Utah M1 debuts at #8 in first ACHA ranking of spring semester

January 17, 2025
Salt Lake City, Utah

The first computer ranking of the Spring 2024 semester have been released by the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

Your Skatin’ Utes have climbed to #8 in the Nation with an 11-3-1 record, and looking to improve that record this weekend at the 2025 ACHA Men’s Division 1 Showcase where Utah will take on #61 Alabama, #11 Maryville, and #35 Illinois State. The following weekend they will travel south to Tucson, Arizona and battle #16 University of Arizona in the Tucson Event Center.

After a quick trip to Arizona, the Utes will be at home for the following four weekends with the Utes hosting #2 UNLV, #41 Colorado State, #12 Grand Canyon, and closing the regular season with #50 University of Oregon.

The Western Collegiate Hockey League, of which Utah M1 is a member, had a strong performance with six (of 11) of its member teams ranked. The Great Lakes 6 Hockey Conference, had four (of 6) of its member teams ranked, while Midwest College Hockey has four (of 10) of its member teams ranked, and the Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League has three (of 6) of its member teams ranked.

The ACHA will use the two computer rankings generated by USHSHO.com, Ranking A (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 7) and Ranking B (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 1), and come up with an average of the two rankings. The ACHA will then use the list generated from the average for its weekly ranking. Ties will be broken using the higher ranked team from Ranking B until the Top 25 teams are listed. All games that go to overtime will be scored as ties in the computer ranking.

Now in its 34th season of action, there have been a total of 14 schools that have won the ACHA Men’s Division 1 National Championship. Over the past 19 seasons, 12 different schools have won the ACHA Men’s Division I National Championship: Penn State (5), Lindenwood (4), Ohio (4), Adrian (3), Minot State (3), Central Oklahoma (2), Illinois (2), Arizona State, Davenport, Iowa State, Oakland, Delaware,   and Rhode Island.

A total of 73 teams will compete in Men’s Division I this season, including former Men’s Division II member Drury University and former Men’s Division III members Northwood University and Saginaw Valley State University.

The computer ranking will be used for the eleventh time to determine the 24 teams that qualify for the 2025 ACHA Men’s Division I National Championships, which will include the following eight auto bids:

-(CHMA) College Hockey Mid-America
-(ECHA) Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association
-(ESCHL) Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League
-(GLCHL) Great Lakes Collegiate Hockey League
-(MCH) Midwest College Hockey
-(NECHL) Northeast Collegiate Hockey League
-(WCHL) Western Collegiate Hockey League
-(WHAC) Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference

Full Men’s Division 1 rankings can be found here.

The eleventh ranking of the regular season will be released on Wednesday, January 19, 2025.

2024-2025 ACHA MEN’S DIVISION 1 RANKING #10