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August 25, 2011 · 12:02 am

COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES THAT MATTER: THE 2011 SEASON KICKS OFF TONIGHT, AUGUST 25TH

 While certain sports news outlets are obsessed with covering every pre-pubescent moment of the Little League World Series tonight’s start of actual football games that matter is not being neglected here at Balladeer’s Blog. As promised a few days ago here is a rundown of tonight’s games accompanied by links to follow those games where available:

NJCAA Games

The Hutchinson Blue Dragons are hosting the Kilgore College Rangers – 8pm ET link – http://cms.hutchcc.edu/hcc/game.asx  

The Butler (KS) Grizzlies are Continue reading →

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August 23, 2011 · 8:44 pm

THE 2011 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AUGUST 25TH

 The Hutchinson Blue Dragons will host the Kilgore College Rangers in one of the spotlight college football games coming up this Thursday night in the divisions Balladeer’s Blog covers. On Thursday I’ll be providing links to audio and video coverage for that game and many others! Another pigskin event that night will be this year’s edition of the Continue reading →

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August 21, 2011 · 2:33 pm

WEST FLORIDA ARGONAUTS LEAD THE GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE’S FOOTBALL DRIVE

 The UWF Argonauts’ commitment to add football is just one element of the Gulf South Conference’s gridiron surge that is making the league’s future look brighter than D1’s Big Twelve Conference. The GSC was hit hard by the departure of six of their football institutions joining with three former Lone Star Conference schools in forming the new Great American Conference. Those defections left the formerly fifteen- team conference with just Continue reading →

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August 15, 2011 · 10:51 pm

DELTA STATE STATESMEN AND THE UMD BULLDOGS TOP THE NCAA DIVISION 2 TOP 25

The D2 preseason Top 25 is finally out (good thing, with games starting in less than two weeks) and the two teams who played for the National Championship last December are at the top of the poll. The Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs and the Delta State Statesmen are at number one and two, respectively, with perennial (but now Tjeerdsma-less) football power the Northwest Missouri Bearcats at number three.

The University of Sioux Falls Cougars, a team my readers Continue reading →

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August 3, 2011 · 9:20 pm

BEARCATS PICKED TO WIN SIXTH STRAIGHT MIAA TITLE

 The Northwest Missouri State Bearcats football team has been picked to win the MidAmerica Intercollegiate Athletics Association title in 2011. This would be the sixth year in a row for the Bearcats to win the conference championship, but their first without legendary coach Mel Tjeerdsma, who retired after last season. The Bearcats have won twelve of the last Continue reading →

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July 28, 2011 · 10:20 pm

WHERE’D EVERYBODY GO? LIFE IN THE DEPLETED GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE

Remember all the way back to last football season, when the Gulf South Conference was still being called “The SEC of Division 2 Football”? What a difference a year makes. Last season Balladeer’s Blog covered the departure of teams from the GSC and the Lone Star Conference in order to form the Great American Conference. The Gulf South was hit the worst, losing over half their football schools, as opposed to three from the LSC. Though retaining an overall membership of nine institutions only five of those remaining GSC schools sponsor football. Wow.

The Delta State Statesmen are the preseason pick to Continue reading →

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July 17, 2011 · 6:25 pm

THE TOP SIX COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUMS IN NCAA DIVISION 2

Yes, I know that technically the plural form of stadium would be “stadia” but I’m going with the more generally known form here. With this post I’ll be looking at some of the D2 football venues that I feel are that division’s equivalent of D1’s Big House or The Swamp.

For my look at the Coolest Football Helmets in D2 Football click here : https://glitternight.com/2012/08/11/the-coolest-helmets-in-ncaa-division-2-college-football/ 

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Winston-Salem

6. BOWMAN-GRAY STADIUM

TEAM: WINSTON-SALEM STATE RAMS

COMMENT: This is sort of D2’s version of Ohio State’s stadium the Horseshoe, back when it Continue reading →

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