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Men Fall DI College Rankings Week #4

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Men Fall DI College Rankings Week #4

Temple moves in. Brandon McGinnis.

In these latest Men's DI College fall rankings, we have to acknowledge that we can make mistakes.

The mistakes aren't huge, and are always fixable. Mistake #1 as sort of a half-mistake. We were ranking Clemson, but Clemson's schedule, which at one point appeared to have some fall games, now doesn't have any fall games, so Clemson isn't in the fall rankings (that's how it works). Second, we had a team listed twice last week. That's wrong, no matter how you slice it. We fixed that. And then we had Lindenwood-Belleville ranked below Tennessee, a team L-B beat earlier this season.

Now, that's a different kettle of Lynx, as we have a feeling Tennessee might win that game with all of their horses on the field ... maybe. But the Vols have to do something more than what they've been doing (beating Kentucky, for example) to really justify such a move. So we've got that changed back to having Lindenwood-Belleville ahead.

Pitt drops out after losing to unranked Temple. It's a tough call, because we like Pitt a lot and think the Panthers might well be worth a look in the rankings again. We'll see if we expand this to 50 in the next few weeks. Temple moves in. Also in is Missouri, if they won the big game in the Heart of America. Also moving into the rankings is Texas State, which did it on a loss ... but a two-point loss to ranked North Texas. Good enough for us at the moment.

 

Goff Rugby Report All-DI Men's Fall 2016 Rankings - Week #4
Rank Prev Team Notes
1 1 Penn State Bt. Iona (25)
2 2 Indiana Bt. Iowa
3 3 Army Bt. Wheeling Jesuit (11)
4 4 Arkansas State Alumni
5 5 Notre Dame College Idle
6 6 Davenport Idle
7 7 Colorado State Bt. Utah State
8 8 Air Force Bt. Wyoming
9 9 Navy Idle
10 12 Bowling Green Bt. Western Michigan (43)
11 10 AIC Bt. UMass (41)
12 19 Wisconsin Bt. Ohio State (15)
13 15 Ohio State Lost to Wisconsin (19)
14 11 Wheeling Jesuit Lost to Army (3)
15 13 Kutztown Bt. St. Bonaventure
16 16 Boston College Bt. Fairfield
17 17 Dartmouth Bt. Princeton
18 14 Utah Idle
19 20 Kentucky Bt. South Carolina (22)
20 26 Lindenwood-Belleville Bt Iowa Central CC
21 18 Tennessee Idle
22 21 Oklahoma Idle
23 23 Colorado Idle
24 22 South Carolina Lost to Kentucky (20)
25 24 St. Joseph's Idle
26 25 Iona Lost to Penn State (1)
27 Unr Missouri Bt. Kansas State
28 28 Arkansas Idle
29 29 University of Notre Dame Bt. Grand Valley State
30 30 Mt. St. Mary's Idle
31 31 Virginia Tech Idle
32 32 James Madison Bt. Maryland
33 34 North Texas Bt. Texas State
34 33 NEC Idle
35 35 Baylor Idle
36 36 Texas A&M Idle
37 38 Mary Washington Idle
38 40 Alabama Bt. Ole Miss
39 39 Towson Bt. Virginia
40 45 Rutgers Bt. Lock Haven
41 41 UMass Lost to AIC (10)
42 42 Michigan Bt. Michigan State
43 43 Western Michigan Lost to BGSU (12)
44 Unr Temple Bt. Pitt (37)
45 Unr Texas State Close loss to North Texas (34)