Already in danger of not being able to stay open, MacMurray, in Jacksonville, Illinois, became the first school to announce its closure since the COVID-19 spread starting forcing schools to go online-only for the spring.
When D-III leading rusher Chazz Middlebrook got dinged up and was held out of most of Saturday's game, the MacMurray run game didn't miss much. Turned out they had another guy ready to go. Josh Smith talks to both in Around the West.
The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, which lost Presentation earlier this year when it decided to leave the conference, will return to 10 football programs in 2013 when Iowa Wesleyan joins.
With the departure of coach Jake Box for an assistant's job at Presentation, Division III's smallest school with football, MacMurray, hires a junior college assistant.
The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference announces the expansion of membership as five institutions have accepted an invitation to join the league as associate members participating in football only.