Apologies for the long delay. Vacation --> No WiFi --> Forum Drama and now we are finally back for the back-end of this series.
Iowa won in Middle America North, so Hawks now dominate all of Middle America. App State pulled off a massive upset over Wake while Davidson pulled off a decent showing as well.
All these teams are very close for me once again. A lot depends on the sport. Seeing at Georgetown is our "most hated" rival, I can't put them atop the list, so here goes the aggregate rankings -
The top 6 are really interchangeable depending on the context of the match - it turns into hockey-only, football-only, and then basketball-only depending on location so in retrospect not a great group to pick a favorite.
1. Anchorage
2. Fairbanks
3. Hawaii
4. Georgetown - for the good of the Big East only!
5. GWU
6. American
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7. Catholic University - Nice place, but I don't get the appeal of going to school in a city and then being that far away from the actual city. I'd much rather be in Foggy Bottom.
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8. Howard - Not that I hate them, but I much prefer Hampton in their rivalry.
Also, I'd like to note the DC schools picked the most obvious nicknames ever for their schools. I don't think I can even give them credit on that front.
Past polls:
AL;
FL;
IL;
NorCal;
MD;
KY;
CO;
Upper New England;
American Southwest;
Backyard Brawl;
Middle America;
North Texas;
MI;
LA;
NYC;
UT/NV;
GA;
Pacific Northwest;
WI/MN;
Eastern Mass;
IN;
NJ/DE;
Western Upstate NY ;
AR/MS;
East Carolina;
Great West;
Tennessee;
Eastern Pennsylvania;
Eastern Upstate New York;
South Carolina;
Western Massachusetts;
Ohio;
Virginia;
Connecticut/Rhode Island;
South Texas;
Western Carolina;
Iowa/NebraskaDC/Hawaii/Alaska