GameDay just hit the airwaves on ESPN and so far the crowd is looking pretty good in Williamstown, Mass. I must admit to not being much of a GameDay watcher in the past couple of years. As I’ve traveled to more and more Division III games, I don’t exactly find myself in front of a television at 10 a.m. ET on a Saturday. This is only the third weekend of 11 that I’ve spent at home, and I’m only doing that because I have to be at the airport at a little after 3 p.m. to get to ESPNU.
Just showed highlights of Mount Union. Chris Fowler pronounced Monon Bell correctly. ESPN graphic missed the hyphen on Hampden-Sydney.
I’ll be virtually channel surfing between the big games today and watching for teams to clinch, etc.
Why would hobart make it over a montclair state who has a signature victory at Wesley and has slightly harder SOS then hobart.
rams15: Why would Montclair pass Hobart in the regional rankings if they were obviously behind them last week?
Coleman: Why are they ahead of them anyways?
Also why did they have to move salisbury to the East when there are 2 good teams in hobart and montclair.
Montclair lost by 30 to Cortland. That’s the dagger, myfriend.
Montclair doesn’t actually have the stronger OWP, however.
http://www.d3football.com/strength-of-schedule/2007
25 Hobart 8-2 .800 .567 .523
84 Montclair State 8-2 .800 .528 .537
Here is my projected bracket. Generally, I agree with yours with a few changes.
Pool B: Case, Wesley, Salisbury
Pool C: SJF, St Johns, MtSt Joseph, Capital, Whitworth, Hobart, St Olaf (last two out Wartburg and Wheaton)
South
1) W&J
2) Wesley
3) UMHB
4) Case Western
5) Salisbury
6) Trinity
7) Hampton Sydney
8) NC Wesleyan
North
1) Mt Union
2) Franklin
3) Wabash
4) Mt St Joseph
5) Capital
6) North Central
7) Concordia (Wis)
8) Olivet
East
1) Muhlenburg
2) St Johns Fisher
3) Curry
4) RPI
5) Widener
6) Hartwick
7) New Jersey
8) Hobart
West
1) UW-Whitewater
2) Bethel
3) Central
4) St Norbert
5) Whitworth
6) Redlands
7) St Johns
8) St Olaf
Muhlenberg is a national fit as the East #1 seed. I prefer moving Case to South over Capital. I picked st olaf over wartburg based on Augsburg game (loss for wartburg, blowout win for st olaf). I eliminated wheaton based on losing last two games. In the west, i would need to have 1 vs 8, 2 vs 4, 3 vs 7, and 5 vs 6 to assure that only one flight needed to be made. No other flights would be necessary.
Whittier 21, Occidental 14 with 12:35 left in the 2nd quarter
DIII Just got a couple mentions at the end of SportsCenter. The #10 top play was from the Williams-Amherst tilt and #8 was the Monon Bell game. And they weren’t fluke, “news-of-the-weird” type plays. Maybe ESPN is giving DIII it’s due finally? Or might this just be a tease of some serious coverage before going back to treating DIII as a sideshow?
Here’s hoping its an actual (minor) shift of landscape and not just a novelty act.
It’s now 67-42, Whittier over Oxy, 5 to go. And the broadcasters have been talking about email coming into them (it’s been a looong game). I sent them one, and they talked about it on the air (kinda cool).
And that became a game again, to end a long day. Final Whittier 67, Occidental 61. Oxy recovered two onside kicks and had the ball with 19 seconds left but couldn’t make a miracle happen.