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Everyone in the Top 15 stays the same, but there is some jockeying below that.
Cal Poly leapfrogs San Diego State on the back of their win against Chico State. While both southern Cal sides have 1-0 records, the Mustangs beat a team from a conference with a higher Power Rating, as opposed to the Aztecs who notched a victory over a team with the same Power Rating as theirs.
Minnesota checks in for the first time this season, and South Carolina makes its first ever appearance in the ARN rankings following a solid fall preseason.
Those two new entries have forced Rutgers and Buffalo to drop out altogether. Even though the Black Death and UB got to the NRU playoffs, they were eliminated from the national postseason, and as such, lose their spots in the Down Under Endeavours Top 25.
And while Texas A&M won the Big XII tournament at the weekend, all games were only 25-minute halves and therefore don’t count towards any team’s overall record.
1 (1) Penn State* (9-1) [4]
2 (2) Kutztown (7-2) [4]
3 (3) California (out of season) [5]
4 (4) Arkansas State* (5-0) [3]
5 (5) Army (7-0) [2]
6 (6) St Mary’s (2-0-1) [5]
7 (7) BYU (out of season) [5]
8 (8) Utah (7-2-1) [5]
9 (9) Navy (5-2-1) [4]
10 (10) Dartmouth (9-1) [2]
11 (11) Bowling Green* (13-0) [2]
12 (12) Central Washington (7-0) [3]
13 (13) LSU* (5-1) [4]
14 (14) Wyoming (5-1) [4]
15 (15) Virginia Tech (6-2) [4]
16 (16) Texas A&M (5-0) [4]
17 (18) Cal Poly (1-0) [4]
18 (17) San Diego State (1-0) [4]
19 (19) Syracuse (8-2) [2]
20 (20) Oklahoma* (8-1) [4]
21 (21) Florida* (8-1) [3]
22 (unranked) Minnesota (6-1) [2]
23 (22) Colorado State* (3-2-1) [4]
24 (23) Air Force (3-1-2) [4]
25 (unranked) South Carolina* (5-2) [3]
*denotes exhibition games