GRR: Rankings
No changes except one.
The #1 team, Queens, lost, and the #2 team, Brown, won a tough game ... perhaps their toughest of the season. We have to move Brown up to #1.
Queens stays high at #2 because they're still a very, very good team; they just ran up against an improving team on the road.
Well we've been complaining about it most of the season ...
Whine, whine, whine ... no upsets, no surprises. Well then there was this past weekend.
We get some questions about merging our D1A and NCR D1 rankings, and we might be discussing that soon, but as we think about that it becomes clear to us that, at least right now, there are two teams significantly stronger than the rest.
And guess what? They're #1 and #2.
Well ... whaddayaknow ... our #2 lost; our #5 lost (to an unranked team, no less).
That's going to shake things up, no?
Louisville lost by a single point to a very good Bowling Green, and we'd be forgiven if we had just elevated BGSU to #2.
But we didn't.
Both the Falcons and the Cardinals are hovering in the Top 5, but now it's all up in the air.
Who is jumping from the 2nd tier into the top tier in Men's D2 college rugby?
As we've been saying for a while this fall, there's a fairly clear division between the stronger teams and the next tier. There's generally a series of tiers within D2 college rugby, but the gap isn't always especially large. It is this year.