DIAA College Rugby News
American River College won the California D1AA North conference Saturday with a 45-21 win over San Jose State in the conference final.
"It was an incredibly tough match where both teams played well," said ARC Head Coach Zach Swithenbank.
We have just a handful of teams left in the chae for a CRAA D1AA title.
As we've mentioned before, Sam Houston State and Iowa State are already in the semifinals held during the CRAA Finals Weekend May 2-4 in Indianapolis.
We're coming into the playoff period for D1A and D1AA and at least in the D1AA the number of games is dropping down.
That's why we're listing the D1AA and D1A games together again and we'll probably finish the season that way. The biggest game is Florida at South Florida. The winner of that game will almost certainly be 2nd in the Florida CC North, and will secure a playoff spot.
Spoiler alert - not much changes here.
Let's talk playoffs. The rankings aren't related to playoffs ... the seedings in D1AA aren't influenced by GRR's rankings, while D1A is, slightly.
But we get to use the rankings to look at the playoffs.
Here's what's going to happen:
Here's a look at some of the D1AA standouts of the past couple of weeks.
Corinthian Cormier, Sam Houston StateThe 8x8 Sports D1A player of the week, the No. 8 and sometime lock was a try-scoring force for the BearKats as they won the Lonestar playoffs.