IdaGriz01
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1. NDSU (9-0) [1]
2. New Hampshire (7-1) [2]
3. Coastal Carolina (9-0) [3]
4. Jacksonville St (7-1) [5]
5. EWU (8-2) [6]
6. McNeese State (6-2)) [9]
7. Fordham (8-1) [10]
8. Villanova (7-2) [4]
9. Youngstown St (7-2) [11]
10. Montana (6-3) [12]
11. Richmond (7-2) [13]
12. Illinois State (7-1) [7]
13. Chattanooga (6-3) [14]
14. Montana State (6-3) [8]
15. SE Louisiana (6-3) [15]
16. Eastern Ky (8-1) [16]
17. Indiana State (6-3) [19]
18. Harvard (7-0) [20]
19. Bethune-Cookman (7-2) [21]
20. UNI (5-4) [22]
21. Cal Poly (6-3) [NR]
22. James Madison (6-3) [NR]
23. W&M (5-4) [17]
24. SDSU (5-4) [18]
25. Bryant (7-1) [25]
NR Albany (6-3) [23]
NR SF Austin (6-3) [24]
This little game is much more fun when the Griz win. :lol: :lol:
Going into the weekend, we knew four ranked teams would end up with losses ... since they were playing other ranked teams. But add in three games where unranked teams upset ranked teams, and you can expect some stirring of the pot.
I project that Villanova will drop just four spots, since they lost by only one point to a ranked team, on the road. It would not surprise me if they did not go down even that far. Illinois State was also on the road and lost to a ranked team; however, they lost to #22, and by a considerably larger margin.
With the I-State and MSU losses, I project that the Griz will squeak back into the top ten.
Of course, MSU's loss was also on the road ... but to an unranked team. The fact that Cal Poly should have been ranked may soften the blow a bit, so I can see the kitties being around #12 rather than the #14 the normal “formula” suggests.
The same factor -- that many pollsters might feel JMU should have been ranked -- might help W&M stay a bit higher, but that 5-4 record is just ugly. Same goes for SDSU: Getting clobbered on the road by the best team in FCS might not hurt them that much ... except they too now have a 5-4 record.
Of course, UNI also has a 5-4 record, but they’ve been gaining momentum, so: Who knows?
When you’re barely into the top-25, you just can’t afford to lose a game. With Albany and SFA dropping out, two spots open up. If the pollsters don’t give one of those to Cal Poly, then ... screw the polls. It was a toss-up between NAU (second among “others receiving votes” last week) and JMU. Despite some good recent publicity from TSN for the Big Sky, I just don’t see the pollsters adding two BSC teams to the top-25 at the same time. So I went with JMU. (The fact that NAU had so much trouble with pathetic Weber State won’t help them either.)
2. New Hampshire (7-1) [2]
3. Coastal Carolina (9-0) [3]
4. Jacksonville St (7-1) [5]
5. EWU (8-2) [6]
6. McNeese State (6-2)) [9]
7. Fordham (8-1) [10]
8. Villanova (7-2) [4]
9. Youngstown St (7-2) [11]
10. Montana (6-3) [12]
11. Richmond (7-2) [13]
12. Illinois State (7-1) [7]
13. Chattanooga (6-3) [14]
14. Montana State (6-3) [8]
15. SE Louisiana (6-3) [15]
16. Eastern Ky (8-1) [16]
17. Indiana State (6-3) [19]
18. Harvard (7-0) [20]
19. Bethune-Cookman (7-2) [21]
20. UNI (5-4) [22]
21. Cal Poly (6-3) [NR]
22. James Madison (6-3) [NR]
23. W&M (5-4) [17]
24. SDSU (5-4) [18]
25. Bryant (7-1) [25]
NR Albany (6-3) [23]
NR SF Austin (6-3) [24]
This little game is much more fun when the Griz win. :lol: :lol:
Going into the weekend, we knew four ranked teams would end up with losses ... since they were playing other ranked teams. But add in three games where unranked teams upset ranked teams, and you can expect some stirring of the pot.
I project that Villanova will drop just four spots, since they lost by only one point to a ranked team, on the road. It would not surprise me if they did not go down even that far. Illinois State was also on the road and lost to a ranked team; however, they lost to #22, and by a considerably larger margin.
With the I-State and MSU losses, I project that the Griz will squeak back into the top ten.
Of course, MSU's loss was also on the road ... but to an unranked team. The fact that Cal Poly should have been ranked may soften the blow a bit, so I can see the kitties being around #12 rather than the #14 the normal “formula” suggests.
The same factor -- that many pollsters might feel JMU should have been ranked -- might help W&M stay a bit higher, but that 5-4 record is just ugly. Same goes for SDSU: Getting clobbered on the road by the best team in FCS might not hurt them that much ... except they too now have a 5-4 record.
Of course, UNI also has a 5-4 record, but they’ve been gaining momentum, so: Who knows?
When you’re barely into the top-25, you just can’t afford to lose a game. With Albany and SFA dropping out, two spots open up. If the pollsters don’t give one of those to Cal Poly, then ... screw the polls. It was a toss-up between NAU (second among “others receiving votes” last week) and JMU. Despite some good recent publicity from TSN for the Big Sky, I just don’t see the pollsters adding two BSC teams to the top-25 at the same time. So I went with JMU. (The fact that NAU had so much trouble with pathetic Weber State won’t help them either.)
