Four Division III football conferences are joining the ever-growing number of leagues sponsoring postgame bowls, as the Ohio Athletic Conference, Presidents' Athletic Conference, North Coast Athletic Conference and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference will square off this November in Canton.
Ripon and Mount St. Joseph remained unbeaten, Bowdoin beat Wesleyan for the first time since 2011, and Carleton's unbeaten run ended as five Division III football games went to overtime on Saturday in Week 8 action.
Cornell Beachem Jr. could be excused if he never came back to football. Since he last played in 2019, he tore his ACL, lost his father, had a daughter, and also won a Division III wrestling title. Read about Beachem's amazing journey in a feature by Joe Sager.
One win doesn’t make an entire season. But man, it feels good to win the game circled on everyone's calendars, doesn't it? Hope, Texas Lutheran and Mount St. Joseph have all done that in big conference games this season, and Adam Turer has more.
There were a pair of prototypical trap games played yesterday, but the favorites prevailed to set the stage for Week 7 showdowns. Read how they avoid getting tripped up, plus a remembrance of the great John Gagliardi.
Some of September's most disappointing teams have been able to reverse their fortunes. Heading into the final month of the season, their goals set in August are still very much on the table.
Rose-Hulman finally defeated Franklin, a benchmark victory for the program. But, the Fightin' Engineers need to defeat Bluffton this week to even have a chance at the HCAC title. More in Around the Midwest.
When teams have played Mount St. Joseph, there has been little surprise who would be carrying the ball. Yet, James Clay is having the kind of season most would dream of.
Odds are you weren't at some of the big games last week, and certainly you weren't at three of them. Here's a bit of the scenery from Linfield, Mount St. Joseph and St. John's.
For four years, coach Rod Huber had turned around a dormant Mount St. Joseph football program into the kings of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, winning at least nine games from 2004 to 2007 and participating in the Division III playoffs each of those years.
Maybe the reason why Mount St. Joseph coach Rod Huber likes telling the bus story is that it came to symbolize the Lions’ faith in hard work and that things will happen the way they are supposed to happen.
Call it Groundhog Day for Concordia (Wis.) and North Central, but the two conference champions will be playing the same game over again when they take the field Saturday in the first round of the playoffs at Wisconsin Lutheran’s Raabe Stadium in Milwaukee.
It's the proverbial unstoppable force meeting the immovable object Saturday in Indiana as two-time defending Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference champion Mount St. Joseph travels just past south of Indianapolis to take on Franklin.
Many teams opened training camp with August with several goals, including having a winning seasons and capturing their conference titles. But there is an old saying which goes: “Be careful what you wish for.”
One team is nationally ranked and has gone undefeated through the gauntlet of a tough conference that featured three other nationally ranked teams at one time.
Cincinnati’s Mount St. Joseph had its most successful football season in history last year, going a perfect 10-0, winning the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference and making it to the NCAA playoffs.
OAC, PAC, NCAC, HCAC going bowling
January 09, 2024Four Division III football conferences are joining the ever-growing number of leagues sponsoring postgame bowls, as the Ohio Athletic Conference, Presidents' Athletic Conference, North Coast Athletic Conference and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference will square off this November in Canton.
