DII and DIII playoffs

[AppGuy04]

anyone else keeping up with this?

There are some very good DII teams in the playoffs that gave I-AA's a scare and even beat some

North Dakota #3 seed in Northwest, #7 DII Top 25
- beat Northern Iowa 35-31

Bloomsburg #2 seed in Northeast, #5 DII Top 25
- lost 3-14 vs James Madison

Chadron State #2 seed in Southwest, #8 DII Top 25
- beat Montana St 35-24

[YoUDeeMan]

Fans from the state of Delaware still have Wesley College (Dover, DE) to root for in the DIII playoffs. Wesley is ranked number 1 in their region (the South). They won today 49-21 in the first round of their playoffs.

[walliver]

I'm interested in Newberry. They have been sucktacular so long, it's good to see them doing well. Also, they have a bunch of SoCon transfers on their team (including quarterbacks from Furman and Citadel). On the other hand, they lost to future Little South member PC.

[MR. CHICKEN]

Fans from the state of Delaware still have Wesley College (Dover, DE) to root for in the DIII playoffs. Wesley is ranked number 1 in their region (the South). They won today 49-21 in the first round of their playoffs.

AN' OURAH D-II ARCH NEMISIS....WEST CHESTER....DEFEATED BRYANT....31-29....;)....BRAWK!

[FlyYtown]

Ohio is #1 of course... We have legit shot to win 3 national titles this year!!!!

*Division IA:BS: Ohio State [Tressel]
Division IAA:CS: Youngstown State
*Division III: Mount Union [35 Minutes from YSU!]

* denotes I'd bet 1000 on each game and would say they win the title by 2 touchdown's, if not more.. they won't be tested---unless its OSU-UM in the Fiesta Bowl.

[roberb7]

The NAIA had their first round of playoffs yesterday, as well. Here's the scores:

#1 Saint Francis (Ind.) def. #16 Walsh (Ohio) - 42-3
#6 Northwestern (Iowa) def. #12 Black Hills State - 17-10
#9 Saint Xavier (Ill.) def #7 Georgetown (Ky.)- 42-28
#2 Sioux Falls (S.D.) def. #15 Jamestown (N.D.)-48-10
#13 Morningside (Iowa) def #3 Saint Ambrose (Iowa)- 38-31
#4 Carroll (Mont.) def. #11 Montana State Northern- 20-7
#5 Missouri Valley def. #14 Bethel (Kan.)- 31-14
#8 Bethel (Tenn.) def. #10 Friends (Kan.) - 35-0

The Carroll-Montana State Northern game must have been a good one.

[grizband]

The NAIA had their first round of playoffs yesterday, as well. Here's the scores:

#1 Saint Francis (Ind.) def. #16 Walsh (Ohio) - 42-3
#6 Northwestern (Iowa) def. #12 Black Hills State - 17-10
#9 Saint Xavier (Ill.) def #7 Georgetown (Ky.)- 42-28
#2 Sioux Falls (S.D.) def. #15 Jamestown (N.D.)-48-10
#13 Morningside (Iowa) def #3 Saint Ambrose (Iowa)- 38-31
#4 Carroll (Mont.) def. #11 Montana State Northern- 20-7
#5 Missouri Valley def. #14 Bethel (Kan.)- 31-14
#8 Bethel (Tenn.) def. #10 Friends (Kan.) - 35-0

The Carroll-Montana State Northern game must have been a good one.
Northern ended Carroll's 20+ game win streak earlier this season, so this is a big win. All of Montana should be cheering on Carroll to their FIFTH consecutive NAIA national championship this season.

[AppGuy04]

#7 North Dakota(11-1), #5 Bloomsburg(11-1), and Chadron St(12-0) all won today. Now down to 8 teams.

#7 North Dakota has powerhouse #1 Grand Valley St(12-0) next week

#5 Bloomsburg plays #6 Shepherd(11-0) next week

#8 Chadron St faces #2 NW Missouri St(12-0)



In DIII action
Mount Union rolls again and looks well on their way to another title. Waiting for them to move up soon.

[AppGuy04]

Bloomsburg survives, UND and Chadron go down

Semifinals are:
#5 Delta St(12-2) @ #1 Grand Valley St(13-0)

#2 Bloomsburg(12-1) @ #1 NW Missouri St(13-0)- I am assuming this game will be at NW Missouri St b/c they are the higher seed, NWMS states they will host

DIII Semis:
St John Fisher(12-1) @ Mount Union(13-0)

Wesley(13-0) vs Wisconsin-Whitewater(13-0)- not sure who the host will be for this game- UWW will be the host according their website

[TexasTerror]

Delta St has a win over FCS Stephen F Austin in Nacogodoches, 17-14 this past year...

