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.

This is going to be an awesome race. Here are the official team projections for the 2017 NCAA Cross Country National Championship.

Place	Team	Points
1	New Mexico	132
2	Oregon	152
3	Colorado	179
4	San Francisco	188
5	Stanford	253
6	Arkansas	255
7	Michigan	266
8	North Carolina State	296
9	BYU	327
10	Providence	342
11	Villanova	355
12	Boise State	394
13	Penn State	415
14	Michigan State	416
15	Indiana	445
16	Wisconsin	451
17	Minnesota	452
18	California	473
19	Washington	473
20	Utah State	476
21	Furman	476
22	Eastern Kentucky	499
23	Georgia	507
24	Iowa State	530
25	Oklahoma State	607
26	Eastern Michigan	618
27	Syracuse	641
28	Ole Miss	651
29	Columbia	661
30	Dartmouth	700
31	Texas	789