Written by RUGBYMag Staff    Monday, 10 October 2011 16:23    PDF Print Write e-mail
Men's DI-AA College Top 25
Rankings - Men DI College

(This originally ran 10/10 in our premier section.)

Two seemingly massive upsets have shaken up our Top 25 this week. Florida State fell to Central Florida, which would have seemed inconceivable last season. Yes, it's preseason, but it's not a good sign for the Seminoles.


The other big upset saw DII Salisbury knock off Maryland just a week after the Terps scored an upset of Tennessee. This isn't college football. Interdivisional upsets are common. Harvard lost to a DII team last year and still reached the final four, so we won't wield inclement punishment on the Terps for falling to a top-five DII power. 

Indiana hasn't budged off the No. 11 line despite losing back-to-back games. That's because they lost both to higher ranked teams in the toughest division in D1-AA. Whether or not the Mudsharks are a good team isn't in question, nor will it be when they lose to Davenport Saturday, as they likely will.

Dartmouth improved to 4-0 over Brown, but looked human in doing so. The Big Green don't usually concede a bonus point in Ivy play, even if they're on the road in less-than-ideal weather. Will the close game just peeve Dartmouth into punishing also undefeated Princeton Saturday, or does it signal a chink in the armor the Tigers could take advantage of?

1 (1) Davenport  3-0 Won 75-0 over Ohio State
2 (2) Dartmouth  4-0 Won 24-17 over Brown
3 (3) UC Santa Barbara  0-0 Idle
4 (7) Miami (OH)  2-0 Won 52-31 over Indiana
5 (8) Bowling Green  3-0 Won 40-27 over Air Force
6 (4) San Diego State  0-0 Idle
7 (5) LSU  0-0  Idle (first game Oct. 15 against Texas State)
8 (6) Stanford  0-0  Idle (first game Nov. 5 against San Jose State)
9 (9) Florida  1-0
10 (10) Claremont Colleges  0-0 Idle
11 (11) Indiana  2-2 Lost 52-31 to Miami  
12 (15) Wisconsin  3-1 Won 19-10 over Minnesota
13 (18) Northeastern  4-0 Won 30-8 over Boston College
14 (13) Sacramento State  0-0 Idle (first game is Oct. 29 vs. Oregon)
15 (19) Princeton  4-0 Won 25-10 over Penn
16 (17) Minnesota  2-1 Lost 19-10 to Wisconsin
17 (12) Maryland  1-1 Lost 30-22 to Salisbury
18 (14) Tennessee  1-1
19 (23) St. Bonaventure  3-1 Won 36-20 over Binghamton
20 (20) South Carolina  0-0 Idle
21 (21) Oregon State  0-0 Idle 
22 (22) Loyola Marymount  0-0 Idle (first game Nov. 12 against UCLA)
23 (Unr.) Iona  3-0 Won 22-5 over Fordham
24 (24) Virginia Tech 1-0 Idle
25 (25) Kansas State 0-0 Oklahoma State game canceled

Dropped out:
(17) Florida State  1-1 Lost 15-13 to Central Florida