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Sometimes circumstances can be cruel. Rhode Island and Norwich are not bad teams, but when they lose to unranked opponents, and everyone else around them wins, well you have to move them down, and down, and finally they end up falling out.
It’s a tough business, this ranking thing. Miami drops five places from #1 to #6 after losing by one to unranked Dayton. Dayton we move up to #5, but it’s likely neither should be that high. Radford (pictured in front of the castle) moves up to #4, but we are still reserving judgment. Northern Colorado beats Mines well, and moves up a place as a result.
Rhode Island and Norwich drop out. UMass, which lost to Coast Guard, who we still don’t rank, and beat #15 Rhode Island, stays in. In a way it’s the luck of the draw. We think Coast Guard may well emerge as the best of this group. But we’ll see come playoff time.
Northwestern, undefeated in league play, and Vermont, 55-0 winners over aforementioned Norwich, move in
RugbyMag.com Men’s DII College Top 25
Oct. 22, 2009
1 (2) Middlebury 5-1 Defeated Williams, St. Michael’s
2 (3) Georgetown 5-0 Defeated Loyola, George Washington
3 (4) N. Colorado 3-0 (4-2) Defeated Mines (#7) 41-28
4 (8) Radford 4-0-1 Tied North Carolina (DI), defeated JMU
5 (Unr) Dayton 4-0 Defeated Cincinnati, Miami of Ohio (1)
6 (1) Miami of Ohio 5-1 (6-1) Defeated Cincinnati, lost 30-29 to Dayton
7 (7) Col. Sch. Mines 4-1 (6-1) Defeated Denver, lost 41-28 to UNC (4)
8 (9) West Virginia 6-0 Defeated Slippery Rock, Fairmont St.
9 (10) Indiana Pa. 4-0 Defeated Slippery Rock
10 (5) South Florida 0-1 All Florida Day
11 (6) Appalachian State 1-0 (4-0) Played Alumni
12 (11) Texas State 1-0 Cowtown Tournament
13 (12) Utah Valley 2-0 22-14 over Boise State
14 (18) Stony Brook 7-0 Defeated Marist, Hofstra
15 (19) Salisbury 4-0 (5-0) Defeated Mt. St. Mary’s
16 (Unr) Vermont, Defeated 3-1 Norwich (17) 55-0
17 (20) Bloomsburg 3-0-1 Defeated York
18 (16) Michigan State 4-1 Lost to Davenport*
19 (21) West Chester 3-1 (7-1) Defeated Millersville 6-0
20 (23) Humboldt State 0-1 Lost 25-8 to Oregon State (DI)
21 (24) Hamilton 5-0 Defeated Siena, Colgate
22 (25) Buffalo State 5-0 Defeated Niagara
23 (13) Arizona State 0-0
24 (Unr) Northwestern 3-0 (4-3) Defeated DePaul, Loyola
25 (14) UMass 5-1 Lost to Coast Guard, defeated Rhode Island (15)
*MSU fielded mostly B side
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