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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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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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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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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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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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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Get ready for some more early Christmas presents in the form of college football playoff games and bowl games.
NAIA Playoffs – Semifinals
The featured game of the day will be the Victory Sports Network presentation of the NAIA semifinal game with the Sioux Falls Cougars hosting the MNU Pioneers. USF is continuing its quest to threepeat as Continue reading
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Since my e-mailers have been mentioning that they’d like to get familiar with the conferences in the divisions Balladeer’s Blog covers I’ll add the conference affiliation after each team’s name. (Many of my readers are newcomers to college sports at this level)
NAIA
SIOUX FALLS COUGARS (Great Plains Athletic Conference) host the MNU PIONEERS (Heart of America Athletic Conference)
CC FIGHTING SAINTS (Frontier Conference) host the ST XAVIER Continue reading
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NAIA– The NAIA is down to their final four teams, so I did a separate segment on them. Here is the link: https://glitternight.com/2010/11/28/naia-football-playoffs-down-to-their-final-four/
Playoff Upsets – NCAA Division 3 – The Bethel (MN) Royals upset the Wheaton Thunder in a 15-10 Instant Classic … the Alfred Saxons, who had a very odd season in which it seemed like they were often ranked one week, then Continue reading
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The Sioux Falls Cougars rolled to a 27-7 victory over the McKendree Bearcats led by running back “Magic” Kristian Porter and by a Cougar D that only allowed 100 total yards for the Bearcats. Porter rushed for 108 yds and 3 touchdowns. Magic Kristian was named the Offensive Player of the Game and the Defensive Player was “Smilin'” Dan Schmeicher, who had 8 Continue reading
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