[YoUDeeMan]

Bloomsburg survives, UND and Chadron go down

Semifinals are:
#5 Delta St(12-2) @ #1 Grand Valley St(13-0)

#2 Bloomsburg(12-1) @ #1 NW Missouri St(13-0)- I am assuming this game will be at NW Missouri St b/c they are the higher seed, NWMS states they will host

DIII Semis:
St John Fisher(12-1) @ Mount Union(13-0)

Wesley(13-0) vs Wisconsin-Whitewater(13-0)- not sure who the host will be for this game- UWW will be the host according their website

UWW will be hosting. They throttled Wesley in last year's semifinals. Hopefully, Wesley will step it up this time and take home the victory. :thumbsup:

[AZGrizFan]

Ohio is #1 of course... We have legit shot to win 3 national titles this year!!!!

*Division IA:BS: Ohio State [Tressel]
Division IAA:CS: Youngstown State
*Division III: Mount Union [35 Minutes from YSU!]

* denotes I'd bet 1000 on each game and would say they win the title by 2 touchdown's, if not more.. they won't be tested---unless its OSU-UM in the Fiesta Bowl.

Nice to see your faith in the Penguins. ;) ;)

[bluehenbillk]

Go Wesley & Bloomsburg!

[Ivytalk]

UWW will be hosting. They throttled Wesley in last year's semifinals. Hopefully, Wesley will step it up this time and take home the victory. :thumbsup:


I'm rooting for Wesley as well. I think they'll lose on the road, but it will be closer than last year's 50-point blowout.

[YoUDeeMan]

Go Wesley & Bloomsburg!

Bluehenbillk,

Small world. We got our Christmas tree at a little organic farm in Lincoln University. Igets, I believe was the name. $30 for any size tree.

Go Wesley!

[bluehenbillk]

Should've went to Pyle's in Avondale between $15 & $20 for their trees, we go there every year. There are a couple "cut your own" around but they're like $8-$9 per foot, plus you have to cut it yourself.

[jstate83]

Delta St has a win over FCS Stephen F Austin in Nacogodoches, 17-14 this past year...

Told ya'll they were good back then.

They will win Saturday and then play for a 2nd National Championship on the same field where they won their 1st.

[YoUDeeMan]

Should've went to Pyle's in Avondale between $15 & $20 for their trees, we go there every year. There are a couple "cut your own" around but they're like $8-$9 per foot, plus you have to cut it yourself.

Thanks for the info. I'll keep Pyle's in mind for future trees. :thumbsup:

Our son loves the "cut your own", so we're in that mode for the next few years.

[roberb7]

The NAIA finalists are St. Francis and Sioux Falls. The championship game is Dec. 16 in Savannah, TN, and CSTV is televising it. Here's a good preview (http://football.victorysportsnetwork.com/article.php?articleID=3030).

Defending champion Carroll was taken out by St. Xavier in the quarterfinals.

[Ivytalk]

I'm rooting for Wesley as well. I think they'll lose on the road, but it will be closer than last year's 50-point blowout.


I was right...0nly a 37-point Wesley loss this year! 44-7, UW-W.:o :o

[GoGuins]

#7 North Dakota(11-1), #5 Bloomsburg(11-1), and Chadron St(12-0) all won today. Now down to 8 teams.

#7 North Dakota has powerhouse #1 Grand Valley St(12-0) next week

#5 Bloomsburg plays #6 Shepherd(11-0) next week

#8 Chadron St faces #2 NW Missouri St(12-0)



In DIII action
Mount Union rolls again and looks well on their way to another title. Waiting for them to move up soon.

