College Men
It wasn't easy but Florida State did end up running the table in the Florida DIAA league, edging a tenacious Central Florida to take the conference.
As we have outlined, since the Florida DIAA Conference is not a member of any over-arching competition group, their champion does not advance to any national-level competition.
Fresno State made a huge statement in winning the Western Bracket of the ACR DIAA playoffs, defeating a very good Western Washington side 52-15 Sunday to book a spot at the ACR DIAA final against Kansas in Dallas.
Western Washington defeated Sacramento State 38-14 to move to the national ACR Spring DIAA semifinal Sunday.
The #2-ranked team in the Eastern half of D1A, the Lindenwood Lions, downed the Arkansas State Red Wolves 41-10 in the quarterfinals of the D1A Playoffs Saturday.
The Lions scored 34 unanswered points after being down 10-7 in the first half. Lindenwood was led in scoring by Evan Williams with 16 points, and Nick Hardrict II with two tries.
Here's a quick note on the DIA playoffs.
West Point beat Life 39-18 in a really interesting game in which Life kind of punched Army in the mouth early on. But some superb work from blindside flanker Koikoi Nelligan helped spark Army to come back and take the lead. Army's maul was very effective and their defense, after giving up an early try, was excellent.