GRR: College Men
In a wildly entertaining and tense Mid American Conference final, Bowling Green came back from 20 points down to defeat the Louisville Cardinals 34-33 and win the conference championship.
These teams have played twice this season, both Bowling Green victories, and both by a single point. The earlier match ended up 28-27 for the Falcons.
Well it wasn't a complete Rugby East sweep, as Big Rivers runners-up Wheeling defeated Kutztown 34-28 Sunday to move on to the NCR D1 quarterfinals.
With LSU's impressive victory on the road against NC State and a dramatic MAC final we now know our NCR D1AA final eight.
LSU beat South Carolina last week to take 3rd in the SCRC and that put them up against top Southern Conference team North Carolina State.
The Tigers won 40-10 and booked a spot in the NCR quarterfinals.
Navy pulled away from BYU in the middle portion of they game to win a high-ranking D1A match that signaled to many that both mean business.
Navy improved to 10-1 overall, with their only loss being a 23-20 decision to Life, while BYU gets their first loss of the fall and is now 5-1.
The three play-ins in Men's D2 college are done and we have our final 16.
Georgetown put together one of their better performances of the season to beat New Hampshire 45-17 to move on.
Mankato traveled to Chicago to play University of Chicago and in a spirited game with plenty of hard hitting, Chicago was able to make some big plays count and come out on top 52-31.