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Game Day: Last chance to clinch

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Lewis and Clark's Keith Welch
This is it for 2011 Lewis and Clark football: Win or go home!
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Yep, this is what Week 11 is all about. Rivalries, conference championship games, at-large bids on the line and all that jazz. It should be a crazy day and we’ll continue into the evening when we post our projected bracket.

The MAC, NEFC, NJAC and NWC will be decided with head-to-head games, while the Liberty League hangs in the balance. Hobart can clinch with a win, or punch Union’s ticket by losing.

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Second NCAA regional rankings

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The second NCAA regional rankings have been released. These are the last we’ll see before the playoff pairings are announced on Sunday.

Remember that regional rankings primarily take regional games into account. Teams are listed with their regional record first, followed by their overall record. For more information about the playoff format and how participants are determined, check out our FAQ.

Teams which have clinched automatic bids are in bold.

EAST
1 Delaware Valley 9-0 9-0
2 Salisbury 7-1 8-1
3 Montclair State 8-1 8-1
4 Kean 8-1 8-1
5 Widener 8-1 8-1
6 Western New England 9-1 9-1
7 Hobart 6-1 6-1
8 Endicott 9-1 9-1
9 St. John Fisher 7-2 7-2
10 SUNY-Maritime 7-1 7-2
Also clinched but not ranked: Norwich

NORTH
1 Mount Union 8-0 9-0
2 Wabash 8-0 9-0
3 North Central (Ill.) 7-1 8-1
4 Franklin 7-0 8-1
5 Case 8-0 8-1
6 Illinois Wesleyan 8-1 8-1
7 Wheaton (Ill.) 7-2 7-2
8 Baldwin-Wallace 7-2 7-2
9 Heidelberg 7-2 7-2
10 Wittenberg 5-2 7-2
Also clinched but not ranked: Albion, Benedictine.

SOUTH
1 Mary Hardin-Baylor 8-0 9-0
2 Johns Hopkins 8-0 9-0
3 Trinity (Texas) 9-0 9-0
3 Wesley 4-1 8-1
5 McMurry 6-1 7-2
6 Hampden-Sydney 8-1 8-1
7 Centre 7-1 7-1
8 Thomas More 8-1 8-1
9 Louisiana College 6-2 7-2
10 Christopher Newport 7-1 7-2

WEST
1 UW-Whitewater 7-0 9-0
2 St. Thomas 10-0 10-0
3 Linfield 7-0 8-0
4 Cal Lutheran 7-1 7-1
5 Dubuque 8-1 9-1
6 Monmouth (Ill.) 9-1 9-1
7 Redlands 7-1 7-1
8 St. Scholastica 9-0 9-0
9 Illinois College 9-1 9-1
10 Wartburg 7-2 7-2

ATN Podcast: Our take on the clinchers

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Rudy Rudolph
Rudy Rudolph caught seven passes for 135 yards and two touchdowns for Christopher Newport in a USAC-clinching win at Ferrum.
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If it seems like we have a lot of automatic bids already clinched, well, you’re right. With 20 down and just five to go, an unprecedented number of bids have already been claimed.

That doesn’t stop teams from potentially shooting themselves in the foot (Albion, Thomas More), however. There are 12 teams who clinched this week and many play in Week 11. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman talk about each of those 12, plus a classic Mount Union/Baldwin-Wallace game and much more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast. Scroll to the bottom and read the tags to see which teams are mentioned in this week’s show.

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