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Men D2 College Rankings 2024 Week 10

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Men D2 College Rankings 2024 Week 10

Norwich moves up. Photo RJ Scott/Norwich Rugby.

As you may well know, GRR is on tour in the UK at the moment so the timing of some of thing stuff could be weird.

We're posting Tuesday night, which is Tuesday afternoon back in the Lands of Liberty so we're not late ... just not super-on-time.

Playoff rugby reveals strengths and weaknesses in our rankings as well as in teams. We have decided to bring in two teams into our Top 40, which is kind of late to do that but has to be done.

We have one top-of-the-rankings shakeup, with Norwich's close win over Vermont. Because we have to move Norwich up for that, and because the winning margin was small enough that Vermont shouldn't really move down all that far, we run into that situation where a team (OK three teams) move down despite winning. Teams hate that. And in fact we feel we need to move Grand Valley State up thanks to a loss to IUP.

So UNC-Wilmington has to be thinking "what do we have to do?" Answer: perform well against a team outside of your conference. That's what the national playoffs are for.

 

Rk. Prev. College Team Conference Notes
1 1 IUP (PA) Allegheny Beat GVSU (6)
2 3 Northern Iowa (IA) Great MW Beat Northwestern (19)
3 2 Memphis (TN) SCRC  
4 6 GVSU (MI) Great Lakes Lost to IUP (1)
5 9 Norwich (VT) NACR Beat UVM (4)
6 4 Vermont (VT) NACR Close loss to Norwich (9)
7 5 UNC-Wilmington (NC) Southern Beat East Carolina (31)
8 7 Villanova (PA) MARC Beat Georgetown (10)
9 8 Marist (NY) Liberty Beat Stony Brook
10 11 MSU Mankato (MN) Northern Lights Beat NDSU (34)
11 13 Towson (MD) MARC Beat Salisbury (12)
12 10 Georgetown (DC) MARC Close loss to Villanova (7)
13 12 Salisbury (MD) MARC Close loss to Towson (13)
14 14 SLU (MO) Gateway Forfeit win
15 15 Montana State (MT) High Peaks  
16 16 Loyola (IL) Great MW Beat Chicago (21)
17 17 Scranton (PA) MARC  
18 18 Virginia (VA) Cardinals  
19 20 RPI (NY) Liberty Beat RIT
20 21 Chicago (IL) Great MW Close loss to Loyola (16)
21 22 New Hampshire (NH) NACR Beat UMass-Lowell (25)
22 19 Northwestern (IL) Great MW Lost to UNI (3)
23 24 Marquette (WI) Great MW  
24 30 Coastal Carolina (SC) Southern  
25 25 UMass-Lowell NACR Lost to UNH (22)
26 26 Colorado Mesa (CO) High Peaks  
27 27 UW-Whitewater (WI) Great MW  
28 28 UMBC (MD) MARC  
29 29 Coast Guard (CT) NACR  
30 31 East Carolina Southern Lost to UNCW (5)
31 32 Central Michigan (MI) Great Lakes  
32 Unr UMS&T Gateway Beat SIU (23)
33 23 Southern Illinois (IL) Gateway Lost to UMS&T
34 33 Maine (ME) NACR  
35 34 NDSU (SD) Northern Lights Lost to Mankato (11)
36 Unr Ole Miss (MS) SCRC Beat MTSU
37 35 UM-Duluth (MN) Northern Lights  
38 36 Illinois State (IL) Great MW  
39 38 Ferris State (MI) Great Lakes  
40 39 Kent State (OH) Allegheny