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Best road trips of 2015: Week 4

Thursday, Sept. 24: UW-Whitewater at Morningside
Saturday, Sept. 26: UW-River Falls at Southwestern
Saturday, Sept. 26: Southwest Assemblies at Texas Lutheran

Next: Week 5


Alright, we're taking road-tripping to the extreme here, and it's what it takes to get a decent road trip into the state of Texas. Even as such, we have to take two games with NAIA opponents to get this threesome, but one of them is redeemed by the fact that they are the 2012 NAIA champions. That's what you'll see with UW-Whitewater at Morningside, and hey, this game will even be on ESPN3 so you could skip the driving. But that's not what we do here. Now, it's going to take you 13 hours to get to Georgetown, Texas, but that's OK -- we're going to give you a whole extra day to do it. On the way down, take a short detour to welcome Nebraska Wesleyan fully into the Division III fold, because you won't find any D-III schools in Kansas or Oklahoma. (No, that's the wrong Bethel.) When you get to Texas, you'll find another WIAC school waiting when you see UW-River Falls at Southwestern. And now you'll have seen half of the WIAC on our road trips this season, if you chose the Midwest track in Week 1. Then you continue on to see Southwest Assemblies of God at Texas Lutheran. If Marquis Barrolle plays more than one possession into the third quarter of this game, we'll be disappointed.

There are certainly some more of the same trips we have on other weeks if you insist on staying out on the East Coast. Or we could take our bonus day and drive to Southern California (24 hours one way) but there are only two simultaneous games in So Cal and only one in the Pacific Northwest, so you can't get a three-game set out of it. We suggest you just embrace I-35 and ride it all the way south.

Total: Three games, 1,004 miles start to finish.

Previous: Week 3

Next: Week 5

Dec. 15: All times Eastern
Final
Cortland 38, at North Central (Ill.) 37
@ Salem, Virginia
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Dec. 9: All times Eastern
Final
North Central (Ill.) 34, at Wartburg 27
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Final
Cortland 49, at Randolph-Macon 14
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