There was an interesting development last week as NCR announced their postseason plans and started using the DIAA moniker, something they hadn't been using.
We try to stay out of all of that, but this is, basically, a DIAA ranking. How do we define DIAA ... how much time do you have? Ideally this would be club teams from DI-level colleges, while DIA would be varsity or well-supported teams. It's not that simple. There are varsity and alumni-supported teams that play DIAA. Meanwhile, DIA is a specific group of teams that pay special dues to be part of that group, which is run by CRAA.
We, of course, rank some teams NOT in CRAA in our top-level DI rankings. This ranking is te NCR-ACR-Independent DI rankings. We might end up calling it the GRR-NAI DI ranking. Our DIA ranking included NCR teams and we might call it the CRAA-NCR DIA-Level ranking ... or something.
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Anyway ... Our top seven teams are all very strong and possibly any one of the seven could be #1 at some point. The SCRC insiders tell us Kentucky should be there too. We'll see.
Clemson, Brown, and Wheeling all get big boosts. Texas State and Missouri come into the Top 45, while teams that aren't playing or who lost big (and a lot did that) drop down.
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| Rank | Prev | Team | Conference | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Bowling Green | MAC | Beat Pitt |
| 2 | 2 | Tennessee | SCRC | Game canceled |
| 3 | 3 | Iowa Central CC | Independent | Beat Minnesota |
| 4 | 5 | U. Notre Dame | Independent | Beat Purdue |
| 5 | 4 | Mary Washington | Chesapeake | Beat NC State |
| 6 | 6 | Queens University | Chesapeake | Beat Maryland (43) |
| 7 | 10 | Mount St. Mary's | Chesapeake | Beat Virginia Tech (13) |
| 8 | 7 | Dartmouth | Ivy League | |
| 9 | 8 | Southern Virginia | Chesapeake | |
| 10 | 9 | Kentucky | SCRC | |
| 11 | 25 | Clemson | SCRC | Beat Alabama (21) |
| 12 | 11 | St. Joseph's | MARC | |
| 13 | 12 | Western Michigan | MAC | |
| 14 | 16 | Louisville | MAC | Beat Dayton |
| 15 | 15 | Cincinnati | MAC | Beat Ohio |
| 16 | 34 | Wheeling | Independent | Beat West Virginia |
| 17 | 14 | Arkansas | Heart of America | |
| 18 | 17 | Kansas | Heart of America | |
| 19 | 18 | Iowa State | Heart of America | |
| 20 | 31 | Brown | Ivy League | Beat Fordham |
| 21 | 19 | CSULB | Gold Coast | |
| 22 | 22 | Florida Atlantic | Florida | |
| 23 | 23 | Arizona State | Gold Coast | |
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| 24 | 24 | South Florida | Florida | |
| 25 | 26 | Central Florida | Florida | |
| 26 | 27 | Western Washington | NCRC | |
| 27 | 28 | Oregon State | NCRC | |
| 28 | 29 | Fresno State | Pac West | |
| 29 | 30 | UCSC | Pac West | |
| 30 | Unr | Texas State | Lonestar | Beat Sam Houston State (38) |
| 31 | 32 | Iowa | Heart of America | |
| 32 | 33 | IUPUI | MAC | Beat Loyola-Chicago |
| 33 | 36 | Chico State | Pac West | |
| 34 | 37 | Salisbury | MARC | |
| 35 | 35 | Georgia | SCRC | |
| 35 | 38 | Sam Houston State | Lonestar | Lost to Texas State |
| 36 | 13 | Virginia Tech | Chesapeake | Lost to Mount St. Mary's (10) |
| 37 | Unr | Mizzou | Heart of America | Beat Oklahoma State |
| 38 | 39 | Oregon | NCRC | |
| 39 | 40 | West Chester | MARC | |
| 40 | 21 | Alabama | SCRC | Lost to Clemson (25) |
| 41 | 20 | Kennesaw State | SCRC | Game Canceled |
| 42 | 41 | Delaware | MARC | |
| 43 | 42 | UT San Antonio | Lonestar | Game Canceled |
| 44 | 44 | Rowan | MARC | |
| 45 | 45 | San Diego | Gold Coast | |
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