If the committee doesn’t do its due diligence to make sure it is giving the teams that have the best criteria home games in the playoffs, but the teams that benefited from this mistake ended up losing, does it make a sound?

Sure, UW-La Crosse should not have had to travel to Albion. We knew it. We said it out loud on the last podcast and in the Around the Nation predictions column. But coach Matt Janus and the Eagles made the most of it, going 470 miles by bus to deliver a message about the strength of the WIAC. We talk with Janus about the trip and how UW-La Crosse’s schedule has prepared it for this moment in the latest D3football.com Around the Nation podcast.

Plus we hear voices from all around the bracket, including the reaction of a coach whose program was playing a home playoff game for the first time, one who took points off the board, players who helped deliver the day’s only true upset, and much more. Plus, we hand out game balls from the weekend that was Division III football.

And we were challenged to come up with a solution that might actually get traction in making the NCAA Division III playoffs better. We’ve got a couple! Listen to the podcast to find out. We talk about all of the games from the first round and take an early look at second round games as well.

Pat Coleman and Greg Thomas talk about it all in the latest D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast. The D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast is a regular conversation covering the wide range of Division III football.

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