Aug 31, 2021
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| Chris Winter at Wartburg is a first-year head coach at the Division III level. Is someone predicting his team will win a playoff game? Wartburg athletics photo |
We've covered playoff picks, national champs, players of the year, conference winners and more, and now our panel has a handful of other thoughts about the season.
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What will be the most surprising upset of the season?
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| Springfield over Union | W&J over John Carroll | Hampden-Sydney over Randolph-Macon | Beloit over Concordia-Chicago | Dickinson over Randolph-Macon |
Which non-conference game are you most anticipating?
| Adam | Frank | Greg | Pat | Ryan |
| UW-Whitewater at Salisbury | Mount Union at Westminster (Pa.) | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at Pomona-Pitzer (Sept. 4) | Linfield at Redlands | All of them! Just happy to see everyone back. |
Which conference game are you most anticipating?
| Adam | Frank | Greg | Pat | Ryan |
| North Central at Wheaton | Hardin-Simmons at Mary Hardin-Baylor | Pomona-Pitzer at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Nov. 13) | North Central at Wheaton | North Central at Wheaton |
Give us a one-sentence prediction we're unlikely to see anywhere else.
| Adam | Frank | Greg | Pat | Ryan |
| Multiple first-year head coaches (first full season) guide their teams to playoff wins. | A team that played spring football games will win the national championship. | 2021 will crown a first-time national champion in consecutive playoffs for the first time since '93 (Mount Union) and '94 (Albion). | We will manage to get by without Keith but people will still tweet at him regardless. | This will be the hardest year to get predictions correct because nobody fully knows how 2019 and 2020 will translate into 2021. |
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