Cal Faces Saint Mary's in Storied Rivalry
Decades-long rivals Saint Mary's and Cal meet up in Moragain a game that has massive playoff and rankings implications.
After losing games to BYU and Army, Cal has once again performed a turnaround, beating #1-ranked Navy in Berkeley last week to shake up the entire D1A pecking order.
Saint Mary's meanwhile has as much claim to the #1 spot at the moment as anyone.
Pre-Playoff Put-up Time in D1A and D1AA
While there are some D1A games next week, the games this week are the final salvo before the playoff seedings come out.
At present, if you look at GRR's rankings, we have this in the East:
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GRR D1A Rankings 2023-24 Week 22
The #1 team, Navy, lost over the weekend.
So this week's question is: who should be #1 now?
Let's look at the candidates:
Navy: Remember, losing to Cal doesn't negate their body of work. The Midshipmen ran the table in Rugby East, beating Life and Notre Dame College in the process, and also beat Army (who, you'll remember, beat Army last week). Does one loss knock them off?
Men D1AA College Rankings Week 21
So not a lot of changes in these rankings.
Things slow down in terms of volume of matches but they raise the importance level.
So, really, coming up, we have these big games:
March 23
San Jose State vs American River
St. Thomas vs Florida State
March 30
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