This week's DIA ranking decisions are difficult.

Arkansas State beat Life on February 8, and Life then beat Lindenwood on February 15. Both scores 29-22. Both games were close, but we got the feeling that the Life-Lindenwood game was just a little bit closer ... Life was in real danger of seeing Lindenwood tie that game in the final minute.

It's thin reasoning, really. Any of those three teams could be #2. In fact, Saint Mary's could be #2 as well, and if the Gaels hadn't had that weird game against BYU (which they won, but should have lost), they might be there, following up Cal.

Consider that we have seen Arkansas State beat Life 29-22, Life beat Lindenwood 29-22, Saint Mary's beat BYU 25-24, and now Arizona beat UCLA 27-26. It is very tight up at the top. 

Further down the rankings, UC Santa Barbara followed up a tie with San Diego State with a victory over Santa Clara. The Gauchos move up. Iona moves down as there are some league issues to deal with. So we move them down while it gets sorted out.

We're very interested in Central Washington vs BYU. A good win by either team could see them move up several spots.

Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 18
Rank	Prev	Team	Notes
1	1	Cal	Beat UBC
2	2	Lindenwood	Lost to Life (4)
3	3	Arkansas State	Beat Clemson (26)
4	4	Life	Beat Lindenwood (2)
5	5	St Mary's	Beat San Diego State, GCU (17)
6	8	BYU
7	6	Navy
8	7	Kutztown
9	9	Notre Dame College
10	11	Central Washington	Game canceled
11	12	Arizona	Beat UCLA (13)
12	13	UCLA	Lost to Arizona (12)
13	10	Davenport
14	14	Army
15	15	Penn State
16	17	Grand Canyon	Lost to Saint Mary's (5)
17	18	St. Bonaventure
18	19	Indiana
19	20	Ohio State
20	21	Illinois
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 18
21	22	Colorado
22	23	Colorado State
23	24	Notre Dame
24	25	Northeastern
25	26	Clemson	Lost to Arkansas State (3)
26	27	Texas A&M	Beat Texas (39)
27	28	Cal Poly	Beat UC Davis (37)
28	29	American International College
29	34	Oklahoma	Beat Texas Tech
30	30	Boston College
31	31	Syracuse
32	32	Wisconsin
33	33	Mary Washington
34	38	North Texas	Beat LSU
35	36	Utah Valley
36	47	UC Santa Barbara	Beat Santa Clara (35)
37	35	Santa Clara	Lost to UCSB (47)
38	40	Michigan
39	41	Fordham
40	37	UC Davis	Lost to Cal Poly (28)
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 18