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The games involving the elite teams were generally snoozefests, blowouts without much to write home about. Thankfully, it was a week in which there were some great stories to talk about elsewhere, however, including some involving teams which are playoff contenders and others who might have just had their big moment for the year.

In a week where two top five teams lost, one to another top five team and one to an archrival, it presented an interesting conundrum to the Top 25 voters. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman discuss the changes they would make on their ballot in this week's Around the Nation podcast.

There's plenty of questions at this point in any season. Are there a lot of answers? Maybe not, definitely not as many as there are questions, but Pat and Keith give it a try.

Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman break down the first week's action and analyze it all for you. The Around the Nation podcast is our weekly discussion of what went down and what's about to happen.

The season is over, sadly. But we had plenty of things to talk about after the game, nonetheless. We had to decide who our Players of the Year and Coach of the Year would be, and Pat and Keith weighed in -- who should be No. 2?

A Salem regular and a Salem newbie will meet Friday night for the 2012 Division III football national championship, as No. 1 Mount Union will face No. 4 St. Thomas in yet another matchup of purple programs.

We talk about all four national quarterfinals, including the great plays, the special teams miscues. And, of course, the big bracket miscue that results in the No. 1 and No. 2 teams meeting this week instead of next week in Salem.

Pat and Keith give their strengths and weaknesses for each of the eight remaining teams, looking at the matchups.

Maybe an upset isn't an upset when 76 percent of you pick it to happen.

Where are the great first-round games in this bracket? Who is likely to pull off an upset? What are some of the great stories from Week 11 that led to teams getting into the playoffs, or getting better seeding?

Division III football committee chair was about as frank as any national committee chair has been on tape with us in the past decade. This is not just the party line. Listen in.

If you are new to this process in Division III football, this is your primer, your instruction manual, perhaps your Selection Sunday master class.

Now at least we know we will have no more than one Purple Power in Salem for the Stagg Bowl, after the elimination of UW-Whitewater from any reasonable playoff hopes.

Since the advent of the automatic bid, the defending national champion has never been on the bubble on Selection Sunday. But UW-Whitewater may well be there even if it wins out.

Let's see, there's only a ton of good games from Saturday to talk about, and Pat and Keith try to hit it all in an hour.