The Division I Council introduced a proposal to allow NCAA Division III members to transition directly to Division I, a path which normally takes 12 years. They won't vote on it until next April, but allowed St. Thomas to make a formal request to start the process pending approval.
With the rivalry between St. John's and St. Thomas coming to a close after 119 years, the final game will move to U.S. Bank Stadium, in Minneapolis, recently home to the Super Bowl and the Division I men's basketball Final Four.
Nearly 30 players were nominated, but only 12 get to the semifinal stage. Who are they? Read up on the players, then cast your fan ballot for the top all-around student-athlete in Division III football.
St. Thomas, which was involuntarily uninvited from the conference in which it was a founding member, has received an invitation to join a Division I conference.
St. Thomas will no longer be a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, a league it helped found nearly 100 years ago, after a group of league presidents decided it could no longer compete with UST.
It's official: As the 2019 Cortaca Jug game announces its first 20,000 ticket sales, the 2019 Johnnie-Tommie game will be played in St. Paul's new MLS stadium, set to open this spring.
Current St. Thomas players have never needed a Week 11 playoff win to secure a playoff bid, but if they need inspiration for fighting a tough opponent, they need look no further than Rachael Caruso. Coach Glenn Caruso's wife has been battling cancer for almost a year.
Wesley knocked off its unbeaten archrival, North Central handled Illinois Wesleyan, St. Thomas had to rally down two scores in the fourth quarter and Bethel made sure everyone knew it was ranked for a reason in Saturday's Division III football Top 25 action.
We didn't know we would come out of Saturday's games with real questions about who should be the top-ranked team, but Pat and Keith lay out the cases for your favorite shade of purple, plus give the key takeaways from the big Week 6 games, hand out game balls and much more.
St. John's had led the official Division III attendance figures for 15 times in the past 16 years, but that little 37,355 turnstile count in Target Field allowed St. Thomas to claim the attendance title for 2017. Here's the top teams, conferences.