GRR: College Men
We've decided to rank D1AA teams per month in addition to some of our other rankings.
This is thanks to a request from readers and we are keeping it monthly because otherwise we'd never get anything done.
So this is only teams that play significantly in the fall and who are D1AA in either NCR, ACR/CRA, or independent.
The Mid-Atlantic Rugby Conference small-college scene is a little confused because the small-college teams mix up with the D2 teams, but the top smaller teams are coming to the fore.
Susquehanna, Penn State Berks, Widener, Catholic, and Gettysburg are all still undefeated and could well all make a splash on the national scene.
Colorado School of Mines logged something of a statement win, beating key Small College contenders New Mexico Tech 24-13 over the weekend.
The victory, achieved, astonishingly, with only 15 players,
How will the DII playoffs shake out?
As usually, there are many, many questions surrounding the playoff brackets, with multiple seeds expected from various conferences, and several play-in games likely, also.
Villanova moved to 3-0 in the Mid-Atlantic D2 East league after a 32-12 victory over Drexel.
The game was played in the middle of Villanova's fall break and the Wildcats were without five first-side players, including three inside backs. But they fronted up well enough.