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Who is jumping from the 2nd tier into the top tier in Men's D2 college rugby?
As we've been saying for a while this fall, there's a fairly clear division between the stronger teams and the next tier. There's generally a series of tiers within D2 college rugby, but the gap isn't always especially large. It is this year.
We have a new #1.
In fact, we kind of have to have a new #1.
As anyone who reads these pages frequently will know, just because you beat the #1 team doesn't mean you automatically go to #1. It could be that the #2 team is better poised to move up, or some other reason (like the team that beat #1 already lost to someone else).
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.
We've talked about this before but it bears repeating—there's a haves and have-nots sense of the men's D2 college scene this year.
There is not a ton of movement and no movement at all amongst the top 15.
Towson edges up closer to Salisbury after a close loss there. Miami drops down mostly because we haven't seen them do much while other teams are playing and winning.
We didn't update the NCR D1 rankings last week because we've found we can best do three in a week most of the time.
So someone has to have a bye week and this past week was the bye week for NCR D1.
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