Dual Meet Rankings

Track & Field News used to do these, but gave it up at least a decade ago. With the resurgence of the college dual meet, it's time to get it rolling again.

Ranking rules...
1) A team cannot be ranked unless they have beaten at least one Division I team in a scored meet of four or fewer teams.
2) Split squad results don't count.
3) Rankings are a product both of how good a team is perceived to be, and how good their defeated opponents are perceived to be.
4) Head-to-head results are most meaningful.
5) While the rankings are for a combined indoor-outdoor season, outdoor results are considered more important than indoor ones.

Week one rankings...
MEN
1. Arkansas (1-0) beat Texas
2. Missouri (1-0) beat Kansas
3. Ohio State (1-0) beat Michigan
4. Indiana (1-0) beat Purdue
5. Wisconsin (3-0) won a quad over Marquette, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Southern Illinois
6. Princeton (1-0) beat Navy
7. Akron (2-0) won a tri over Bucknell and South Florida
8. Indiana State (1-0) beat Illinois State
9. Eastern Michigan (3-0) won a quad over Central Michigan, Oakland and Detroit

Women
1. Wisconsin (3-0) won a quad over Marquette, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Southern Illinois
2. Indiana State (1-0) beat Illinois State
3. Indiana (1-0) beat Purdue
4. Cincinnati (3-0) won a quad over Akron, Bucknell and South Florida
5. Boston College (3-0) won a quad over UMass, Sacred Heart and Boston University
6. Akron (2-1) second in home quad
7. Western Michigan (1-0) beat Toledo
8. Missouri (1-0) beat Kansas

Rankings will go deeper as the weeks pass.