Top Seeds, Mostly, Advance in Great Midwest
The Great Midwest is down to four teams now and things worked out basically how we expected in last weekend’s quarterfinals.
The home teams, meaning the higher-seeded teams, won three of the four games. The #1 seeds Northern Iowa and University of Chicago won fairly comfortably.
Chicago beat Wisconsin-Whitewater 43-22.
Three Days, Two Massive Wins, and Northwestern Vaults to GMW Playoffs
Coming into this weekend Northwestern University had a huge mountain to climb.
With Loyola and Illinois State on the inside track to be the top two in the Great Midwest South, the Wildcats entered this weekend having to beat both of them to make the conference semifinals.
On Friday they took the first step, beating Illinois State in impressive fashion 44-17.
Ohio State Comeback Highlights Big Ten Finals Day
After the Big Ten Championship game, someone called out to Ohio State Head Coach Tom Rooney—“Hey Tom, don’t you feel 25 pounds lighter with that monkey off your back?”
















































