(Justin Malko photo)

No prizes for guessing that this week’s Down Under Endeavours Top 25 was going to look a whole lot different to last week’s rankings.

In the wake of the opening rounds of the national playoffs, a bunch of teams have traded places.

In cricketing parlance, it’s virtually a new batting lineup.

Generally speaking, teams that won in both the Round of 16 and quarterfinals moved up, except for the top two who remain unchanged, sides that won on the first day but lost on the second either held their ground or climbed a place or two, while those schools that went 0-2, well, they dropped like stones.

As we said last week, just because you were in the Round didn’t necessarily mean that you automatically should have been ranked in the top 16, and that was certainly borne out in several cases.

(Justin Malko photo)

And as a result of how things panned out, some teams that didn’t qualify have jumped ahead of the 0-2 guys.

1 (1) California* (29-1) [5]
2 (2) BYU* (16-0) [5]
3 (4) San Diego State (11-0) [4]
4 (11) Army* (12-1-1) [2]
5 (5) LSU* (14-2) [4]
6 (6) Arkansas State* (12-1) [3]
7 (8) Cal Poly* (14-5) [4]
8 (9) Penn State* (12-4-1) [4]
9 (3) St Mary’s (19-2-1) [5]
10 (7) Utah (19-5-1) [5]
11 (12) Dartmouth (11-3) [2]
12 (10) Bowling Green* (20-2-1) [2]
13 (17) UC Davis (10-8) [5]
14 (14) Kutztown (12-3) [4]
15 (16) Central Washington* (13-5) [3]
16 (18) Air Force (6-3-2) [4]
17 (13) Navy* (8-8-2) [4]
18 (19) Texas A&M* (11-3) [4]
19 (22) Sacramento State (8-7) [5]
20 (15) Minnesota (8-4) [2]
21 (21) Rutgers* (13-3) [2]
22 (20) Tennessee* (7-8) [3]
23 (23) Florida* (12-3) [3]
24 (24) Oklahoma* (11-4) [4]
25 (25) Washington State (9-4) [3]

* Denotes inclusion of exhibition games