In some conferences, there are several games you must circle on the calendar in order to determine who will win. In the Midwest Conference, however, there's probably just one. And that game's this weekend, when Monmouth hosts St. Norbert.

Don't think the coaches can downplay the game, either. As Monmouth coach Steve Bell told Clyde Hughes: "First of all, you don't sugarcoat it and say it's just another game because kids are smarter than that and they'll see right through it. They know this one has ramifications and they understand what it is."

More in this week's Around the Midwest.

How do best friends stand on opposite sidelines and never see each other play? When they play the same position. Dickinson's Gregory Lord and Johns Hopkins' Andrew Kase played running back at the same high school. Now they line up with different colors.

Ryan Tipps tells the story in Around the Mid-Atlantic.

It was a surprising week in the Northeast, at least in some places. The favorites won in the NEFC and the NESCAC, but the ECFC was another story. Tom Haley has it in Around the Northeast. Plus, more from Jason Bowen's weekend in Abilene and a look at Otterbein quarterback Austin Schlosser's adjustment to the starting role.

That and more in Around the Region.