That will never happen. I live 15 min. from the Mt Union campus and it's very small. They don't have the $$ or resources to move up to II

[GoGuins]

Raiders Earn 10th Stagg Bowl Appearance
Behind running back Nate Kmic’s school-record 371 yards rushing, the Purple Raiders (14-0) earned their ninth trip to the Division III National Championship game in the last 11 years and 10th time overall with a 26-14 win over St. John Fisher of New York (12-2) in front of 3,532 fans in Mount Union Stadium in Alliance, Ohio on Saturday, December 9

It's amazing what this school and their coach Larry Keheres has done the past 20 years

Mount Union Current Head Coaching Notes

Overall Record: 245-20-3/.919
OAC Record: 174-8-3
Home Record: 133-9-3
Overall Road Record: 103-10-0
OAC Home Record: 87-2-3
OAC Road Record: 87-6-0
Neutral Site: 8-1
Playoff Record: 50-8

The Purple Raiders have the best winning percentage and most wins in all of college football since 1990 (215-10-1/.954).
The Raiders also hold college football's all-time consecutive win streak (55) - from games played from Sept. '00 to Dec. '03.
In the last 150 regular season games, dating back to the beginning of the '92 season, MTU has an 148-2 mark.
On the road, MTU has won 62 consecutive games.
MTU has posted 78 consecutive regular season road wins dating back to the '91 season.
The Raiders are a Division III best 51-9 all-time in the playoffs.
Since 1996, the Raiders are 85-0 when winning the turnover battle. The Raiders were 45-0 when winning the turnover battle from the 1990 season prior to the 20-17 Semifinal Playoff loss against Wisconsin La Crosse in 1995. In that contest, the Raiders had a +1 turnover performance. Overall since 1990, Mount Union is 128-1 when winning the turnover battle in a game with the lone loss coming against La Crosse.
The Raiders have scored 30 points or more 182x out of 222 games played since the beginning of the '90 season, compiling a 179-2 mark during that span.
MTU has scored 40 points or more 136x since the beginning of the '90 season, compiling a 136-0 record during that span.
The Raiders have scored 50 points or more 74x since the beginning of the '90 season, compiling a 74-0 mark.
Mount Union is the only Division III institution to score 500 points or more in 13 consecutive seasons (624 in '06, 620 in '05, 547 in '04, 660 in '03, 654 in '02, 517 in '01, 662 in '00, 649 in '99, 643 points in '98, 752 in '97, 669 in '96 and 547 in '95)- no other Div. III team has done it more than 3x in a row.
The Purple Raiders have scored in 309 consecutive games ('81- present)- during that span, Mount Union's defense has posted 52 shutouts.
Mount Union has made 18 trips to the NCAA Division III Playoffs since 1985. The Raiders have posted eight National Championships ('93, '96, '97, '98, '00, 01, '02, '05).
Mount Union has won 15 consecutive OAC Titles ('92-'06) and has 18 OAC Championships overall ('85, '86, '90, '92-'06).
The Raiders, since the '90 season, have compiled a 147-3-1 mark in conference play.
Larry Kehres (245-20-3/.920), is in his 20th season as the Purple Raider head coach, and is the all-time leader in terms of best winning percentage in the history of college football.
The Raiders have won 147 of their last 151 games played and claim an NCAA Division III eight National Championships. Mount Union owns the most National Titles among collegiate teams that play within a playoff format.

[Purple Pride]

Told ya'll they were good back then.

They will win Saturday and then play for a 2nd National Championship on the same field where they won their 1st.
That's gonna be 1 slobber-knockin kick-ass game.:thumbsup:

[ngineer]

The Bloomsburg Huskies are just north of the Lehigh Valley and have always been very strong. Hoping they can make the 'big dance' by winning on Sunday.

[bluehenbillk]

Man both Bloomsburg & Wesley got smacked.

[AppGuy04]

Mount Union and Grand Valley are both in their championships. Thats makes 3 teams trying to defend their titles

[bluehenbillk]

I wonder how Grand Valley would do in 1-AA.

[SunCoastBlueHen]

I wonder how Grand Valley would do in 1-AA.

I was thinking the same thing while watching the game. After seeing what NDSU has done, I would think pretty darn well.

[jstate83]

Delta State is good but Grand Valley is the truth in D2.

I think after a couple of years with the programs BOTH have going, they would do really well in 1-AA.

