The big question to deal with in these DIAA rankings is whether a team in the spring can work its way up to the Top 5, or even to #1.

Well we're here to tell you that yes, it can happen, and the Top 5 thing almost certainly will happen. Right now the most likely teams to accomplish that would be Western Washington, Florida State, and Fresno State. Cal State Long Beach? Yes, maybe, but they haven't played yet this winter/spring session.

It will also take some time. Each spring team is working against the totality of experience of the fall teams, so one or two or three results don't zoom you past Tennessee. You have to work your way up. (Having said that, if Western Washington had beaten Central Washington last week, we likely would have put them at #1, but that's about the only way to get there quickly when you play winter/spring—by beating a top DIA team.)

Still ... Fresno State beat their main rivals in the Pac West and beat them by a lot. Up 10 spots for you! Florida State has now emerged as numero uno, for the moment anyway, in Florida after beating Central Florida and beating them quite convincingly. FSU rises 14 spots.

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(Addendum. We meant to have San Diego in here too but human error in sorting the teams left them out. We've fixed that. Our apologies.)

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	Tennessee	SCRC
2	2	Queens University	Chesapeake
3	3	Brown	Ivy League
4	4	U. Notre Dame	Independent
5	5	Bowling Green	MAC
6	6	Clemson	SCRC
7	7	Dartmouth	Ivy League
8	8	Mary Washington	Chesapeake
9	9	Wheeling	Independent
10	10	Mount St. Mary's	Chesapeake
11	11	Iowa Central CC	Independent
12	12	Virginia Tech	Chesapeake
13	23	Fresno State	Pac West	Beat Chico State (27)
14	13	Kentucky	SCRC
15	14	Western Michigan	MAC
16	30	Florida State	Florida	Beat Central Florida (22)
17	15	West Chester	MARC
18	16	Louisville	MAC
19	17	Kansas	Heart of America
20	18	Minnesota	Heart of America
21	25	Western Washington	NCRC	Beat Oregon State
22	19	St. Joseph's	MARC
23	20	UCSC	Pac West
24	21	Boise State	NCRC
25	22	Central Florida	Florida	Lost to Florida State (30)
26	24	Rowan	MARC
27	26	Oregon	NCRC	Lost to Utah
28	28	Florida Atlantic	Florida	Beat North Florida
29	29	Florida	Florida
30	27	Chico State	Pac West	Lost to Fresno State (23)
31	Unr	U. San Diego	Gold Coast	Beat Arizona State (34)
32	31	Iowa State	Heart of America
33	32	IUPUI	MAC
34	33	CSULB	Gold Coast
35	34	Arizona State	Gold Coast	Lost to U. San Diego
36	35	Arkansas	Heart of America
37	36	Cincinnati	MAC
38	45	Sam Houston State	Lonestar	Beat Houston
39	37	South Florida	Florida	Lost to Florida International
40	38	Kansas State	Heart of America
41	39	Texas State	Lonestar
42	40	Southern Virginia	Chesapeake
43	41	Iowa	Heart of America
44	42	Salisbury	MARC
45	44	UT San Antonio	Lonestar	Beat Angelo State