Here's the latest in D1A, with a few surprises, and some teams taking control of their conference destinies.

Liberty

Iona beat AIC 50-18. Colgate got tries from Patrick O’Hagan, Adrian Heath, and Malachi Flanagan, with Griffin Johnson adding two penalties and Ethan Gruber added a conversion. But the big game was probably Syracuse vs Binghamton. Both teams entered the game 3-0, and Syracuse came away the winner in a close one. No. 8 Dermot Heavey, fullback Jean Eric van der Elst, and lock Andrew Bursall all scored tries, with two converted by flyhalf Samuel Low for a 19-0 lead. 

Binghamton stormed back, but a Low try kept Syracuse ahead. Two converted Binghmaton tries pulled them within three at 24-21, but that was it. So Syracuse leads in the Empire, while Iona stays ahead in the I-95. Boston College moved to 3-0 in the New England division y squeaking by UConn in wet conditions. UMass remains on top, though.

Big 10

Ohio State beat Indiana, and Wisconsin and Michigan State won. More here.

Rocky Mountain

Colorado State has pretty sewn up a playoff spot with a 31-24 defeat of Air Force, but Air Force still has three games to go - two against New Mexico - and could still come back. CSU ran out to a 17-7 halftime lead, only to see Air Force come back. A late CSU try finished the Zoomies off.

“I think the guys got complacent in the second half,” said CSU head coach Mose Timoteo. “Happy with the result but we should have played the same way in the second half. A team like Air Force they will play 85 minutes of rugby; they will never stop. The guys have to learn that when you get the opportunity to get ahead, think of what you are doing to get you there and keep doing that.”

CSU was without FloRugby Player Of The Week Joe Rusert-Cuddy, who suffered a nasty cut last week and was sat out. Instead, fellow flanker Ben Prentner stepped in as captain and was excellent. Matt Peppercorn stepped up in the forwards, while wing Nick Bauer got a chance to start and scored two tries.

Colorado win big over New Mexico, and now next week’s game between the Buffaloes and the Zoomies looms large.

BYU crushed Utah State behind several tries from Cole Samu, Calvin Whiting, and Zac Webber, as expected, and is in the driver’s seat in the Northeast division.

Mid-South

Navy beat Clemson 78-14 in the opening game of the Mid-South Conference play.

Red River

Oklahoma slammed Texas Tech 86-0 behind a huge game from lock Cullen Gordon. Stewart Morris scored four tries as Baylor galloped past Texas 69-5.

The boys were able to boost their Red River Rugby Collegiate Conference record to 2-1 with a huge win against Texas Tech

The final score was 86-0 as lock Cullen Gordon was named man of the match

Thanks to those who came down to support the boys in Norman! pic.twitter.com/OJ2rr9fu1n

— Oklahoma Rugby (@OklahomaRugby) October 13, 2018

Rugby East

At Kutztown, KU and Penn State traded scores back and forth all afternoon. But second-half tries from Kevin Trotter (his second), and Tom Capriotti pulled Penn State ahead and the Lions held on 32-27 to remain unbeaten.

Army had a tough time at Wheeling Jesuit, who stayed within a try until 25 minutes to go. James Mbony and then Bailey Abercrombie scored to put Army up 33-14. Wheeling Jesuit scored late to make it 33-21. Army is also unbeaten.

So October 27’s Army vs Penn State game looks like the conference decider.