The Chesapeake Collegiate Rugby Conference was a college rugby conference that has since been absorbed into the larger Rugby East Conference. The Chesapeake conference, which included universities from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, competed under the National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) umbrella and is noted for its competitive games. The transition to Rugby East expanded the larger conference to 11 teams.
The DIAA fall playoff bracket will be announced relatively soon, and there are still a few questions to get answered as conference champions are being decided.
Without playing this weekend, NC State did what it needed to do and will be in the 2nd-vs-3rd playoff in the Chesapeake Conference.
Two games are left in the Chesapeake Rugby Conference regular season and those two games have huge ramifications for how the conference will end up.
The winner of the regular season gets a seed to the fall national playoff, but the 2nd and 3rd teams also have a shot, as they play each other on November 9. The winner of that game could well be in the national playoffs, too.
The road to the Chesapeake Conference probably goes through Maryland, but Virginia Tech is driving the bus.
The long weekend cuts back some of the games this week in DIAA, but there's a big one in the MAC with Louisville facing Western Michigan.
Dartmouth faces one of its toughest Ivy League rivals, while Iowa State has a key game against Oklahoma State.
