It would be interesting to see NPI updated as the playoffs roll along.  Maybe use the bowl games too.

Looks like Wheaton could have dressed all of their scrubs.  Also, congratulations to Concordia-Wisconsin on playing in your very last NCAA football playoff game... or do they have another season to go.

D3 Board Bingo Board (or drinking game if you're not a Wheaton person) ideas....

WIAC should be D3.
Complaining about how UMU has been "bad" because they lost 5 games in the last 7 years or something.
Egregious pedantry.
"Delay of game" -- Someone has to have the last word.
Napervagas.


Suggestions?

Quote from: bleedpurple on November 20, 2025, 12:29:39 PMI think this game is a candidate for biggest mismatch of all D-III games this year. Have we ever had a playoff team that lost to a 1-9 team? 

To a D3 school.  Probably not.  I'm sure there's a pedant out there who's going to give us an "um-actually, Lacrosse lost to 2-10 D1 FCS Upper Northern Michigan Tech State once." ... to which pedant #2 will reply, "You dummy, 2-10 is better than 1-9! Why are you bagging on the WIAC?" Followed by the D3 classic, "The WIAC should be D2 because..."  We need to develop a D3 boards bingo board.  Perhaps a CCIW version?  I'd kind of love that.

As for Crown, they're gonna lose to an 8-2 team and it's gonna be a character-builder.  Wartburg will lose to Wheaton. Mark my words!

I guess I'm just one of those very rare individuals who says he's annoyed when he's. I'll try not to do that in front of you again, boss. 

Quote from: USee on November 18, 2025, 05:41:56 PMFor the Thunder this weekend....

As a fan, I have the luxury of looking ahead.  The 10-day forecast does not look good for Wartburg.  This ain't your mamma's round of 40 team.

Quote from: USee on November 17, 2025, 09:41:52 PMAs previously stated multiple times, WashU's CCIW ouster had nothing to do with them being a full member or not.

This topic is getting to be rather annoying.  Now that WashU's days can be counted on one hand, people are lamenting their departure and asking why.  That's their prerogative and it's reasonably fine for a CCIW discussion board, right?  But then we have a couple of guys on here who apparently know something. They're so quick to shush people and say stuff like "That's not why they moved." and "If you know you know."  No need for a discussion here, folks!  They know something about this thing and what you thought was the thing had nothing to do with the thing at all. Yeah. Annoying.

Go Bears. Show those little WIAC pansies what CCIW football is all about.

CCIW Players of the Week Against (week 9 of 9):

Team	Total	Offensive	Defensive	Special Teams
IWU	5	2	1	2
Carthage	4	2	2	0
Carroll	4	1	2	1
Millikin	4	2	0	2
North Park	4	1	1	2
Wash U	3	0	1	2
Augie	2	1	2	0
Elmhurst	1	0	0	1
Wheaton	1	0	1	0
North Central	0	0	0	0

Here are the total player's of the week for each team:
10 North Central
5 IWU
5 Wheaton
4 Carroll
3 North Park
3 Wash U
1 Augie
1 Millikin
0 Carthage
0 Elmhurst

Skokna & Ellison each led the league with 3 P.O.W. each.
Swank and Smyth had 2.

Michigan @ Northwestern (@ Wrigley) this weekend.  With NU's stadium under construction it's a nice option.  Michigan will probably set a modern day 'lowest attendance' record at our tiny little MLB stadium.

Man.  Looking at that picture of Yankee Stadium hosting the Cortaca game has me daydreaming of a CCIW double-header with Elmhurst v. North Park and Wheaton v. NCC.

Does anyone here know a Ricketts?  Make it so!

CCIW Players of the Week Against (week 8 of 9):

Team	Total	Offensive	Defensive	Special Teams
Carthage	4	2	2	0
Carroll	4	1	2	1
IWU	4	2	1	1
Millikin	4	2	0	2
Wash U	3	0	1	2
Augie	2	1	2	0
North Park	2	0	0	2
Elmhurst	1	0	0	1
Wheaton	1	0	1	0
North Central	0	0	0	0

I would be in peak work avoidance mode if I looked up the big individual stats vs. Elmhurst and compared them to the eventual player of the week award winners for each week.  I need to stop.  I have a d3football statistics problem.

CCIW Players of the Week Against (week 7 of 9):

Team	Total	Offensive	Defensive	Special Teams
Carthage	4	2	2	0
Carroll	4	1	2	1
Millikin	4	2	0	2
Wash U	3	0	1	2
Augie	2	1	2	0
IWU	2	1	0	1
North Park	2	0	0	2
Wheaton	1	0	1	0
Elmhurst	0	0	0	0
North Central	0	0	0	0

Quote from: USee on November 03, 2025, 11:07:32 AM

Quote from: Cardinal773 on November 02, 2025, 03:44:36 PM#2 Mount Union  (Wheaton L, 37-29)
#20 Central    (IWU L, 27-18)
#70 UW-Oshkosh    (NCC W, 45-14)
#83 Simpson      (Augie W, 42-41)
#135 UW-Eau Claire  (Carroll L, 29-7)
#151 Ripon      (NPU W, 35-19)
#196 Lakeland    (Carthage W, 51-40)
#205 Rhodes    (WashU W, 49-0)
#226 Rockford    (Elmhurst W, 34-30)
#236 Luther    (Millikin W, 33-3)

 

773-I can't say I understand the point of this. Is it just CCIW results against various teams?

Yep.  Sorry for not providing context.  I saw the list of NPI rankings for our CCIW teams and wondered about the rankings of our OOC opponents.  This is just a gut punch for WashU I think.  I wonder what ranking WashU's OOC opponent would have had to be in order for them to be in the pool C conversation.

I just think WashU is a playoff worthy team and it is disappointing that they won't have a chance to show that.  Then again, their OOC opponent was #205 Rhodes.

#2 Mount Union   (Wheaton L, 37-29)
#20 Central     (IWU L, 27-18)
#70 UW-Oshkosh     (NCC W, 45-14)
#83 Simpson      (Augie W, 42-41)
#135 UW-Eau Claire   (Carroll L, 29-7)
#151 Ripon       (NPU W, 35-19)
#196 Lakeland     (Carthage W, 51-40)
#205 Rhodes     (WashU W, 49-0)
#226 Rockford     (Elmhurst W, 34-30)
#236 Luther     (Millikin W, 33-3)