STATS FCS Poll 10/5/15

[DaCats21]

STATS FCS Poll
Rankings as of 10/5/2015
Rank School Votes Prev
1 Jacksonville State (4-1) 3802 (89) 1
2 Coastal Carolina (5-0) 3700 (39) 2
3 North Dakota State (3-1) 3646 (20) 3
4 Illinois State (3-1) 3472 (1) 4
5 James Madison (5-0) 3344 (8) 6
6 Chattanooga (3-1) 2932 8
7 Eastern Washington (2-2) 2746 9
8 South Dakota State (3-1) 2637 5
9 Youngstown State (3-1) 2504 10
10 UNI (2-2) 2472 7
11 Sam Houston State (2-2) 2075 12
12 Montana (3-2) 2047 13
13 Fordham (4-1) 1886 15
14 Villanova (2-2) 1701 14
15 Liberty (3-2) 1524 18
16 Richmond (3-1) 1361 19
17 Eastern Kentucky (2-2) 1314 17
18 Montana State (2-2) 1111 11
19 Indiana State (3-1) 979 21
20 Southeastern Louisiana (3-1) 972 22
21 New Hampshire (3-2) 966 20
22 McNeese State (4-0) 950 23
23 North Dakota (4-1) 682 NR
24 Harvard (3-0) 676 24
25 Portland State (3-1) 645 16

Others: Northern Arizona (281) , Cal Poly (84) , Alcorn State (82) , North Carolina A&T (77) , Western Illinois (75) , Lamar (70) , Furman (51) , William & Mary (40) , Dartmouth (31) , Bethune-Cookman (15) , Charleston Southern (15) , Samford (14) , Princeton (12) , Tennessee State (7) , Stony Brook (7) , Southern Illinois (5) , South Carolina State (3) , Jacksonville (3) , UT Martin (2) , Delaware (2) , Wofford (2) , Duquesne (1) , Western Carolina (1) , Southern University (1)

[John K]

STATS FCS Poll
Rankings as of 10/5/2015
Rank School Votes Prev
1 Jacksonville State (4-1) 3802 (89) 1
2 Coastal Carolina (5-0) 3700 (39) 2
3 North Dakota State (3-1) 3646 (20) 3
4 Illinois State (3-1) 3472 (1) 4
5 James Madison (5-0) 3344 (8) 6
6 Chattanooga (3-1) 2932 8
7 Eastern Washington (2-2) 2746 9
8 South Dakota State (3-1) 2637 5
9 Youngstown State (3-1) 2504 10
10 UNI (2-2) 2472 7
11 Sam Houston State (2-2) 2075 12
12 Montana (3-2) 2047 13
13 Fordham (4-1) 1886 15
14 Villanova (2-2) 1701 14
15 Liberty (3-2) 1524 18
16 Richmond (3-1) 1361 19
17 Eastern Kentucky (2-2) 1314 17
18 Montana State (2-2) 1111 11
19 Indiana State (3-1) 979 21
20 Southeastern Louisiana (3-1) 972 22
21 New Hampshire (3-2) 966 20
22 McNeese State (4-0) 950 23
23 North Dakota (4-1) 682 NR
24 Harvard (3-0) 676 24
25 Portland State (3-1) 645 16

Others: Northern Arizona (281) , Cal Poly (84) , Alcorn State (82) , North Carolina A&T (77) , Western Illinois (75) , Lamar (70) , Furman (51) , William & Mary (40) , Dartmouth (31) , Bethune-Cookman (15) , Charleston Southern (15) , Samford (14) , Princeton (12) , Tennessee State (7) , Stony Brook (7) , Southern Illinois (5) , South Carolina State (3) , Jacksonville (3) , UT Martin (2) , Delaware (2) , Wofford (2) , Duquesne (1) , Western Carolina (1) , Southern University (1)

The BSC is still getting a lot of respect...7 teams in the top 27. I think there are a lot of very good teams in the league this year, although probably not any great ones, including EWU. I think any team can knock off any other, including the bottom feeders from the last few years, like UC-D, WSU, PSU, UND, and UNCU. I thought UC-D was terrible, but they should have beaten UM last Saturday, if not for shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly. ISU may be reverting to form, and could be the worst team in the league. I was convinced that Kramer had that program turned around, but maybe not. Sac State is completely schizoid. They lost to WSU by 18, then almost beat EWU, before losing to UNCU last week. I don't see any team getting through conference play unbeaten, so theoretically we could still win the title, but obviously we've got some things to fix on defense, if there's going to be any chance of that happening.

[Griznationalist]

I understand the rankings, but UM really isn't playing that well. I would put the Griz no higher than #16.

[onceacat]

I understand the rankings, but UM really isn't playing that well. I would put the Griz no higher than #16.

Neither is UND. Sagarin has them at #8 in the conference, something like #44 overall.

[John K]

I understand the rankings, but UM really isn't playing that well. I would put the Griz no higher than #16.

Neither is UND. Sagarin has them at #8 in the conference, something like #44 overall.

Didn't they just beat Portland State? I don't necessarily think Sagarin is overrating them. They also have an FBS win. I'd say #8 in the BSC is about right, at this point.

[onceacat]

I understand the rankings, but UM really isn't playing that well. I would put the Griz no higher than #16.

Neither is UND. Sagarin has them at #8 in the conference, something like #44 overall.

Didn't they just beat Portland State? I don't necessarily think Sagarin is overrating them. They also have an FBS win. I'd say #8 in the BSC is about right, at this point.

UNDs wins (before Portland State) were all horrible teams. Davis, Wyoming, and Drake are something like 1-11 against FCS & higher competition. They got steamrolled by NDSU (which I've been arguing proves how overrated their D is). PSU beat Wazzu, but Wazzu isn't impressing anyone either. PSUs opponents are 2-5 against FCS competition. The computers hate both of these teams. The Big Sky is getting a free pass so far-UMs win over NDSU is looking flukey-UNI beat two top Big Sky teams....

[PapaG]

PSU beat Wazzu, but Wazzu isn't impressing anyone either.

j

Wazzu probably would have beat #24 ranked FBS Cal last weekend if not for a horrible fake punt in the 3rd quarter that ended up being a fumble return for a TD by Cal.