Men D1AA Spring 2025 Rankings Week 2
University of San Diego did about as much as you'd hope for a #1 to stay #1, winning in convincing fashion over a Fresno State team that we had at #12.
And we are seeing a special upper-echelon of teams in D1AA. American River, which, like St. Thomas, is school supported, won well over San Jose State. We might well see SJSU close that gap later this season, but right now the top four or five are very strong.
Arizona State moves into our Top 25 after a close loss to a very good Claremont Colleges team. That meant we had to move a team out of the Top 25. And the most logical move was to look at the three teams out of the NCRC that we had at #23, #24, and #25. Now, why not just ove out #25? Because we felt that team, Washington, had challenge Western Washington sufficiently for us to keep them in the rankings.
HS Boys Club Top 50 2025: Week 3
We did do a video on clubs to keep an eye on, but one team we didn't discuss was Scottsdale.
In fact, we now have four teams from Arizona in the Top 50. There's no guarantee they will all stay, but it seems clear to us at GRR World Headquarters that the state is more competitive than it has been in a while. All of that is good for the game.
Men D1A Rankings Week 19
While we don't have a ton of changes at the top of the D1A rankings, we do have a change at #1.
Cal moves up to #1 after a shutout win over Arizona. Remember, Arizona held Saint Mary's to a 12-10 Gael victory, and we're thinking that if you factor that in with a 24-22 Life win over Saint Mary's, and the fact that Life also beat Navy, we kind of have to make the move.
Will we see a different #1 in the coming weeks? Most certainly it's possible. We've entered that period of the season.
Nearer #25, we have changes. We expected UCSC to punch their way into the Top 25, and they have. Also coming in is Utah State, which beat Utah for the second time. The Aggies probably should have been there already. That drops out McKendree and Illinois, but they are lurking.
HS Boys School Top 50 Week 4
For the most part the results we saw among School teams this week were as expected.
Dallas Jesuit put in a very night result, while we weren't sure what to expect in GGA vs Vienna—that ended up being 7-3 for Greg's and we are sort of holding steady for them with that result. It's very early for the cold-weather teams.
HS Boys Club Top 50 2025: Week 2
We are woefully late in this week's HS Club rankings.
And it's funny because sometimes it's more difficult to rank teams when there've been a small number of results than it is with a lot of results.
We don't want to over-react to some results and that's kind of what we're doing with the Marin win over Elsie Allen. We do bump up Greer in part because, shortened games or not, they beat two opponents.
AYR Golden Eagles also moved up thanks to one result. We will have to keep a close eye on all of these teams.
Men D1A Rankings Week 18
This is a quick one because we don't have a ton of changes.
However we do have a couple that require explanations.
First off, We probably should have had GCU below Colorado because the Buffs beat the 'Lopes in the fall.
Secondly, we were probably going to move UC Santa Cruz into the rankings at some point because we'd overlooked a UCSC win over Santa Clara that should have put them into the rankings. Instead, we did something different. UCSC lost by a big margin to Cal—that's not disqualifying, as there's pretty big gap between the top teams and the next level. But it's weird to move a team up when they lose by a large margin. As it was, Sacramento State beat Santa Clara anyway, so Sac State moves into #23.
HS Boys School Top 50 2025: Week 3
This early in the season it seems a bit unfair to drop teams that haven't even really started, but we have to.
We've dropped out three teams not because they did anything wrong, but because we have to make changes. Among those changes is another thing that happens every year—we team changes status. The last few years we've seen some single-school teams move to club status as they accept more and more players from outside their school. But Neuqua in Illinois has gone the other way. True, they haven't played a game yet and fans of Archbishop Moeller, for example, might feel hard-done-by, but remember, it's early days, and any team can play its way up or down.
Men D1AA Spring 2025 Rankings Week 1
With 2025 now upon us we have our first D1AA ranking of the Winter/Spring season.
This means we leave out the teams that play their 15s exclusively in the fall. It will be a bit of a question whether the Heart of America teams stay on to play 15s, but Lonestar, Florida, California North, NCRC, and California South are all set to play for a championship in May.
There will be a big battle for #1 in the playoffs and also in our rankings. Right now we think any of the top eight could end up on top, although we feel we've started fairly well.
With USD playing some crossover games with the California North teams, they have a better chance of holding onto #1 than if they had remained isolated in California South only.
HS Boys Club Top 50 2025: Week 1
Our first HS Club ranking of the winter/spring.
We don't have a lot of action for this and we won't for a while.
However, we do ave some action in South Carolina, a small but interesting tournament in Southern California, and some more action in NorCal, too.
Don't expect to see a ton of movement yet, but it is time to get these club rankings published and talked about.
HS Boys School Top 50 2025: Week 2
A huge result for Cathedral Catholic over the weekend drives their move up to the Top 5.
Torrey Pines is not far behind.
We have Brother Martin coming in and also the close loss for Mira Costa in their game vs Jesuit brings them in for now. We think La Costa Canyon might be worth of a rank higher than they have right now, but we need to see the bigger matchups. Oh, hmm, Saturday, LCC vs Cathedral. Maybe that game.
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Men D1A Rankings Week 17
Here we are with the second week of D1A rankings and we have one game that has made the biggest change this time.
Obviously, it's Arizona's 12-10 loss to Saint Mary's. As a result of this very close result, Saint Mary's drifts down from #3 to #5, and Arizona moves up from #12 to #9.
Other results had a small influence on these moves. Cal won well over a good Cal Poly team and it seemed right to move them past the Gaels, too. So Saint Mary's moves down two spots, not just one.
Central Washington losing to an admittedly strong UBC team while Arizona got the result they got prompted us to move Arizona up perhaps one more spot than we would have if CWU had been idle.
Men D1A Rankings Week 16
After the winter break we are bac with our D1A rankings.
Of course we're not going to have too much in the way of changes after the last ranking of last fall, but we do have Santa Clara moving into the Top 25.
This coming weekend we have Saint Mary's, Arizona, Central Washington, UCSB, Cal, and Cal Poly all in action so expect more movement after that.
Men D1AA College Rankings Fall Week 15; Final Fall Ranking
We wrap up this fall in our D1AA rankings after the NCR final.
We actually had a lot of thinking to do about this. Yes, of course, Kentucky is #1. The Wildcats were wire-to-wire this fall and there wasn't much doubt most of the season that they should be. Only their weird 8-7 SCRC final against Clemson sowed any doubt. But the final ... well the final sealed the deal.
Can Kentucky lose their #1 spot at the end of the spring, now that we enter into ranking the winter-spring teams? Yes they can, but it's going to be tough. Whoever wins the CRAA D1AA championship will have to be dominant. Last year, they were. San Diego, if you remember, had a final in which they controlled the game over Iowa State. This time around might well be different.
NCR D1 Rankings Week 13
This is the penultimate NCR D1 ranking for the fall of 2024.
We will let the semifinals play out and then the final, and we'll update at the end. Right now we have our latest rankings and we have zero ... that's right, zero changes. And it speaks to what we often say about the rankings: if the rankings are perfect, that's boring. We're sorry, it's boring.
BUT ...
But there are a couple of things we'd like to discuss.
Boys HS Club Top 50 2024: Week 18
The rankings and the HS National Championship seeds are, no surprise, coming together to be about the same.
Our major shifts are then a bit lower down.
Richmond's win in Virginia launches the Strikers up 7 spots. Raptor winning Tennessee in impressive fashion puts them up 8 spots. Pulaski's win over Green bay lunches them into the Top 30, and another Wisconsin team, Northshore, gets a boost into the Top 50 also.
Expect the top 10 to shift around again. This should be interesting.
