{"id":808513,"date":"2026-07-18T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808513\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:13:13","slug":"the-dii-report%ef%b8%8f-dii-football-team-preview-grand-valley-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808513\/","title":{"rendered":"The DII Report\u2122\ufe0f: DII football team preview: Grand Valley State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!KpMo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fa28f3c-625b-4d36-ae6f-5350162222d8_1416x797.webp\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0fa28f3c-625b-4d36-ae6f-5350162222d8_1416.jpeg\" width=\"1416\" height=\"797\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0fa28f3c-625b-4d36-ae6f-5350162222d8_1416x797.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:797,&quot;width&quot;:1416,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:138674,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/waynecavadi.substack.com\/i\/204903161?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fa28f3c-625b-4d36-ae6f-5350162222d8_1416x797.webp&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are a little bit over a month away from the kickoff of the 2026 DII football season. Grand Valley State, which has made the DII football championship tournament 18 times with four national championships in the 2000s, looks to return to the playoffs after a one-year hiatus. There is a lot returning, but in a loaded GLIAC and even more loaded Super Region Three, it won\u2019t be an easy task. <\/p>\n<p>TEAM REPORTS: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/waynecavadi\/p\/the-dii-report-2026-dii-football?r=9xo1f&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferris State<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/waynecavadi\/p\/the-dii-report-dii-football-team?r=9xo1f&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harding<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/waynecavadi\/p\/the-dii-report-dii-football-team-bc6?r=9xo1f&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kutztown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before we get into what Grand Valley State has in store for 2026, please take a moment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/football\/article\/2025-12-21\/dii-football-programs-most-ncaa-dii-national-championships\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click HERE and subscribe to the new The DII Report Instagram page<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Now, on with the show. Become a paid subscriber today to get in-depth coverage you won\u2019t see anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are a little bit over a month away from the kickoff of the 2026 DII football season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-808513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}