This week we unveil our Men's D1 College rankings.

Now, there's a lot to say about all of this, although much of what will be said will be said by the teams on the field. What we'll say now is this:

We are forced to define our own category here with D1 teams. Why? Because there are teams that are part of NCR and teams that are part of American College Rugby and teams that are part of conferences that operate on their own. We've got independent teams that really don't have a home, and we've got a conference, the Liberty Conference, that announced it was out of D1A, but it listed as D1 by NCR (as opposed to D1AA) but are mixed up with other D1 conferences anyway.

So we've made our own decisions. These are the rankings for anyone not in D1A. Our opening-week D1A rankings are here>>

We have made decisions on our rankings based in part on which programs seem able to reload after shutdowns, which teams have been able to play, and who has enough of a history that we think they'll be OK. With the Liberty teams involved we've expanded this to a Top 50, but remember there will be a lot—a LOT—of changes going forward.

Rank		Team	Conference
1		Iowa Central CC	Independent
2		Dartmouth	Ivy League
3		Queens University	Chesapeake
4		Bowling Green	MAC
5		Western Michigan	MAC
6		Mary Washington	Chesapeake
7		Southern Virginia	Chesapeake
8		Tennessee	SCRC
9		St. Joseph's	MARC
10		Mount St. Mary's	Chesapeake
11		Iona	Liberty
12		Virginia Tech	Chesapeake
13		Arkansas	Heart of America
14		Cincinnati	MAC
15		AIC	Liberty
16		Louisville	MAC
17		Kentucky	SCRC
18		CSULB	Gold Coast
19		Northeastern	Liberty
20		Kennesaw State	SCRC
21		Alabama	SCRC
22		Iowa State	Heart of America
23		Arizona State	Gold Coast
24		South Florida	Florida
25		Kansas	Heart of America
26		Clemson	SCRC
27		U. Notre Dame	Independent
28		Boston College	Liberty
29		NC State	Chesapeake
30		Central Florida	Florida
31		Western Washington	NCRC
32		Oregon State	NCRC
33		Fresno State	Pac West
34		UCSC	Pac West
35		Iowa	Heart of America
36		Buffalo	Liberty
37		Chico State	Pac West
38		Salisbury	MARC
39		Syracuse	Liberty
40		Sam Houston State	Lonestar
41		Oregon	NCRC
42		Florida Atlantic	Florida
43		West Chester	MARC
44		Delaware	MARC
45		UT San Antonio	Lonestar
46		IUPUI	MAC
47		Fordham	Liberty
48		Brown	Ivy League
49		Rowan	MARC
50		Fairfield	Liberty