DIA Rugby News
This week's DIA ranking decisions are difficult.
Arkansas State beat Life on February 8, and Life then beat Lindenwood on February 15. Both scores 29-22. Both games were close, but we got the feeling that the Life-Lindenwood game was just a little bit closer ... Life was in real danger of seeing Lindenwood tie that game in the final minute.
Jason Scheepers scored three tries to lead Arkansas State University past another ranked opponent Saturday afternoon as the Red Wolves dominated Clemson, 82-8, at Curt Huckaby Field.
A-State jumped to third this week in the D1A rankings after knocking off #1 Life University a week ago. Clemson is ranked #23 (26 by Goff Rugby Report).
There is so much rankings action this week in DIA Rugby it's hard to know where to start.
Let's start with the new #1 Cal. The Bears open their annual two-game series with the University of British Columbia.
Week 6 of This Week in College Rugby has Gift Egbelu breaking down the big Arkansas State upset over Life, while Alex Goff looks ahead to a key PAC Rugby Conference clash between Arizona and UCLA.
Goff also looks ahead to Texas A&M and Texas, which is this week's Game of the Week. Matt McCarthy looks closely at the Saint Mary's win over BYU.
This was a week of surprises in D1A, especially with Arkansas Sate beating Life University.
Several players, especially in the forwards, stood out to us.