Life, in comparison to BYU, can be summed up in a word -- small, as BYU is bigger in the pack and the midfield, and considerably so.

Saturday marks the third time St. Mary’s and Arkansas State have met in the playoffs in three years. In 2010 it was in Santa Barbara, Calif., and in 2011 it was in Jonesboro, Ark. Arkansas State won both. Saturday it will be in Moraga, Calif.

Arkansas State Head Coach matt Huckaby praised the contributions of his subs bench in their win over Army Saturday at West Point.

BYU is the best college rugby team in the country.

Look at their results. Sure, they haven’t played Cal, but they have played, and beaten, Utah, St. Mary’s, Air Force, Denver Barbarians, and Old Puget Sound Beach.

The USA 7s team is calling on an injury replacement

Last week Rich Cortez and Tam Breckenridge were announced as USA Rugby’s collegiate directors, Cortez as the director of collegiate rugby and Breckenridge as the associate director, and this week we’ve caught up with them to discuss their new roles.

The latest High School Girls Rankings.

Injuries hit the USA team as they tried to finish off the Glasgow 7s.

Alex Goff has a look at the juggernaut that is Old Puget Sound Beach.

The USA 7s team did well enough in going 1-2 in the Glasgow 7s Saturday, but also know it could have been more. A couple of mistakes against England cost them the game 19-12. And against Australia they saw a knock-on from Colin Hawley turn into a try at the other end of the field.

It's a fact that when all-star teams, such as All-American or All-D1-A teams get picked, most of the top players come from the winning teams.

One might recognize the background – a skilled back born in the USA and raised in Australia, who excelled playing in university there.

It remains very difficult to judge HS Club teams around the nation as they don't cross league boundaries too often.

The latest DII women's college rankings are (finally) out!

You could use the term “the hay’s in the barn,” and you’d be mostly right.

Time together.

The USA 7s team needs time together. That’s the message we’ve been getting for a while, and you can’t argue with the logic.

There are no changes in the top 7 of the RUGBYMag.com D1-A Top 20.

All of those teams did exactly what was expected of them, including #3 Life winning a close one over #4 Arkansas State, and Army just barely getting by Penn State, who were ranked one spot below.

There are some changes further down. Here's why:
Air Force has continued to play well. They have only lost to Utah and BYU, and they scored a total of 50 against those teams. Consider that BYU and Utah, in the 12 games they have played not against each other, have given up 151 points. Air Force is responsible for 1/3 of those.

We would love to see Air Force in a consolation bracket with some of the other hard-luck teams. We think they would win.

Kutztown is another hard-luck team, as is Navy. Both won this weekend, but looking at the totality of Air Force's performances, the Zoomies have to be above them.

Is UCLA worthy of a top eight? They are in the quarterfinals, after all. Maybe, but it's tough to tell given that St. Mary's has dominated the Pacific so much and the Pacific conference is so small. Right now UCLA is #11, but could earn a move up even if they lose in the playoffs ... they just need to compete.

Central Washington moves up two points after beating Cal Poly. This is an easy ranking to make now that the Wildcats have taken down the Mustangs. CWU were three points behind UCLA, and sit one rankings spot below. Delaware moves up despite losing, as they lost a competitive match to #10 Navy.

Now to two teams that need explanation. Colorado drops four places to 16, while Texas A&M moves up four after beating Notre Dame. It's not just about one game here. We can now look at the entire season for both, and realize we've been a bit too generous to the Buffs because of their close losses.

A&M finished 4-4 in the Mid-South, losing four to the two really good teams (Arkansas State and Life) and winning four over the teams that are struggling (Notre Dame and Oklahoma). Can't really fault them for that. They won the games they should have won, even on the road. Their average score against Life and Arkansas State was 6-63. That seems bad, the other two teams in the conference averaged 4-95 (!). So with that comparison, it seems fair to move them up a little.

Colorado has been problematic because they are 3-4, but three of their losses have been close, or at least competitive. They, like Air Force, have competed well with Utah, but were slammed by BYU this weekend. In the end it seems clear Colorado is not a top 12 team, but they are middle of the pack, and 14 seems right. They are better than Arizona, Arizona State, Wyoming and Colorado State, but not better than Air Force, and the overall results have born that out.

For the most part, the DI club rankings predicted the recent Round of 32 games quite well.

There was one upset, but if you'd have asked us how that game was going to go, we would have picked the lower-ranked team.

Do Alex Magleby’s changes in the USA 7s squad make a lot of difference?

Where will the Super League Final be held?

If you haven’t seen too much news from the USA Men’s National Team lately it’s because Head Coach Mike Tolkin and his staff have been quietly, but diligently, at work putting together the pieces of the 2012 season.

The Utah Brothers decision has opened up some important issues in how American rugby operates.

The recent playoff results of course force some movement in the Top 25 in women's DI college.

USA 7s team Coach Alex Magleby makes his moves now in his Camp invitations.