St. Peter’s dropped football a few weeks ago, leaving three Division III football teams scrambling for games.

While it hasn’t worked out well for St. Peter’s, obviously, the D-III schools have made it work, finally. And in the end, it helped out another school that needed games.

St. Peter’s was scheduled to play Western Connecticut, Salisbury and Geneva. Just this week, we learned Western Connecticut filled its open date with a Week 1 game against Wagner. Salisbury and Geneva ended up scheduling each other.

But the St. Peter’s fallout helped another school. At the beginning of June, Frostburg State released a schedule that had it playing Waynesburg on Nov. 3. Only problem, Waynesburg was playing a conference game that day. (Perhaps Frostburg didn’t read all of its correspondence.) Losing the Waynesburg game leaves Frostburg with just eight games.

We tried matching Frostburg State up with Western Connecticut on their mutual Week 1 open date, though admittedly, that’s not a short trip. We recommended the matchup to the respective coaches. But we were also able to find some of St. Peter’s other games, and found they were scheduled to play at Duquesne on Sept. 29 — for Duquesne’s homecoming.

Duquesne is in Pittsburgh. Desperate for a game. I-AA nonscholarship. Great match for Frostburg. We make the recommendation. And according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, they took each other up on it.

Before we had an Open Dates board, we tried to play matchmaker a lot more often. Although the coaches do it themselves on our site now, it’s still satisfying to help out.