YOU DON’T MESS WITH DESTINY – Well, those people who were calling the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs this year’s Team Of Destiny in NCAA Division 2 football turned out to be right, as UMD defeated the self-destructing Delta State Statesmen 20-17. The game was knotted up at 17 late in the 4th quarter and looked sure to be headed for overtime but an interception thrown by Statesmen QB Micah Davis allowed the Bulldogs to set up shop in good Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RESULTS: DECEMBER 18TH
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THE REAL CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY: COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES DECEMBER 18TH
Yes, this year the NAIA, NCAA Division 3 and the NCAA Division 2 Football Championship Games are all being played on the same day. Here’s Balladeer’s Blog’s quick and easy guide to who’s playing and where to find the games:
RAGNAROK IN ROME
Rome, GA is once again the site of the NAIA Championship Game. Today the two most prominent and dominant (or P.A.D.) football dynasties of Continue reading
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LET’S TRY THIS AGAIN: ANOTHER SPORTSCASTER NEEDS ENLIGHTENED
I once again heard a nationwide sports radio figure pushing the wide-spread misconception that a football playoff in Division 1A (Or Bowl Subdivision if you prefer) would take the top 8 teams in the rankings. For my post where I refuted that and other mistaken notions about a 1A football playoff click here: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/23/i-love-having-playoffs-in-the-divisions-i-cover-but-1a-playoff-advocates-need-to-learn-a-few-things/
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SORRY STARSKY! THREE PLAYERS FROM “HUTCH” GARNER NJCAA ALL-AMERICA HONORS
HCC Sports Information
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Three members of the 2010 Hutchinson Community College football team earned NJCAA football All-America honors, the national office in Colorado Springs, Continue reading
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“MITCHELL!” TOMMY THE LINCHPIN WINS THE FRED MITCHELL AWARD
NOT PICTURED: FRED MITCHELL
CHICAGO – Saint Xavier University junior place-kicker Tom Lynch (Frankfort, Ill./Southern Illinois University/Joliet Junior College/Lincoln-Way East) is the recipient of the 2010 Fred Mitchell Award. The Award is provided to the nation’s top place-kicker in FCS, Division II, Division III and NAIA for excellence on the football field and in Continue reading
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RESULTS OF DECEMBER 11TH’S FOOTBALL GAMES – D3 AND D2 SEMIFINALS
Well, it is now official – make it SIX years in a row that the Whitewater Warhawks and the Mount Union Purple Raiders will play each other for the D3 football National Championship. The Warhawks upheld their end of the bargain today by trashing the Wesley Wolverines on their own field by a final score of 27-7. All of this is made more impressive when you consider that for the 4th week in a row Whitewater was without Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARDS FOR DECEMBER 11TH
No NAIA football games today. Their championship game between the Sioux Falls Cougars and the CC Fighting Saints will be held next Saturday in good old Rome, GA of course.
NCAA DIVISION 3 SEMIFINALS
Whitewater Warhawks … Wesley Wolverines … Why, what wonders we will witness, won’t we? – Alliteration aside, the Wolverines try to do what no other D3 football team has been able to accomplish in the past 5 years – break the half-decade stranglehold that the Warhawks and the Continue reading
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BEARCATS QB “BLADEMASTER” BLAKE BOLLES A HARLON HILL TROPHY FINALIST (WILL CAM NEWTON’S FATHER ATTEND THE CEREMONY? I’M KIDDING!)
MARYVILLE, Mo. — The voting has concluded for the NCAA Division II College Football Player of the Year Award and Northwest Missouri State senior quarterback Blake Bolles has been invited to attend the 25th Annual Harlon Hill Trophy Presentation Banquet as one of the top three place finishers.
The banquet is set for Friday, Dec. 17, in Florence, Ala., prior to the NCAA Continue reading
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CAN REPORTERS WHO COVER 1A FOOTBALL GET SOMETHING THROUGH THEIR HEADS?
EXCUSE ME FOR USING ALL CAPS HERE BUT I JUST HEARD TWO MORE TALKING HEADS IN CABLE SPORTS MISTAKENLY CLAIM THAT A PLAYOFF IN 1A FOOTBALL WOULD TAKE THE TOP 8 TEAMS IN THE RANKINGS!!! TO SAVE MY CYBER-BREATH HERE’S A LINK TO MY BIT WHERE I DEBUNK THAT AND OTHER MISCONCEPTIONS: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/23/i-love-having-playoffs-in-the-divisions-i-cover-but-1a-playoff-advocates-need-to-learn-a-few-things/
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DECEMBER 4TH’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS
NAIA SEMIFINALS
The football gods love drama, as evidenced by the fact that the NAIA National Championship Game will get one final round of the Sioux Falls Cougars taking on the CC Fighting Saints before USF heads off for D2. In 2007 the Fighting Saints beat the Cougars 17-9. The following year USF defeated CC in a filthy, rainy, muddy, beauty of a game by a final score of 23-7. 
Saturday, December 18th will see the rubber game between these two NAIA football dynasties of recent years. The Cougars also won titles in 1996, 2006 and just last December and are hoping for a Threepeat. The Fighting Saints won the title four years in a row earlier this decade. At least one of these teams has played in every National Championship game since 2002. It’s very appropriate to see them square off against each other one Continue reading
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