GRR: Men DI Rankings
This will be the final 15s rankings of the 2015-16 season. With the championship weekend done and dusted, this is it.
And I have to say, this was hard - very hard. It would have been far, far easier for us if BYU had won the Varsity Cup, because BYU had beaten every team the Cougars had faced. Now, every top team has a sort of fatal flaw.
We almost didn't run a new DI rankings this week, given that there were so few games and they ran according to plan.
Some obvious moves in the Men's All-DI rankings, with Cal nudging ahead of Central Washington by virtue of beating said Wildcats 14-13. It was a close one - about as close as you can get - and they seem essentially tied for now.
For most of the teams in DI-level rugby, the spring now means thinking about 7s and finals and rehashing the season.
For some, though, some sort of championships still beckons, and the games they are playing mean plenty - this is where a team has to be playing its best, and we assign plenty of importance to those games.
We took a long, hard look at the Men's DI rankings this week, trying to figure out if it's really just that simple - Dartmouth beat Penn State, so Dartmouth jumps up ahead of Penn State.