Did any of you attend a DIII or DII school? Play sports? Do you follow any "small" school or just your big state university team?
I still like to follow my alma mater, which is not Ohio State but it is an Ohio school. University of Mount Union (Mount Union College when I attended back in the day). Didn't play football, but I did play baseball (and basketball freshman and sophomore years). Ed Warriner was a teammate on the baseball team (he also played football, and we were also frat bros). Alas, I was better at school and having fun than I was at either baseball or basketball. "M T" Union has won 11 national championships in DIII football since 1993, but has fallen on hard times of late. The last national championship was 2012, and we lost the 2013 and 2014, as well as the 2009-2011, national championships to Wisconsin-Whitewater (I'm glad their coach left to coach DI MAC school Buffalo after they beat us again last year!) Since 2000, Mount Union has been in every DIII football national championship game except the 2004 game. Zero regular season losses in that span and the only losses have been in the national championship games and a 2004 playoff game. School holds the NCAA record for consecutive victories at 55 (set between 2000-2003, which broke the 54 straight win mark set by Mount Union in the 1990s (which broke Oklahoma's 47 straight set in the 1950s) - although I bet Wisky-WW surpassed that record.
DIII football is good football to watch if you get the chance and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl is held in Salem, VA. Pierre Garcon and Cecil Shorts III are former Mount players in the NFL.
I still like to follow my alma mater, which is not Ohio State but it is an Ohio school. University of Mount Union (Mount Union College when I attended back in the day). Didn't play football, but I did play baseball (and basketball freshman and sophomore years). Ed Warriner was a teammate on the baseball team (he also played football, and we were also frat bros). Alas, I was better at school and having fun than I was at either baseball or basketball. "M T" Union has won 11 national championships in DIII football since 1993, but has fallen on hard times of late. The last national championship was 2012, and we lost the 2013 and 2014, as well as the 2009-2011, national championships to Wisconsin-Whitewater (I'm glad their coach left to coach DI MAC school Buffalo after they beat us again last year!) Since 2000, Mount Union has been in every DIII football national championship game except the 2004 game. Zero regular season losses in that span and the only losses have been in the national championship games and a 2004 playoff game. School holds the NCAA record for consecutive victories at 55 (set between 2000-2003, which broke the 54 straight win mark set by Mount Union in the 1990s (which broke Oklahoma's 47 straight set in the 1950s) - although I bet Wisky-WW surpassed that record.
DIII football is good football to watch if you get the chance and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl is held in Salem, VA. Pierre Garcon and Cecil Shorts III are former Mount players in the NFL.
