DIAA College Rugby News
Return to play in college rugby looks to be a confused cluster after this week.
Colleges around the USA are coming up with creative and disparate plans to get students back to school, and for rugby programs that isn’t necessarily good news.
As we did with the Boys HS teams, we are looking back at the college rankings over the last few years.
It was in the 2016-17 season that we started to separate out the D1AA teams from the D1A teams in our rankings. For the most part, we used to just mix the D1A and D1AA teams into an all-D1 ranking. At the end of 2016-17 we separated them out.
Through all the discussion of which college conferences will join which college umbrella organization, we at Goff Rugby Report felt it was time once again to look at who is going where.
To do that we took official announcements, a little rumor, and plenty of analysis and guesswork to come up with some numbers.
The small-college men's teams in National Collegiate Rugby have voted to hold their 15s national championship in the fall.
High School and College Rugby have some steps to take as USA Rugby fixes itself.
Youth & HS took a major step earlier this month, while some college conferences are still playing a waiting game.