Literally no one here understands why you are hung up about cross country times. The reason cross country times do not matter is because every course has a different lay out and also, they are all different lengths.
For example, Josh Schraeder from UWL ran 27:27 at Griak and 23:49 at the Regional meet. You really expect me to believe that Josh improved his fitness by nearly 4 minutes in 7 weeks? I'd say its more reasonable that he was able to improve by as much as 90 seconds. Figure since it was hot at Griak and its a hard course, his time was slowed down by a minute. That other 90 seconds gives him a reasonable fitness guesstimate of 25 flat. So I'd be willing to say the regional course was as much as 400 meters short.
Another example, Tim Nelson ran 13:57 for 5k the spring before he ran his xc "8k" pr of 23:54. Do you really believe Walker Rynes, Zach Lee, Josh Schraeder, or anyone else who passed his pr at the regional meet that day could have beaten Nelson with 5k pr's that are 30 seconds slower than him?
Final example, Edward Cheserek's college xc "8k" pr was 23:06 at the 2015 Pac 12 xc championships. Based on the lists of pr's you copied and pasted, Darin Lau would have finished as Colorado's (They finished 2nd at nationals that year) 3rd man and 7th place overall with his 23:22, beating Ammar Moussa, Joe Rosa, Grant Fisher, Morgan Pearson, Matt Maton, Colby Gilbert, Jim Rosa, Jake Leingang and many more. Now, I think Darin Lau is a great runner, I think he should have gone DI, but Darin's 5k pr is 55 seconds slower than Ches. You really think he could have finished within 15 seconds of him with an extra 3k of racing added on?
Xc is about place, not time. If you want to hold a debate on top 10 school honor rolls, thats more interesting to us because we know all the tracks are certified lengths and surfaces.