We have changed this ranking's name to D1A-Level (see explanation in this Twitter thread), but it's basically the teams that were in D1A in 2019.

We've got some changes. A nice result for Air Force and for Utah Valley; both move up. Ohio State lost but a much, much closer result to a good Indiana team, so they inch up. 

Same Story for St. Bonaventure. Binghamton comes into the Top 50 after beating Buffalo. Syracuse, which got smacked around early, is in because we're pretty sure they are mostly a different team now. COVID hurt their practice time and prevented some players from suiting up, and they made a bunch of personnel changes last week. So we are giving them a bit of a mulligan on their losses to Fordham and St. Bonaventure (with regard to the degree of the losses, not the losses themselves).

This week BYU is in action, Penn State plays Kutztown, Army takes on Bonnies, and Illinois is at Indiana. Nazareth takes on Binghamton—Nazareth almost lost to Oswego and we might have seen Oswego come in. While Nazareth did drop, we're waiting on Oswego, who host Brockport.  

These are our own subjective rankings. Want a more data-driven ranking? Check out the new Power Ratings powered by Silverbacks Elite Rugby.

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	Beat SLU
5	5	Army	Rugby East
6	6	Central Washington	Independent
7	7	Navy	Rugby East	Beat St. Bonaventure (17)
8	8	Arkansas State	Mid-South
9	9	BYU	Rocky Mountain
10	10	Kutztown	Rugby East	Beat Doylestown Men
11	13	Indiana	Big Ten	Beat Ohio State (16)
12	11	Arizona	PAC
13	15	Davenport	Mid-South	Beat Notre Dame College (27)
14	12	Penn State	Rugby East	Beat Delaware
15	16	Ohio State	Big Ten	Close loss to Indiana (13)
16	17	St. Bonaventure	Rugby East	Close loss to Navy (7)
17	14	UCLA	PAC
18	18	Cal Poly	California
19	19	Grand Canyon	California
20	20	Iona	Liberty	Beat Colgate
21	21	Texas A&M	Red River
22	22	Illinois	Big Ten	Beat Wisconsin (46)
23	23	Colorado	Rocky Mountain
24	24	Colorado State	Rocky Mountain
25	29	Northeastern	Liberty	Beat Rhode Island
26	32	Air Force	Rocky Mountain	Beat Wyoming (49)
27	33	Utah Valley	Rocky Mountain	Beat Utah State (48)
28	27	Notre Dame College	Rugby East	Lost to Davenport (15)
29	28	Utah	Rocky Mountain
30	26	Oklahoma	Red River
31	25	Purdue	Big Ten	Lost to U. Notre Dame
32	30	UC Santa Barbara	California
33	31	Boston College	Liberty
34	34	Michigan State	Big Ten
35	35	San Diego State	California
36	36	Santa Clara	California
37	37	Fairfield	Liberty	Beat Tufts
38	38	AIC	Liberty
39	39	UC Davis	California
40	40	Baylor	Red River
41	41	Michigan	Big Ten
42	Unr	Binghamton	Liberty	Beat Buffalo (42)
43	44	Fordham	Liberty	Lost to Brown
44	49	Wyoming	Rocky Mountain	Lost to Air Force (32)
45	42	Buffalo	Liberty	Lost to Binghamton
46	46	Wisconsin	Big Ten	Lost to Illinois (22)
47	Unr	Syracuse	Liberty	Beat Brockport
48	43	Nazareth	Liberty	Beat Oswego
49	45	North Texas	Red River
50	47	Texas	Red River