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COVID Withdrawals

• Minnesota has canceled Sunday’s scheduled meet against Maryland.
• That’s it so far!

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How to Watch

Meets marked ESPN and ESPN2 will be broadcast live on TV and can also be streamed online at the link provided for those who have a login from a TV provider subscription that includes those networks, which is all of them.

Meets marked ESPNU, SEC Network, and BTN will be broadcast live on TV and can also be streamed online at the link provided for those who have a login from a TV provider subscription that includes those networks, which is not all of them.

Meets marked P12 Network will be broadcast live on TV or on Pac-12 Insider and can be streamed online at the link provided for those who have a log-in from a participating TV provider subscription, which is almost none of them. The Pac-12 Network provides a free international feed on YouTube for those outside the US.

Meets marked BTN+ are streamed through a paid subscription to BTN+ ($15/month).

Meets marked SEC+ and ACC+ may be streamed on WatchESPN for those who have a log-in from their TV provider subscription—U-Verse, Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Xfinity, Verizon, Sling, Hulu, or YouTube TV.

Meets marked ESPN+ may be streamed through a separate paid subscription to the ESPN+ streaming service ($7/month).

Meets marked ESPN3 may be streamed on WatchESPN for those who have a log-in from a participating internet service provider, which is all of them.

Meets marked BYUTV will be broadcast live on TV on the BYU Network or streamed for free at the link provided. (You have to make a profile and log in—ugh—but after that it’s free.)

Meets marked Free Stream are free at the link provided from either a Pac-12 digital or school-specific stream.

Meets marked YouTube are…on YouTube.

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Week 3 Top 25

Note: These rankings include the meets from Monday because, you know, they’re already happened. They will therefore differ from the official week 2 rankings, which do not include Monday meets.

1.	Michigan	197.908
2.	Utah	197.425
3.	Oklahoma	197.317
4.	Minnesota	197.275
5.	Florida	197.217
6.	Denver	197.067
7.	LSU	196.950
8.	Auburn	196.883
9.	Alabama	196.817
10.	Missouri	196.725
11.	Cal	196.500
12.	Kentucky	196.400
13.	Arkansas	196.325
14.	Oregon State	196.275
15.	Michigan State	196.233
16.	Arizona State	196.188
17.	Iowa	196.125
18.	Western Michigan	196.113
19.	Stanford	196.000
19.	Southern Utah	196.000
21.	BYU	195.800
22.	Ohio State	195.742
23.	Utah State	195.725
24.	UCLA	195.575
25.	North Carolina	195.467

Keep That Score

• #1 Michigan – Michigan won the first-to-198 race with a 198.025 on Monday against Minnesota in what proved to be an early frontrunner for meet of the season. That makes three weeks running (as long as we include Monday, which I do) where Michigan has recorded the nation’s team score, and everything is looking rather peachy. Michigan will particularly enjoy reaching 198 at a competition where bars and beam were…fine but exhibited clear room for improvement. The score could have been plenty higher. 
• #3 Oklahoma – Prior to Michigan’s 198, it was Oklahoma that enjoyed the top score of the week with a recovery 197.900 against Arizona, helping to put away the counting-fall loss to Utah from the previous weekend. Was it good? Probably, but who can say. The punctured cocaine blimp that shot this meet didn’t give us a full sense of Oklahoma’s performance.
  
• #4 Minnesota – Though Minnesota lost to Michigan on Monday, the team score of 197.650 ended up just a tenth off the team’s all-time record, and in the process, Minnesota managed to annihilate its previous record floor score and put up what was easily the best vault performance I’ve ever seen from a Minnesota squad. Like Michigan, Minnesota will be licking its chops about the possibility of record scores in coming weeks given that this total was already huge, despite a beam performance that wasn’t even that great.
• #6 Denver – Denver’s 197.600 from its third meet was just .050 shy of its best score from all of last season and currently stands as the #3 road total in the country this season, behind only Michigan and Oklahoma’s meets from this week. While Denver will enter Sunday’s visit to Oklahoma as the underdog, the performances have been close enough for Denver to entertain realistic hopes of a repeat of Big 12s. 
  
