The Eastern Eagles arrive to their playoff party in their third season, as champions of the MAC. Eastern athletics file photo

Montie Quinn got his 2,000th rushing yard of the season and kept his Curry Colonels in line for a showdown for the CNE, while a number of teams clinched automatic bids on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 in Division III football. 

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Washington & Jefferson pushed out to an early lead and rolled to a 49-7 victory over Geneva in Presidents' Athletic Conference play Saturday afternoon at Reeves Field. The seventh-straight victory helped the Presidents (7-2, 7-0 PAC) secure at least a share of the Presidents' Athletic Conference title and the conference's spot in the upcoming NCAA Division III playoffs. The victory gives the Presidents their conference-leading 28th PAC title. In a battle between two of the top quarterbacks in the PAC, Kellan Stahl shined with a career-high six touchdown passes and 384 passing yards. Stahl completed 20-of-27 attempts in a statement effort.

Springfield has bounced back from a 1-2 start to the season and claimed the NEWMAC title for the fifth season in a row, defeating Coast Guard 30-10. The Pride held the ball for nearly 43 minutes and Coast Guard, which entered the game 7-1 and 5-0 in the conference, could not keep pace. Harrison Hensley was held to 47 yards and one touchdown on 15 carries, which Springfield had five players run for at least that many yards, led by Stanford Davis with 139 yards on 28 carries. Coast Guard converted on just three of 10 third down attempts while, more impressively, Springfield only had nine third downs all day. The Pride (7-2, 6-0) converted four of them and picked up three more on fourth down.

Eastern improved to 8-1, 7-1 in the MAC and secured the MAC's bid with a win against FDU-Florham and Delaware Valley's 51-20 rout of Misericordia. Brett Nabb ran for 183 yards and threw for 141 in the win, which puts Eastern in the playoffs for the first time in just the school's third year of varsity football. The Eagle defense held FDU to 152 total yards.

"To say this was a big win for our program is an understatement," Eagles coach Billy Crocker said after the game. "I am so incredibly proud of our players and coaches. To get a win of this magnitude on senior day was very special. To win at-least a piece of the MAC Championship in our third varsity season is surreal.  It is beyond our wildest dreams, but this group of upperclassmen bought in and committed to what we have built here."

Monmouth clinched the Midwest Conference championship and a playoff return trip with a 58-3 home win over Ripon on Saturday. The Fighting Scots (8-1, 8-0) scored the first 42 points of the game and accounted for over 600 yards of total offense in the win. Monmouth has been to the NCAA playoffs seven previous times in the automatic bid era, but not since 2019. Brayden Deem completed 19 of 26 passes for 339 yards and six touchdowns, tying his career high.

Montie Quinn passed the 2,000 yard mark for the season, and then did 210 additional yards as he helped Curry defeat the University of New England 47-30. The win sets up a showdown between conference unbeatens Curry and Endicott next week for the conference title and automatic bid from the Conference of New England. Quinn finished with 282 yards and two touchdowns on 34 carries, while his counterpart, Damien Jones, went for 267 yards and four scores on 24 carries in defeat.

Luis Salgado continued his strong second half of the season, as he ran 23 times for 126 yards and a touchdown to help Whitworth get past Willamette 29-0. The win clinches the automatic bid from the Northwest Conference for Whitworth. It was Salgado's fifth 100-yard game in the last six outings, and he has averaged 118.5 yards per game in that time, more than twice his average through the first three games.

Amherst and Williams squared off in the 139th playing of the rivalry game which has become known as The Biggest Little Game in America, and Amherst came away the 14-13 victor on a handful of key plays: four field goals by Hudson Fulcher-Melendy, including the game winner with 2:57 to play that sent the alumni in the west end zone into a frenzy. It really turned on a 100-yard pick-2, a defensive two-point conversion that Ty Kazanowsky took all the way back and take a game that could have been 15-9, instead making it 13-11. Fulcher-Melendy followed with a 26-yard field goal with 2:57 left to give his team the lead, and Niles Riding secured the win with an interception along the sidelines in the final two minutes.

Bridgewater kicked a field goal as time expired to knock off Hampden-Sydney on Saturday, taking the Tigers out of contention for the Old Dominion Athletic Conference crown and handing the automatic bid to H-SC's archrival, Randolph-Macon. H-SC, which received just three points in the D3football.com Top 25, was ranked No. 25 in the AFCA poll. Hampden-Sydney led 42-28 early in the fourth quarter as Carter Sido hit Mason Cunningham for a 49-yard TD pass, but Bridgewater scored on its next two possessions, both Jaicere Bateman TD passes, to tie the game up. Aaron Nice then got a third down sack for the Eagles (3-6, 3-4 ODAC) and forced a punt. Bridgewater faced a third down with under a minute to go, but Bateman surged forward to move the chains, and the Tigers were out of timeouts. BC snapped it one more time, and Bateman scrambled right to set up the game-winning field goal attempt, which Agustin Miguel nailed from 26 yards out as the clock expired to secure a 45-42 BC victory on the road.

Grove City blocked two punts and forced five turnovers Saturday afternoon as the Wolverines earned their sixth straight victory, doubling up host Case Western Reserve, 28-14, in Presidents' Athletic Conference action at DiSanto Field in Cleveland. Both blocked punts came in the second half. Mason Clouse blocked a punt that Caleb Brubaker recovered at the 11. Two plays later, Ethan Wiley lofted a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Daniel Sullivan that gave Grove City (7-2, 6-1) a 14-7 lead with 7:09 left in the third. The lead swelled to 21-7 with 12:33 remaining in the game as freshman Nick Clemens blocked a punt, then picked up the ball at the CWRU 10 and carried it into the end zone. That marked Grove City's fourth return touchdown of the season.

Union defeated the University of Rochester 14-10 and Ithaca defeated RPI, 24-23, meaning that Union stands alone atop the Liberty League and can clinch the conference's automatic bid if it can get past RPI next Saturday in the Dutchman's Shoes rivalry game. If RPI wins and the conference standings end in a three-way tie, out of conference results may come into play as a tiebreaker. Ithaca's win was its fourth in a row against RPI, as Nicholas Lang caught seven passes for 189 yards and all three touchdowns in the win. Two of them came on passes from quarterback Michael Reed and one came on a double pass trick play from running back Chris Scully. After RPI's RJ Encarnacion blocked a punt with 1:53 left, RPI elected to run a fake on the conversion, which failed.

Bluffton and Franklin went to overtime tied at 49, and the same score continued forward into the second overtime as the Beavers intercepted Franklin quarterback Marshall Kmiecik at the goal line, and Bluffton's 37-yard field goal try was blocked by Jordan Fonda. The visitors struck first in the second OT, getting a touchdown pass and following up with a two-point pass to go up 57-49. The Grizzlies needed to answer, and they did — Kmiecik found Jace Mohr for a 14-yard score and then extended the game on a two-point hookup between that same pair. In the third overtime, settled by dueling two-point tries, Kmiecik hit Jeremy Lee in the right side of the end zone. The Beavers' attempted answer was turned away with Haidyn Bulmer making a tackle in the backfield to end the game and send the Faught Stadium faithful into a frenzy.