Another new Division III football bowl game is coming to the midwest this season, as runners-up in the Midwest Conference and Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference will meet in the Cousins Subs® Lakefront Bowl.

Held on the Saturday following the end of the Division III football regular season, the Lakefront Bowl will be played at Wisconsin Lutheran's Raabe Stadium, just outside Milwaukee. It's the second Division III football bowl game in the midwest, following the Culver's Isthmus Bowl, played in Madison, Wisconsin, between runners-up in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin.

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The game would feature the top finisher in each league which does not receive an invitation to the Division III football NCAA playoffs. If this game had taken place in 2021, it would have featured Benedictine (8-2, 7-1 NACC) and Monmouth (8-2, 8-1 MWC).

"The opportunity the Cousins Subs Lakefront Bowl presents for a Midwest Conference football team to extend its playing season with an additional competition against another regional Division III league's top performing team is one that our coaches are very excited about," commented MWC executive director Heather Benning. "They are familiar with the success of last year's inaugural Isthmus Bowl - the companion event for the WIAC and CCIW - and appreciate the invitation to be part of something similar."

“The NACC is proud to be partnering with Cousins Subs, the Midwest Conference and Sports Milwaukee to create the Lakefront Bowl,” stated NACC commissioner Jeff Ligney. “We are continually striving to find ways to improve the student-athlete experience and to provide opportunities for our students to participate in postseason events. The Lakefront Bowl will help the NACC in both of those initiatives.”

Postseason bowl game opportunities abound for Division III schools on the east coast, where a tradition spanning back more than three decades of bowl games run by the ECAC expanded and includes games between the Centennial Conference and Middle Atlantic Conference, plus a game specifically in New England for New England schools only. It's all part of a one-game postseason opportunity that exists for Division III football programs and is typically organized by conferences.

Tickets for the bowl game are $15 with a kickoff time that is to be determined for Nov. 19. Additional event information can be found at LakefrontBowl.com. And head to visitmilwaukee.org/meet to learn more about hosting events in Milwaukee, the city Where Unique Unites.