FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[emma17]

What a day to be a flatlander WIAC fan.

Go Falcons!
Go Bears!

[HSCTiger74]

Congrats to Whitewater's Quinn Meinerz, voted to the AFC Pro Bowl squad.

[emma17]

Congrats to Whitewater's Quinn Meinerz, voted to the AFC Pro Bowl squad.

Thanks for posting. Congratulations and what a great accomplishment.

I get my UWW fix these days by watching and rooting for the Broncos.

[Nate Riley]

Congrats to Whitewater's Quinn Meinerz, voted to the AFC Pro Bowl squad.

Thanks for posting. Congratulations and what a great accomplishment.

I get my UWW fix these days by watching and rooting for the Broncos.

What is his position? Is he a special teams player? Congrats to the young man.

[cubs]

Or final 8. Or final 16.

You could invite top 4 teams from some of the other conferences and they'd have the same lack of success the WIAC just had. Feels like other conferences are having more success these playoffs.
Depends on what you consider definition of "best conference. "
No doubt WIAC is most competitive league top to bottom. But that doesn't mean best conference. Not to me.
Based on playoff success, or lack of success over the last 5 years, I could maybe say the conference is full of average teams. Maybe the NCC/Wheaton conference is a better conference. Maybe those teams that NCC & Wheaton beat up during the season would have some success in the WIAC. Maybe?
That's why you CAN base best conference on playoff success. Or the lack of.
Again. It's what someone considers the definition of. But I don't. And that's just me.

Circling back to this now that there's some down time until the next game...

Three different WIAC teams (UWO, Whitewater, and now River Falls) have played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017... Does any other D3 Conference have even TWO semifinalists over that same stretch of time?

You can take it a step further as those same three teams have all also played in a Stagg Bowl since 2016.

What a weak conference the WIAC is... 

[HSCTiger74]

Congrats to Whitewater's Quinn Meinerz, voted to the AFC Pro Bowl squad.

Thanks for posting. Congratulations and what a great accomplishment.

I get my UWW fix these days by watching and rooting for the Broncos.

What is his position? Is he a special teams player? Congrats to the young man.

He's a guard for the Denver Broncos. I probably should have said that in my original post.

[emma17]

As much as I love this UWRF team, it's hard to figure how they beat NCC. I see Johns Hopkins as a mini version of NCC. JH running back averaged over 6 yards per carry on 25 carries vs. RF. NCC will be a better running team. RF running backs ran for 81 yards. NCC will be more difficult to run against.
NCC is likely a better passing team than JH. NCC is a better kicking team than JH.

Thankfully they get to play the game on the field. If any team is capable of defying the odds I'd have to say it's UWRF.

[BDB]

I'm still trying to reconcile how they lost to Oshkosh.

[USee]

I'm still trying to reconcile how they lost to Oshkosh.

Oshkosh is the only game where UWRF didn't win the turnover battle. Blaha threw 2 INT's in the UWO redzone (both in the 3rd qtr) and UWO drove 66 yds in the last 1:15 to win it with 10 sec left. UWO didn't turn it over at all. UWO  UWRF's two huge advantages to their "Top Gun" offensive approach--They lead the country in takeaways and they average 25 more offensive plays than their opponents. In the UWO game they ran an astounding 35 more offensive plays than UWO but the turnovers (with no takeaways) killed them.

[Retired Old Rat]

Circling back to this now that there's some down time until the next game...

Three different WIAC teams (UWO, Whitewater, and now River Falls) have played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017... Does any other D3 Conference have even TWO semifinalists over that same stretch of time?

You can take it a step further as those same three teams have all also played in a Stagg Bowl since 2016.

What a weak conference the WIAC is... 

Bethel (2025) and St. John's (2019) of the MIAC have both played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017.

No Stagg Bowls, unfortunately.

[Pat Coleman]

Circling back to this now that there's some down time until the next game...

Three different WIAC teams (UWO, Whitewater, and now River Falls) have played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017... Does any other D3 Conference have even TWO semifinalists over that same stretch of time?

You can take it a step further as those same three teams have all also played in a Stagg Bowl since 2016.

What a weak conference the WIAC is... 

Bethel (2025) and St. John's (2019) of the MIAC have both played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017.

No Stagg Bowls, unfortunately.

Johns Hopkins (2018, 2024) and Muhlenberg (2019) of the Centennial Conference have both played in the D-III semifinals since 2017.

[Retired Old Rat]

Circling back to this now that there's some down time until the next game...

Three different WIAC teams (UWO, Whitewater, and now River Falls) have played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017... Does any other D3 Conference have even TWO semifinalists over that same stretch of time?

You can take it a step further as those same three teams have all also played in a Stagg Bowl since 2016.

What a weak conference the WIAC is... 

Bethel (2025) and St. John's (2019) of the MIAC have both played in the D3 Semifinals since 2017.

No Stagg Bowls, unfortunately.

Johns Hopkins (2018, 2024) and Muhlenberg (2019) of the Centennial Conference have both played in the D-III semifinals since 2017.

Also 2025 for Hopkins.