GRR: College Men
It's Week 7 of This Week In College Rugby, and someone's wearing a feather boa.
With Gift Egbelu getting into the Mardi Gras spirit and also looking at how the Mid-South is shaking out, Alex Goff makes some what-if predictions on the D1A rankings, and Matt McCarthy looks at the razor-thin UCLA vs Arizona game.
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.
Oklahoma and Texas A&M clinched spots in the Red River Conference championships game in March after both won games Saturday.
A&M won big over Texas in the FTF / Eleven Sports Game of the Week, but had trouble regardless as sometimes they ran the phases nicely, and sometimes gave Texas the momentum after a poor pass or a miscommunication.
Cal held off a comeback from University of British Columbia to win the first leg of the teams' annual two-game series.
This is the 99th year of the rivalry, and Cal ended up with a pretty impressive 36-21 lead going into the second game.
After losing their first league game in three years, Life University rebounded to beat #2-ranked Lindenwood in the Mid-South.
Interestingly, Life's winning margin was the same as the team's losing margin last week against Arkansas State: 29-22.