USA Rugby recently announced the schedule for the nation’s new Collegiate Division I Premier Schedule, expected to launch in early March 2011.  The schedule, consisting of some of the top collegiate teams in America – and of course the University of California, essentially the best collegiate team (and better than many club teams) in the nation.

This is something the U.S. has needed for a while now, there have only been a handful of strong teams that have feasted on other teams in their local unions for too long.  Now by lumping together most of the best college teams in a Premier Division and getting them to play against each other beyond the National Championship tournament, where the eventual winner might only play a handful of the top teams.

The teams facing off include:

Pacific Conference

• University of California
• Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo
• Central Washington
• San Diego State
• Claremont
• St. Mary’s
• U Cal. – Davis
• UCLA

Western Conference

• Air Force
• Arizona
• Arizona State
• BYU
• Colorado
• Colorado State
• Utah
• Wyoming

Mid-South Conference

• Arkansas State
• Life University
• Louisiana State
• Notre Dame
• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Texas A&M

(What, no U Texas here?)

“RugbyEast” Conference

• Army
• Dartmouth
• Delaware
• Kutztown
• Navy
• THE Ohio State
• Penn State
• Rutgers

A complete schedule of games can be found at USA Rugby’s main Web site.