One of the decisions of all time...

Quote from: Ron Boerger on Yesterday at 12:42:59 PMTrinity has joined the rebranding club, but unusually opted to leave its athletic branding unchanged (scroll down to see the "Spirit Logo" which remains the same).

Quote from: Ron Boerger on January 15, 2026, 03:29:39 PMTrinity today announced a home-and-home with Johns Hopkins - '27 in SA (6 or 7pm start), '28 there (early afternoon start).

Awesome matchup between two great schools. Hopefully we see more of this throughout the division.

Also, general question. When is final top 25 coming out for football? Or have I missed it?

Quote from: Ron Boerger on December 08, 2025, 07:03:03 PMTexas Lutheran dedicated its new Verne Lundquist Student Athletic Center last Saturday, and the great man himself was present for the ribbon cutting ceremony.  The nearly 10,000 square foot facility features a conditioning and weight room, locker rooms, and a visitor center showcasing Lundquist's sports memorabilia collection.

Today I learned that Verne Lundquist went to TLU. 

Proud of Trinity for fighting until the end but the lack of execution for most of the game, at this stage in the season, is pretty upsetting...

Trinity, not a good week to play your worst half of football in years...

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Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 28, 2025, 10:24:17 AMSpotted a pic of Anson Mount (aka Captain Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) wearing a pretty ratty Sewanee Tigers ball cap.  Is he an alumnus?

In other news, every member of the D3football.com panel picked HSU to win tomorrow's game, all by a TD or more.

Well this aged like milk left out in the sun. GO TIGERS

It's super easy to pick on someone's predictions after the game. Next time, join us in the PRE- part of predictions and save the postdictions for something else.

Love what you and the d3football.com crew do for the division, Pat. I'm just kidding y'all with no disrespect

Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 28, 2025, 10:24:17 AMSpotted a pic of Anson Mount (aka Captain Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) wearing a pretty ratty Sewanee Tigers ball cap.  Is he an alumnus?

In other news, every member of the D3football.com panel picked HSU to win tomorrow's game, all by a TD or more.

Well this aged like milk left out in the sun. GO TIGERS

The SAA announced their All-Conference awards yesterday.

https://saa-sports.com/news/2025/11/18/2025-saa-football-all-conference-awards-announced.aspx

Wow. What an amazing catch by Tavarez to open up the scoring for Trinity.

Maybe this is only me feeling this way since I haven't been able to watch the past few games with great attention, but this Trinity defense is "quietly" having a superb year.

Some notable metrics from ncaa dot com:

- 4th in RDZ defense at 52.6 % (North Central is #1 at 46.2 %)
- 5th in defensive passing efficiency with a grade of 94.34 (Monmouth is #1 at 72.34)
- 10th in scoring defense at 11.78 ppg allowed (North Central is #1 with 6.56 ppg allowed)
- 12th in total defense at 231.8 ypg allowed (Monmouth is #1 with 159.8)
- 14th in passing yards allowed at 142.2 ypg (Monmouth is #1 at 96.6)
- 15th in 3rd down defense allowing 28.1% on 3rd down for opposing offenses (Monmouth is #1 at 16.8 %)

They say defense travels. This Trinity defense will need to do that this Saturday and also into the playoffs if this team wants to keeping making noise.

Shout out Berry getting the win against Trinity. Wasn't able to watch the game but looking at the box score/drive chart, it seems like their defense just had their way with our offense. Field position was horrible for Trinity as well which is not going to lead to good things.

It's pretty disheartening for Trinity to lose in this fashion but I can only imagine the fire Berry was playing with after being on the losing side of this matchup for a few years.

Still a lot of season left and I would imagine Trinity is still in control of their destiny for a playoff berth (someone feel free to fact check me; I'm not too privy with NPI but D3 Datacast has them at 20 currently). Going to need some help for the conference title though.

Go Tigers!

Have I mentioned that my favorite cereal is Berry Crunch? 

Super excited for another week of SAA football! A heavyweight matchup in Georgia that weekend along with (what might be) a good game between Maryville and Centre. I think Maryville will handle that game with relative ease, but Centre has always been a formidable opponent in the SAA.

Interested to see how the Sewanee and Southwestern game finishes. If Sewanee can pull off the W then that should give them a lot more confidence heading into the rest of their schedule.

Wasn't able to watch the Trinity game very closely today. Anybody care to share their analysis? Along with any of the other SAA games today?

Quote from: Ron Boerger on September 28, 2025, 09:34:12 AMLogan Hansen's (of HansenRatings fame) predictions with SAA conference play starting this week (scores rounded to nearest point):

Rhodes 10 @Berry 49 - Berry 99% chance of win
Millsaps 23 @Centre 29 - Centre 66% chance of win
Maryville 33 @Sewanee 15 - M'ville 88% chance of win
Southwestern 13 @Trinity 41 - Trinity 96% chance of win

I don't know if SW@TU is a trap game, but the two schools are natural rivals given proximity and history, and the Pirates will want to atone for the last two years where they lost by a combined score of 97-7. 

I think these predictions look fair. My hot take though: Millsaps upsets Centre. (I have no backup for this take besides me wanting to see some shakeup to start the year that doesn't affect Trinity. Ha).

I can also see the Southwestern-Trinity game being closer than what Hansen's algorithm is saying.

Looking forward to another week!

Trinity finishes non-con with a 3-0 record and having outscored their opponents 120-22.

Go Tigers!