Author: Jon Stillman

Back in 1980, the average price of gasoline was $1.22 a gallon, a movie ticket would cost you $2.70, and a loaf of bread set you back 50 cents. 1980 happens to be the last time the UW-Platteville football team had a share of the WIAC championship. And like the changing prices over the years, the Pioneers are set on shifting the power balance atop their conference hierarchy in 2024. UW-Platteville Treading Upward Third-year head coach Ryan Munz has been around the UW-Platteville football program for 22 years as first a player, then-assistant, and now the man in charge of…

With seven weeks of the 2024 college football season in the books, something odd occurred with our country’s two most famous service football-playing academies, Army and Navy, that had not happened in 64 years. Army, which beat UAB 44-10, and Navy, which was idle, broke through for their first simultaneous rankings since Oct. 3, 1960. Furthermore, Army (6-0) and Navy (5-0) have not each been unbeaten at this point in a season since 1945, weeks after World War II ended and in the era when service academies were powerhouses of the sport. In the last polls released on October 14th,…

Do not adjust your screens: the current WIAC football standings do not have the familiar programs inhabiting the top spots. Instead, UW-Stout football is crashing the party. After the first two conference games this season, none of the usual gang of contenders in the WIAC reside in first place. In fact, the three schools who have had a hand in the last 21 conference championships since 2002–Whitewater, La Crosse, and Oshkosh–are nowhere to be found. Enter the UW-Stout Blue Devils, coached by Clayt Birmingham since 2010. In Birmingham’s first year, Stout finished tied for third place in the WIAC, the…