It's tough to drop a #1 team when that team is idle, but we've got a good reason.

Tennessee was always close to being #1, and they have continued to win games without a slipup. And then remember they beat Ohio State, and Ohio State just won the Big Ten, so that in itself would be enough to bump up a DIAA team. 

We might have also moved Bowling Green up a bit more but they did lose to Notre Dame and it wasn't an "oh-that-doesn't-really-count" moment. Oregon comes into the Top 45 after a shutout win over University of Washington. The MARC hardly gets any more clear. St. Joseph's, Rowan, West Chester, and Salisbury all played each other and there wasn't much between them. Salisbury went 1-2 against the other three with a loss by three and a win by two. West Chester went 1-1-1 with all three games close. Same deal for Rowan. St. Joe's getting their biggish win over Salisbury (39-24) is the only thing that separates them. St. Joe's ended up 2-1 with a close loss (three tries each, fewer conversions for SJU), a close win, and a 39-24 win.

We thought about it for a week and decided to move St. Joe's up a bit more. 

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Now we get to see who can back this all up. Tennessee plays Clemson in the SCRC final, so we've got that. Notre Dame plays Indiana. If ND loses to Indiana who lost to Ohio State who lost to Tennessee, would that be enough to drop them down? Brown plays Penn State (!), Salisbury plays Virginia Tech, St. Joe's plays Binghamton, Boise State plays Nazareth, Queens plays Northeastern, and UMW plays St. Bonaventure.

This is a mixture of teams that wanted to be ranked DIA and those that were clearly DIAA. Don't blame us that it was all changed later. Maybe we should have an all-college fall ranking. Hey, that's a good idea ...

Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	2	Tennessee	SCRC	Beat Georgia (43)
2	1	Queens University	Chesapeake
3	3	Mary Washington	Chesapeake
4	4	Brown	Ivy League	Beat Fordham
5	6	U. Notre Dame	Independent
6	7	Bowling Green	MAC	Beat Cincinnati (31), WMU (15)
7	8	Clemson	SCRC	Beat Kentucky (9)
8	5	Dartmouth	Ivy League	Lost to Navy
9	16	St. Joseph's	MARC	Beat Rutgers
10	10	Iowa Central CC	Independent
11	9	Kentucky	SCRC	Lost to Clemson (8)
12	11	Louisville	MAC	Lost to Western Michigan (15), beat Cincinnati (31)
13	12	Kansas	Heart of America
14	13	Mount St. Mary's	Chesapeake	Lost to Kutztown
15	14	Minnesota	Heart of America
16	15	Western Michigan	MAC	Beat Louisville (11), lost to BGSU (7)
17	17	Western Washington	NCRC	Beat Chuckanut Bay Men's Club
18	19	Boise State	NCRC	Beat Oregon State (41)
19	18	Rowan	MARC	Tied West Chester (22)
19	22	West Chester	MARC	Tied Rowan (18)
21	20	Iowa State	Heart of America
22	21	IUPUI	MAC
23	23	Salisbury	MARC	Beat JMU (44)
24	24	CSULB	Gold Coast
25	25	Florida Atlantic	Florida
26	26	Arizona State	Gold Coast
27	27	South Florida	Florida
28	28	Central Florida	Florida
29	29	Wheeling	Independent
30	30	Arkansas	Heart of America
31	31	Cincinnati	MAC	Lost to Bowling Green (7), Louisville (11)
32	32	Kansas State	Heart of America
33	33	Texas State	Lonestar
34	34	Southern Virginia	Chesapeake
35	Unr	Oregon	NCRC	Beat Washington
36	35	Iowa	Heart of America
37	36	UT San Antonio	Lonestar
38	37	Fresno State	Pac West
39	38	UCSC	Pac West
40	39	Sam Houston State	Lonestar
41	40	Chico State	Pac West
42	41	Oregon State	NCRC	Lost to Boise State (19)
43	42	Washington State	NCRC
44	43	Georgia	SCRC	Lost to Tennessee (2)
45	44	James Madison	MARC	XXXXXX