A few conference races came into focus. A few big plays decided a few big games. Such was the state of Week 7 in the Division III football season.

In the American Southwest Conference, it was an interception of backup quarterback Kyle Noack that set Mississippi College on the path to the upset of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the Choctaws' first regular-season Top 25 ranking after receiving votes in 18 previous polls.

In the North Coast Athletic Conference, a game-winning field goal followed a gigantic kickoff return and lifted Wittenberg over Wabash.

And in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, well, you see the photo. Keith McMillan and Pat Coleman talk about those plays, the ramifications, and other happenings from Saturday in this week's Around the Nation podcast.

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