New Board discussion for topics related to Keystone or Gallaudet.

wtf is keystone cooking with their schedule?

Week 2: @ Washington & Jefferson 🤯
Week 4: vs Whitewater 💀
Week 5: @ Mary Hardin-Baylor 🫨

oh and they play gallaudet 😴 in week 10.

I originally thought there were only two, but commenters on my instagram post revealed there are two more.

1. Luther college (blue) - 2017
2. Marietta College (gray) - 2018
3. University of New England (blue) - 2018 (turf completed in 2010)
4. SUNY Morrisville (black) - 2023

Are there any others that I'm missing?

Given all the news surrounding water shortages in Jackson, could their game be cancelled??

This year, the Centennial Conference leads with 9 players followed by the American Southwest Conference (7) and a tie between the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (6) and the Southern Athletic Association (6).

Trinity (Tx.) leads the division in most all-americans in one team with 5 followed by a 3 way tie between Mount Union (4), Johns Hopkins (4), and Delaware Valley (4).

But Pat Coleman, why did Tyler Huettel, last year's first team all-american punter, get pulled to third team preseason?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1behb_mcW0q-qBLJ7AqugGpQ267XXM71FEXGKl6xlknM/edit?usp=sharing

Covid isn't going away and we now have a monkeypox outbreak. Will this affect d3 football this season?

Since the NCAA separates all the conferences in D3 Football into 6 "regions", my idea is to incorporate "regional championships" into the mix.

My idea is this: 8-team playoff brackets per region. The less conferences the more at-large bids, and vice versa. That gets you 48 teams in the playoffs.

Each of the 6 "regional champions" are in the "final" playoffs with the top 2 of them receiving an automatic bid to the second round to the "final" playoffs.

Because this is a 6-week playoff system, one less regular season game would have to be played, meaning some conferences don't get any non-conference games (maybe even one less for that matter).

As much as some may disagree with this idea, I would love to see the NCAA incorporate Regional Championships into the mix of the playoffs. And I think my idea allows for more accessibility into the playoffs. This 48-team system allows the top 20 percent of d3 football to compete in the postseason as opposed to the top 13.3 percent.

I compiled the 1999 D3 Football statistics from the NCAA's website and put it all into an Excel spreadsheet. I also put filters in

Only the top 50 of each category was listed from the source.

Here's the link to the sheet. Feel free to request edits/revisions as I move onto 2000's stats.

My goal will be to eventually have all stats from all years.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSFQ1UD7vLh-b4bwC8Gi-WQdms5kyheC6Qsf_mFF6fqQHPuuyTVisdl1h5qyZXM2RvA4itPlo2LLgeN/pubhtml

Biggest gains for this year are 4 teams moving up 4 spots (Ithaca #17, Bethel#13, Johns Hopkins #10, Hardin Simmons #6) as well as UW-Oshkosh coming in at #19 having been previously unranked.

5 schools' rankings remain unchanged (Cortland #16, Delaware Valley #15, Mount Union #3, North Central (Ill.) #2, Mary Hardin-Baylor #1).

Biggest L's are a two-way tie for second place moving down 7 spots (RPI #20, Birmingham-Southern #25) with the biggest L going to Central moving down 8 spots at #14 because their Gagliardi Trophy winner quarterback graduated.

I hope you will come to appreciate this list because I spent over an hourmaking this, coloring the teams, and getting the record & points lined up on the right.

Top 25, 2022 preseason
Entering the 2022 season:

Rank           School (No. 1 votes)   W-L   Points
1            Mary Hardin-Baylor (23)  15-0  619
2            North Central (Ill.)           13-1  587
3            Mount Union (2)              13-1  577
4   (-1)   UW-Whitewater               13-1  537
5   (+3)  St. John's                       11-1  480
6   (+4)  Hardin-Simmons              9-1   451
7   (-2)   Linfield                           11-1  445
8   (+1)  Wheaton (Ill.)                 10-2  419
9   (+3)  Trinity (Texas)                 9-1   378
10 (+4)  Johns Hopkins                 10-2  358
11 (-4)   Muhlenberg                     11-2  326
12 (-1)   UW-La Crosse                  9-3   314
13 (+4)  Bethel                             8-3   310
14 (-8)   Central                           12-1  287
15          Delaware Valley              11-1  262
16          Cortland                         11-1  211
17 (+4)  Ithaca                             8-2   183
18 (+2)  UW-River Falls                 9-2   180
19 (NR)  UW-Oshkosh                    6-3  156
20 (-7)   RPI                                 11-2 130
21 (+2)  Randolph-Macon               9-1  121
22 (-3)   Salisbury                         8-2  120
23 (NR)  Hobart                             9-2  94
24 (NR)  Heidelberg                       7-2  81
25 (-7)   Birmingham-Southern      10-2 67

Dropped out: Lake Forest

Others receiving votes: Susquehanna 59; Carnegie Mellon 55; Baldwin Wallace 52; Redlands 49; John Carroll 39; Union 36; Lake Forest 31; Aurora 27; Westminster (Pa.) 24; Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 10; Wartburg 7; Gustavus Adolphus 6; Albion 6; DePauw 6; UW-Stout 4; Washington U. 4; Washington & Jefferson 4; Centre 3; Rose-Hulman 3; Huntingdon 2; Williams 2; Coe 1; Grove City 1; Washington and Lee 1.

 Top 25, 2022 preseason
Entering the 2022 season:

Previous years' Top 25 polls
Rank   School (No. 1 votes)   W-L   Points
1   Mary Hardin-Baylor (23)   15-0   619
2   North Central (Ill.)   

1. Mary Hardin Baylor
2. North Central
3. Wisconsin-Whitewater
4. Mount Union
5. Muhlenburg

You know how the NBA Has an all star week? What if D3 Football had the same?

Imagine if all the all-conference squads faced off for a week where the last day of the week is the champtionship that determines the conference that gets a bonus automatic bid in the playoffs?

I know there are lots of issues with my idea but I think it would be kinda cool.