With the Men's DII college playoffs looming, the Goff Rugby Report Rankings may well get turned around.

Already we've seen one higher-ranked team (Towson) fall to a lower-ranked opponent (Salisbury), albeit by two points. The various changes throughout the rankings this week are due to a reevaluation of how strong various conferences are. We really can't know until we see more crossover games, but we do know this - that the top 7-10 teams are significantly stronger than most, if not all, of the teams ranked below. So the rankings reflect that somewhat - if you put points on UW-Whitewater, a team we rate very highly - you should get rewarded. 

Two new teams join the ranked 50. Central Connecticut State should have been in there before, and we finally do what we should have done weeks ago. And Gonzaga out of Washington state joins. The NCRC Cup is one of the few DII leagues that play outside of the championship schedule. It would be nice if they shifted things, and maybe next year they will. 

Also one more note - some of the teams in the rankings lost to lower-ranked teams or non-ranked teams recently. Every single one of those had already clinched a place in the national or conference playoffs. As a result, given that it happened several times, it seemed to us that these higher-ranked teams rested some players going into the playoffs. We have elected, then, not to penalize these teams much, and sometimes not at all.

However, another similar result could mean a major shift.