Kickoff of the seventh season of Division III football coverage on D3football.com comes Friday night. In those seasons we’ve learned a few things about how to cover the sport. So, on a regular basis, here’s what you’ll see on our site this season.
On Friday afternoon we’ll start with our preview of the weekend’s games, a look at what the top games will be, a handy reminder of where to get scores during the games. We’ll link to any key Friday night games that are broadcast, etc., and there will of course be scores for those games.
Saturday is busy as all get-out. Track games in progress on the Scoreboard, where schools that choose to post scores during the game are highlighted. You can also watch those games scroll by on our news ticker at the top of the front page or any news page. As final scores come in and news happens, we’ll update the front page, perhaps as many as a dozen times during the course of the day. We almost never close up shop for the night before we’ve gotten all the day’s scores in.
On Sunday we compile and release the D3football.com Top 25 poll. Usually you can expect to see it update between 4 and 6 p.m.
Monday we greet the Division III fans returning to their office computers with the Statistical Spotlight, a look at a handful of top performances around Division III from the weekend that didn’t already get noted on the front page in the weekend coverage.
Tuesday we start posting our weekly Around the Region columns, which cover Division III on a regional basis. Those start coming in on Monday night and we post them over the next few days, as time permits. We also compile and post the Team of the Week, our weekly honor roll recognizing 22 starters and three special teamers from across Division III.
On Wednesday and Thursday we get Mark Simon’s Features column and Keith McMillan’s Around the Nation. They don’t always follow a specific schedule but this is the time of the week they usually run.
And that brings us back to Friday again. So now you know — you can’t skip a day.