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SALEM, Va. -- One newcomer to the Division III national championship game and a team that has been there once before will square off when Mary Hardin-Baylor of Texas and Wisconsin-Oshkosh vie for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl title Friday night.Coach Pete Fredenburg of Mary Hardin-Baylor (14-0) said the absence of mighty Mount Union from the Division III national championship game for the first time in a dozen years is refreshing. It was Fredenburgs team that sent the defending champion Purple Raiders home for the holidays, beating them 14-12 last week.Beating Mount Union Saturday was a huge boost for our program, Fredenburg said about the significance of beating the perennial power that has made appearing in the Stagg Bowl nearly a foregone conclusion, playing in 19 of the last 21 games. Beating Mount Union gives you some confidence that you can compete with anybody in the country.Wisconsin-Oshkosh (13-1) had its own brush with regular visitors to Salem Stadium this season, losing to Wisconsin-Whitewater 17-14 on Oct. 8.The Warhawks have been to nine title games in 11 seasons, and have won six times.The Titans, however, have since run off nine victories in a row, and secured their first trip to the championship game with a 10-3 victory against John Carroll in the lowest scoring semifinal in Division III history. John Carroll, which also lost 33-14 to Oshkosh in its opener, had beaten both Whitewater and Mount Union.Mary Hardin-Baylor is making its second appearance in the championship, having lost 28-21 to Linfield in 2004, while Oshkosh has never made it this far. Coach Pat Cerroni credits regular-season meetings with Mount Union in 2010 and 2011 with providing his coaching staff and players with a huge turning point for his program.You really saw where you needed to get to, Cerroni said.Both teams enter the title showdown boasting eye-popping numbers on both sides of the ball.Mary Hardin-Baylor is second nationally, averaging 49.4 points, and Oshkosh averages 38.3 points. The Titans are sixth nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 12.9 points, while the Crusaders allow just 14.4 points.Individually, Crusaders running back Markeith Miller has run for 1,472 yards and 20 touchdowns, while quarterback Blake Jackson has thrown for 3,111 yards and 35 touchdowns with just eight interceptions. He also directs an option running game and has added 785 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns as a complement to Miller.The Titans quarterback, Brett Kasper, has thrown for 2,404 yards and 19 touchdowns with just six interceptions, and running backs Dylan Hecker and Devon Linzenmeyer have combined to run for 1,961 yards and 26 TDs.Mary Hardin-Baylor has forced 45 turnovers, tops in the country, and Oshkosh has forced 40.Fredenburg, in his 19th year since starting the football program at Mary Hardin-Baylor, has led the Crusaders to 15 NCAA tournaments. Beyond their 2004 championship appearance, they reached the semifinals in 2012 and 2013, but having gotten over the hump and back to Salem was just the next step, he said.Obviously to get to the Stagg Bowl is a huge step, he said, but the reality is we want to win the national championship.---Updated to reflect that only one team is a newcomer.---More AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org Cordy Glenn Jersey .5 seconds to play in the game, Kevin Love never stopped believing that they would come out of there with a win. Tyree Kinnel Jersey . There are surprises among the Vezina candidates, but most of the others are standard top-tier performers, even if the two Hart Trophy runners-ups have never been quite as good as they have been through the first half of the season. http://www.cheapbengalsjerseyselite.com/?tag=cheap-michael-jordan-jersey .Y. -- Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo. 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Ideally, thats not something that we would like to have.Vincent was referring to last month, when Washington beat Green Bay in a prime-time game on Nov. 20, and then lost a late afternoon game at Dallas four days later.He said the league prefers that both teams playing on Thursday would be scheduled to play early Sunday afternoon games the previous weekend.Vincent said the issue is on the leagues agenda and has also been raised with the NFLs senior vice president of broadcasting Howard Katz, who oversees the schedule.Thats welcome news to Washington coach Jay Gruden, who called it a no-brainer, when informed of Vincents comments.The recovery time for these players after a physical football game needs to be more than what we got.dddddddddddd And then you throw a plane ride in on top of it, it makes it pretty difficult, Gruden told The AP. It can be done because we did it. But I think the schedule maker should really look at that and not put somebody in that predicament again.Days before the game at Dallas, Gruden called the schedule unfair and said his biggest worry was the health of his teamThe shorter turnaround between games, such as what happened to Washington, is a rare occurrence. It has happened just seven times over the past 11 seasons, and only three of those instances involved a team playing on Sunday night and then again on Thanksgiving.Vincent cited league data in saying there is no indication that injuries have increased involving teams playing on three days rest.Otherwise, Vincent said, the NFL plans to continue playing weekly games on Thursday, with all 32 games being scheduled to play at least once per season. Cheap Jerseyam playing on Sunday night and then again on s Wholesale Baseball Jerseys ' ' '