DIAA College Rugby News
D1AA gets its share of upstarts each year, which is something we enjoy seeing.
Some teams are poised, we think, to move up.
We keep an eye on Yale and Western Washington and perhaps Arkansas, too.
A note on Kansas State—it was a non-conference loss and we're not going to move them down for that yet. A note on Sam Houston State—their game against Texas State fielded their BearKats XV, which is their 2nd squad. So a close win but not their 1st 15.
Yale pulled off a big win over the weekend in Liberty D1AA, beating previously undefeated Columbia 34-14 to move to 4-1.
While UMass sits 4-0, and have won a close one over Yale, the Bulldogs moved into first while the Minutemen were idle. And that's a good signal about where we are in this conference. Yale has played a bunch of tough teams, and has beaten almost all of them.
Western Washington opened their NCRC season with a bit of a statement result, shutting out Boise State 55-0.
Boise State is suffering from some injuries, but this was still a head-turning scoreline.
Former Canada U18 and WWU freshman George Pritchard scored two tries and added five conversions in his conference debut, making his tally 20 points on the day.
While GRR's #1 Kentucky and #9 Virginia Tech are both idle this weekend, our #2 through #8 are all in action.
OK ... #4 Tennessee's game has been understandably canceled seeing as it was against Florida, and there's this hurricane ravaging the state so we won't be seeing any teams traveling much as the people dig out from the devastation.
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