The Great Midwest Conference has confirmed its schedule for both its D2 league and its small college league.

Joining National Collegiate Rugby has been a good move, it appears, for the conference because some teams that were struggling a bit in D2 have now shifted to the Small College conference, which allows those teams plus some we haven't seen a lot of (Michigan School of Engineering, University of Chicago).

Meanwhile, while the GMW loses Minnesota-Duluth, which returned to the Northern Lights, it gains Northwestern, which may well have found the right conference here, and retains some of the best D2 college teams in the nation. When Goff Rugby Report last ranked 15-a-side D2 teams, in December of 2019, three teams were ranked in the top 10 (UW-Whitewater, Illinois State, and Loyola-Chicago), and three others made the top 40 (Marquette, Northern Michigan, and UW-Platteville). 

The D2 conference is ten teams split into a North Division (Marquette, NMU, UW-Milwaukee, Platteville, and Whitewater) and a South Division (ISU, Loyola, Northern Iowa, Northwestern, and Illinois-Chicago). 

Great Midwest Conference Fall 2021 Schedule