GRR: Men DI Rankings
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.
We skipped last week so as usual that prompts some bigger changes.
Most notable are St. Joseph's and Boston College, just missing out on conference championships, but playing well in getting there.
They are peaking at the right time.
Baylor, Texas State, and West Chester all get a bump.
The big question regarding our latest NCR D1 rankings is ... should Queens return to #1?
We dropped Queens because they lost to Penn State, but then the Royals beat Life. Should that result drop Life out of #1 in D1A? Or both? Or neither?
In the end, we have to recognize that Rugby East is superbly difficult to win and superbly difficult to run through undefeated.
This was a wild week in D1AA and that's why this ranking comes out late.
We had so many important decisions to make.
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.