The herd of unbeaten Commonwealth Coast teams has been pared down, and this coming week will pit the two remaining ones against each other. Western New England and Curry have a playoff bid on the line.
Becker, already an associate member of the CCC in men's hockey, will join the conference for football as well. This gives the CCC seven teams and a right to retain the NEFC automatic bid in 2019, but the shuffle isn't over yet.
Ever since the NEWMAC dropped its offseason bombshell that it would add football in 2017, there’s been a slow-motion race in the East Region. Between the Liberty League and the Commonwealth Coast Conference, who will get to seven teams first?
Western New England and Curry are both led by quarterbacks who took circuitous paths to their starting roles. Where did Tyler Ward and Riley Cote come from and how did they end up starting for the Golden Bears and Colonels, respectively? Tom Haley has the answers in Around the Northeast.
With three teams leaving the NEFC for the NEWMAC, the Commonwealth Coast Conference is bringing the remaining teams in-house and will take over the NEFC starting in 2017.
The NEWMAC, which sponsors a wide range of Division III sports, is bringing its football teams home, which is likely to set off a new set of falling dominoes in Division III's East Region.
The Husson Eagles were watching the selection show Sunday night anxious to find out where they would be going. With the operative word being: going. More in Around the Northeast.
The New England Football Conference is splitting after the 2012 season, with the groups getting a second automatic bid after a two-year waiting period and taking one at-large bid away from the field.