Ryan Gladwin earned a degree from Carson-Newman University in 2011. Currently employed in the collegiate retail business, Ryan lives in Tennessee with his wife and two kids.
In his spare time, Ryan enjoys traveling to random minor league baseball games, card and baseball hat collecting, spending time with his family, and being let down by his Buffalo Bills every season.
September 27th, 2023 8:00am
Week four in the SAC turned out to be quite an odd week of games, with a few being closer than expected and a few not. That is one of the many different things that makes D2 college football so different and wonderful.
September 20th, 2023 8:00am
We are already in week four of the college football season. Regional rankings will be here before you know it, along with the annual gripe-fest of playoff snubbage. The second weekend of conference play this week provides us with another great weekend of SAC football.
September 12th, 2023 4:00pm
Week 3 in the SAC brings the beginning of conference play. There should be some very intriguing matchups this week, with three games featuring schools who finished in the top three of their respective division a year ago.
September 6th, 2023 8:00am
Week one of the 2023 regular season did not disappoint. We had several very intriguing matchups and some outstanding performances by players that were not expected to be called upon.
August 28th, 2023 8:00am
We got a little appetizer this past weekend of college football, but the real fun starts this week including five SAC games on Thursday. As we prepare for the arguably the most glorious week in college sports (beginning of football season), I wanted to drop a quick disclaimer here for the readers:
August 22nd, 2023 8:00am
The 2023 SAC football season is upon us! The sweet nectar of college football has returned and thank the heavens it is here so we can start playing some games and stop talking about FBS realignment for half a moment!
November 25th, 2021 7:00am
The SAC went 1-1 in the first round of the playoffs, which is exactly what I expected, so everything went according to plan…Kind of. A little bit.
November 18th, 2021 3:00pm
For the first time since November, 2019, Playoff football is back! In case you missed it, Brandon Misener and myself joined hosts Wayne Cavadi and Bethany Bowman on their DII Nation podcast earlier this week to discuss the playoffs. You can find that conversation here.
November 4th, 2021 2:00pm
Regional RankingsThe second round of regional rankings came out this week and once again, three SAC teams made the Super Region Two Top 10. There was one major shift with Wingate falling out of the rankings following their loss to Lenoir-Rhyne.
October 28th, 2021 3:00pm
Regional rankings releasedThe first round of regional rankings came out this week and I was very pleased to see three SAC teams in the Top 10. I’ve been a little worried for the last few weeks that the SAC might be a one bid league this year and while that could happen, it looks promising for the SAC to have multiple playoff teams for a third straight year.
October 14th, 2021 2:00pm
The Division II Football season is officially past the halfway point. Six weeks are down, five remain between now and the end of the regular season.
October 7th, 2021 2:00pm
It’s been my custom over the last few years to lead off each column with my own ranking of all the SAC football teams from first to last. Usually my rankings resemble the official standings pretty closely, but I am factoring in my opinions based on what I see from watching nearly every SAC game in person or on tape.
September 30th, 2021 5:00am
Before we get into the weekly rankings and the schedule of upcoming games, there are some headlines that need attention. Catawba cancels second straight gameI was really hoping we would not have to deal with cancellations once we got into conference play, but it happened last week and it happened again this week.
September 23rd, 2021 5:00am
We’re at the ¼ pole of the 2021 season which means we have a pretty good sample size on each of these teams and the conference standings become the most important discussion point from week to week.
September 16th, 2021 1:00pm
As excited as I get for the start of the football season on labor day weekend, I feel like the season really begins when we get into conference play. That’s when we start to see how these teams truly measure up against one another and each week becomes a playoff for the conference title.
September 9th, 2021 4:00am
What an opening week for D2 Football. Maybe it was just the fact that we missed the entire fall season in 2020, but it sure felt like one of the more interesting, entertaining and dramatic opening weeks that we’ve had in several years.
September 1st, 2021 4:00pm
Week one for the D2 Football season is finally here. The SAC season kicks off with a trio of Thursday night games, highlighted by West Georgia visiting #18 Carson-Newman in one of the premier games in super region two (the southeast, if you’re new to D2) this weekend.
August 28th, 2021 8:00am
At long last, the fall football season has returned. It seems like it has been forever since we had D2 football, but it was just a few short months ago that we saw all nine SAC teams in action for the unprecedented (and hopefully never repeated) spring season.
March 18th, 2021 12:00pm
The first full week of the SAC’s spring football season certainly delivered its share of drama. Lenoir-Rhyne needed two defensive scores and two overtime periods to prevail at Newberry while Carson-Newman rallied from a 10 point deficit to take UVA Wise to OT, where they needed a further four frames to secure the road win.