DIA Rugby News
Iona College put in an impressive performance Saturday in beating Notre Dame in a non-conference D1A clash between the two prominent Catholic universities at a packed house at Iona's Mazzella Field.
Ohio State defeated Illinois 38-17 to stay atop the Big Ten Conference with a 4-1 record, and Indiana also logged a victory to put those two on the inside track for the conference championship game.
IU got tries from Will Chevalier and Mike Nettleton in the first five minutes, and flanker Max Ney was over a few minutes later.
BYU just throttled Utah State by the credulity-straining score of 167-0 Saturday to improve to 4-0 in the Rocky Mountain Conference.
In a result no one wants to see, the Cougars got three tries from scrumhalf Dylan Parry and 30 points from fullback Connor Parry with ten conversions and two tries.
In our picks last week we were 13-4, which isn't especially good.
Those four losses include one tie, as wel didn't say "pick 'em" or anything like that about Michigan State vs Minnesota. But then, we also picked Northeastern by 20 and they won by a single point, so that's a win, but barely.
This week there's a lot going on in the Big Ten.
It's the battle of scary Irish mascots as Iona takes on Notre Dame at Iona Saturday.
It's the Gaels vs the Fighting Irish, which, if you look at their logos, seems to be the same thing.