GRR: College Men
While Central Florida did basically what was expected and mad their way through Kings Point and West Virginia to make the national DIAA final, it was anything but easy to predict the west coast bracket.
It’s not like things had been going badly.
St. Mary’s had been playing quite well - yes they’d lost to BYU twice and Cal, but those games had all been close, and the Gaels seemed to be set for another run at the DIA final.
Kutztown won yet another 7s tournament Sunday, running through the field at the ACRC 7s in Virginia Beach, and defeating AIC 36-27 in an exciting final.
The Men’s DIAA college playoffs are down to four teams as the quarterfinals produced some intriguing results.
The biggest result was Arkansas beating Cal State Long Beach 24-14.
Razorbacks Head Coach Warren Fyfe said he was almost as surprised as everyone else in the result.
The DIA quarterfinals proved to be a startling display of the difference between the top four and the next four.
In addition, the results supported the conventional wisdom in both the Goff Rugby Report DI rankings and the D1A poll, which said that the Mid-South Conference is the best in the nation.