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.
