GRR: College Men
While there are some D1A games next week, the games this week are the final salvo before the playoff seedings come out.
At present, if you look at GRR's rankings, we have this in the East:
Mount St. Mary's at Life
Mary Washington at Navy
Arkansas State at Lindenwood
Davenport at Army
The #1 team, Navy, lost over the weekend.
So this week's question is: who should be #1 now?
Let's look at the candidates:
In a midweek game in Ellensburg, Wash., Lindenwood defeated Central Washington 37-22 Tuesday.
This game was far, far closer than the final score might indicate. It was tied with 13 minutes to go and was still a one-score game into the final five minutes.
The game was very entertaining and the scoring went back-and-forth for much of the afternoon.
So not a lot of changes in these rankings.
Things slow down in terms of volume of matches but they raise the importance level.
So, really, coming up, we have these big games:
March 23
San Jose State vs American River
St. Thomas vs Florida State
March 30
St. Thomas vs University of Florida
The Saratoga U23s won the Bermuda International 7s over the weekend, defeating Dartmouth in the final.
The tournament featured 10 collegiate-level teams, including the local team, the Bermuda Stars, and early on it did seem like Saratoga and Dartmouth were on a collision course. Early on Day One, Friday, the teams tied 12-12.