• #8 Auburn – Auburn followed one of its best scores ever in week 2 with another of its best scores ever in week 3, going 197.350 in defeating Iowa State at home. Most exciting for Auburn will be that this score was achieved with Lee competing on only two events and falling on beam. It was largely the product of the rest of the team, which speaks highly of what Auburn will be able to do when Lee is competing at her best level.
• #9 Alabama – Alabama’s 197.650 for its home opener was a massive improvement over the scores from the first two weeks and now gives Alabama not only its first countable NQS score but also an edge over the conference challengers like Auburn and Arkansas whose peak performances are in the lower 197s thus far. Things are going to get dicey in that area of the rankings this season, and Alabama has now staked a potential “rising above” score. 
• #14 Oregon State – Aside from being a high score that the team will want to keep around for NQS, Oregon State’s 197.000 from Sunday was full of symbolism as the Beavs finally reached 49.000 on bars, the first time they’ve done so since pre-COVID, signalling the ability to move past the gully that was bars during the 2021 season and toward a return to competitiveness.
• #18 Western Michigan – WMU set a program record this week with 196.225, the team’s second 196 in as many meets this season. While scores are trending way, way, way up this year and what used to count as a competitive number may not hold this time around, Western Michigan should already be set with two of the six NQS scores required to qualify to regionals. Last season, Western Michigan made regionals for the first time in the NCAA era and is on track to do it comfortably this year.
• #25 North Carolina – This week’s 196.475 ranks as North Carolina’s highest score since the end of the 2018 season. For a team that hasn’t qualified to regionals since 2017 despite having been talented enough to do so every single time, putting this kind of score in the bag early will take some pressure off those end-of-year road competitions to be *absolute best meet.*

Note on score trends: Missouri currently sits at #10 in the rankings with an average of 196.725. The highest mark for a #10 team at this equivalent point in any previous season was 196.200. We’re already seeing the need to adjust expectations for what constitutes a good score this year—and at the top of the rankings, adjust them pretty significantly. 

Drop That Score

• #5 Florida – Florida fell below 197 this week, going 196.975 for a scattered performance that continued a theme for Florida early this season, but the big story for the moment is injuries. We’re just three weeks in, and Morgan Hurd, Ellie Lazzari, and Halley Taylor are all already lost for the season. The remaining team is talented and deep enough that it can win a championship, but what seemed a month ago like an embarrassment of riches that a person couldn’t possibly winnow down into a lineup of six is not embarrassing anymore, with very specific athletes who need to be competing on all their events for Florida to look like a championship team. 
  
• #12 Kentucky – A counting beam fall this week left Kentucky with a 196.275 from what might otherwise have been a juicy road score opportunity at Alabama. It’s not a disastrous total but also definitely not a keeper when six of the teams in the conference have already gone 196.850+, including Missouri, Kentucky’s next opponent. Kentucky will be eager to upend the scoring trend in that one.
  
• #33 Arizona – After an encouraging first-week result that had Arizona in the top 25, a 193.775 this week, coming as a result of a mid-routine bars injury to Malia Hargrove and three other falls in the rotation, now has Arizona sitting behind Stanford and Washington in the conference standings. 
• #36 Georgia – For a moment, it seemed as though Georgia would use the opportunity of a home meet to recover from the rough start and get a fine, sensible, drama-free 196. Then beam happened. Five consecutive falls later, Georgia was left with a 194.475. Up next, home against LSU, where Georgia will hope to match that wheeeeee-home-floor life with…some other events.

All That Remains Is Chaos

• #24 UCLA – Uneventful, everything’s fine. UCLA’s 196.300 from Sunday is not a score the team will want to keep around, nor one that befits a roster of this talent level, but I doubt I’m alone in thinking it was going to be worse. The team arrived with semi-full lineups, semi-ready to hit a meet. This was more like a typical, “La la la, oh UCLA, won’t do full lineups until April” performance. On the injury front, however, Marz Frazier is going to be out much of the season now with her broken foot and Chae Campbell had to scratch beam and floor after her vault landing, neither of which the team can at all afford.
  
