Football: Mount Union Advances to Quarterfinals (Updated with Quotes)

ALLIANCE, Ohio – The playoff road is filled with roadblocks and chuck holes and fraught with detours and opponents that are unintimidated and can be drastically more talented than any ranking or rating may judge. It’s one of the beauties of college football. The fifth-ranked University of Mount Union football team anticipated all that and acted accordingly on Saturday when it played host to 13 th -ranked Carnegie Mellon in a third-round game of the Division III playoffs. As the proverb goes, to be forewarned is to be forearmed and the Raiders – favored to win by the media stalwarts…