TSR's 2026 D3 XC Top 25 Team Rankings (Men & Women): Update #3

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Rankings constructed via Conor Daly, Kevin Fischer & Garrett Zatlin

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NOTE: These rankings are based on how a team fared throughout the entirety of a season, not just how they ran at a singular meet or (eventually) at the 2026 NCAA XC Championships. Click here to learn more about our ranking criteria (which was published in 2023).

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KEY

(Unranked):

Was not ranked in our last update.

(#/#):

First number indicates how much the team has moved in the rankings.

The second number indicates where the team was ranked in our last update.

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Men's Team Rankings

25. Colby

24. Lebanon Valley College

23. Middlebury

22. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

21. Hope College

20. Bates

19. Pomona-Pitzer

18. Wesleyan

17. Central College

16. Tufts

15. Williams

14. Washington U.

13. U. of Chicago

12. Amherst

11. Washington & Lee

10. Carnegie Mellon

9. UW-Stevens Point

8. MIT

7. NYU

6. North Central

5. RPI

4. UW-La Crosse

3. SUNY Geneseo

2. Johns Hopkins

1. Wartburg

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JUST MISSED (in no particular order)

Case Western

Calvin

UC Santa Cruz

Haverford

WPI

HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order)

Lynchburg

MSOE

Emory

John Carroll

UW-Whitewater

Notes

- N/A

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Women's Team Rankings

25. UW-Stevens Point

24. Carleton

23. Calvin

22. George Fox

21. Washington & Lee

20. Wesleyan

19. Bates

18. UW-Eau Claire

17. Connecticut College

16. Hope College

15. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

14. Emory

13. Vassar

12. Pomona-Pitzer

11. SUNY Geneseo

10. Carnegie Mellon

9. Washington U.

8. MIT

7. U. of Chicago

6. Tufts

5. Johns Hopkins

4. UW-La Crosse

3. Middlebury

2. NYU

1. Williams

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JUST MISSED (in no particular order)

Bowdoin

Colorado College

John Carroll

Wartburg

Central College

HONORABLE MENTIONS (in no particular order)

Ohio Wesleyan

Case Western

Amherst

Swarthmore

UW-Oshkosh

Notes

- N/A