The leaves are turning color from green to orange and red, the breeze is a bit cooler, grass football fields are transforming from crisp green to slightly muddy brown, Pat and Keith are on the road and that means only one thing; it’s another Division III football Saturday in October.

With most of the D3football.com staff on the road this weekend, I’ll start off our weekly Saturday blog live from the D3football.com studios. Post your thoughts on this week’s games right here, from wherever you might be watching or listening to the action. All the live audio and live stats links can be found on the scoreboard link on the left hand side of the page.

And, don’t forget D3football.com and D3cast are under the lights tonight in Milton, Mass. for the East Region “Game of the Week.” It’s undefeated Curry hosting Endicott at 7:00 PM. The Colonels look to improve to 7-0 on the season while the Gulls are hoping to knock off their rivals from the NEFC Boyd Division. Todd Bloniarz and Derek Falvy will call the game.

Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan will be joining us this afternoon from the Chicagoland area with updates from Elmhurst-North Central and later Wheaton-Augustana. For more on Keith’s latest trip to Abilene, Texas; read this week’s Around the Nation column.

The floor is now open, albeit a little early. Enjoy today’s games.

Here’s where we tell you, and you tell us, whatever you’re seeing or hearing during Saturday’s games.

I’m live here in Abilene, Texas, currently at McMurry for homecoming against East Texas Baptist. Though the Tigers are coming in off three consecutive wins, and McMurry has lost three in a row by 23 points or more, the Maroon and White (preferred local terminology after the surname Indians was dropped in the wake of NCAA pressure) is off to a fast start, scoring on a 58-yard TD run by Rashon Lewis, a junior transfer from Mount St. Joseph. They already picked off a pass in Tigers territory and are threatening again. Techinically, at 3-0 in the ASC, ETBU is in first in the conference, though most people here are aware that the game just underway across down has major title implications. No word yet from Mary Hardin-Baylor’s game at Hardin-Simmons, but keep an eye on the Dose here and the D3 scoreboard.

Some interesting scores so far around the country (Mount Union up 23-0 early, Randolph-Macon up 14-7 vs. Carnegie Mellon, La Crosse perhaps hung over from last week’s stunner, down 21-9 vs. UW-Eau Claire), as well as yesterday (TCNJ beating Rowan). What are people seeing and hearing?

P.S. McMurry now up 13-0.

1 p.m. kickoffs on the East Coast are approaching, and while Pat and I are checking out Huntingdon at Wesley, like you all, we’ll be watching games — literally, on D3Cast — and scores from around the country. Feel free to join in the conversation below.

We detailed some games to watch in this week’s Around the Nation column and in Friday’s Triple Take post on the Dose. I’ll be following along with you, but give us updates from whereever you are, from La Crosse, Wis. (hint, hint) to anywhere.