Each week during the regular season we look at some of the key statistical performances from the weekend in Division III football, highlighting one per region.

Brad Boyle completed 25 of 45 passes for 295 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions in Coe's 35-21 win against Wartburg. Those numbers may not be surprising in and of themselves, but Boyle's season-long run is a little more impressive: zero interceptions in 209 attempts. He's thrown for 11 touchdowns and run for five more to help the Kohawks to a 5-1 start.

Michael Zweifel's 20 catches for 330 yards and three touchdowns was mentioned on the front page on Saturday, but it was hardly the only big receiving performance of the week. Pomona-Pitzer wide receiver R.J. Maki caught 18 passes for 202 yards and two touchdowns against La Verne, Frank Ross caught 17 passes for 228 yards and a touchdown vs. Capital and Jeff Koeneman had 15 receptions for 140 yards and three scores against North Central.

Quartez Ashmore was all over the field for 12 tackles, 11 solo as Mississippi College beat Mary Hardin-Baylor 17-14. The linebacker's work against quarterback LiDarryl Bailey in the option game helped hold the Cru to no points in the second half.

Maine Maritime running back Jim Bower had 250-plus yards for the second consecutive week, rushing for 258 yards on 41 carries with four touchdowns. He had 252 yards and three TDs against Worcester State in Week 6.

Brandyn Brown contributed both on defense and special teams for Wittenberg in its 10-7 win against Wabash. He intercepted a pass to stop a Wabash drive, made five tackles and had a pass break up, returned four punts and then returned a kickoff 53 yards to set up the game-winning field goal.

The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference announced today the implementation of a scheduling framework in the sport of football that includes playing a second game against the same WIAC opponent effective with the 2011 season. One of the games will be designated as a non-conference contest and this schedule is one of a number of initiatives adopted previously as part of the conference's efforts to reduce operating costs.

"The goal of playing an additional game vs. a WIAC opponent is to reduce the number of long-distance trips, particularly those involving air travel, that many of our football teams have been forced to take in the past to fill out non-conference schedules," said WIAC Commissioner Gary Karner. "While no one is particularly enthused about playing a WIAC opponent a second time, the current economic climate combined with limited opportunities we have for scheduling other Division III institutions located in the upper Midwest in the sport of football, leaves us with few viable alternatives."

Karner also noted that one advantage to simply adding an extra game against a conference opponent is, in the event the overall economy and operational budgets improve or more favorable scheduling opportunities present themselves, the additional game can be eliminated with little substantive impact on the remainder of the schedules.

• A few of the other notable cost-reduction initiatives implemented recently by the WIAC include:

• Establishing later start times for contests so as to minimize the number of overnight stays for visiting teams.

• Limiting postseason tournament brackets in all team sports to a maximum of six teams.

• Restricting teams to taking no more than one trip during the regular-season outside of an established regional perimeter.

• Suspending the annual conference summer workshop and football and basketball media days for 2009.

• Freezing officiating fees at 2008-09 levels.

These cuts are in addition to budget-reduction measures already imposed by the state or UW System such as the employee salary freeze and mandated furloughs. It is estimated that the conference-imposed cuts will save an additional $250,000 in direct budget expenditures and a total of nearly $450,000 across the conference when factoring in expenditures paid from other sources (e.g., foundations, booster clubs, fund-raising) as well as those activities funded directly by student-athletes.

The big games only get bigger as the season progresses, and it seems the game for the Little Brass Bell never ceases to have playoff implications these days. Last year North Central took the bell and, eventually, the CCIW title. But this year, the Cardinals are more than a little banged up, and while they're putting huge offensive numbers on the board lately, they won't likely have the security of an at-large bid if they lose to Wheaton this time around. Clyde Hughes has more in Around the Midwest

Is Rowan the Rodney Dangerfield of the East Region? At one vote in the Top 25, it would be easy to make the argument. Adam Samrov runs down the Profs' resume in Around the East.

In last week's Around the Nation, Keith McMillan wrote about teams battling back from a loss. In the case of North Carolina Wesleyan, they have it down to a science. Not in a bad way. The Battling Bishops have gone 1-2 in non-conference games every year of their brief existence. But 1-2 against the likes of Hampden-Sydney and Salisbury means a little more than the average 1-2. Ryan Tipps writes about these late bloomers in Around the Mid-Atlantic.

Plus, in Around the Northeast, some wins come special delivery, as special teams played a big role. That and more in Around the Region.