Week 3 - STATS FCS Top 25

[get'em_griz]

Stats Perform FCS Top 25 (Sept. 13)

1. Sam Houston (2-0, 0-0 AQ7), 1,214 points (33 first-place votes)
Previous Ranking: 2; Week 2 Result: 52-14 win over Southeast Missouri

2. South Dakota State (2-0, 0-0 Missouri Valley), 1,190 (9)
Previous Ranking: 2; Week 2 Result: 52-7 win over Lindenwood

3. James Madison (2-0, 1-0 CAA), 1,158 (5)
Previous Ranking: 3; Week 2 Result: 55-7 win over Maine

4. Montana (2-0, 0-0 Big Sky), 1,110 (3)
Previous Ranking: 4; Week 2 Result: 42-7 win over Western Illinois

5. North Dakota State (2-0, 0-0 Missouri Valley), 1,066
Previous Ranking: 5; Week 2 Result: 64-0 win over Valparaiso

6. Delaware (2-0, 1-0 CAA), 949
Previous Ranking: 6; Week 2 Result: 27-10 win over Saint Francis

7. Eastern Washington (2-0, 0-0 Big Sky), 889
Previous Ranking: 7; Week 2 Result: 63-14 win over Central Washington

8. Southern Illinois (1-1, 0-0 Missouri Valley), 814
Previous Ranking: 8; Week 2 Result: 31-23 loss at Kansas State

9. Weber State (1-1, 0-0 Big Sky), 771
Previous Ranking: 10; Week 2 Result: 41-3 win at Dixie State

10. Jacksonville State (1-1, 0-0 AQ7), 751
Previous Ranking: 16; Week 2 Result: 20-17 win at Florida State

11. North Dakota (1-1, 0-0 Missouri Valley), 710
Previous Ranking: 9; Week 2 Result: 48-24 loss at Utah State

12. Villanova (2-0, 0-0 CAA), 674
Previous Ranking: 12; Week 2 Result: 55-3 win over Bucknell

13. Montana State (1-1, 0-0 Big Sky), 664
Previous Ranking: 11; Week 2 Result: 45-7 win over Drake

14. UC Davis (2-0, 0-0 Big Sky), 661
Previous Ranking: 14; Week 2 Result: 53-7 win at San Diego

15. Southeastern Louisiana (1-1, 0-0 Southland), 511
Previous Ranking: 13; Week 2 Result: 45-42 loss at Louisiana Tech

16. ETSU (2-0, 0-0 Southern), 497
Previous Ranking: 15; Week 2 Result: 45-14 win over UVA Wise

17. Missouri State (1-1, 0-0 Missouri Valley), 377
Previous Ranking: 23; Week 2 Result: 43-34 win over then-No. 19 Central Arkansas

18. Northern Iowa (1-1, 0-0 Missouri Valley), 364
Previous Ranking: 21; Week 2 Result: 34-16 win at Sacramento State

19. Austin Peay (1-1, 0-0 Ohio Valley), 336
Previous Ranking: 17; Week 2 Result: 54-17 loss at Ole Miss

20. Monmouth (1-1, 0-0 Big South), 297
Previous Ranking: 20; Week 2 Result: 26-23 win at Fordham

21. Richmond (2-0, 0-0 CAA), 261
Previous Ranking: 25; Week 2 Result: 31-3 win over Lehigh

22. VMI (1-1, 0-0 Southern), 146
Previous Ranking: 18; Week 2 Result: 60-10 loss at Kent State

23. New Hampshire (2-0, 2-0 CAA), 127
Previous Ranking: Not Ranked; Week 2 Result: 26-14 win over Towson

24. Kennesaw State (1-1, 0-0 Big South), 121
Previous Ranking: 22; Week 2 Result: 45-17 loss at Georgia Tech

25. Central Arkansas (0-2, 0-0 AQ7), 105
Previous Ranking: 19; Week 2 Result: 43-34 loss at then-No. 23 Missouri State

Dropped Out: Holy Cross (24)

Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Furman 90, Chattanooga 74, Rhode Island 67, Murray State 58, Alabama A&M 56, Jackson State 48, Duquesne 32, Nicholls 29, Stephen F. Austin 11, Samford 7, Merrimack 4, Sacramento State 3, Holy Cross 2

 

[retiredpopo]

well that tells you scats win over Drake did not impress. Look how close points wise top 5 are. I am surprised Weber rose up being they struggled with Dixie for the 1st half. Also surprised NIU is not higher.

 

[catgradtimes2]

well that tells you scats win over Drake did not impress. Look how close points wise top 5 are. I am surprised Weber rose up being they struggled with Dixie for the 1st half. Also surprised NIU is not higher.

Logic is hard for you folks. But, it has more to do with that jsu win over FSU than anything the cats did or didn’t do.

 

[WILDCATFAN]

well that tells you scats win over Drake did not impress. Look how close points wise top 5 are. I am surprised Weber rose up being they struggled with Dixie for the 1st half. Also surprised NIU is not higher.

Good thing there are two halves to football. Holding a team out of the endzone and only to three points for an entire game ON THEIR OWN FIELD no less is impressive regardless of who you are playing.

 

[putter]

Let’s be honest. Early season polls are basically how the previous season finished and playoffs. The real polls start when we begin to play each other. Cream rises to the top

 

[IdaGriz01]

Well, I have to say my guesses were pretty good … most either on the nose or within one or two of the actual poll position. That included Jacksonville State, where the pollsters jumped them one spot higher than I guessed.

My three big misses involved known pollster biases that I should have accounted for (my bad): Northern Iowa (team), and CAA (conference). Thus, UNI won a game against an unranked Sacramento State team, and that was enough for the pollsters to bounce them up three spots. Then, Richmond won a home game against unranked Lehigh and they got jumped three spots. Last but not least, when Holy Cross dropped out, the pollsters filled that spot with New Hampshire rather than my choice, Chattanooga. This despite the fact that Chattie had twice as many votes as UNH among the “Others” receiving votes in the previous poll.