Phew. This was one of those weeks I spent in front of the computer — I owed the family a little time so I didn’t travel and instead stuck around and watched the scoreboard, live stats and listened to games.

Started my morning with my usual Saturday wake-up call from Western Wisconsin Sports Radio, which has me on for a few minutes in their morning football show every week to talk national scene for Division III.

I figure I listened to or tracked on live stats about a dozen of today’s games. Caught the ending of the Otterbein/Capital game as Capital had a shot from the Otterbein 35 on the final snap. Capital has got to do a better job on its crosstown rival. Joe Loth has that program headed in the right direction.

Baldwin-Wallace had me concerned — I’d been told by more than one person, including insiders, that they weren’t going to be an OAC factor this year yet they led Ohio Northern 17-0 at one point. Not for long, though.

Checked in on Mount Union about midway through the second quarter and quickly realized there wasn’t going to be any need to check back. Yikes.

Spent a lot of time listening to Alma/Wittenberg. Alma was up 17-0, Wittenberg rallied to take the lead, then Alma pulled away.

My alma mater had my blood pumping in mid-afternoon. Catholic rallied to take the lead at No. 23 McDaniel, then saw the Green Terror tie on the last play of regulation. Two overtimes later, someone finally made an extra point and McDaniel won. Catholic isn’t the best 0-3 team in the country by any stretch (hello, Wittenberg) but it will win some games.

Listened to a good amount of the Mary Hardin-Baylor/Texas Lutheran broadcast. Once I figured out which team was “we” to the broadcasters it was a lot easier. Also spent a lot of time with the Redlands/Trinity (Texas) broadcast, which I usually do with any 10 p.m. game. Thanks for the shout-out to our readers, Mitch and folks. Hope you guys get lots of free shoes and tomato sauce!

Crazy e-mail of the day

Marietta College is going to represent the OAC. How can you leave them out of the top 25. One of the top conferences in the nation. Never mind their previous history. They are for Real.

Sent from Stevens Point, Wis., where I’m guessing this person has seen a lot of Marietta football. Marietta had a nice 6-4 season last year but holding off on Top 25 consideration until they play Capital, Ohio Northern or Mount Union.

Come to think of it, didn’t Marietta coach Todd Glaser come from a WIAC school to take this job? Hmm …

Games that concern me
McDaniel/Catholic: McDaniel’s injury problems are obviously having an effect. Going to drop them on my Top 25 ballot until they show they’re healthy.
Wilkes/Delaware Valley: So Wilkes lost to William Paterson and almost beat Del Val? Which is the real Wilkes and which the real Del Val?
Ithaca/Hartwick: Although Jamie Donovan finally put up numbers worthy of the dominant running back I saw at Cortaca last year, worried about the final. Ithaca was up by 31 early in the fourth quarter, though.
UW-Whitewater/Lakeland: Man, that’s a lot of points. Save some for Oct. 1.

Keith McMillan and I will be there for that game, by the way, between UW-Eau Claire and UW-Whitewater. Looking forward to it.