GameDay, meet Game Day

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.

111 thoughts on “GameDay, meet Game Day

  1. Whitewater takes 14-0 lead against Platteville…20 seconds remaining in the 2nd quarter at The Perk…Danny Jones 24 yards to Neil Mrkvicka.

  2. OWU gets two long completions, the last of which was tipped and caught by receiver on his back at the 1. Bishop TD and 2 pointer. Tied 17 all.

  3. Thanks, Pat… The Fisher-Alfred game looks like a good one… Alfred can score at any given moment with Hendrixs and company…

  4. Wheaton leads IWU 7-3 at half. wheaton without 3 more offensive starters including norris (their qb) and fossum (their captain and wr).

    ncc up 49-10 over carthage at half

  5. huge controversy in wheaton game. after a wheaton turnover IWU throws an interception in the endzone but its ruled a no play due to an inadvertant whistle while the ball was in the air. wheaton kicks a fg to make it 7-3.

    IWU returns kick to wheaton 25 to start the 2nd half. wheaton holds on downs and now driving.

  6. Union loses but plays a solid football game! My hat goes off to QB Jared Gourrier. I have been down on him in the past but today he showed me what he is made of. I really believe the Dutchmen will be a force to be reckoned with next year. If Gourrier keeps improving as a passer with his running ability he really can change the way Union plays O. If he comes to camp next summer playing the type of football he played today he should be the starter. I know I am going to get some slack for this but RPI really did not impress me. I think Robertson is fantastic adn so is RB#5. For a team that many have really built up I just don’t see them as a dominate type footbal team. With the loss to Rochester last week and them not being able to really beat anyone good this season convincingly if they play someone tough in the first round I see them losing. I think in the end Hobart is the best team in the LL and if they played RPI today they would the outcome would be different then before.

  7. Correction on usee’s earlier post: IWU got the fg to make it 7-3. They have since converted another – now Wheaton 7, IWU 6 in the 3rd.

  8. usee, but you had had a brain fart and said “wheaton kicks a fg to make it 7-3”. Since then, Wheaton got a td, leads 14-6 with seconds left in the 3rd.

  9. guilty as charged. sorry. misread your post. thanks for “fixing” my post, even though you are the bad guy today!

  10. usee, gotta do what I can, since I’m hopelessly outnumbered on the CCIW board today!

    IWU just got a td, will go for 2 to tie. Pass incomplete – Wheaton up 14-12.

  11. Some great results so far. Interesting at DePauw, making Keith look good in Triple-Take. Second year in a row Bethel takes down SJU to secure a playoff bid.

  12. 9 minutes left in the 4th in Bloomington, and they just lost power! Broadcast is still going on batteries. Can this game get any weirder?

  13. dcfbguy1:

    You already know the outcome of the Fisher Alfred game (39,18). You need to be corrected about the scoring capability of Alfred through the air. Fisher went to a 3 down lineman formation with the remaining 7 players defending against the pass and shutdown Alfred. Alfred just did not have what it takes to win today. They showed no running game at all against Fisher. Maybe next year.

  14. I see that New Jersey lost to Kean, dropping them into a tie for the NJAC with Cortland (who beat them h-to-h), yet TCNJ is listed as the AQ on the front page. What sort of crazy tie-breaker do they use that h-to-h doesn’t count?!

  15. Hobart looks headed for a ECAC game… Fisher will take the Pool C… Fisher, Ithaca and Hobart can’t all get one…

  16. montclair might be paddling in the same boat as hobart… the east is just too competitive this year, you know?

  17. VERY proud to be from Randolph-Macon after today, even with the loss. They played a classy, mistake-free, stick-to-your-guns style, and even though they didn’t make a lot of plays, it seemed like the foundation is solid.

    Adding end zone seating and very large grandstand on the H-SC side made for one of the best game-day atmospheres I’ve seen at Macon, if not all over the place.

    Even though I was a little sick standing in the middle of their postgame celebration, congrats to Marty Favret and H-SC for their first ODAC title in 20(?) years.

    I have a feeling next week will be at Wesley and won’t be so kind, but you never, ever know.

    Interesting results all over the country, lots of close scores in the key games.

    How was the ESPN broadcast? I did not see it, but would love to have tape or see highlights on ESPN.com or YouTube, if anyone knows if that’s available and/or legal.

  18. Almost picked Kean/TCNJ for one of the Triple Take questions. Dangit!

    Monon Bell ending sounds like it was gr-eat!

    Knowing you’re in doesn’t necessarily bode well for Week 11, does it?

    Time to check on … wait, Oxy doesn’t kick for 2 more hours. 10 Eastern. Hmmmph.

  19. Gonna be a lot of teams with losses, maybe even multiple losses, in the field. So much for the regular season means so much theory (and yet it still means everything to get these AQs, you just don’t have to go undefeated … which I understand is not happening in I-A either after Illinois beat Ohio State today)

    In any case, the projection Pat did the other day … looks like he nailed the LL, but some of the seeds and stuff can be thrown out. North Central is in, Wabash might or might not be on the road with the loss, TCNJ same deal (probably bodes well for the Muhlenberg as East No. 1 suggestion) … Hartwick is in, with a 4OT win.

    Wow, lotta wows.

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