Strong Start for RIT, and a Historic Breakthrough Next Weekend
With a 31-0 defeat of the University at Albany, the Rochester Institute of Technology has put themselves into the discussion in what promises to be a challenging Liberty Men's D2 collegiate conference.
Men D2 College Rankings Fall 2026 Week 1
At GRR we decided to wait until we saw some results before launching into our weekly Men's D2 College rankings.
And it was a good thing, too.
This week, especially, saw teams that ended the fall of 2025 ranked and who have ended up falling out of the Top 40 this time around.
Some Changing of the Guard in Early D2 Results
It's a bit of the changing of the guard in Men's D2 college after the first big weekend of competition.
Shifts at the Liberty
It wasn't that long ago that Marist, RPI, and Albany were the top teams in the Liberty sphere. These are all good teams, however we're seeing some others coming to the fore in a conference that is becoming one of the better competitions in the division.
Good Start in D2 for Miami, UNI
Men's D2 college rugby saw two notable preseason results with Northern Iowa and Miami of Ohio both registering well-taken victories.
Miami took on IUP and won 39-10. The influence of the work the program has been doing with Crusaders Global is pretty clear. Two players went to the Crusaders Global Academy in New Zealand over the Southern hemisphere winter.