• #31 Washington – For Washington, a 195.450 final score isn’t a keeper and won’t achieve the goal of making it back to regionals if the scores continue at that level, but it did serve as a proof of life post. Last year, it took Washington until March before the team got a single rotation score into the 49s or a total of this level. So the progress is happening faster. 

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COVID Withdrawals

• Friday’s Arkansas @ LSU meet has been postponed.
• Illinois has withdrawn from its scheduled Friday meet at Nebraska.
• Boise State has withdrawn from its Friday meet against Utah State. Utah State will instead join the Arizona meet on Saturday.
• Both meets between UC Davis and Alaska this weekend are canceled. Davis now joins the UCLA/Oregon State meet.
• William and Mary and Penn have postponed their Saturday meet. Penn will instead join the New Hampshire meet on Sunday.

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How to Watch

Meets marked SEC Network will be broadcast live on TV and can also be streamed online at the link provided for those who have a log-in from a TV provider subscription—U-Verse, Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Xfinity, Verizon, Sling, Hulu, or YouTube TV.

Meets marked P12 Network will be broadcast live on TV and can also be streamed online at the link provided for those who have a log-in from a participating TV provider subscription. The Pac-12 Network provides a free international feed on YouTube for those outside the US.

Meets marked BTN will be broadcast live on TV and can also be streamed online at the link provided for those who have a log-in from a TV provider subscription that includes the Big Ten Network.

Meets marked BTN+ are streamed through a paid subscription to BTN+ ($15/month).

Meets marked SEC+ and ACC+ may be streamed on WatchESPN for those who have a log-in from a TV provider subscription—U-Verse, Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Xfinity, Verizon, Sling, Hulu, or YouTube TV.

Meets marked ESPN+ may be streamed through a separate paid subscription to the ESPN+ streaming service ($7/month).

Meets marked ESPN3 may be streamed on WatchESPN for those who have a log-in from a participating internet service provider, which is basically all of them.

Meets marked Free Stream are free at the link provided from either a Pac-12 digital or school-specific stream.

Meets marked YouTube are…on YouTube.

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Week 2 Top 25

Note: These rankings include the meets from Monday because, you know, they’re already happened. They will therefore differ from the official week 2 rankings, which do not include Monday meets.

1.	Michigan	197.850
2.	Utah	197.438
3.	Florida	197.338
4.	Oklahoma	197.025
5.	LSU	196.950
6.	Minnesota	196.900
7.	Denver	196.800
8.	Auburn	196.650
9.	Missouri	196.600
10.	Kentucky	196.525
11.	Alabama	196.400
12.	Cal	196.325
12.	Arkansas	196.325
14.	Arizona State	196.275
14.	Stanford	196.275
16.	Michigan State	196.175
17.	Iowa	196.008
18.	Western Michigan	196.000
19.	Southern Utah	195.775
20.	Oregon State	195.550
21.	Arizona	195.500
22.	BYU	195.488
23.	Utah State	195.413
24.	Ohio State	195.388
25.	Kent State	195.300

Keep That Score

• #1 Michigan – Michigan kept rolling on Saturday by recording the highest score in the country for the second week in row, a 197.950 in defeating Arizona State. That score ranks tied for #5 on Michigan’s all-time score list, and the “I’m a famous team now” 49.700 on floor is tied for the overall school record. The last time Michigan scored 197.950—all the way back in the black-and-white days of February 2020—it was the program record. Given the uncertainty of meet scheduling this year, notching two NQS-worthy scores in the first two weeks is nice work if you can get it.
• #2 Utah – Utah will most enjoy the defeating Oklahoma of it all this week—which hadn’t happened since 2015 Super Six—but also the 197.775 that spent a whole 19 hours as the top number in the country is a definite keeper already in week 2. Last season, it took Utah until April to get a score that high, and it only happened twice: regionals and championships.
  
