This week's DIA ranking decisions are difficult.
Arkansas State beat Life on February 8, and Life then beat Lindenwood on February 15. Both scores 29-22. Both games were close, but we got the feeling that the Life-Lindenwood game was just a little bit closer ... Life was in real danger of seeing Lindenwood tie that game in the final minute.
It's thin reasoning, really. Any of those three teams could be #2. In fact, Saint Mary's could be #2 as well, and if the Gaels hadn't had that weird game against BYU (which they won, but should have lost), they might be there, following up Cal.
Consider that we have seen Arkansas State beat Life 29-22, Life beat Lindenwood 29-22, Saint Mary's beat BYU 25-24, and now Arizona beat UCLA 27-26. It is very tight up at the top.
Further down the rankings, UC Santa Barbara followed up a tie with San Diego State with a victory over Santa Clara. The Gauchos move up. Iona moves down as there are some league issues to deal with. So we move them down while it gets sorted out.
We're very interested in Central Washington vs BYU. A good win by either team could see them move up several spots.
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 18 | |||
| Rank | Prev | Team | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Cal | Beat UBC |
| 2 | 2 | Lindenwood | Lost to Life (4) |
| 3 | 3 | Arkansas State | Beat Clemson (26) |
| 4 | 4 | Life | Beat Lindenwood (2) |
| 5 | 5 | St Mary's | Beat San Diego State, GCU (17) |
| 6 | 8 | BYU | |
| 7 | 6 | Navy | |
| 8 | 7 | Kutztown | |
| 9 | 9 | Notre Dame College | |
| 10 | 11 | Central Washington | Game canceled |
| 11 | 12 | Arizona | Beat UCLA (13) |
| 12 | 13 | UCLA | Lost to Arizona (12) |
| 13 | 10 | Davenport | |
| 14 | 14 | Army | |
| 15 | 15 | Penn State | |
| 16 | 17 | Grand Canyon | Lost to Saint Mary's (5) |
| 17 | 18 | St. Bonaventure | |
| 18 | 19 | Indiana | |
| 19 | 20 | Ohio State | |
| 20 | 21 | Illinois | |
| Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 18 | |||
| 21 | 22 | Colorado | |
| 22 | 23 | Colorado State | |
| 23 | 24 | Notre Dame | |
| 24 | 25 | Northeastern | |
| 25 | 26 | Clemson | Lost to Arkansas State (3) |
| 26 | 27 | Texas A&M | Beat Texas (39) |
| 27 | 28 | Cal Poly | Beat UC Davis (37) |
| 28 | 29 | American International College | |
| 29 | 34 | Oklahoma | Beat Texas Tech |
| 30 | 30 | Boston College | |
| 31 | 31 | Syracuse | |
| 32 | 32 | Wisconsin | |
| 33 | 33 | Mary Washington | |
| 34 | 38 | North Texas | Beat LSU |
| 35 | 36 | Utah Valley | |
| 36 | 47 | UC Santa Barbara | Beat Santa Clara (35) |
| 37 | 35 | Santa Clara | Lost to UCSB (47) |
| 38 | 40 | Michigan | |
| 39 | 41 | Fordham | |
| 40 | 37 | UC Davis | Lost to Cal Poly (28) |
| Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 18 | |||
