With each and every game played throughout the season the 2025 Division III football playoff picture changes and comes closer into view. This will be your home to track the developing playoff picture with live NPI updates as results roll in through the final Saturday, ultimately locking into place when the last game goes final.
To make clear which games have been included, we will run NPI updates in batches as groups of games go final based on kickoff time. Any exceptions will be noted as we are not going to hold a group of games up because of a weather delay or extended overtime.
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Week 11 Start times (All times Eastern)
Pending: None
Partial/in-progress: None
Included: Friday night, 11am, 12pm, 12:30pm. 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 9pm
At-Large Bids
The race for the 13 at-large (Pool C) bids to the 2025 Division III Football Playoffs. Here we will show the top 20 teams who have not been assigned (whether projected or actually won) their conferences automatic qualifier and will need to rely on an at-large berth to make the playoff field. At-large bids are awarded solely on the final NPI rankings.
Playoff Picture
Current playoff picture based on only teams in position for a playoff berth. This includes automatic qualifiers (Pool A) plus the next 13 in the current NPI rankings as playoff at-large (Pool C) qualifiers. AQ’s not officially clinched are assigned in this view based on conference winning percentage with NPI as a tiebreaker. Top 8 seeds will be “protected” from each other in the bracket such that they could not meet earlier than the quarterfinals.
NPI Resources From D3 Datacast
Complete national Division III football NPI rankings
Unpacking NPI – New Tournament Selection Metric for Division 3 Sports – Episode 83
What D3 Football Fans Should Know About NPI – Episode 89
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