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Men DIA Rankings Week 16

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Men DIA Rankings Week 16

Arizona did enough to inch upward. Jeff Dalton photo.

Two of the top three won in a fashion we'd expect. Arizona won and nudges ahead of UCLA (UCLA's ranking ahead of Arizona was somewhat speculative anyway), and despite losing a competitive Grand Canyon rises into our Top 20.

Remember, this is how we vote for the D1A rankings, they're not the official ones. But this gives you an idea of who is pushing from the 21-40 list. Your biggest mover is North Texas, who jumps 11 places to #38. What if UNT beats Oklahoma? Could we be considering Top 20? 

The problems with the Red River teams in general is that they haven't logged results outside of the conference that help. A&M is pinned down by an early loss to Clemson. Even if we think A&M is better than Clemson now, we'd have to see some indication of that. Both A&M and Oklahoma played highly-ranked out-of-state teams and lost big (BYU and Lindenwood). A closer result ight have nudged them up.

A&M plays Life, Cal Poly, Santa Clara, and Wisconsin this spring. That's useful for us. 

 

Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 16
Rank Prev Team Notes
1 1 Life Game snowed out
2 2 Cal Beat UCLA (12)
3 3 Lindenwood Beat Arkansas State (7)
4 4 Navy  
5 5 St Mary's  
6 6 Kutztown  
7 7 Arkansas State Lost to Lindenwood (3)
8 8 BYU  
9 9 Notre Dame College  
10 10 Davenport  
11 11 Central Washington  
12 13 Arizona Beat Grand Canyon (24)
13 12 UCLA Lost to Cal (2)
14 14 Army  
15 15 Penn State  
16 16 Iona  
17 17 St. Bonaventure  
18 18 Indiana  
19 19 Ohio State  
20 24 Grand Canyon Lost to Arizona (13)
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 16
21 20 Illinois  
22 21 Colorado  
23 22 Colorado State  
24 23 Notre Dame  
25 25 Northeastern  
26 26 Clemson Game snowed out
27 27 Texas A&M Beat Texas Tech
28 30 Cal Poly Beat Santa Clara (35)
29 28 American International College  
30 29 Boston College  
31 31 Syracuse  
32 32 Wisconsin  
33 33 Mary Washington  
34 34 Oklahoma Beat Texas (38)
35 35 Santa Clara Lost to Cal Poly (30)
36 36 Utah Valley  
37 36 UC Davis  
38 49 North Texas Beat Baylor
39 38 Texas Lost to Oklahoma (34)
40 39 Michigan  
Goff Rugby Report D1A Rankings: Week 16