Men DIAA Rankings Week Of Oct 5

This past week our picks were pretty good. We got 15 winners right, with one tie (so that's a wrong pick) and one loss; we'll take that.

That, along with last week's results, now influences our DIAA rankings. Jumping into the Top 40 is Middle Tennessee State and Boise State. Dropping from #1 is Bowling Green, which lost to Western Michigan.

St. Joe's is you #1. Dartmouth might have done enough to get there, but it's difficult to rank a team #1 after a loss, even a loss against a really strong DIA team.

The big issue was what to do in the MAC. When a group of teams is relatively equal, and everyone has lost at some point, sometimes you have to throw out a result. In this case, Louisville's 22-17 loss to Cincinnati ends up carrying less weight than Cincinnati's 38-0 loss to IUPUI, and IUPUI's subsequent 48-12 loss to Louisville.

Then we also take a look at some tied games. Right now, with Maryland and Salisbury tying, we've got both teams equal in the rankings because they really haven't played much yet. But with the Towson-Rowan tie, Towson also played Temple, and lost, while Roan beat Temple. They are all very close. The three games between those three were 29-29, 34-31, and 22-17.

GoffRugbyReport Men's D1AA Rankings 2019-20 Oct. 9 2019
	Rank	College Team	Notes
	1	St. Joseph's	Beat WVU, Temple (26)
	2	Dartmouth	Lost to Penn State (DIA)
	3	Chico State
	4	CSULB
	5	Kennesaw State	Beat Kentucky (6)
	6	Western Michigan	Beat BGSU (1), Ohio
	7	Western Washington
	8	Bowling Green	Beat U. Notre Dame (D1A), lost to Western Michigan (19)
	9	Lindenwood-Belleville	Beat Purdue
	10	West Chester	Beat Rowan (21), Delaware
	11	UCF
	12	Kansas	Beat Iowa State (13)
	13	Kentucky	Beat Georgia, Lost to Kennesaw State (10)
	14	Virginia Tech	Beat NC State (14)
	15	Iowa	Beat Nebraska
	16	South Florida
	17	Iowa State	Beat Missouri (38), Lost to Kansas (23)
	18	Tennessee	Beat South Carolina
	19	Louisville	Beat IUPUI (24)
	20	Mount St. Mary's	Beat JMU, Georgetown
	21	NC State	Beat Georgetown, Lost to Va. Tech (18)
	22	Alabama
	23	IUPUI	Lost to Louisville (27), Beat Dayton
	24	Cincinnati	Beat Dayton, Miami
	25	Rowan	Lost to West Chester (16), Tied Towson (34)
	26	Temple	Beat WVU, Lost to St. Joseph's (4)
	27	Towson	Tied Rowan (21)
	28	Stanford
	29	Salisbury	Tied Maryland (36), beat JMU
	29	Maryland	Tied Salisbury (22)
	31	San Diego
	32	Kansas State	Beat Truman State
	33	Fresno State
	34	Florida State
	35	MTSU	Beat Mississippi State
	36	Brown	Beat Cornell
	37	Oregon State
	38	Missouri	Lost to Iowa State (13)
	39	Nevada
	40	Boise State	Beat Washington State, Gonzaga