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Game Day: Ready for showdowns

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North Central
North Central will try to succeed where Wheaton failed — in Bloomington, Ill.

UW-Oshkosh and Bethel have been waiting for this day for quite some time, and St. Thomas has been waiting since Bethel knocked the Tommies out of the playoffs in last year’s national quarterfinals. North Central can’t afford another loss after dropping its opener at Redlands, and Illinois Wesleyan has already won its home game against Wheaton.

Those are the three centerpiece games, not to mention a bunch of other games we already mentioned in Triple Take and the Around the Nation podcast.

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ATN Podcast: Looking at playoffs

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Trinity (Texas)
Trinity (Texas) answered Huntingdon’s statement with one of its own.
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It was an interesting week down south, with Birmingham-Southern and Huntingdon taking losses and Centre and Trinity (Texas) getting a leg up in the SCAC race. Salisbury rolled up an amazing point total and continues to dominate against Empire 8 foes. Wartburg fell and Redlands rose in crazy fourth quarters. (Here’s a link to that video.) Plus Kean picked up its first loss after flirting with it in previous weeks.

Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman discuss that and more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast. See the list of tags at the bottom of this post to see who else is discussed.

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Plus, here’s the first look at this week’s D3reports, as well as Division III football highlight reels. These will also appear on the front page on Monday afternoon.

Game day: Everyone in

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Mount Union
Mount Union walks into Saturday’s game at Heidelberg at 6-0.

There are 114 games this week, 112 of them on Saturday and every ranked team is in action this weekend.

No full-conference byes, like the Centennial had last week. Plenty of big games to keep up on, as we described yesterday in the Triple Take.

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