GRR: College Men
It's Week 10 and the Power Index is back with some key questions ... and maybe some answers.
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The University of Virginia appears to be miles ahead of everyone else in the Cardinals Conference, but how will that translate on the national stage.
We've got another new #1 in our DIAA rankings.
Now, in the past we've had situations where a lower-ranked team has beaten the #1 team and not gone to #1. This has happened recently. In addition, those who are Dartmouth fans might—quite legitimately—point to the fact that Queens University lost to Army, and Dartmouth beat Army, so why shouldn't #2 Dartmouth move up to #1?
The College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) postseason is becoming clearer as November arrives.
This was a week of several rankings upsets.
Most of them came about because a) a team that had built its ranking on good early results faded due to injuries, or other challenges; b) the opposite happened, and a team that lost an early game or two just got better, got players back from injury, or got some late recruits; or c) we just had it wrong.