Early Sagarin Ratings

[HookedonGriz]

Here are the early Sagarin ratings for FCS teams as well as schedule rank (the lower the number on each, the better):

58. South Dakota St (41 schedule rank)
72. NDSU (179 schedule rank)
85. Montana (205 schedule rank)
100. Montana St (233 schedule rank)
102. Central Ark (201)
105. South Dakota (4)
107. North Dakota (88)
109. Idaho (69)
123. Sac St (98)
132. UC Davis (160)

 

[GrizWin99]

161. Western Carolina (150)

 

[EverettGriz]

Yikes! What is the bub's SOS going to be after they play Mercyhurst Hospital? We all knew their schedule was weak, but wow.

 

[HookedonGriz]

Yikes! What is the bub's SOS going to be after they play Mercyhurst Hospital? We all knew their schedule was weak, but wow.

think I saw mercyhurst is 261 out of 263 so not good.

 

[AZGrizFan]

Is that schedule rank TO DATE or including games not played yet?

 

[garizzalies]

Even my neighbor was embarrassed about their game this weekend and nothing embarrasses him including his wife.

Don’t think they are going which is shocking because they have not missed a home game recently and certainly not during the Wet Palm Tommy era. Because they would be staying home this weekend, I asked if he would finally paint that hideous shed and he said probably not.

He was so upset because apparently they are playing Lord Have Mercy again next year. He thought it was a home-n-home. Is that true? I couldn’t even tease him; it would be like kicking an injured dog.

 

[GrizWin99]

think I saw mercyhurst is 261 out of 263 so not good.

Correct.
261. Mercyhurst (239)
257. Morehead St. (44)

 

[GrizWin99]

Is that schedule rank TO DATE or including games not played yet?

All rankings are “to date”

 

[Da Boyz Mom]

Interesting that Montana is third in Sagarin and only ranked 9th in the STATS poll. Maybe the voters don't know much.

 

[HookedonGriz]

Interesting that Montana is third in Sagarin and only ranked 9th in the STATS poll. Maybe the voters don't know much.

It is an interesting convo. I like sagarin because it takes on so many data points (who have you played, was it home or away, did you win or lose, by how much, etc) and assigns points basically. It’s more of a black and white look as opposed to the polls which have so much bias and emotion. Both have their place.

 

[Dont Kick 2 Bergen]

If the cats lose more than one game with their schedule they should not make the playoffs this year.

 

[Mick Belker]

Correct.
261. Mercyhurst (239)
257. Morehead St. (44)

Who claims #262 and #263?

 

[principalgriz]

If the Cats play at Mercyhurst, it will be super tough. Stadium capacity is 2300. How can that be FCS?

 

[GrizWin99]

Who claims #262 and #263?

Mississippi Valley St.
Stetson

 

[PTGrizzly]

Interesting that Montana is third in Sagarin and only ranked 9th in the STATS poll. Maybe the voters don't know much.

Also interesting that Montana is ranked higher than ND in Sagarin despite the on field result.

 

[Mick Belker]

Infamous Stetson, on the scats schedule last year. Costello really knows how to pick 'em!
Scats only real test comes Sept. 28 in Holt, with Cody and Dan Hawkins as their host.

 

[EverettGriz]

If the Cats play at Mercyhurst, it will be super tough. Stadium capacity is 2300. How can that be FCS?

Which of course begs the question: what the fuck is Montana doing at this level!??

 

[GrizWin99]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838667567747207234

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838589298855038976

 

[Wolf777]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838667567747207234

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838589298855038976

Add Weber and Northern Iowa where you have 10 teams and can play a 9 game conference schedule and you have a pretty balanced conference East to West and North to South where you can crown a true champion.

 

[markson161]

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