The strength bid stakes going into the final weekend of the regular season
March 26, 2026 by Aidan Thomas in Opinion
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Welcome back to Bidwatch, where we give you the latest in strength bid distribution predictions.
There’s a lot of regular season frisbee yet to be played, but the bid-earning picture is starting to take shape. As the regular season clock counts down, the margins for error shrink. In both our hearts and in the decay function, the games started to matter more. The time is lay the ground work for bids is now. Let’s take a region-by-region look at current bid-holders, teams that could feasibly work their way into the picture, and dark horses that could have some favorites begging for hotel refunds in May.
Women’s Division
The entire year, it’s been a near certainty that everyone not in the Northwest and Southwest would be fighting for the remaining two strength bids. Entering the final weekend of the regular season, those two currently belong to the Northeast (18th1 ranked Northeastern) and the Atlantic Coast (16th ranked James Madison).
But those bids are far from safe entering the final weekend of the regular season, with representatives from the Southeast, New England, and Ohio Valley sitting just outside the cutoff and hoping to steal a bid.
What We Know
The Southwest and Northwest are virtually locked into five bids, each region having their top five squads sitting in the top 15 of the rankings.
We are manually excluding D-III programs. ↩
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