Team News
Storming First Half Sees Ohio State Past Indiana
Ohio State rode a 35-point first half to defeat Indiana 42-25 on a chilly Friday night in Columbus, Ohio.
The victory doesn't affect the Big Ten standings but it does set up a nice narrative for what could well be the conference final.
Ohio State Pushes Lindenwood in Midwest Conference Opener
One of the more interesting results of the weekend in collegiate rugby was Lindenwood's 41-21 win over Ohio State.
This game was a 34-21 until the final moments, and while it was unlikely at the end that the Buckeyes would pull this out, they were in a position to make it a one-score game.
Queens Survives Tenacious Ohio State in Pathway Classic
Queens University won the inaugural Pathway Classic collegiate match Friday night in Charlotte, defeating Ohio State.
That’s a simple way of putting what was an extremely complex match. Both sides fielded quite young sides—Queens more by choice while OSU are just like that these days—and in wet conditions both sides made several little and sometimes big errors.
Ohio State Joining Midwest Conference
Ohio State University's men's team has announced that it will be joining the Midwest D1A Conference for the fall of 2026.
OSU will remain playing a Big 10 schedule, but with the Big 10 being the last remaining top-division conference in which some members are CRAA and some are NCR, there certainly has been some difficulty in keeping all of that together.
Mary Washington Edges Ohio State in Solid Outing for Two Changed Teams
Mary Washington defeated Ohio State 25-17 over the weekend in a cross-conference meeting of two teams that, last year, were in CRAA's new Challenge Cup postseason.
OSU and UMW, in fact, met in the 2024-25 Challenge Cup semifinals, which Mary Washington winning and going on to defeat Grand Canyon in the Challenge Cup final.
