D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast
The OG among Division III football podcasts, part of Division III football and D3football.com since 2007.
Episodes
December 15, 2025 • 81 mins
It's a milestone podcast, but we're not quite to the final stage of the Division III football season. You can't blame us for getting dressed up -- OK, maybe just Greg decided to dress up for the audio podcast. But answering the call to the Final Four ball were who most people thought they were in our predictions this week: Johns Hopkins, John Carroll, North Central and UW-River Falls.
And instead of doing the blow-by-blow of each ...
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December 8, 2025 • 89 mins
When the previous "biggest win in school history" is from the 1950s, replacing the entry at the top of the list means something.
Sure, you could quibble over whether a win against Syracuse from seven decades ago, or a national quarterfinal win at Brockport in 2002, or a quarterfinal win at UW-Whitewater in 2016 should be next on the list, but no regular season win, even one against Mount Union, compares with beating Mount Union a...
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December 1, 2025 • 87 mins
We knew to expect a ton of snow for every game between Collegeville and Holland. We knew to expect Susquehanna would have more than a fighting chance at Christopher Newport. We knew to expect a likely rematch of former OAC rivals.
What we didn't know to expect was five road teams winning in the round of 32! Last year, which was the first year the playoff bracket had 40 teams, there was just one road win in the second round. Normal...
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November 24, 2025 • 89 mins
We thought this year we were going to get to work on staggering playoff game times, so we don't have eight of the best games going on at the same time. We thought we were going to get to work on getting video review for officials at games before the semifinals. OK, that at least is happening in some places, but otherwise, we found out on Saturday we need to go back one year and work on 2024's thing some more -- having all of these ...
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November 17, 2025 • 92 mins
We made some progress in the bracketing process for the NCAA playoffs this year! Every team that earned a first-round bye was actually awarded one. Seems like a low bar when you talk about it that way, but ... if there were a big sign up in the committee room, it would say, "1 year without giving a first-round bye to a team which didn't earn it via NPI."
In the end, this bracket has a lot to like -- even though a number of teams a...
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November 10, 2025 • 100 mins
The Captains of Christopher Newport are back in the playoffs for the second time in three years and for the 12th time in their relatively short history. And they got there by knocking the Sea Gulls of Salisbury off their perch on Saturday night, in a pretty epic battle under the lights.
In one week, Eastern went from the driver's seat in the Middle Atlantic Conference to booking a ticket to the big dance for the first time -- and ...
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November 3, 2025 • 80 mins
Two top 10 teams square off, and one team does something it hasn't done in a quarter century. Yep, that's a big deal. Heck, UW-River Falls hadn't beaten UW-Whitewater that handily since the 1980s. We have talked about Kaleb Blaha fairly often on this podcast in the last few years, and that's because he's darn good, and was a big-game player on Saturday.
More postgame interviews from UWRF's win vs. UWW (YouTube)
Three of the 27 au...
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October 30, 2025 • 68 mins
We have just three weeks left in the regular season, with Selection Sunday and the bracket announcement coming on Nov. 16. With the NCAA Division III football national committee no longer responsible for selecting teams to play in the playoffs, what does the committee chair do?
It's a little more than just handing the trophy off to the team that wins the Stagg Bowl, like John Snell is doing in this photo, but sure, it's a little l...
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October 27, 2025 • 90 mins
We're getting ever closer to Selection Sunday, and closer to automatic bids being clinched. We've already discussed how few unbeaten teams there are this time of year compared to previous years, and of course, we had one more go down on Saturday when Wartburg defeated Central.
Wartburg has been really consistent at the top of the American Rivers Conference, or near the top of it. Head coach Chris Winter isn't the only head coach w...
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October 20, 2025 • 88 mins
Montie Quinn should have been a household name to you already. He was a D3football.com All-America running back last season, rushing for 1,600 yards. He'd had two 200-yard rushing games already this season, he's now over 5,000 rushing yards for his career ... if you only found out about him on Saturday, or Sunday, that's a bummer. When he exploded for 522 yards in a win vs. Nichols on Saturday, you should have said, yeah, actually,...
