As we stated in our D1 rankings, we shifted Liberty teams to this ranking, which is a combination of CRAA's D1A and NCR's D1, which is made up of teams that used to play under the D1A banner.

The change is slight, with the ranking expanded to 50 we don't see too many teams drastically changed because of the Liberty programs getting ranked. Iona is the highest, albeit an insecure #20. But let's face it, most of these rankings are insecure. Nazareth comes in after a nice win and Northeastern is possibly the next most dangerous Liberty team behind Iona.

We drop Wisconsin down significantly after a big loss and yet we didn't do the same for Air Force nor for Notre Dame College. That's because we think Army and Navy are stronger than Indiana. Still, there's an argument for having the Badgers ranked a bit higher, and the best way to make that argument is to perform well in rugby games.

Navy does get a bump after shutting out Air Force. We decided not to penalize Penn State for almost losing to Mary Washington, but we'll keep an eye out.

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	Cal	PAC
2	2	Saint Mary's	California
3	3	Life	Mid-South
4	4	Lindenwood	Mid-South	Won series of 15s and 7s warmups
5	5	Army	Rugby East	Beat Notre Dame College (26)
6	6	Central Washington	Independent
7	10	Navy	Rugby East	Beat Air Force (25)
8	7	Arkansas State	Mid-South
9	8	BYU	Rocky Mountain
10	9	Kutztown	Rugby East	Beat Schuylkill River
11	11	Arizona	PAC
12	12	Penn State	Rugby East	Beat Mary Washington
13	15	Indiana	Big Ten	Beat Wisconsin (30)
14	13	UCLA	PAC
15	14	Davenport	Mid-South	Beat Legacy Center Academy
16	16	Ohio State	Big Ten
17	21	St. Bonaventure	Rugby East	Beat Syracuse
18	17	Cal Poly	California
19	18	Grand Canyon	California
20	Unr	Iona	Liberty	Beat Fordham
21	19	Texas A&M	Red River
22	20	Illinois	Big Ten	Beat Purdue (28)
23	22	Colorado	Rocky Mountain
24	23	Colorado State	Rocky Mountain
25	28	Purdue	Big Ten	Close loss to Illinois (20)
26	24	Oklahoma	Red River
27	26	Notre Dame College	Rugby East	Lost to Army (5)
28	27	Utah	Rocky Mountain
29	Unr	Northeastern	Liberty	Beat UMass
30	29	UC Santa Barbara	California
31	Unr	Boston College	Liberty
32	25	Air Force	Rocky Mountain	Lost to Navy (10)
33	31	Utah Valley	Rocky Mountain
34	32	Michigan State	Big Ten
35	33	San Diego State	California
36	34	Santa Clara	California
37	Unr	Fairfield	Liberty
38	Unr	AIC	Liberty
39	35	UC Davis	California
40	36	Baylor	Red River
41	38	Michigan	Big Ten	Lost to U. Notre Dame
42	Unr	Buffalo	Liberty	Beat Cortland
43	Unr	Nazareth	Liberty	Beat Brockport
44	Unr	Fordham	Liberty	Lost to Iona
45	39	North Texas	Red River
46	30	Wisconsin	Big Ten	Lost to Indiana (15)
47	37	Texas	Red River
48	40	Utah State	Rocky Mountain
49	Unr	Wyoming	Rocky Mountain
50	Unr	Texas Tech	Red River