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Men D1A Rankings Week 9

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Men D1A Rankings Week 9

Penn State moves up. Photo David Hughes.

As often happens with these rankings, anyone doing the rankings, at least those of us who use subjective methods, have to guard against over-reacting to one result.

We were tempted to move Adrian up further but remember they tied Arkansas State ... which kind of means the should stay near Arkansas State. We didn't move Adrian all the way up to ASU last week because we wanted to see another result. Beating Ohio State was something we needed to see.

Penn State is a team we've been waiting on and they did beat Kutztown, a week ago. So they needed to follow up on that, while also we needed to see where Kutztown is. KU won their game this week, and Penn State beat Queens. The Nittany Lions move up. 

This coming weekend we have a few games to watch.

Life at Queens, Arizona at Colorado State, Arkansas State at Lindenwood, Adrian at Davenport, and Air Force at Army are all major matchups that will affect these rankings.

1 1 Life University Rugby East  
2 2 Navy Rugby East  
3 3 Saint Mary's California  
4 4 Lindenwood Midwest Beat McKendree (24)
5 5 BYU Rocky Mountain Beat Utah Valley U.
6 6 Cal PAC 7s
7 7 Army Rugby East Beat Walsh
8 8 Central Washington Independent  
9 9 Mount St. Mary's Rugby East Beat Belmont Abbey
10 10 Mary Washington Rugby East Beat SVU
11 11 Arizona PAC Beat Arizona State
12 15 Arkansas State Midwest Beat Davenport (14)
13 16 Adrian Midwest Beat Ohio State (13)
14 12 UCLA PAC 7s
15 14 Davenport Midwest Lost to Arkansas State (15)
16 13 Ohio State Big 10 Lost to Adrian (16)
17 20 Penn State Rugby East Beat Queens
18 17 Colorado State Rocky Mountain Beat Colorado (18)
19 18 Colorado Rocky Mountain Close loss to Colorado (17)
20 19 Grand Canyon Independent 7s
21 21 Cal Poly California  
22 22 Air Force Rocky Mountain  
23 23 CSULB California  
24 24 McKendree Midwest Lost to Lindenwood (4)
24 24 Illinois Big 10