As we talk about rankings we have said several times that there are results you finally have to move aside.

So here we go ... Bentley beat Norwich 11-10 in the first week of he Rugby Northeast season, and we've ranked Bentley ahead of Norwich since then. But ... then UMass-Lowell beat Norwich, and then last weekend Norwich beat Lowell. The winning margins of those last two games were 14 and 18 points, respectively. So that trumps a one-point result in September.

As a result, Norwich is back in the top ten. The other big mover is Colorado-Mesa, which beat Montana State and moves up 17 places.

WPU and York join the Top 40 after good victories, but that WPU win over RPI was by two points ... so it's possible that one could be thrown out.

*=Iowa Central is currently DII because the team's appeal to stop being moved up to DIAA has not concluded as of this writing. It's possible Iowa CCC will move to DIAA. 

Goff Rugby Report Fall 2019 Men's DII College Rankings Oct 22 2019
Rank	Prev	Team	Conference	Notes
1	1	UW-Whitewater (WI)	Great MW	Beat UW-Stout
2	2	Iowa Central CC (IA)	Independent	*
3	3	Furman (SC)	Southern	Beat The Citadel
4	4	Vermont (VT)	New England-Wide
5	5	Villanova (PA)	MARC
6	6	UMass-Lowell (MA)	Rugby Northeast	Lost to Norwich (18)
7	18	Norwich (VT)	Rugby Northeast	Beat UMass-Lowell (6)
8	7	Queens (NC)	Cardinals	Beat Old Dominion
9	8	Virginia (VA)	Cardinals	Forfeit win
10	9	Grand Valley State (MI)	Great Lakes	Beat SVSU
11	10	Bethel (IN)	Great Lakes	Forfeit win
12	11	Bentley (MA)	Rugby Northeast	Beat Providence (31)
13	12	North Dakota State (ND)	Northern Lights	Beat St. Cloud State
14	13	Illinois State (IL)	Great MW	Beat Northern Illinois
15	14	UNC (NC)	Southern
16	15	Minnesota-Duluth (MI)	Great MW	Beat UW-Milwaukee (36)
17	21	Loyola-Chicago (IL)	Great MW	Beat Western Illinois
18	16	Marquette (WI)	Great MW
19	17	UMS&T (MO)	Gateway
20	19	USMMA (NY)	Tri-State	Tied Seton Hall
Goff Rugby Report Fall 2019 Men's DII College Rankings Oct 22 2019
21	22	Northern Colorado	Rocky Mountain
22	39	Colorado Mesa (CO)	Rocky Mountain	Beat Montana State (22)
23	20	UNC-Wilmington (NC)	Southern
24	22	Montana State (MT)	Rocky Mountain	Lost to Colorado Mesa (39)
25	24	SLU (MO)	Gateway
26	26	St. Thomas (MN)	Northern Lights	Beat Winona
27	27	Northern Michigan (MI)	Great MW
28	37	Boston University (MA)	New England-Wide	Beat SCSU
29	29	Shippensburg (PA)	MARC	Beat Millersville
30	28	UW-Platteville (WI)	Great MW
31	30	Central Michigan (MI)	Great Lakes	Beat Oakland
32	25	Marist (NY)	Tri-State	Beat Monroe
33	31	Providence (RI)	Rugby Northeast	Lost to Bentley (11)
34	Unr	William Paterson (NJ)	Tri-State	Beat RPI (35)
35	38	Scranton (PA)	MARC	Lost to York
36	Unr	York (PA)	MARC	Beat Scranton (38)
37	32	Western Colorado (CO)	Rocky Mountain
38	33	UNC-Charlotte (NC)	Southern
39	35	RPI (NY)	Tri-State	Lost to William Paterson
40	40	Sam Houston State (TX)	Lonestar	Beat Angelo State (40)
Goff Rugby Report Fall 2019 Men's DII College Rankings Oct 22 2019