Kutztown's Chris Pettine takes it up

The latest batch of results from around the country again has caused some movement in the ARN rankings, and again for the most part it has all taken place in the bottom half of the Down Under Endeavours Top 25.

The team that has benefited the most this week is Boston College. The Eagles have leapfrogged a couple of other teams following their victorious 40th anniversary match, while Texas A&M has gone the other way on the back of a couple of losses on the road in Utah.

UC Davis also has profited from other teams’ misfortunes even though they’re still idle. The Aggies have a new head coach in Andy Malpass, who steps in to fill the void created by Steve Gray’s decision to step down.

Ohio State moves up a spot after another good win, Rutgers falls one place behind a loss in the final regular season game in the Met New York Conference, while Oklahoma reappears in the rankings after a lengthy hiatus. The Sooners have been racking up some impressive Ws along the way. And Vassar dropped out altogether following their loss to Columbia in Met New York, a result that knocked the Brewers out of contention for a shot at a place in the Northeast playoffs.

After plugging in the data, accounting for Power Ratings, and looking at the head-to-heads, here is the latest Down Under Endeavours Top 25.

1 (1) California (idle) [5]
2 (2) BYU (3-0) [5]
3 (3) Navy (5-0-1) [4]
4 (4) St Mary’s (idle) [5]
5 (5) Army (6-0) [2]
6 (6) Kutztown (5-0) [4]
7 (7) Delaware (4-1) [4]
8 (8) Cal Poly (idle) [3]
9 (9) Tennessee (4-0) [2]
10 (10) Utah (4-1) [5]
11 (11) Wyoming (3-0) [3]
12 (12) UC Santa Barbara (idle) [3]
13 (14) UC Davis (idle) [5]
14 (16) Boston College (4-1-1) [2]
15 (15) Harvard (3-1-2) [2]
16 (13) Texas A&M (0-2) [3]
17 (17) San Diego State (0-1) [3]
18 (18) Bowling Green (7-0) [1]
19 (19) Penn State (2-3) [4]
20 (20) USMMA (7-0) [2]
21 (21) Buffalo (6-0) [2]
22 (22) Dartmouth (4-1-1) [2]
23 (unranked) Oklahoma (4-0) [3]
24 (25) Ohio State (4-3) [1]
25 (24) Rutgers (5-2) [2]