Written by Pat Clifton    Sunday, 11 November 2012 22:45    PDF Print Write e-mail
Men's College 7s Scoreboard
Sevens - Collegiate Sevens


The final three automatic bids to the USA Rugby College 7s National Championships were won this weekend, with Dartmouth winning the Ivy Championship and Wisconsin the Big Ten title on Saturday and San Diego State winning California 7s Sunday.

So the teams who have won automatic bids are: Davenport, Lindenwood, Life, Northeastern, Texas A&M, Texas, Central Washington, Virginia Tech, Cal, San Diego State, Dartmouth and Wisconsin. Virginia Tech is the only team to turn down its bid.

The College Competitions Committee is expected to reward the 13 at-large bids Sunday night or some time Monday. Unlike last year, teams wishing to be considered for an at-large bid must have turned in an application for one by Sunday, so as to avoid teams turning down at-large invitations.  

Below is a table containing results from all of this season's DI college 7s tournaments RUGBYMag is aware of. Though we don't know which teams submitted applications to be considered for an at-large bid, we have a list of teams we think will be strongly considered.

It's not entirely clear whether the Competitions Committee will value quality of finish in one or two tournaments or participation in several tournaments more. But, we have made our guesses. RUGBYMag does not expect some teams which have played 7s this fall to have submitted applications, which is why they are not on our list.

Teams RUGBYMag thinks will receive at-large bids:
Air Force
Arkansas State
Cal Poly
Central Florida
Colorado State
Delaware
Georgia
Kutztown
NC State
Penn State
St. Mary's
Tennessee
Western Washington


Bold indicates automatic qualifying tournaments

Date Tournament 1st 2nd 3rd
8/25 MW 7s Round Robin Indiana

9/1 MAC 7s Davenport Bowling Green Notre Dame
9/8 Florida Circuit UCF Florida State
9/14 Ohio State Inv. Cal Navy Notre Dame
9/15 Florida Circuit Florida UCF
9/15 ACI 1 Virginia Tech NC State Davenport

Utah State BYU BYU B
9/22 Heart of America Lindenwood Arkansas Missouri
9/22 Florida Circuit UCF Florida
9/29 South Ind Life Arkansas State Florida State

St. Mary's St. Mary's St. Mary's B

ACI 2* Navy NC State Tennessee

NCRC Central Washington Oregon State

BYU BYU Utah
10/6 East Coast Northeastern Middlebury

West Coast Inv. St. Mary's Cal Poly Cal

Palouse 7s Central Washington Western Washington UBC-O

ARC - Norman Texas A&M Colorado State
10/13 SEC Texas A&M Georgia Tennessee

Stanford Cal Cal Poly St. Mary's

ACI 3 Kutztown Navy NC State

ACI 4 Life Life B Davenport
10/20 Southwest Conf Texas St. Edward's TCU

Rocky Mountain Air Force Colorado State Northern Colorado

NCRC Central Washington Western Washington Oregon State
10/27 ACRL Championship Virginia Tech Virginia Navy

SoCal San Diego State Cal Poly

Ivy North Yale Brown Dartmouth
11/3 PAC 12 Cal Utah UCLA

East DI-A Penn State Delaware Kutztown

ARC - Austin Texas A&M
Oklahoma
Baylor
11/10 Ivy League Dartmouth Penn Princeton

California 7s San Diego State Cal Poly St. Mary's

Big Ten Wisconsin Penn State Ohio State

ARC - Dallas Texas A&M Texas Tech Oklahoma
11/30 College 7s Nationals