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October 13, 2025 • 83 mins
These are the things that make up Division III football this time of year. W's and L's as in wins and losses, X's and O's as in how plays and schemes are drawn up on paper, and 0's and 1's as in the data that is used to determine who will make the playoffs and how they'll be seeded, in the NCAA Power Index.
We got the first look at the NCAA's version of the data in the NPI this week, and no surprise to anyone here that the data fu...
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October 7, 2025 • 83 mins
Ah yes, we not only go from the land of serious tailgating to also serious tailgating. From 20,000 fans to 6,500 fans in a rivalry game. These are two great tastes that tasted great together on Saturday, part of a smorgasbord of great Division III football, with so many games that we actually didn't even talk about Muhlenberg-Ursinus in this podcast. (But we will probably talk about Muhlenberg at some point.)
Here's who you will ...
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September 29, 2025 • 83 mins
You've gotten the stop, pounced on a fumble, you're celebrating a key win to open up your conference slate. Only then do the officials huddle up, and without the benefit of replay, overturn the call originally made on the field and give the team which by all rights lost the game another chance.
You'd be forgiven, perhaps, if it took you more than the customary 24 hours to get that emotion out of your system, to turn the page.
If ...
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September 22, 2025 • 87 mins
For some teams, a 3-0 start is precisely in the plan. For others, 3-0 is perhaps a pipe dream, or a first-time occurrence.
In this week's edition of the podcast, we talk about a few of each as we wrap up Week 3 of the Division III football season.
Johns Hopkins was given just about a 50% chance of starting the season 3-0, with some top-flight competition on the docket. But they got the job done, and we learned a little bit about...
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September 15, 2025 • 80 mins
It's sad to think that we are already phasing out of Great Non-Conference Game Season, but at least it is leaving us with some quality memories. Yes, Mary Hardin-Baylor and UW-Whitewater still get to grace us with their presence, and so do Springfield and UW-Platteville, and Johns Hopkins and Susquehanna, but ... well, OK, we'll hold on for one more week.
Meanwhile, the rest of the ranked teams got on the field this week in Week 2...
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September 8, 2025 • 91 mins
Finally, games! A huge week of Division III football, with a couple of thrilling upsets, and more than 200 Division III teams taking the field, means there's a lot to talk about.
So, we in the media were admonished not to overreact, huh? All we have to do is look at our social media feeds if we want to see overreactions run wild, but we'll play Michael Wilbon's game. We decided to take four big storylines from this week's games an...
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September 1, 2025 • 84 mins
Games kick off two days from now, so there's no time like the present for a Week 1 preview! Patrick and Greg take you through Division III football's opening week, going region by region with a region Game of the Week and more games to watch in each region, Region 1 through Region 6.
Plus, we bring back J.P. Williams, the NCAA's liaison for the Division III football championship, aka the person at the NCAA who runs point on the fo...
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August 25, 2025 • 78 mins
Teams are in camp, some of them with new head coaches, and few head coaches are in a more interesting situation than Cortland coach Tom Blumenauer. He is in his first training camp as the Red Dragons' head coach, and he's working with a team that won a national title just 20 months ago, but lost a well-loved and highly successful head coach in the offeseason. Plus, he's an Ithaca graduate. We talk to him about what he's seen in cam...
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July 30, 2025 • 96 mins
How about that as the handy guide for topics for discussion in the latest edition of our podcast, namely, ATN Podcast 382?
We talk about the preseason Top 25, and the wide range in voting for lots of teams, not just for North Central. Seriously, UW-La Crosse has a far wider range of spots from our 25 pollsters, and so do a number of other schools. Plus, we bring in Kean coach Dan Garrett, who can tell you what might be on a coach'...
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June 30, 2025 • 83 mins
It's been a spicy past month or so and when you're coming up on a food-related holiday like the 4th of July, we're keeping the fire hot and the burgers, dogs, bratwurst, corn on the cob and more so that you can grill us with your questions. That's right -- we've got some great mailbag questions and we tackle as many of them as possible on this edition of the podcast.
Plus ...
This edition of the podcast is sponsored by GameStrat:...
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