Halloween weekend delivered more than its share of improbable endings. Exactly what chance did Dickinson have to do what it did at Carnegie Mellon? How did Johns Hopkins win on a play that wasn’t even legal a year ago? What did Azusa Pacific do to improve from Week 1 to Week 9?
Patrick and Greg break down those finishes and the biggest Week 9 storylines: Wheaton’s recurring slow starts, UW-Whitewater’s improving offense, the de facto OAC title game between Baldwin Wallace and Mount Union, and the crowded races in the SAA and Centennial.
In addition, DePauw coach Brett Dietz joins the Fast Five to discuss the Tigers’ quarterback change, Jack Kazmierczak’s patience and efficiency, Harry Pratt’s emergence on defense, and taking the Monon Bell game to Ball State while DePauw’s stadium is under construction.
We’re getting more and more long field goals at the Division III level. How many are we really talking, and why are we getting better kickers? We talked to some coaches to dig into this.
We go region by region, we hand out game balls, the mailbag makes us talk about the best defensive players in D-III and Whitewater-Platteville. Biggest WIAC game since when?
Patrick and Greg cover it all in Around the Nation Podcast No. 424.
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Photos: Baldwin Wallace athletics photo by Erik Drost; Mount Union athletics; UW-Whitewater athletics photo by Olivia Zinnani
Long field goal data
| Season | 50+ | 55+ | 60+ | Long | Kicker |
| 2013-14 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 62 | Matthew Aven, CMS |
| 2014-15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 54 | Andrew Franks, RPI |
| 2015-16 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 54 | Sean Murray, Redlands |
| 2016-17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 53 | Tyler Stolen, Buena Vista |
| 2017-18 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 55 | Nathan Hierlihy, Redlands; Spenser Thompson-Meyers, St. Norbert |
| 2018-19 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 55 | Jon Alberts, Central |
| 2019-20 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 58 | Tim Branneky, Westminster (Mo.) |
| 2020-21 | 0 | COVID | |||
| 2021-22 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 55 | Doug Cummings, Gettysburg |
| 2022-23 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 60 | John McArdle, Bethany |
| 2023-24 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 55 | Will Goodman, Chicago |
| 2024-25 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 56 | Tim Kissinger, Lebanon Valley |
| 2025-26 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 57 | Aidan Ellison, North Central |
| 2026-27 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 56 | Sean Lee, CMS and Sean Ryniec, North Central |