• #6 Minnesota – Minnesota should be very pleased by a 196.900 opening score that featured quality mixed with lots of room to improve. While Ramler’s nation-leading 39.700 in the all-around and two 9.950s is obviously the story, perhaps the most important routine for Minnesota came from Halle Remlinger on floor because if she’s actually able to do FX again this season with full difficulty, that would go a long way toward elevating Minnesota’s weak event from last year.
  
• #8 Auburn – Auburn picked up a huge away victory this week, defeating Arkansas with a 197.250—Auburn’s #5 score in team history and 2nd-best road score ever, ranking below only a 197.325 at Georgia in 2016. A newly noteworthy characteristic of Auburn’s lineups was a lack of having to put gymnasts up on apparatuses that you’d rather not have to use them on and then hoping. Everyone is able to be limited to their good events.
• #12 Arkansas – Though Arkansas lost that meet to Auburn, the final 197.200—which nearly broke into Arkansas’s own all-time top 5—is an exceptionally useful score and represented a major recovery from the previous week’s troubles. First-year Leah Smith debuted in the all-around to help the lineups look much more complete and competitive than they did in week 1, even though the injury to Cami Weaver on vault represents a blow to the team’s 10.0 start hopes. 
  
• #14 Stanford – Stanford’s back? The first-week 196.275 that Stanford put up in losing to Cal didn’t just represent a cleansing of the “there’s no one here and practice is also the forest” half-season from 2021, but it would have ranked as the 2nd-best score of the whole year in both the 2020 and 2019 seasons as well. It was the most optimism-inducing Stanford meet in ages.
  
• #16 Michigan State – MSU followed its encouraging high-195 opening meet with a 196.475, a massive score for a program that has gone into the 197s only once (and that was almost 20 years ago) as Lea Mitchell returned on two events and both L10-standout first years, Stephen and Schulte, produced counting scores on every piece. Overall, 17 of the 24 routines came from first years or sophomores.  
• #18 Western Michigan – Western Michigan also opened with a very impressive 196.000, which is less than two tenths shy of the team’s all-time record. It’s probably due to WMU changing its logo to something way less ugly. I’m almost sure of it. We’ve seen Western Michigan start quickly before and rank in the top 25 in the early weeks before falling off, so the team will be eager not to drop right into the 193s or 194s this time.

Drop That Score

• #3 Florida – While Florida will have been pleased to snatch the victory in Sunday’s meet, there were a lot of errors in that performance and the score was still just a 197.000, which is not a counting total for Florida as the team continues to roller coaster around from routine to routine in these early meets.  
  
• #4 Oklahoma – Oklahoma suffered its first regular-season loss since 2018 in falling to Utah with 196.650. It was a performance not wholly dissimilar to the struggle meets from the beginning of last season that were promptly forgotten, but this is will be a different kind of season for the typically fast-starting Oklahoma in which the team is going to open with some medium-understaffed lineups and aim to increase the quality as things go. We shall see. 
  
• #28 UCLA – The Bruins begin the season ranked outside the top 25 after a first-meet apocalypse that featured a counting fall on bars, basically a counting fall on vault, and all manner of 9.6s and 9.7s for 194.850—UCLA’s lowest total since the memorable everyone-to-the-dungeon-except-Peszek 2015 visit to Utah. There will now be some pressure on Sunday’s meet at Oregon State to show that this was merely a first-competition, COVID-era kind of performance and not…just how this team is. UCLA’s schedule this season doesn’t have a lot of allowance for bad early road scores. 

All That Remains Is Chaos

• #11 Alabama – On the one hand, Alabama can bask in the righteous self-assuredness that they probably should have been the winners of Sunday’s meet against Florida, but at the same time, the total was still just 196.925. That’s much better than the week before but not the kind of score that a team like Alabama will look to count and not what you want from a juicy road score opportunity like Florida.
• #20 Oregon State – Oregon State reveled in the start of the Carey era, with her all-the-titles debut performance that led the team to a 195.550—a world away from the 191 that started last year. Yet, bars remained a huge problem for a roster that isn’t really supposed to struggle on bars this year, at least nowhere near like last year.