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ATN Podcast 129: Getting a fresh start

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Some of the teams getting a fresh start this week are ones that didn’t play in Week 1, such as three of the top five teams in the country. Others are young programs who picked up signature wins, while even others are established programs that have been down on their luck. We look at those teams, plus, which are the teams on the rise? What was the most surprising result? Pat and Keith answer those questions, plus hand out their game balls, on this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

The Around the Nation Podcast is a weekly conversation between Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan covering the wide range of Division III football. It drops on Monday morning weekly throughout the season.

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Around the Nation Podcast 121: Bracket breakdown

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Wartburg athletics photo by Julie Drewes

Wartburg athletics photo by Julie Drewes

Teams are in. Teams are out. Maybe we don’t agree with all the choices, but Keith and Pat don’t find much to complain about who got in the bracket for the Field of 32. And while the slimmed-down NCAA budget gives us a bracket that is a throwback to the bygone days of, say, 2007, there’s a bright side to that which Keith likes.

Did Wartburg get jobbed in its first-round draw, having to face St. Thomas rather than, say, Macalester or St. Scholastica? Why do Widener and Delaware Valley seem to be playing the wrong opponents? Where are the key personnel changes people need to be aware of and what storylines might you miss if you’re from a different part of the country?

Keith and Pat discuss the great finish to the regular season as well, and much more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

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Around the Nation Podcast 120: On the clinchers

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Sam Sura had a busy day, carrying 40 times for 119 yards for St. John’s in the Johnnies’ win vs. Bethel. (St. John’s photo by Richard Larkin McLay)

The playoff picture began to take shape this week, as 14 of the 24 automatic bids were claimed. Pat and Keith talk through the teams who are in, who has yet to clinch and who might be in line for the Pool B bids.

Meanwhile, did Wabash and St. John Fisher move onto the bubble or all the way off of it? What are Centre’s chances like if they pick up a loss next week? Keith and Pat discuss the upsets, the near-upsets and much more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

Plus they hand out their game balls, look at teams on the rise, under-the-radar highlights, key stats and more.

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Plus, all the highlights and interviews from around Division III in the postgame show: