DIAA NCR playoffs this fall are just part of a fairly muddled picture for (mostly) club teams in (mostly) large colleges.
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Expect the MAC, SCRC, Liberty, Southern, and MARC to contribute teams to this playoff.
The MAC winner will be one of four teams as the conference semifinals and final come in two weeks. While Louisville (winners over Bowling Green last week) and Bowling Green seem to be favored, Western Michigan isn’t out of the running.
And as we understand it, there’s the potential that if WMU does win the MAC, it will be the runner-up that plays in the NCR playoffs, not the Broncos.
The MARC winner is yet to be decided but it seems like it will come down to James Madison and St. Joseph’s, which will likely come down to the game those two play against each other on November 12.
The SCRC will see Tennessee or South Carolina play-off for NCR seeds.
Liberty has completed their regular season and we’ve got semifinals coming up. With Siena having been bumped up to the super diamond-encrusted D1, the semis are going to bring Boston College vs UMass and Binghamton vs Stony Brook.
Stony Brook beat Binghamton in the opening week of the season 27-22. Boston College beat UMass 27-7 on October 8.
We will probably see two Liberty teams enter the NCR playoffs.
The new Southern D1AA conference of four teams looks to have Belmont Abbey well in control at 5-0. Second place is Lander at 2-2, the same record as UNC Chapel Hill. Those two play each other this coming weekend and then finish up with one more game—Lander hosting Belmont Abbey and UNC hosting Citadel. Lander will need to beat UNC to have a shot at 2nd.
