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Game Day: Let’s hand out some bids!

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WartburgLots of big games, rivaling the great Week 5 we had for sheer number of good games, but far more important in the grand scheme of things, as many conference races will be decided on Saturday.

I’ll be at Wabash-Wittenberg, where I won’t knock a team off my list but I will knock a stadium, having never seen football on Witt’s campus before. (I’ve been there for basketball. In fact, for a state I’ve never lived in, I’ve seen a fair amount of Wittenberg in football and basketball, and this will also be my third Wabash game. In fact, this is my third Wabash game in three seasons.

My friend, the Hamline SID, would read this and say, what, you’ve been to see Wabash three times since you moved to Minnesota and you’ve never been over to see us? That’s the breaks, I guess.

Keith McMillan says he’s heading to Muhlenberg-Ursinus. And you guys are … wherever you’re at!

Opening up the Cover-it-Live at noon, knock on wood. Remember, you can comment via Twitter by using the #d3fb hashtag, or in long form by using the comment window within the Cover-it-Live box.

Game Day: Dome Night, big day

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Three games on Friday getting us an early start, including the first two-fifths of the UMAC’s annual Dome Day at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis and the first-ever night game on the campus of my alma mater, Catholic University.

Guess which one I’m at. Yep, the Dome Day. It was about 19 hours closer by car.

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Tomorrow I’ll be at Gustavus-St. Thomas, Keith McMillan will be at UW-Whitewater/UW-Oshkosh, Gordon Mann at King’s-Delaware Valley and Jason Bowen at Salisbury-Wesley.

And football will return to the Carleton College campus, where Laird Stadium was underwater a month ago. The Knights played one game at a local high school and another game on the road but will host St. John’s on campus on Saturday.

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Game Day: Time to put up

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Bethel athletics photo by Andy Kenutis

Two Division III teams that were on the unbeaten-but-unranked list just a couple of weeks ago have their chances to make major statements in their conferences and set off reverberations around Division III today.

I’m thinking of No. 20 Bethel, which is at unbeaten and No. 4 St. Thomas, and No. 22 Pacific Lutheran, which is at No. 12 Linfield. Control of their conference races is at stake, and in the MIAC, the winner could all but wrap up the automatic bid today. Nobody else has fewer than two losses and the winner would hold head-to-head in a tie if it stumbled in one of its remaining games.

DePauw could clinch an automatic bid today, playing at Trinity (Texas). Never mind the history, right? And then there’s the MAC, where Lycoming is trying to surpass the third-place finish we predicted for the Warriors in the conference standings in Kickoff 2010. A win at No. 9 Delaware Valley would far outdo the narrow home win against Ithaca as the best showing on Lycoming’s schedule and erase some of the sting of the early-season loss at Rowan.

Many, many more games, obviously, many of which we covered in Triple Take yesterday.

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