GRR: Men DI Rankings
And we come to our final NCR D1 rankings.
Since Week 4 Brown and Queens have been at the top of our rankings, switching back and forth. And they showed it in the final, with a very close game. In this case, #2 Brown beating #1 Queens 23-20. The performance of Brown of course puts them up to #1 and it also brings up St. Bonaventure to #3 after their 11-10 loss to Brown in the semis.
It's been a few weeks since we updated this ranking as the schedule slowed down around Thanksgiving.
However, we have had UCLA's very successful tour of England and Ireland, and the CRAA Fall Classic.
The Fall Classic bowl game results forced us into some key decisions.
We've got one more fall rankings to show before we take a break and then switch to the spring rankings.
What we do here at GRR World Headquarters is rank D1AA teams that play in the fall during the fall. We rank D1AA teams that play 15s in the winter/spring during the winter/spring.
This is the penultimate NCR D1 ranking for the fall of 2024.
We will let the semifinals play out and then the final, and we'll update at the end. Right now we have our latest rankings and we have zero ... that's right, zero changes. And it speaks to what we often say about the rankings: if the rankings are perfect, that's boring. We're sorry, it's boring.
BUT ...
We skipped some time on this partly because GRR was traveling so we couldn't do everything we wanted.
In the end what this allowed was a shakeout of the weird results that have bubbled through D1A.
Life has beaten Navy, to be sure, but overall Navy's results have impressed a bit more. Beating BYU helped. So Navy moves back into the #1 spot.
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