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DIAA-Level Men College Rankings Week 23

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DIAA-Level Men College Rankings Week 23

Mary Washington vs Bowling Green. David Hughes photo.

We didn't run a rankings last week so here we are with two weeks' worth of data.

We are about to enter the national spring playoffs, and we'll see which of the eight DIAA teams in those playoffs might power through and challenge for #1.

Fresno State has really been impressive. Not in the playoffs, the Florida teams, might get there (Florida State). University of San Diego hasn't played a lot, but they could explode upward with a good win in playoffs.

Two other thing we need to talk about is some "yeah but" results. Mary Washington beat Bowling Green and we were tempted to say "yeah, but, this was in spring and not at the peak time for both." But, UMW didn't exactly play poorly in the fall. In the end it's fair to move them up.

Washington beat Oregon in a close game. But this was a game that had no bearing on the standings, and Washington has not logged the results through the season—Oregon beat them 39-0 in the fall so it's tough to toss that out, and it's tough to toss out an 85-0 loss to Western Washington. We put them in the ranking, because their results have improved, but better than Oregon overall? Hard to do.

Rank Prev Team Conference Notes
1 1 Tennessee SCRC  
2 2 Queens University Chesapeake  
3 3 Brown Ivy League  
4 4 U. Notre Dame Independent  
5 9 Mary Washington Chesapeake Beat Bowling Green (5)
6 5 Bowling Green MAC Lost to Mary Washington (10)
7 6 Fresno State Pac West Beat Nevada, Forfeit win v SJSU
8 7 Clemson SCRC  
9 8 Dartmouth Ivy League  
10 10 Wheeling Independent  
11 11 Mount St. Mary's Chesapeake  
12 12 Iowa Central CC Independent  
13 13 Florida State Florida  
14 23 U. San Diego Gold Coast Beat CSULB (16)
15 14 Virginia Tech Chesapeake  
16 15 Kentucky SCRC  
17 24 Central Florida Florida Beat Florida Atlantic (44)
18 18 Western Washington NCRC  
19 16 CSULB Gold Coast Beat Mira Costa College, lost to San Diego (23)
20 17 Western Michigan MAC  
21 19 Oregon NCRC Lost to Washington
22 19 Kansas Heart of America  
23 20 Minnesota Heart of America  
24 21 Louisville MAC  
25 22 West Chester MARC  
26 25 UCSC Pac West Beat Stanford
27 27 St. Joseph's MARC  
28 28 Boise State NCRC  
29 29 Rowan MARC  
30 30 Texas State Lonestar  
31 31 Iowa State Heart of America  
32 Unr Sacramento State Pac West Beat Chico State (32)
33 32 Chico State Pac West Lost to Sacramento State
34 33 Sam Houston State Lonestar  
35 34 IUPUI MAC  
36 35 Arkansas Heart of America  
37 36 Oregon State NCRC  
38 37 Cincinnati MAC  
39 38 Kansas State Heart of America  
40 39 Southern Virginia Chesapeake  
41 40 North Florida Florida  
42 41 UT San Antonio Lonestar  
43 42 Arizona State Gold Coast Beat Mira Costa College
44 43 Iowa Heart of America  
45 Unr Washington NCRC Beat Oregon (19)