College Power Rankings, Presented by NUTC [April 2, 2025]

The last weekend of regular season play delivered major mix ups across all divisions, and a new #1 in D-I men's

April 2, 2025 by Ultiworld in Rankings

Ultiworld’s College Power Rankings, presented by the National Ultimate Training Camp. NUTC is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this summer!

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D-I Women’s Division Power Rankings

D-I Women’s Division Discussion

• 18-0! There was very little movement at the top, as Tufts kept their undefeated season intact and most of the top-20 were inactive.
• Welcome back to the rankings, Notre Dame and Minnesota! Echo powered through ECI until hitting the Tufts buzzsaw in the final, while Matrix atoned for early spring woes at Queen City with a very solid weekend in Delaware.
• It was the opposite for Northeastern and Penn. Both seriously underperformed at ECI to slip out of the rankings entirely.

D-I Men’s Division Power Rankings

D-I Men’s Division Discussion

• It’s Mamabird’s mountain at the end of the regular season. They notched wins over UMass, UNC, Oregon, and Cal Poly SLO en route to an Easterns title.
• Cal and Tufts were the week’s big gainers. Both rode impressive quarters runs at Easterns straight up the rankings.
• Northeastern took a big tumble after missing quarters, but nothing compared to Vermont (down 14 spots to #22), let alone Pitt and Michigan, who dropped out entirely.
• One team’s trash is another team’s… well, I don’t know if #24 and #25 are “treasures” per se, but Minnesota and UNC Wilmington are no doubt happy to be back in the picture.

D-III Women’s Division Power Rankings

D-III Women’s Division Discussion

• East Coast Invite was a boon for, well, East Coast teams, driving Wesleyan and Haverford/Bryn Mawr into the top 3. HBM scored impressive wins over D-I Pitt and Penn, but Wesleyan retain the head-to-head advantage. Both teams felled St. Olaf, dropping Vortex to #5.
• Mt. Holyoke collected few wins at ECI, but a nonetheless strong first tournament outing sees Daisy Chain up four.
• A tough Old Capitol Open for Macalester, capped by a one-point loss to a Wisconsin-Eau Claire team they’d previously beaten, drops the Pursesnatchers out of the top 10 and – even worse – potentially out of strength bid range.
• Rochester’s trip to the Northeast Classic final jumps them into the top 20. Ithaca join the rankings thanks to close losses to Rochester and a win over Wellesley, who settle just behind Kweezy.
• Trinity bears close losses to well-ranked teams throughout the season, but the lack of Ws drops Altitude to the penultimate ranking spot.

D-III Men’s Division Power Rankings

D-III Men’s Division Discussion

• A superb D-III Easterns vaults finalists Wesleyan to the top of the pack, semifinalists Williams into the top 10, and quarterfinalists Bates back into the rankings.
• Franciscan, UNC Asheville, and Davidson, however, all finished the weekend at .500 and sported tough upset losses. Oberlin’s Davidson win and Franciscan loss look that much worse in hindsight, dropping the Horsecows to #20.
• Shaky weekends at Huck Finn and Old Capitol Open drop Oklahoma Christian and Colorado Mines, respectively, as each played close or lost to teams below their weight. Macalester drop out entirely after only notching wins against Missouri at Huck Finn.
• Claremont slip back into the rankings to fill the vacancy, as their D3GP results have taken on an extra shine with the benefit of hindsight. And Asbury, a new team this year, explode onto the scene. Squeezing two tournaments into the final weekends of the regular season, big wins over Lipscomb and Butler pushed Asbury into bid-earning range – and our rankings at #11.

Subscribers, the regular season is in the books, so it’s time for end of term grades!

D-I Women’s Division

Contributions from Grace Conerly, Bridget Mizener, Edward Stephens, Emilia Scheemaker, and Graham Gerhart

