We have changed this ranking's name to D1A-Level (see explanation in this Twitter thread), but it's basically the teams that were in D1A in 2019.
We've got some changes. A nice result for Air Force and for Utah Valley; both move up. Ohio State lost but a much, much closer result to a good Indiana team, so they inch up.
Same Story for St. Bonaventure. Binghamton comes into the Top 50 after beating Buffalo. Syracuse, which got smacked around early, is in because we're pretty sure they are mostly a different team now. COVID hurt their practice time and prevented some players from suiting up, and they made a bunch of personnel changes last week. So we are giving them a bit of a mulligan on their losses to Fordham and St. Bonaventure (with regard to the degree of the losses, not the losses themselves).
This week BYU is in action, Penn State plays Kutztown, Army takes on Bonnies, and Illinois is at Indiana. Nazareth takes on Binghamton—Nazareth almost lost to Oswego and we might have seen Oswego come in. While Nazareth did drop, we're waiting on Oswego, who host Brockport.
These are our own subjective rankings. Want a more data-driven ranking? Check out the new Power Ratings powered by Silverbacks Elite Rugby.
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| Rank | Prev | Team | Conference | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Cal | PAC | |
| 2 | 2 | Saint Mary's | California | |
| 3 | 3 | Life | Mid-South | |
| 4 | 4 | Lindenwood | Mid-South | Beat SLU |
| 5 | 5 | Army | Rugby East | |
| 6 | 6 | Central Washington | Independent | |
| 7 | 7 | Navy | Rugby East | Beat St. Bonaventure (17) |
| 8 | 8 | Arkansas State | Mid-South | |
| 9 | 9 | BYU | Rocky Mountain | |
| 10 | 10 | Kutztown | Rugby East | Beat Doylestown Men |
| 11 | 13 | Indiana | Big Ten | Beat Ohio State (16) |
| 12 | 11 | Arizona | PAC | |
| 13 | 15 | Davenport | Mid-South | Beat Notre Dame College (27) |
| 14 | 12 | Penn State | Rugby East | Beat Delaware |
| 15 | 16 | Ohio State | Big Ten | Close loss to Indiana (13) |
| 16 | 17 | St. Bonaventure | Rugby East | Close loss to Navy (7) |
| 17 | 14 | UCLA | PAC | |
| 18 | 18 | Cal Poly | California | |
| 19 | 19 | Grand Canyon | California | |
| 20 | 20 | Iona | Liberty | Beat Colgate |
| 21 | 21 | Texas A&M | Red River | |
| 22 | 22 | Illinois | Big Ten | Beat Wisconsin (46) |
| 23 | 23 | Colorado | Rocky Mountain | |
| 24 | 24 | Colorado State | Rocky Mountain | |
| 25 | 29 | Northeastern | Liberty | Beat Rhode Island |
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| 26 | 32 | Air Force | Rocky Mountain | Beat Wyoming (49) |
| 27 | 33 | Utah Valley | Rocky Mountain | Beat Utah State (48) |
| 28 | 27 | Notre Dame College | Rugby East | Lost to Davenport (15) |
| 29 | 28 | Utah | Rocky Mountain | |
| 30 | 26 | Oklahoma | Red River | |
| 31 | 25 | Purdue | Big Ten | Lost to U. Notre Dame |
| 32 | 30 | UC Santa Barbara | California | |
| 33 | 31 | Boston College | Liberty | |
| 34 | 34 | Michigan State | Big Ten | |
| 35 | 35 | San Diego State | California | |
| 36 | 36 | Santa Clara | California | |
| 37 | 37 | Fairfield | Liberty | Beat Tufts |
| 38 | 38 | AIC | Liberty | |
| 39 | 39 | UC Davis | California | |
| 40 | 40 | Baylor | Red River | |
| 41 | 41 | Michigan | Big Ten | |
| 42 | Unr | Binghamton | Liberty | Beat Buffalo (42) |
| 43 | 44 | Fordham | Liberty | Lost to Brown |
| 44 | 49 | Wyoming | Rocky Mountain | Lost to Air Force (32) |
| 45 | 42 | Buffalo | Liberty | Lost to Binghamton |
| 46 | 46 | Wisconsin | Big Ten | Lost to Illinois (22) |
| 47 | Unr | Syracuse | Liberty | Beat Brockport |
| 48 | 43 | Nazareth | Liberty | Beat Oswego |
| 49 | 45 | North Texas | Red River | |
| 50 | 47 | Texas | Red River | |
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