The 2017 NCAA Cross Country Championships are here. It’s been a long time coming. I can think back upon opening Excel in the summer to start up on crunching the numbers for this but it’s finally real. In the very first rankings, I left out BYU because I didn’t want to show any bias and didn’t want it to have an impact on the team seeing the numbers but word gets around and the team showed how good it was so it would be silly not to include them. For those curious on the method to the madness, here is the introductory post on how I’ve devised my rankings and ratings from back in September. We’ll see how right and how wrong I am on Saturday. Regardless of my personal results, we are in for a thrilling race and one of the best in years on both the individual and team levels.

You’ll hear from me again after the NCAA cross country championships when we wrap up all the action but if this is one of the last things that you read from me, thank you for following along all season. You can reach me at @Wood_Report on Twitter. If you’re in Louisville, say what’s up. I’ll be the tall guy in BYU apparel.

Place	Team	Points
1	BYU	85
2	Northern Arizona	86
3	Syracuse	186
4	Stanford	225
5	Portland	230
6	Arkansas	249
7	Colorado	270
8	Oklahoma State	324
9	Oregon	340
10	Furman	342
11	Colorado State	351
12	Washington	390
13	Southern Utah	415
14	Ole Miss	428
15	Iona	429
16	Alabama	436
17	Iowa State	457
18	Virginia Tech	463
19	Michigan	473
20	Air Force	492
21	Middle Tennessee State	495
22	UCLA	515
23	Texas	519
24	Michigan State	521
25	Princeton	557
26	North Carolina State	605
27	Boise State	618
28	Utah State	638
29	Virginia	642
30	Washington State	732
31	Navy	788