Men DII College News
After a year when the battle for the top of the Liberty was very close, RPI has made a huge step in the first two games of the season.
The Engineers beat rivals Albany 39-0 two weeks ago and then beat a tough SUNY Oswego side 68-5.
University of New Hampshire is currently the only team that is 209 in the NACR after they just barely edged past Coast Guard Academy 7-5.
That was a a major early-season clash Friday night and it's pretty clear that these two teams are very close. Still, UNH won by a conversion and go to 2-0. Coash Guard gets a close-loss bonus point so they're not too far away.
About 11 conferences take the field in men's D2 college action this week.
It seems like we have a fairly wide open Great Midwest, which remains one of the most robust D2 conferences.
We've got Northern Iowa at Wisconsin-Whirewater this weekend, and that could easily be the conference final when the dust settles.
As we have said before, the opening week of rankings is a bit of a guess and relies heavily on last year.
But small changes in teams can make for big changes in their fortunes. SLU's win over Washington University was a good example of that, as was RPI's win over Albany.
GRR's D2 rankings have only had the opening week, so it's expected that they will change, but before the rankings come out here's a look at how the ranked teams did over this past weekend.