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12.14.2023College Men, Rankings
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Well we now wrap up the fall with D1A teams.

Overall, we don't have a ton of changes following the CRAA Fall Classic. We were tempted to move Army, UMW, and Mount St. Mary's up a spot and that would slide Arizona down to #13. Well there is going to be ample chance for the likes of GCU or UCLA (!) or Arizona to move themselves up or down. Mount St. Mary's did very well in the Fall Classic, but in the end we can't move them past UMW because MSM lost to UMW, and Army's close loss to Navy can't be ignored, either.

UCLA of course moves up after the win over Oxford. 

Many of the western teams have a lot of rugby to play, but the eastern teams do, too. There's a re-emphasis on 15s in the winter-spring for those teams. Quick trivia question! Can you name the last West Coast team to win the D1A final and when? Answer at the bottom of the article.

Any team looking at playoff options in the spring will be putting together a buildup schedule, and those that won't be in the playoffs will be one of those buildup schedule teams. So there's a lot to track going forward.

We'll be back with these rankings mid-January.

Rk.Prev.College TeamConferenceNotes
11NavyRugby East 
22LindenwoodMidwest 
33Life UniversityRugby East 
44CalPAC 
55Saint Mary'sCalifornia 
66BYURocky Mountain 
77Arkansas StateIndependentBeat Southern Virginia
88DavenportMidwest 
99Central WashingtonIndependent 
1010ArizonaPAC 
1111ArmyRugby East 
1212Mary WashingtonRugby East 
1313Mount St. Mary'sRugby EastBeat Michigan State (17)
1414Grand CanyonIndependent 
1522UCLAPACBeat Oxford University XV
1615Colorado StateRocky Mountain 
1723Penn StateRugby EastBeat Ohio State (19)
1816Air ForceRocky Mountain 
1917Michigan StateBig 10Lost to Mount St. Mary's (13)
2018WisconsinBig 10 
2120TexasRed River 
2221Cal PolyCalifornia 
2319Ohio StateBig 10Lost to Penn State (23)
2424IllinoisBig 10 
2525Texas A&MRed Riverzbzbzbzbzbzzbzbzbzbz

 

Trivia question answer: Saint Mary's in 2017. Shows you that the argument that you can't win if you're an Eastern team because of seasonality is quite right. 2018 winner Life University. 2019 Life. 2020-2021 COVID. 2022 Army. 2023 Navy.

 

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