Quote from: Ron Boerger on August 21, 2026, 12:28:05 PMTrinity is a narrow favorite (two point) in the SAA preseason poll. 

1. Trinity - 54 (5)
2. Berry - 52 (3)
3. Centre - 38
T4. Maryville - 37
T4. Millsaps - 37
6. Southwestern 27
7. Rhodes - 20
8. Sewanee - 15

Tigers scrimmage TLU Schreiner at home tomorrow night (I think it's TLU, anyway) so I may try to head out to get a handle on whois starting at QB.  Apparently the gap between Hondo Franklin and Welker Horn narrowed in the spring. 

sewanee hires a HC with prior d3 coaching experience but still falls below rhodes who they beat 28-6 last year

Even after hiring birmingham-southern's head coach who's made the playoffs there austin has still suffered.

Happy to see Demarico return to simpson!

The Medical hardship would be removed in the 5 year model for d3.

The only exceptions for pausing the 5-year clock are pregnancy, military service, and religious mission/public service commitment.

I like the idea of an independent schedule as that's what gallaudet is (mostly) doing right now.

The ARC is sponsoring a bill (with the OAC co-sponsoring) which would enact the 5 year eligibility based rule D1 and D2 have adopted. It will be voted on next year. https://web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/search/proposalView?id=109408

I swear if this is the 2nd year in a row Oberlin plays 12 minute quarters, we need to have a serious discussion about who constitutes as a full member of a football conference.

Quote from: CNU85 on August 07, 2026, 03:33:15 PMAnchor Bowl

CNU will play cross town Apprentice School. in the inaugural Anchor Bowl.  This event is being built up in the community. Luncheons, former NFL QB and Newport News native Aaron Brooks is the keynote speaker. He went to a high school that was located on what is now part of the CNU campus. He's also Michael Vick's cousin.

I bought a table for 8 and will be speaking briefly about the QB Club. Should be a fun day. The game, Sept 5th will be sold out for sure. 7pm kickoff. Fireworks after the game. A great way to start the season.

Is this bowl happening because CNU couldn't find a d3 non conf opponent or because the schools actively wanted to play each other? This does not serve NPI at all.

Did larry or vince avoid interviews in their days?

who in gods green earth gave bethany a first place vote?

https://pacathletics.org/news/2026/8/4/w-j-selected-first-in-2026-pac-preseason-football-poll.aspx

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Quote from: faunch on July 28, 2026, 11:24:15 AM$20 per ticket and $20 for the pre-game hospitality event to watch a game with a 30 point spread. And I wonder the charge will be for food and drink once in the "hospitality" zone?

Takes an opportunity for the Olaf students a chance to watch a game at home.  Not a fan at all!  If we were talking about a late season game in a dome I would support it, but this is ridiculous. 

Given St. Olaf averaged 965 fans at home games last year, and anecdotal experience (both as a player and fan and talking to my wife who is an Olaf grad), I'm not sure that St. Olaf students are queueing up en masse to attend home games. Outside of Carleton.

Case in point, in 2023 when the game was at Olaf, there were a wopping 564 fans vs SJU. I'm assuming SJU was at least half of that number. So let's call it 25 disappointed St. Olaf students, and 20 of them are probably girlfriends who would make the 30 minute drive to TCO. 

so they only game everyone goes to at northfield is carleton-st. olaf?

any thoughts on Frank Rossi's take on flosports here?

https://x.com/FrankRossi/status/2080467737952858348

Quote from: D3fanboy on July 19, 2026, 12:51:06 PMMount's been doing a pretty good job of getting old Stagg Bowls uploaded to their youtube page in recent years.  The most recent upload is the 1996 Stagg Bowl.  Since July is basically unwatchable with the World Cup, WNBA and baseball; why not spend a couple of hours with the early days of the most dominant run in college football history?

https://youtu.be/Xt1Lzz9vurU?si=_n8cgi_HRbdt081R

Billy B with a HOF type performance (as a junior in the national title game) ...but that's a whole 'nother conversation

916 yards and 13 TD in his 2 Stagg Bowl appearances...literally insane numbers

This is amazing. Would be a dream to uncover every stagg bowl replay.

Quote from: ADL70 on July 15, 2026, 05:25:53 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgzryHbrVc&t=51s

These bozos are just spouting a lot of hot air. They spend almost half of the time speculating about practicing before their first game which is vs Grove City on September 23. But they don't bother the check the NCAA rule which states their start date of practice is September 3. https://web3.ncaa.org/compliance/seasonStartDate/calculator

Now two pre-season outside scrimmages are allowed, but who could they scrimmage? Monroe University, New Rochelle, NY, is transitioning from a JC to Div2. Their football team has only 9 games scheduled, two of which are against beleaguered D3 Keystone. They have an open date on September 19. They could play a scrimmage or even an official game. An official game would allow St Francis to start practice a week earlier. I don't know if it's too late to add that game. Unfortunately, that would give Monroe five straight games to open their season.

They make a point of looking at the roster for the top players not returning, but who's returning. They don't even mention roster size, Which is 18 returning players and 36 newcomers, only one of is not a FR. He's is a d2 SO xfr QB, who did not play last season.

Of the 18 returners none were starters and only one was on the 2-deep last season. Only 12 got any playing time. And only had any stats. They return 5 DBs, 4 DL, 4 LB, 1 OL, 1 P, 1 RB, and 1 WR. Positions for FR are not listed.

I think that they might beat Hiram, St Vincent and Bethany. But they lose to W&J, GCC, Westminster, Geneva and CWRU.

so they will have players from last year returning??

USA south joins Flo sports.

All of region 3 is now paywalled.

https://www.flocollege.com/articles/16051357-flosports-and-the-usa-south-athletic-conference-announce-exclusive-media-rights-partnership?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=copy.flosports-and-the-usa-south-athletic-conference-announce-exclusive-media-rights-partnership&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=flocollege