It's been a few weeks since our last D1AA Rankings, but that's because the number of games has been sparse.
They have, however, been important games.
This past weekend featured the most important, and we saw that our pick for #1, Western Washington, was backed up with an impressive road win at ARC.
We kind of felt that, with it being a road game for the Vikings, that they might lost this one.
Overall the rankings stay as they were. We do have a move for Arizona State, and USC completes a sweep of Loyola Marymount and that gets them in the Top 20.
Coming up is one more weekend in which Iowa State, Western Washington, Millennia Atlantic, and Arizona State play off for the CRAA championship.
Remember how we asked fans to vote on who would win in a Spring #1 vs Fall #1 (and on down the line in the top 20)? Well we got a small number of responses, only 14. This is because we were asking people to spend a lot of time deciding the winners.
Here's what we got:
#1 vs #1, Tennessee vs WWU-Tied 7-7
BGSU vs ISU: Bowling Green 8-6
Louisville vs MAU: Louisville 10-4
Texas A&M vs ARC: ARC 8-6
Kentucky vs Florida State: Tied 7-7
Boston College vs Iowa: Iowa 9-4-1 (a tie is from the selection "too close to call")
LSU vs San Jose State: SJSU 11-3
Virginia Tech vs Arizona State: ASU 9-5
Clemson vs Oklahoma: Clemson 9-4-1
West Chester vs Kensas: Kanses 8-6
St. Joseph's vs Florida: SJU 8-5-1
Sam Houston State vs Wayne State: SHSU 8-4-2
Babson vs Cal Poly Humboldt: CPH 8-6
Northeastern vs Oregon: Oregon 9-5
Delaware vs Central Washington: CWU 9-4-1
Western Michigan vs South Florida: WMU 7-6-1
South Carolina vs Chico State: CSU 9-5
UMass vs Claremont Colleges: Claremont 7-6-1
UNC Charlotte vs Fresno State: FSU 10-4
Minnesota vs Loyola Marymount: LMU 7-6-1
This was a really interesting result because the voters weren't locked into Fall or Spring and really thought about it. Yes Spring won with 11 teams chosen as majority winners, but it was super close, and some of the Spring teams that won played a chunk of their season in the fall. The overall won-loss between the two lists was Fall 126, Spring 145, tied 9.
We'll ask again after the finals.
