DIAA-Level Men College Rankings Week 20

As we've been discussing, we could eventually have a new #1. The best candidate for that at the moment is Fresno State.

Twice now Fresno State has matched up against what we'd consider their main rival for tops in the Pacific Western Conference. They won those games (against Chico State and UC Santa Cruz) by 48 and 45. The next two rivals in their conference? That's be Sacramento State or Stanford, and Fresno State has beaten those teams by over 50.

So ... what's next? Playoffs. We have to see how Fresno operates against teams outside their conference. Another candidate is Cal State Long Beach, and beating a DIA team in San Diego State is one way to get a boost.

In Florida the big changes have been more about which teams are stronger. So yes, Florida State is the top team—no argument there. Central Florida looks to be #2. But the rest? We dropped out Florida and South Florida because they haven't found the wins. Meanwhile, North Florida has finally, in our minds, backed up previous results by beating Florida and moving to 3-1 in the conference. Finally (and maybe too late if you're a North Florida fan) we have them in the rankings. Oregon State comes back in after a close loss to Oregon. 

Texas State moves up after winning the Lonestar Conference. As with the Pac West teams, now we need to see these teams in a wider habitat. Texas State and UT San Antonio will be in the spring playoffs we that is where they could really bump up their rankings.

(Editor's note: Yes we probably had Texas State too low, but we really, really need to know results. For the Lonestar Conference, we only had one coach who spoke to us on a regular basis. Most didn't reply at all. Social media, conference websites ... all of them failed to show regular results. How can we report on you if you don't respond or talk about your results? Texas State and UT San Antonio might well deserve to be ranked higher, but if they don't report results or talk to GRR, there's only so much we can do. Thank you to all the coaches who help us get our information.) 

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