Gotta go with Grand Valley.:thumbsup:
Have not seen a team handle Delta State like that in a while.:eek:

[bison95]

It's amazing what this school and their coach Larry Keheres has done the past 20 years

Mount Union Current Head Coaching Notes

Overall Record: 245-20-3/.919
OAC Record: 174-8-3
Home Record: 133-9-3
Overall Road Record: 103-10-0
OAC Home Record: 87-2-3
OAC Road Record: 87-6-0
Neutral Site: 8-1
Playoff Record: 50-8

The Purple Raiders have the best winning percentage and most wins in all of college football since 1990 (215-10-1/.954).
The Raiders also hold college football's all-time consecutive win streak (55) - from games played from Sept. '00 to Dec. '03.
In the last 150 regular season games, dating back to the beginning of the '92 season, MTU has an 148-2 mark.
On the road, MTU has won 62 consecutive games.
MTU has posted 78 consecutive regular season road wins dating back to the '91 season.
The Raiders are a Division III best 51-9 all-time in the playoffs.
Since 1996, the Raiders are 85-0 when winning the turnover battle. The Raiders were 45-0 when winning the turnover battle from the 1990 season prior to the 20-17 Semifinal Playoff loss against Wisconsin La Crosse in 1995. In that contest, the Raiders had a +1 turnover performance. Overall since 1990, Mount Union is 128-1 when winning the turnover battle in a game with the lone loss coming against La Crosse.
The Raiders have scored 30 points or more 182x out of 222 games played since the beginning of the '90 season, compiling a 179-2 mark during that span.
MTU has scored 40 points or more 136x since the beginning of the '90 season, compiling a 136-0 record during that span.
The Raiders have scored 50 points or more 74x since the beginning of the '90 season, compiling a 74-0 mark.
Mount Union is the only Division III institution to score 500 points or more in 13 consecutive seasons (624 in '06, 620 in '05, 547 in '04, 660 in '03, 654 in '02, 517 in '01, 662 in '00, 649 in '99, 643 points in '98, 752 in '97, 669 in '96 and 547 in '95)- no other Div. III team has done it more than 3x in a row.
The Purple Raiders have scored in 309 consecutive games ('81- present)- during that span, Mount Union's defense has posted 52 shutouts.
Mount Union has made 18 trips to the NCAA Division III Playoffs since 1985. The Raiders have posted eight National Championships ('93, '96, '97, '98, '00, 01, '02, '05).
Mount Union has won 15 consecutive OAC Titles ('92-'06) and has 18 OAC Championships overall ('85, '86, '90, '92-'06).
The Raiders, since the '90 season, have compiled a 147-3-1 mark in conference play.
Larry Kehres (245-20-3/.920), is in his 20th season as the Purple Raider head coach, and is the all-time leader in terms of best winning percentage in the history of college football.
The Raiders have won 147 of their last 151 games played and claim an NCAA Division III eight National Championships. Mount Union owns the most National Titles among collegiate teams that play within a playoff format.


It flat dumbfounds me that he does not get coaching looks at the DI level:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[GoGuins]

It flat dumbfounds me that he does not get coaching looks at the DI level:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

He did about 6 or 7 years ago from Kent State. He knew that was a no win situation there and turned it down. He's also the AD at Mount Union and wanted to stay at Mount because he wanted his kids to graduate from there

I always thought YSU would look at him

[YoUDeeMan]

Man both Bloomsburg & Wesley got smacked.

Wesley had a good year.

Mount Union vs. UWW in a rematch for the DIII championship Game.

Hope UWW wins this one. :thumbsup:

[bison95]

Wesley had a good year.

Mount Union vs. UWW in a rematch for the DIII championship Game.

Hope UWW wins this one. :thumbsup:

I believe the DII game is also a rematch:nod: :nod:

[ngineer]

Man both Bloomsburg & Wesley got smacked.

And Bloomsburg is a very good team. They gave JMU all they could handle. Says alot about the quality of top eschelon D-II teams!:nod:

[AppGuy04]

I wonder how Grand Valley would do in 1-AA.

both their qb and rb are I-A transfers

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

And Bloomsburg is a very good team. They gave JMU all they could handle. Says alot about the quality of top eschelon D-II teams!:nod:

And didn't Grand Valley State beat North Dakota in the previous round? After watching last night's game and seeing the Bloomsburg and North Dakota scores, I came to the same conclusion -- high quality at the top level of D-II!

I'm looking forward to the Grand Valley State-NW Missouri State matchup in Florence, Alabama. Same with Mt. Union and Wisconsin Whitewater! Both levels play with a ton of emotion and it's really for the love of the game. I'll take that over the semi-pros in a meaningless bowl game any day!!

Seeing that one of the D-II finalists is NW Missouri State, I have a question. Are there significant differences in them and our (CS) Missouri State? Enrollment? Number of Alumni? Years of existense? How many other "directional" States are there in Missouri that play football? Just asking to ascertain if they are a potential CS school. And to get a better understanding of a fellow CS school. Thanks in advance!!

