Author Archives: Pat Coleman

ATN Podcast: Wide-open conferences

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Birmingham-Southern
So far Birmingham-Southern (and running back Joseph Moultrie) have made Keith’s preseason prediction look pretty good.
Birmingham-Southern athletics photo by Cari Dean

If it wasn’t on your radar before, Dubuque better be now. Similarly Birmingham-Southern. And definitely Louisiana College. But Muskingum? Augsburg? UW-Oshkosh?

For all of the expected that happened on Saturday, Mount Union rolling, Mary Hardin-Baylor beating Hardin-Simmons, etc., there was plenty of unexpected. And Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman talk about both in this week’s Around the Nation podcast. Hear what they think about the upcoming clash between UMHB and Louisiana College, about the Iowa Conference race, the Empire 8 and the SCAC. Does UW-Platteville or UW-Oshkosh have a shot to knock off Whitewater? How many tangents will Pat and Keith go on in this 56 minutes of Division III football analysis? And how many times will they project out the rest of the regular season and talk playoffs?

For a better indication of how many teams they talk about each week, check the tags list at the bottom of the file.

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Game Day: Elimination already?

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Hardin-Simmons
HSU could either redeem its season or be essentially done by the end of the afternoon.
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Hardin-Simmons started with a bang, shot up the polls, then may well have shot itself in the foot last week with four fumbles and an interception at Mississippi College. That makes the Cowboys’ home game against Mary Hardin-Baylor, for all intents and purposes, an elimination game.

That, and it might not even be the best game in its conference on Saturday.

We have a full slate this week, with the NESCAC finally joining in. You can join in from wherever you are on Saturday, either by Twitter, using the #d3fb hashtag, on the live chat below or in the blog comments.

ATN Podcast: Time to re-evaluate?

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Ohio Northern
Ohio Northern survived an upset bid by Otterbein, setting up an interesting conundrum for the people who like to play comparative scores.
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If you like playing the comparative scores game, you know, where X beat Y by 3 and Y beat Z by 3, therefore X would beat Z. But just try to wrap your mind around the direct correlation between Ohio Northern and Gallaudet, each of whom played Otterbein at home and went to overtime. Or figure out what to make of Hardin-Simmons … beating Willamette … which lost a close game to UW-Stevens Point … which got shut down by UW-Platteville … etc.

It gets even more complicated. Thankfully Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman can make at least some sense of it in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

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