

This could be McMurry’s last formal day as a Division III football team. McMurry athletics photo by Gerald Ewing

Cutting down the field, from 16 teams to eight. You’ve already seen our picks, and thanks to those who have weighed in there as well.

We’ll be following along all day with our live chat below, and you can join in the chat window or by using the #d3fb hashtag on Twitter. Five noon games and three 1 p.m. games.

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Josh Chatman is one of 10 players to catch a TD pass and one of 20 McMurry players to catch a pass this season. McMurry athletics photo by Gerald Ewing

Around 2:00 p.m. ET, it will get really crazy. With nine noon games, six 1 p.m. games and a 3 p.m. game, things get really intense, and they do every year.

Some of the noon games come down to the wire. Some will be upsets. Some will have last-minute victories. The dust we’ll settle, we’ll move names forward in the brackets, and then the 1 p.m. games will come down as well. Follow it all here, with our live chat, on the scoreboard, and all the rest.

Follow with the live chat below, and use the #d3fb hashtag to join the conversation as well.

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