”In the (D3FB) Huddle”

Frank & JB feature 16 of Week 4's 85 games -- showing 14 of the games big plays -- in this episode of Crunchtime! In addition, they look at the NPI conundrum coming together as out-of-conference games come to a conclusion for several conferences, and they look at JB's Week 4 MVPs. Make sure to join us for this episode!

It's Friday Live! for Week 4 - with guests from CWRU & Lake Forest, game previews aplenty, and so much more!

Frank & JB feature 24 games -- 21 with video clips -- as they review the best action from Week 3 of the 2026 D3FB season! They also review the NPI trends to watch for this early in the season and more!

Frank & JB take you through Week 3's schedule to highlight top matchups and discuss the state of the Division each Friday morning. This week's guests: SR DB Aiden Nelson (Wesleyan University) & SR RB Dawson Rud (Wartburg College).

It's our Week 2 Preview on our Friday Live show. Frank & JB take you through all the upcoming huge games, welcome guests, discuss their 9/11 memories, and more. Guests include CJ Newman (Sr. LB - Muhlenberg) & Garret Wilson (Jr. QB - North Central).

Frank & JB take you through 19 sets of video highlights while featuring 21 games and showing you all the results on this weekly "Crunchtime" episode of @D3FBHuddle. They also name JB's MVPs and look at how they did with their Week 1 predictions.

Note: Normally, this show will premiere on Tuesday or Wednesday, but due to the travel, holiday, and work obligations, we are releasing it on Thursday this week. Our Friday Live show will air, as usual, at 9am EDT Friday.

’Twas the day before Kickoff, and all through the land, several creatures are stirring in the “In the Huddle” band. We have three more interviews, this time from Regions 5 & 6, along with Aarron Van Buren’s preview of the Ripon Football season from inside their preseason.

The interviews in this show are with:

- Wartburg Sr. DL Conner McDonald

- St. John’s Sr. OL Michael Bougie

- UW-Platteville Sr. RB Zackary Bothun

Remember that we will have an hour-long pregame show from Montclair, NJ as USMMA visits Montclair at 5pm EDT (4pm EDT Pregame Show) to kick off the D3FB season!

The “In the (D3FB) Huddle” 2026 Kickoff Week Marathon continues, as Frank & JB focus on Regions 3 & 4 in this third preseason episode! They once again interview three awesome student-athletes in this show:

- Berry Sr. QB Andrew Hunter

- Hanover Jr. DB Brian Wall

- Wabash Sr. QB Brand Campbell

Two of the schools won their conference titles in 2025, and one won a bowl game in the hopes of carrying momentum toward 2026 success. Learn all about these great players in this episode as we are just a couple days away from the 2026 D3FB Kickoff!

Enough of Frank & JB doing most of the talking — it’s time for 2026 Preseason Show #2, where three tremendous student-athletes will tell us about their upcoming seasons. This show focuses on Regions 1 & 2, as a new strength-of-schedule metric is introduced to help show relative schedule strengths for Regions 1 & 2. On this episode, the guys interview:

- USMMA Sr. LB Aidan Graham

- Union Sr. DL Jordan Black

- Grove City Gr. S Ryan Montgomery

That’s just the first three of NINE player interviews in our Preseason Shows #2, 3, & 4 coming up as we continue our “In the (D3FB) Huddle” 2026 Kickoff Week Marathon!

Season 19. In 2008 -- 18 years ago -- this was a little Liberty League show. Now it's a national poll, a full preseason slate, and the two co-hosts still arguing about the WIAC in August.

 

Frank Rossi & James Baker are back to open the season — the first of four preseason shows before we go live from Montclair for the opener.

 

What's in it:

 

The annual question — North Central or River Falls back to Salem?

The WIAC — no top dog, four teams in our Top 15.

The portal — who's actually built to survive it.

The Top 40 — and why we rank 40, not 25.

Ranked vs Ranked — all 23 games in the first three weeks.

Predictions — win totals, NESCAC bids, the PAC tiebreaker.

The hard one — will a program go under this year?

Mailbag — Centennial, under-the-radar, Keystone, roster size.

Rule changes — Jim Corpora and Stuart Hindman on all of it.

 

Week 1 gives you #1 North Central vs #3 Bethel, one of the rarest regular-season matchups we've ever had. St. John's is bringing in 101 freshmen. And a free-kick field goal is now legal in college football.

 

Thank you for 18 years of this. Football's almost here.

 

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