1. Tufts – A. 100% win rate in the spring translates to an easy A for Ewo. The only fault against them is their lack of play against much of the top 10, namely Oregon, UBC and Colorado. Nevertheless, they can only play the opponents in front of them, and they did that with tremendous success.
2. Carleton – A-. It’s hard not to feel good about this Syz team’s nearly spotless 13-2 report card, their only losses coming against Oregon in January (avenged at NWC) and a windy one against — oh yeah, undefeated Tufts — nearly two whole months ago.
3. Colorado – B+. A+ if we’re just talking about progress. That said, the beginning of the season still counts, and there were some clunkers in the gradebook.
4. British Columbia – B+. Their epic collapse at the season’s premier tournament drags their GPA down, certainly, but doesn’t totally crater it – don’t forget UBC has two regular season titles this spring and a win over every team they’ve played (they split games with Colorado, after all).
5. Oregon – B. They are honestly about three games away from an A. The three games (two against UBC, and one against Michigan) are enough to make us question how high their academic ceiling can be, though.
6. Vermont – C+ (and something even harsher for those who gave them the preseason no.1). It’s not the grade Ruckus want, but it’s the one they’ve got. Beating Michigan and UNC in garbage time aren’t exactly the signature wins they were hoping for, and a pair of blowout losses to UBC and Carleton are eyesores.
7. Michigan – B+. After being locked out of the bracket of Queen City, Flywheel showed up to NWC on a mission. Their win over Oregon shows how high they can fly, but they still struggle to consistently beat the top teams in the division, which precludes them from the highest mark.
8. Cal Poly SLO – A. All year, we’ve been asking “are they for real?” Well, this just in: SLO Motion are for real. They’ve got seven wins over the teams in the #9 through 20 slots, played respectable losses against Colorado and Michigan, and gave Tufts their closest game all year.¹. Have a spring, SLO!
9. Washington – B+. For a team ranked so high, it feels wrong that the most you can say about their spot in the rankings is they “met expectations.” Washington doesn’t have any bad losses this season, but their record doesn’t stand out. You just know they have more to give in the postseason.
10. North Carolina – B. Effort matters, and Pleiades have been giving plenty of it. Their hard work is the reason they are this high. The ability, unfortunately, does not extend as far as in years past, and that’s a tough standard to measure against.
11. Stanford – B. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster season for ‘Fly. They’ve gotten mauled by Utah… and stomped SLO. They beat Michigan… and fell apart at the tail end of NWC. All told they landed just north of .500 and it’s looking like they’ll need to get healthy rápido if they’re going to pull off one of their patented Nationals peaks.
12. UC San Diego – B-. Seems like they’re wasting their brains. Can they actually ace a test and they’re just not doing it, or is this really all they’ve got?
13. UC Santa Cruz – A. Quite suddenly, Sol have all the earmarks of being a great team. How far will it carry them? Unclear, but both the fundamentals and the extracurriculars look awfully good at this point.
14. Utah – B-. Spiral Jetty are doing enough, but that’s what they did last year. No improvement from 2024 would be a disappointing 2025.
15. Victoria – B+. Hanging around the advanced classes long enough to get the backpack full of supplies? Is this the new season progression meta? Is there even more to come?
16. UC Davis – B-. Rogue have been simultaneously improving and falling behind, like one of those famous Hitchcock shots. But this isn’t film class, it’s the Southwest, and it isn’t good enough to get close to an A.
17. Brigham Young – C. After a few seasons of riding with the nerds, 2025 has been a bit of a letdown. Time to start the 2026 improvement plan.
18. UC Santa Barbara – C. Slipping from their lofty standards enough that you worry about where they’ll end up next year.
19. Western Washington – C+. It has been, in all frankness, a tough season from a team many expected to compete with most of the rest of the West Coast. They’re young, though, and they could find their footing at Nationals – or it might not happen until 2026.
20. UCLA – B. Good on them for staying relevant in one of the toughest regions in the history of the division. At this rate, it won’t be enough. The fact that they’re not out of it yet is fantastic, though.
21. Notre Dame – B. Echo really did have a very good weekend at ECI. It’s not their fault Tufts was stomping on teams all season long. They strung together a great pool and a run at the bracket for ECI. Extra effort (and performance) at the end of the season is certainly worth rewarding.
22. Virginia – B-. Virginia punched above their weight this season but took a lot of haymakers in the process. They weren’t able to earn another bid for their region, though, so all that hard work likely will lead to a title match against UNC for the region’s only bid.
23. Ohio State – B-. The weekend wasn’t predicted to be anything extraordinary, and it wasn’t. Fever came in seeded 5th and performed to exactly that. Pulling Tufts twice would dishearten any team, but only putting through one goal in their second meeting feels like throwing in the towel early.
24. Minnesota – B. This team is clawing their way up the end of season rankings and they nearly had the next spot as well. Their loss to Ohio State (by one) could have pitted them against the top of this list. They came into ECI ranked 13th and lost the 9th place match (also by one) to Virginia. If this team could find just 1% more, they’ll be leap frogging up the rankings.
25. Texas – B+. While it’s more of a look-ahead grade for 2026, Melee have to feel pretty great about getting the program back on track.

