Category Archives: Game day live

Game Day: Seeing the champs

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At least, that’s where I’m heading — to Eau Claire, Wis., to see top-ranked and defending national champion UW-Whitewater at UW-Eau Claire. Yes, this game has lost some of the shine it had a few weeks ago thank to Eau Claire laying an egg at Platteville last week, but it’s still an opportunity for me to see the Warhawks and only have to drive a couple hours in each direction in the process.

Otherwise I would probably be making the trip down to Coe to see the battle of unbeatens as “No. 26” Wartburg takes on Coe on Coe’s homecoming. Fellow unbeaten/ranked Baldwin-Wallace has a chance to make its statement at No. 13 Ohio Northern. And since I run the risk of stomping all over the theme of yesterday’s Triple Take, I’ll move on and open the thread for all to discuss.

Game Day: Will there be a letdown?

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It’s hard to imagine there being much of a letdown from the teams that won big games last week, although we tried in this week’s Triple Take.

Last week I saw an epic St. Thomas-St. John’s game in front of 16,000-plus fans. This week I’ve been in New York for business purposes and while I’m here, trying to take in a couple teams I haven’t seen yet: Morrisville State and WPI. They’re not playing each other, though. I’ve seen their opponents and their opponents’ home stadiums, as Morrisville is playing at William Paterson and WPI is at Merchant Marine.

Meanwhile there are many other more interesting games out there, although our regular contingent of Wesley posters might not have much of a battle to talk about today. Top-ranked UW-Whitewater has an interesting home game against 3-1 UW-Stout. No. 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor has a loss to avenge from last year when it hosts Mississippi College. Augustana has a chance for a signature win to go with its signature loss this season, if it can take down No. 7 North Central. Hampden-Sydney and Bridgewater has long been a battle that sets the tone in the OAC.

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Wall-to-wall Game Day

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Crowd filling inJust a little reminder of what we’re looking at here There are plenty of games going on, but here’s the marquee games to keep an eye on:

No. 25 Randolph-Macon at Emory and Henry, 1 p.m.
No. 8 Ohio Northern at No. 2 Mount Union, 1:30 p.m.
Franklin at Mount St. Joseph, 1:30 p.m.
No. 4 St. Thomas at No 19 St. John’s, 2 p.m.
No. 22 Illinois Wesleyan at No. 21 Wheaton, 2 p.m.
No. 15 Willamette at No. 16 Linfield, 4:30 p.m.
No. 24 St. John Fisher at Utica, 7 p.m.
No. 23 Cal Lutheran at Redlands, 10 p.m.

We’ve looked forward to this weekend since August, when Keith and I were meeting to work on Kickoff. Now it’s here!

There are definitely other games that are worth keeping an eye on, but these are key in Top 25 and conference races. So while we’re going to have about 12 hours straight with at least one of these games on the air, there’s plenty of other games going on as well. So chime in on what you’re following, too.