GRR: Small Colleges
This fall produced fully nine women’s collegiate champions on at least a moderately national level.
NIRAThree of them were in the NCAA varsity league, NIRA.
Young Bowdoin Forwards Lead Way to NIRA DIII Title
Northern Michigan won the Women's Small College Midwest region with an emphatic victory over York College on Sunday.
No one really knows what to make of the western bracket of the NCR Men's Small College playoffs, because every team is really strong.
Cal Poly Humboldt out of California, 2021 runners-up New Mexico Tech, Colorado School of Mines (who beat NMT this year), and a surging Western Oregon all come in with plenty to recommend them.
Small college teams in the Mid-Atlantic will be key threats as the small-college playoffs loom.
Two teams to keep an eye on ae Catholic University and Susquehanna.
Susquehanna Gets By LoyolaHaving lost only to Shippensburg during the regular season Susquehanna went into their game against Loyola feeling confident and won 33-15.
Christendom’s run to a national Small College championship last year was not a fluke.
Certainly paced by some significant talent and a forward pack that reminded us that the “small” in Small College meant the size of enrollment not the size of the athletes, the Crusaders were a force in 2021.
But the big question is, how do they compare this year?