Now that the two latest D1AA finals are done we have new spring rankings.
ACR's champion is San Diego, and CRAA's champion is Sacramento State, and, just to make things interesting the different conferences involved don't really cross over that much. There are some connections, and we've followed that, plus tracking how the teams looked on their own, and how dominant they were in their competition.
In the end, we are also conscious of the fact that a team wins a trophy and then you've got a ranking that doesn't put them at #1 and that's a letdown. We understand that. But with D1AA so splintered, this ranking is one way to get an idea of where teams fall in the pecking order. Meanwhile, there's also a long list of teams from the fall and we're working on ranking all of them.
In the end, we felt that University of San Diego was the strongest of the D1AA spring teams. Sac State was very close as was Florida State. Had we seen all of these teams at full strength and healthy ... well that playoff would have been fun.
Western Washington takes #4 in part because WWU seemed to push USD a little more than Iowa State.
