These two got together on the NCAA's dime in December and will do so again in Spetember, as defending champion Mary Hardin-Baylor and UW-Whitewater fill their open dates with each other. Photo by Doug Sasse, d3photography.com

One of the questions we get most frequently is, when are the next season's schedules released?

There's no simple answer! There are 240 schools and it can vary, any time from January to over the summer. But generally by the time we get to April, we have enough schedules that it's time to share. In this case, as of April 29, we have 160 full 10-game schedules and 32 nine-game schedules, most of which are probably complete. And there are partial schedules for everyone else.

But the vast majority of games are posted, at 1,092 out of a season that typically has 1,200 regular season games. And that includes one monster of a schedule for the defending national champ, as Mary Hardin-Baylor's two non-conference games will be against UW-Whitewater, in a rematch of last year's national semifinal contest, and against Muhlenberg, a 2021 quarterfinalist and 2019 semifinalist.

Here are some of the key non-conference games to look forward to, all of them new from last year. This includes the opening season of football at Hilbert, which announced its entry into football last fall and immediately assembled a seven-game schedule on an accelerated timeline.

• UW-Whitewater at St. John's, Sept. 3
• Linfield at Huntingdon, Sept. 3
• Pacific Lutheran at Bethel, Sept. 3
• Muhlenberg at Mary Hardin-Baylor, Sept. 3
• East Texas Baptist at UW-Oshkosh, Sept. 3
• Denison at Hilbert, Sept. 10
• Carnegie Mellon at RPI, Sept. 10
• Wheaton at Trinity (Texas), Sept. 10
• Mary Hardin-Baylor at UW-Whitewater, Sept. 10
• Hardin-Simmons at UW-Platteville, Sept. 17

Here's where you can find all 240 updated Division III football team pages and a weekly Division III football scoreboard for 2022.