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11.14.2023College Men, Rankings
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Conference finals and a play-in mixes up our rankings.

Louisville's win in the MAC shows us how a team that might have lost to one or two other opponents could yet improve and become strong than those teams. Louisville lost to Bowling Green and Western Michigan, but in the conference playoffs, which you know we have to value more in the rankings, it was the Cardinals that came out on top.

So of course Louisville will move up, and quite possibly most up further. Iowa State does the same. Iowa and Western Washington both get boosts.

This coming weekend we have a really nice clash of ranked teams in the NCR playoffs:

#11 Tennessee at #4 Louisville
#18 NC State at #1 Kentucky
#14 UMass at #2 Virginia Tech
#26 West Chester at #12 Boston College

Why is West Chester, 5-0 in conference play, ranked #26? Well they lost to IUP, and lost 50-22 to Virginia Tech. One of their wins was a forfeit, and their victory over St. Joseph's was 12-10. So their ranking depends on wins over Princeton, Rutgers, and Rowan—all solid teams but only one of those teams is ranked. So really the MARC North is not, in our opinion, one of the strongest DIAA conferences, and the Rams will need to win across a conference border in order to bump up in our rankings. Beating BC would do it, for sure.

RankPrevTeamConferenceNotes
11KentuckySCRCBeat Tennessee (10)
22Virginia TechMARC 
35Iowa StateHeart of AmericaBeat Kansas State (24), Kansas (3)
413LouisvilleMACBeat WMU (9), Bowling Green (4)
56RiceLonestar 
68U. San DiegoGold Coast 
77Sam Houston StateLonestarBeat Southern Nazarene
83KansasHeart of AmericaBeat Iowa (28), Lost to Iowa State (5)
94Bowling GreenMACBeat Cincinnati (35), lost to Louisville (13)
109Western MichiganMACClose loss to Louisville (13), beat Cincinnati (35)
1110TennesseeSCRCLost to Kentucky (1)
1211Boston CollegeLiberty 
1319Western WashingtonNCRCBeat Washington (39)
1412UMassLiberty 
1514FloridaFlorida CC 
1628IowaHeart of AmericaLost to Kansas (3), beat K-State (24)
1715ClemsonSCRC 
1818NC StateSouthernBeat Maryland (33)
1916Fresno StateCalifornia DIAA 
2017Florida StateFlorida CC 
2120Boise StateNCRC 
2221Chico StateCalifornia DIAA 
2322South CarolinaSCRC 
2423AlabamaSCRC 
2524Kansas StateHeart of AmericaLost to Iowa State (5), Iowa (28)
2625West ChesterMARC 
2726St. Joseph'sMARC 
2827BinghamtonLiberty 
2929South FloridaFlorida CC 
3030MissouriHeart of America 
3131UTSALonestarBeat Dallas
3232UNC Chapel HillSouthern 
3333Maryland MARCLost to NC State (18)
3434YaleLiberty 
3535CincinnatiMACLost to Bowling Green (4), WMU (9)
3636DelawareMARC 
3737James MadisonMARC 
3838PrincetonNCRC 
3939WashingtonNCRCLost to WWU (19)
4040Florida InternationalFlorida CC 

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