[griz37]

Delta State is good but Grand Valley is the truth in D2.

I think after a couple of years with the programs BOTH have going, they would do really well in 1-AA.

Gotta go with Grand Valley.:thumbsup:
Have not seen a team handle Delta State like that in a while.:eek:

One of my friends at work is a Delta St. grad & she informed they just recently started using the nickname Statesmen. Before they were known as the Fighting Okra. xlolx

[jstate83]

One of my friends at work is a Delta St. grad & she informed they just recently started using the nickname Statesmen. Before they were known as the Fighting Okra. xlolx
They are still known as the Fighting Okra to most here although the sportscast uses Statesmen. :nod:

You should have seen that OKRA Mascot on the sidelines. xlolx
That thing looked like a big green hot pepper with bug eye's..................Boxing gloves and everything. xlolx



http://www.mediaokra.com/images/okraclip/okraboxer.gif

[NoCoDanny]

And didn't Grand Valley State beat North Dakota in the previous round? After watching last night's game and seeing the Bloomsburg and North Dakota scores, I came to the same conclusion -- high quality at the top level of D-II!

I'm looking forward to the Grand Valley State-NW Missouri State matchup in Florence, Alabama. Same with Mt. Union and Wisconsin Whitewater! Both levels play with a ton of emotion and it's really for the love of the game. I'll take that over the semi-pros in a meaningless bowl game any day!!

Seeing that one of the D-II finalists is NW Missouri State, I have a question. Are there significant differences in them and our (CS) Missouri State? Enrollment? Number of Alumni? Years of existense? How many other "directional" States are there in Missouri that play football? Just asking to ascertain if they are a potential CS school. And to get a better understanding of a fellow CS school. Thanks in advance!!

I think MIssouri State has twice the enrollment of NW Missouri State and in a much larger town.

[pantherclaw]

And didn't Grand Valley State beat North Dakota in the previous round? After watching last night's game and seeing the Bloomsburg and North Dakota scores, I came to the same conclusion -- high quality at the top level of D-II!

I'm looking forward to the Grand Valley State-NW Missouri State matchup in Florence, Alabama. Same with Mt. Union and Wisconsin Whitewater! Both levels play with a ton of emotion and it's really for the love of the game. I'll take that over the semi-pros in a meaningless bowl game any day!!

Seeing that one of the D-II finalists is NW Missouri State, I have a question. Are there significant differences in them and our (CS) Missouri State? Enrollment? Number of Alumni? Years of existense? How many other "directional" States are there in Missouri that play football? Just asking to ascertain if they are a potential CS school. And to get a better understanding of a fellow CS school. Thanks in advance!!

There are several "directional" schools in Missouri: Division, conference, enrollment(not exact)
Missouri State-CS, Gateway/MVC, enrollment-20,000
Southeast Missouri State-CS, OVC, 7,700
Northwest Missouri State-D-II, MIAA, enrollment-6,500
Truman State(fmr. Northeast Missouri State)-D-II, MIAA, enrollment-6,000
Missouri Southern State-D-II, MIAA, enrollment-5700
Missouri Western University-D-II, MIAA, enrollment-5100
Univeristy of Central Missouri-D-II, MIAA, enrollment-10,000

About the only team that is consitently competitive in all sports is NWMSU, problem is there is almost nobody in the school that wants to go to D-I. Small enrollment, expenses, etc. as far as i know from talking with people who work in student gov't at these schools pretty much everyone in the Directional schools is content in D-II and the MIAA.

[spelunker64]

Fighting Okra vs. Lakers

Should be a good game. It's fun to keep up with the old D2 schools. I remember that mud-bowl playoff game we played against Delta State. Lamar Gordon served as RB/QB due to injuries and it was pretty much direct snap to Lamar and see what he could do. Not much I guess, we lost 16-34. NDSU is 0-1 vs GVSU, 17-21 loss back in 1991.

[YoUDeeMan]

Ohio is #1 of course... We have legit shot to win 3 national titles this year!!!!

*Division IA:BS: Ohio State [Tressel]
Division IAA:CS: Youngstown State
*Division III: Mount Union [35 Minutes from YSU!]

* denotes I'd bet 1000 on each game and would say they win the title by 2 touchdown's, if not more.. they won't be tested---unless its OSU-UM in the Fiesta Bowl.

Looks as though OSU didn't quite cover. :rolleyes: xlolx