D-I Men’s Division

Contributions from Edward Stephens and Alex Rubin

1. Colorado – A. The season’s progression, the use of depth, the on-schedule star turn from Brooks, and, of course, acing the final exam. Mamabird are in great shape.
2. North Carolina– B+. Standards are high in the advanced classes. Between goofing off in a remedial one (Carolina Kickoff) and not finishing a big test after a great start (Easterns final), Darkside don’t get top marks. Doesn’t mean they’re not the brightest kid in class though.
3. Massachusetts – A-. Trips to the finals of three huge tournaments? The principal likes it. Now imagine what they’ll be able to do when they bring all their materials to class.
4. Oregon – B. It’s a tough grade to give a student who has pretty much nailed every assignment. Something about the work strikes us as a little off, though.
5. Carleton – B+. They’re doing so much right that you want to give them the A. But basic arithmetic – throw + catch = completion – has tripped them up in a few key grading periods.
6. Cal Poly SLO – A-. They’re like one cram session away from putting it all together.
7. Brigham Young – B+. Lots of work to hang their hat on, but one pesky problem (Washington) they couldn’t manage to get right all semester.
8. Oregon State – B+. Knocking on the door of top-of-the-class territory. Do they walk all the way in or have they tentatively left one foot in the hallway?
9. Cal – A-. Have they truly passed a tough assignment? Not exactly. But they have proven that they will be a tough assignment at Nationals.
10. Washington – B+. Every teacher loves a student who turns their academic career around after a tough year. This season’s comeback kids are the Sundodgers.
11. Brown – A-. See what happens when you study hard, kids? Honestly it’s as if B-Mo skipped a grade to get here, and they’re still keeping up.
12. UC Santa Cruz – B+. The Slugs are back! And as long as they don’t switch schools from Southwest State to Northwest Tech – where they haven’t been getting along with some of the other students – they’re going to end up just fine.
13. Georgia – C+. Jojah passed their tests this season, but they aren’t reaching the top-of-the-class levels they found last season. A signature win over UMass took place in January, but since then their best results are one point losses to Oregon, Colorado, and Brown.
14. Tufts – B+. Winning Centex and making the bracket at Easterns is great work for a student who was not too high on the teachers’ collective radar entering the season.
15. Texas – B, and a pleasure to have in class. Texas suffered no egregious losses, earned no unbelievable wins, and did exactly what they needed to for bid-earning purposes.
16. Northeastern – B-. Early season wins over Washington and Colorado are pushing this grade up (with extra credit for the West Coast travel!), but the Huskies have the talent to turn their sub-.500 record into a Nationals appearance if they buckle down ahead of Finals Week.
17. Western Washington – B+. Dirt hasn’t played the hardest schedule, but they made the final at Stanford Invite and Northwest Challenge despite hovering a bit off the Nationals radar entering the season.
18. Penn State – B. Penn State’s season grade doesn’t matter. This course is Pass/Fail and the final is a matchup with Pitt (out of the Ultiworld Top 25 for the first time ever!) in the regional final
19. Georgia Tech – A. For the first time in recent memory, Georgia Tech is fully in the Nationals consciousness. Taking down UNC back in February was a legendary moment, and a SMI win over Georgia gives Tech confidence heading into their Regionals showdown.
20. Victoria – B. Injuries to key players kept Victoria from pushing into the advanced classes early this season, but their improvement over the course of the season is worthy of praise.
21. British Columbia – C+. UBC took care of the quizzes (pool play) with ease, but had more trouble with the tests (bracket play) during the regular season. They’re a bid earner, so harder tests are still to come.
22. Vermont – D. Maybe expectations for the young prodigy were too high, but Vermont started the season ranked #8 in our Power Rankings and has come away with a losing record from every tournament they’ve played this year. That won’t be good enough at Regionals.
23. Washington University – B+. Without standing out too much, WashU got all of their work done and even got time to play on their phone before class ended while the teacher was busy helping other students. Another trip to Nationals seems likely for the bid-earners.
24. Minnesota – C. It’s been a tough year for this program, loading up their schedule with honors courses despite maybe being more situated for at-level classes.
25. UNC Wilmington – B. The troll of the school. UNCW won Easterns Qualifier after they already qualified for Easterns and then put a beatdown on their old rival Pitt once there. Not the brightest student, but everyone wants to be in their class.

