DIAA-Level Men College Rankings Week 13

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and here are our updated DIAA rankings. 

The #1 team Tennessee did what strong #1 teams do and won a tough playoff game. With the Chesapeake getting knocked down a peg or two Mary Washington drops to #9; this is in part because a number of teams have had good wins or close losses that say more enough about their status to make the slope slippery for the Mothers.

Yes Brown lost, but by a point to Penn State (a Penn State team that is essentially equal to the team that beat UMW, St. Bonaventure). We could argue that Notre Dame deserves to drop after a bigger loss to Indiana, but in the end their results have been good enough, including that win over Bowling Green, for the Irish to hang in there.

The key mover is Virginia Tech, which made the opposite argument for the Chesapeake by being unranked and yet winning two playoff games. Even though Salisbury drops after that result, we are kind of being cautious about that results (91-0). It was a rough ending for the Salisbury numbers and depth. Is V-Tech really that good best vs best? You wonder. The Hokies defeat of Boise State is also a situation where you could argue that the NCRC #3 team (which is what they are) isn't the toughest game VT could have had. In the end Virginia Tech vaults to #20, but we're not sold. It could be that this was just a fortunate bracket for the Hokies. 

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The results do force us to essentially push aside the VT loss to Southern Virginia, because we're not moving SVU up—no evidence we should. But ...

Remember, Virginia Tech was supposed to play West Chester, but West Chester asked for a change so they could be closer to campus. What would we be saying had the original seedings remained? We think West Chester would have beaten Virginia Tech just as they beat UB and SJU, and if that had happened we might instead have moved teams like Boise State further down and barely seen VT edge into the top 45. We would, however, also likely have been St. Joe's still in the Top 10.

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	Tennessee	SCRC	Beat Clemson (7)
2	2	Queens University	Chesapeake	Forfeit win
3	4	Brown	Ivy League	Lost to Penn State by 1 points
4	5	U. Notre Dame	Independent	Lost to Indiana
5	6	Bowling Green	MAC
6	7	Clemson	SCRC	Lost to Tennessee (1)
7	8	Dartmouth	Ivy League
8	3	Mary Washington	Chesapeake	Lost to St. Bonaventure
9	19	West Chester	MARC	Beat Buffalo, St. Joseph's (9)
10	10	Iowa Central CC	Independent
11	11	Kentucky	SCRC
12	12	Louisville	MAC
13	13	Kansas	Heart of America
14	9	St. Joseph's	MARC	Beat Binghamton, lost to West Chester (19)
15	19	Rowan	MARC
16	14	Mount St. Mary's	Chesapeake
17	15	Minnesota	Heart of America
18	16	Western Michigan	MAC
19	17	Western Washington	NCRC	Beat Oregon (35)
20	Unr	Virginia Tech	Chesapeake	Beat Salisbury (23), Boise State (18)
21	18	Boise State	NCRC	Beat Nazareth, lost to Virginia Tech
22	21	Iowa State	Heart of America
23	22	IUPUI	MAC
24	35	Oregon	NCRC	Lost to Western Washington (17) 20-17
25	24	CSULB	Gold Coast
26	25	Florida Atlantic	Florida
27	26	Arizona State	Gold Coast
28	27	South Florida	Florida
29	28	Central Florida	Florida
30	29	Wheeling	Independent
31	30	Arkansas	Heart of America
32	31	Cincinnati	MAC
33	32	Kansas State	Heart of America
34	33	Texas State	Lonestar
35	34	Southern Virginia	Chesapeake
36	36	Iowa	Heart of America
37	23	Salisbury	MARC	Lost to Virginia Tech, Nazareth
38	44	Georgia	SCRC
39	37	UT San Antonio	Lonestar
40	38	Fresno State	Pac West
41	39	UCSC	Pac West
42	40	Sam Houston State	Lonestar
43	41	Chico State	Pac West
44	42	Oregon State	NCRC
45	43	Washington State	NCRC