Game Day: The situation room

All 23 automatic bids have been decided. Be sure to check back later for our projections of who will come away with the at-large bids.

Bids clinched
Aurora (NATHC)
Cortland State (NJAC)
Christopher Newport (USAC)
Franklin (HCAC)
Hobart (Liberty League)
Ithaca (Empire 8 )
Lycoming (MAC)
Mary Hardin-Baylor (ASC)
Millsaps (SCAC)
Monmouth (MWC)
Mount Union (OAC)
Muhlenberg (CC)
North Central (Ill.) (CCIW)
Occidental (SCIAC)
Plymouth State (NEFC)
Randolph-Macon (ODAC)
St. John (MIAC)
Thomas More (PAC)
Trine (MIAA)
UW-Stevens Point (WIAC)
Wabash (NCAC)
Wartburg (IIAC)
Willamette (NWC)

Game day: Bids on the line

We could have nine automatic bids handed out this week and there are two head-to-head winner-take-all games, between Otterbein and Mount Union in the Ohio Athletic Conference and between Trine and Adrian in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

There aren’t any live stats for the Otterbein/Mount Union game, but we’ll have updates here on the blog filling in some of the blanks. There’s live audio for that game and others on the Scoreboard.

I’ll be in Eau Claire, Wis., to see if UW-Stevens Point can keep up its run of nail-biters. In fact, I should be getting on the road pretty soon.

There are a couple of key Pool C (at-large bid) games — one of them between Rowan and Montclair State in the NJAC. I just stumbled on a Rowan football blog with some extra information worth checking out. Huntingdon and Hampden-Sydney play in Alabama in a game that affects both at-large pools. And we talked more about these games in the Triple Take yesterday, of course.

Plenty of other games, as always, and thanks to those who drop by with regular updates each week!

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Game Day: Keith arrives in time

Maybe that’s not the most important thing happening today but it seemed noteworthy, as Keith McMillan, who was taking the local rather than the express from Washington, D.C., to San Antonio, made both of his connections and landed at the site of today’s big showdown less than an hour ago.

Yes, No. 5 Millsaps and No. 14 Trinity (Texas) have a handful of subplots which we have already mentioned on the front page and which Jason Bowen wrote about in Around the South this week, so I won’t rehash them here.

Going on elsewhere, we can confirm a report that eight Delaware Valley defensive starters will not start this afternoon’s home game against Widener because of a violation of team rules. And last night, the three UMAC Dome day games were played at the Metrodome. I wasn’t able to attend because I had Halloween festivities to handle at home, unfortunately. Found it ironic after I saw the event last year despite living 1,200 miles away.

We’ll keep track, too, of who has clinched automatic bids, since we could have a few today. Chime in with what you’re seeing, as always, and if Keith gets on the Internet where he is hopefully he’ll join in. Otherwise I will be watching the game on the live video stream as much as possible.