ATN Podcast 401: One semifinal for the ages

ATN Podcast 401: One semifinal for the ages

From D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast by D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast

December 22, 2025 · 1h 31m

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The episode discusses a thrilling semifinal football game and its impact on the community and players involved.

One of the two semifinals was a classic, fit for kids from 1 to 92 … if you can handle stress, that is. And we aren’t just spouting cliches when we say this is as good as it gets — in the history of the national semifinals since automatic bids were added and the playoffs expanded beyond four rounds in 1999, there have been only two years where both semifinals were close. It’s far more likely that both of them are two-score games! So to get not just one good one, but one epic one, well, that’s great. When Kaleb Blaha threaded the tiniest hole to find Blake Rohrer, and Rohrer ran untouched to the end zone for a 79-yard touchdown against Johns Hopkins, it not only sent the Falcons to the Stagg Bowl for the first time ever, it united a community, and was another memorable moment in a friendship between the two. They talk about it, how they met, how Blaha recruited Rohrer to come out for the UW-River Falls football team, and how the River Falls community reacted on Saturday night, in Around the Nation. 2016 Around the Nation column: Out of darkness, light, by Adam Turer, featuring the rebuilding UW-River Falls program At North Central, the Cardinals got…

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Host: Kaleb Blaha

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Organizations: UW-River Falls, North Central, Johns Hopkins

Books & works: 2016 Around the Nation column: Out of darkness, light

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