IdaGriz01
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The coming weekend is a bit of a “good news -- bad news” deal. There are three ranked-vs-ranked matchups (four if you count the North Dakota - Weber State Big Sky “conference” game). But we also have a bunch of ranked teams playing opponents with losing records. (Example: NDSU gets 1-8 Western Illinois for a home game. :? )
There are a few cases where the opponent for the ranked team has a winning 5-4 record … I used the best of those (based on the Sagarin numbers). That still left me short of choices, so I looked for some other games that look competitive between unranked opponents. One has a kind of funny twist: Austin Peay vs UT Martin. It happens that those were the top two “Others Receiving Votes” in yesterday’s STATS poll. Since Dartmouth and Princeton are hogging two meaningless poll spots, it just seems right to include that matchup. It helps that both have nice 6-3 records.
To round out the list, I included the SHSU at Abilene Christian game, which the Sagarin numbers say will be very competitive.
As usual, underdog on the left, you can pick two, and you can change your mind later.
There are a few cases where the opponent for the ranked team has a winning 5-4 record … I used the best of those (based on the Sagarin numbers). That still left me short of choices, so I looked for some other games that look competitive between unranked opponents. One has a kind of funny twist: Austin Peay vs UT Martin. It happens that those were the top two “Others Receiving Votes” in yesterday’s STATS poll. Since Dartmouth and Princeton are hogging two meaningless poll spots, it just seems right to include that matchup. It helps that both have nice 6-3 records.
To round out the list, I included the SHSU at Abilene Christian game, which the Sagarin numbers say will be very competitive.
As usual, underdog on the left, you can pick two, and you can change your mind later.
