GRR: College Men
Louisville stays in #1 in our D1AA rankings.
And while we move Bowling Green up, that's a fairly shaky spot for the Falcons this early in the season. Keep an eye on Kentucky as they move up.
Louisville, Bowling Green, and Western Michigan are all at 2-0 now in the DIAA MAC Conference after all won over the weekend.
WMU won comfortably over Ohio 56-7 to move to 2-0, while Bowling Green got by Dayton 64-8. This sets up a clash between these two longtime rivals on Saturday.
Louisville, meanwhile, faced an improving Cincinnati and came away with a dominant 77-3 win.
Of the 40 teams in our D2 rankings, 28 represent rankings changes this week.
Now that the season has started in earnest we can drop a couple of teams out (Central Missouri has numbers issues, for example), and bring some teams in based on results we were waiting for.
This was a really good weekend for the rankings because we had seven games in which NCR D1 ranked teams played other NCR D1 ranked teams.
In addition, three NCR D1 teams played CRAA D1A opposition.
In two days the World University Rugby Invitational Tournament kicks off, and there’s an American team in it.
Assembled and overseen by Thomas Clark and coached by Ed Tubridy, the Atlantic Coast All-Stars features a team made up mostly of recently-graduated players with their work most decidedly cut out for them.