D-III Women’s Division

Contributions from Zack Davis and Theresa Diffendal

1. Carleton Eclipse – A-. Aced all assignments, but attendance counts toward the final, and the teacher hasn’t seen this student since February. We’ll have to settle for eagerly awaiting their final presentation.
2. Wesleyan – A. Hard to argue with any of their accomplishments, and a #2 ranking heading into the postseason is impressive for a team that was happy with any Nationals appearance two years ago.
3. Haverford and Bryn Mawr – A. What more can you say when a student could skip a grade (read: division) and still ace the class (read: earn the OV’s sole D-I bid)?
4. Whitman – A-. Their two early assignments early bear one real blemish – a loss to Colorado College – and leave the committee hungry to see their improvements come the final.
5. St. Olaf – A-. Vortex flashed star student bonafides early in the semester, but a slump on their last exam – three point losses to Haverford/Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan – suggests they should hit the books in order to nail the final.
6. Lewis & Clark – A. Emphatically leap-frogging last year’s valedictorian with two wins at PACcon put the NW on notice, and goes to show consistent studying really does pay off.
7. Davenport – A-. The Panthers did well to resist the sophomore slump with wins over every D-III team they’ve faced, but you’d like to see them separate a bit more from squads like unranked Oberlin and Michigan Tech in order to earn top marks.
8. Colorado College – B. Losing to interregional rivals at the last tournament of the season isn’t a great look, but the Snow Melt project was phenomenal.
9. Middlebury – A-. While not the dominant scores of yesteryears, a win over the presumptive NE second bid-earner Wellesley has the Pranksters in pole position for region valedictorian.
10. Portland – B. Nothing really special to write home about, but clearly still a solid team. Have improved since midterms, but need a strong performance on the final to seal top marks.
11. Macalester – U. Not a pass, but not quite a fail either. Mitigating circumstances make this a tough grade to give; although no team is ever one player, not having Claire Lee takes the money out of the purse.
12. Kenyon – A. What more could you ask for from a team that earned a perfect 600 towards the rankings from point differential? The real test will come in the Series, when they finally pick on a team more their level.
13. Rice – A. A tough finish at Centex, but a BIG win for the Texas based team against their main opponents for a Nationals berth must fill them with confidence.
14. Mount Holyoke – B+. A last-minute assignment submission paints an incomplete picture of this student’s potential, but close results against top-of-the-class Haverford/Bryn Mawr give confidence they could steal the bid their low attendance couldn’t earn.
15. Michigan Tech – B+. The Superior Ma’s have shown their ability to fly through easier assignments. They’ll want to lean on their successes punching up – two wins over Michigan State – to overcome the tougher tests heading their way.
16. Union – B. They did all the homework, but the practice test against Ohio didn’t go too well. Hopefully it’s just a little exam anxiety and they can shake it off during finals season.
17. Williams – B+. Some end of semester cramming produced mixed results (split games with Swarthmore), but hopefully enough experience to fight for a top spot on the last exam.
18. Rochester – B+. The EZ Women could do with some hard effort down the home stretch to smooth out inconsistent results – namely split early season games with Wellesley, and a close Middlebury pool play game that devolved into a finals pasting – and make the most of their hard-earned bid.
19. Claremont – B. A statement win over regional rival Occidental portends a Nationals appearance, but it will take some additional tutoring to contend with the upperclassmen who put the Greenshirts through some light hazing at D3GP.
20. Ithaca – B+. Kweezy showed their work with clutch one-point wins over Lehigh and Wellesley. They can even see what’s keeping them from a 4.0 – two losses to Rochester, the looming obstacle in Kweezy’s path to the second ME bid.
21. Wellesley – B. The Whiptails’ only win over a ranked team came by one point against Rochester at a weather-ridden Garden State. Some extra after-school sessions might help defend the bid they earned by the skin of their teeth in a hungry region.
22. Lehigh – B+. Gravity were riding the high of a February win over a reduced Haverford/Bryn Mawr squad, but their ECI outing brought their GPA back to earth. The teacher suggests reviewing their notes to turn those close losses against Wesleyan and Mt. Holyoke into wins at OV Regionals.
23. Swarthmore – A-. After getting overlooked at the back of the class, the Warmothers caught the teacher’s eye thanks to split games with Williams and a one-point loss to Lehigh. A bit more focus, and this student has the means to cause a stir in the postseason.
24. Trinity – B-. Gossip spread about Altitude’s high potential after close losses to Rice, Union, and Colorado College. But losses won’t cut it when report cards come due.
25. Richmond – B-. In what seems like an easier class this semester, the AC hopefuls finally got their work in right under the wire. It’s a bit late, but has good bones.

