The Heart of America (HOA) is a Division I-AA men's college rugby conference that expanded to 12 teams for the 2025-2026 season. It operates under the College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) and is made up of schools from the middle part of the USA—Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.
The conference plays its 15s season in the fall but enters its champion in the CRAA D1AA postseason in the spring.
The Heart of America Conference remains one of the more competitive conferences in DIAA and certainly the conference started that way.
Iowa State held off University of Iowa 18-10 in a tense Heart of America conference game Saturday.
The Cyclones secured an early 15-0 lead but after that was under a lot of pressure from Iowa. Seeing one player get two yellow cards, and thus being shorthanded throughout the second half, didn’t help.
The Heart of American DIAA conference has settled its schedule for the fall of 2021.
The conference welcomes back Arkansas and also brings in the University of Minnesota, which moves from the Big 10.
There's a lot at stake this weekend in DIAA rugby this weekend.
Chief among these is the Chesapeake, with five teams in the hunt for playoff potential.
The University of Kansas put in a very impressive 34-0 shutout of Iowa this past weekend and the Jayhawks are in excellent position in the Heart of America DIAA Conference.
