Monthly Archives: September 2008

Most overtimes

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As you may know from reading our site, Mass-Dartmouth and WPI played to five overtimes last Friday night. Unfortunately, it’s not yet known if this is an NCAA record, because the NCAA does not track such a record at the Division III level.

What we know for sure is that there have been no five-overtime games in the 10-year history of D3football.com — there have been 18 games recorded as going to four overtimes but none longer. That leaves only the 1996, 1997 and 1998 seasons as possible years in which games could have gone to five overtimes. (Overtime was instituted for college football after the 1995 season.)

Anyone knowing of a five-overtime game involving a Division III school in those seasons, let us know, and we’ll check it out.

ATN podcast 19: Week 1 analysis

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The Around the Nation podcast is back for a second season and this year, with Keith McMillan and I on opposite ends of the Division III landscape, it’s presented us some new challenges. Before, Keith and I always recorded together, in the same place, but now he’s in Washington, D.C., and I’m in Minneapolis.

So it takes some technological stitching together and timing and such we haven’t completely gotten down yet. But we’ll work on that more next week.

Hopefully the analysis of Week 1 is the important thing, since that’s what we do with our weekly podcast discussion on Monday morning. Such as, what do you do if you’re a good team and you lost to a better team this week? Or lost to a bad team? Where does a team go from here after its first game?

What did we learn about St. John Fisher? What can we expect from UW-Whitewater? What’s it like getting a long losing streak off your back? All that and more in this week’s Around the Nation podcast.

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Cue the Black-eyed Peas

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Let’s get it started, indeed.

A lot intriguing games including a rare match-up of Top 10 teams in Alliance where No. 1 Mount Union hosts No. 10 St. John Fisher. How will No. 21 Franklin fare with its Top 25 ranking and a tough Baldwin-Wallace team? Does East Texas Baptist have what it takes to surprise No. 6 St. John’s? Who will score more – Albright’s passing attack or No. 12 Salisbury’s running attack? Does UW-Lax or Hardin-Simmons bounce back from a disappointing 2007? How will Tropical Storm Hanna impact the East coast games?

We’ll soon find out.