D-III Men’s Division

Contributions from Josh Katz and Calvin Ciorba

1. Davenport – A+++++. Per the algorithm, Davenport are the best team in D-III regular season history, and it’s not particularly close.² That sort of dominance breaks all grading scales.
2. Elon – A. Brayden Morrison’s college debut has been as impactful as advertised, and the first year superstar has Elon poised to return to Nationals for the first time in a decade.
3. Middlebury – A-. It hasn’t been a perfect year for the Pranksters, with them picking up a couple odd losses here and there. Still, the perennial star pupil finishes the class right where they always do: near the top.
4. Wesleyan – A. We’ll take Wesleyan’s first tournament that included losses to Tufts B and Vermont B with a grain of salt. The Metro East team that hasn’t qualified for Nationals since 2021 could’ve not played a better Easterns, earning a second place.
5. Lewis & Clark – A-. This looks like the best iteration we’ve ever seen of Bacchus. It would’ve been easy to give them a straight A, but their Wesleyan and Whitman losses hold them back.
6. Whitman – A-. Whitman took on the toughest test of any team in the division, and should be proud of their performance back at Stanford Invite. Hopefully, being more battle tested this year will help the Sweets finally get past quarters.
7. Oklahoma Christian – C+. Considering their preseason expectations, Oklahoma Christian has let us down. Their highs demonstrate they are a championship-level team, but their lows are scary enough to miss Nationals.
8. Carleton-CHOP – B. CHOP decided not to show up for the second half of class, so their final grade remains just as it was on their mid-season report card. Hopefully, they won’t be too rusty when the Series starts.
9. Williams – B. For the first time in the last three years Williams took a step back, demonstrated by their losses to Rochester and Lewis & Clark. However, Charles Tantum and company are still in a good position to make a bracket run at Nationals.
10. Franciscan – B. On the whole, a solid year for Franciscan, though following up a superb River City Showdown with some less than stellar performances at D-III Easterns means some concerns will linger into the Series.
11. Rochester – B+. Wins against Richmond and Williams while earning the Metro East a second bid already make this season for Rochester a resounding success.
12. Asbury – A+. Not showing up to class until the very end is a bold strategy, but Asbury made it work. Now, a Nationals berth is well within reach. Not bad for a first-year program.
13. Colorado College – B+. Despite failing to turn in homework assignments, Wasabi’s grade is propped by excelling in their tests against Whitman and Middlebury while earning a bid.
14. Richmond – B-. Richmond did just about what was expected, narrowly earning a strength bid for the Atlantic Coast. And they get a bit of extra credit for trouncing Bates during Orange Whip’s good weekend.
15. St. Olaf – C+. The reigning champs simply couldn’t put it together in the regular season this year, most likely failing to earn a bid. They still have a chance at Nationals, but it will take quite an effort considering their 13-7 loss to rivals CHOP at the beginning of the season.
16. Bates – C. What else can you give to the most inconsistent student in the class? A mix of As and Fs throughout the semester sees us split the difference for an incredibly confounding team.
17. Missouri S&T – B-. Although they didn’t earn a bid, S&T’s results look good enough to have the chance again to steal Colorado College’s bid.
18. Bowdoin – B-. Clown surpassed our expectations this year with the amount of wins, but didn’t play strong enough tournaments to really prove their worth. In a stacked New England region with a lack of bids, Bowdoin will still need a miracle to make it back to Nationals for the first time since 2019.
19. UNC-Asheville – B-. The first exam was a resounding success, but the second one undid almost all of that good work. A good performance in the Series could easily resurrect this grade.
20. Oberlin – B-. Although a talented squad with a couple of good wins, Oberlin didn’t play well enough again to earn a bid, and must clutch up at Regionals.
21. Berry – C+. Thankfully for Berry, their regular season was focused on growth and development in their new era. The Bucks’ regular season left something to be desired, but still have an easy path out of the Southeast.
22. Puget Sound – C. Extra credit to Puget Sound to traveling across the country to test their skills against great teams. However, their results can only keep them at the bottom quartile of our rankings until they get some better wins.
23. Colorado School of Mines – C. After making Nationals in 2023, Mines continues to have preseason hype that fades by the end of the regular season. Not all hope is lost, as they did win over Colorado College at Snow Melt, so the potential to up their grade is still there.
24. Claremont – B-. It’s been a while since a Southwest team finished this high in the algorithm, and with a young team, Claremont is only on the rise.
25. Lipscomb – A-. For their first season as a team, Lipscomb can be very proud. A Regionals championship would only bump their grade to an A+.

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1. Tied with Carleton, both 9-7 ↩

2. In 2019, Middlebury finished the season with a power rating of 1638. Davenport are at 1980, per the most recent frisbee-rankings.com update. ↩