11/17 FCS Rankings

[HandoEX]

Bison are 24th in the Coach's poll and unranked with the 29th most votes in TSN's poll.


Coach's
1. James Madison (28) (9-1) 700 1
2. Appalachian St. (9-2) 668 2
3. Cal Poly (8-1) 633 3
4. Northern Iowa (9-2) 615 4
5. Montana (10-1) 589 5
6. Richmond (8-3) 559 6
7. Villanova (8-2) 520 7
8. Weber St. (9-2) 505 8
9. Southern Ill. (8-2) 472 9
10. Wofford (8-2) 433 11
11. New Hampshire (8-2) 414 12
12. Central Arkansas (0-0) 372 13
13. McNeese St. (7-3) 338 14
14. Elon (8-3) 331 10
15. S. Carolina St. (9-2) 311 17
16. Harvard (8-1) 219 19
17. Maine (8-3) 210 23
18. Tenn-Martin (8-3) 207 21
19. William & Mary (7-3) 171 15
20. Liberty (9-2) 164 22
21. Jacksonville St. (8-3) 117 NR
22. Colgate (8-2) 115 24
23. Furman (7-4) 106 16
24. North Dakota St. (6-4) 61 25
25. Tennessee St. (8-3) 56 18

TSN
1. James Madison Dukes (106) 9-1 2,986 1
2. Appalachian State Mountaineers (13) 9-2 2,871 2
3. Cal Poly Mustangs (1) 8-1 2,623 3
4. Northern Iowa Panthers 9-2 2,517 4
5. Montana Grizzlies 10-1 2,499 5
6. Villanova Wildcats 8-2 2,355 6
7. Richmond Spiders 8-3 2,188 7
8. Weber State Wildcats 9-2 2,161 8
9. Wofford Terriers 8-2 2,005 9
10. Southern Illinois Salukis 8-2 1,988 10
11. New Hampshire Wildcats 8-2 1,659 13
12. Elon Phoenix 8-3 1,473 11
13. Central Arkansas Bears 9-2 1,448 15
14. McNeese State Cowboys 7-3 1,272 16
15. South Carolina State Bulldogs 9-2 1,231 17
16. William & Mary Tribe 7-3 1,106 12
17. Maine Black Bears 8-3 900 21
18. Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks 8-3 863 20
19. Harvard Crimson 8-1 769 19
20. Furman Paladins 7-4 595 14
21. Colgate Raiders 8-2 506 23
22. Liberty Flames 9-2 409 24
23. Western Illinois Leathernecks 6-4 338 25
24. Jacksonville State Gamecocks 8-3 242 NR
25. Tennessee State Tigers 8-3 238 18
Others receiving votes: Holy Cross 196, Prairie View 185, Eastern Kentucky 174, North Dakota State 147, Grambling 117, Montana State 111, Texas State 107, South Dakota State 87, Lafayette 47, Massachusetts 43, Florida A&M 35, Albany 28, Georgia Southern 23, Bethune-Cookman 18, Brown 10, Northern Arizona 7, Dayton 6, Jacksonville 5, San Diego 4, Yale 3, Monmouth 2 Northwestern State 2, South Dakota 2.

[Yellow]

Never thought by years end we would have teams like holy cross and prairie view ranked ahead of the bison......wah!

[HerdBot]

I posted this in another thread but here it is again...
For us to make the playoffs, the following has to happen.

1) #24 NDSU beats SDSU
2) #19 William & Mary loses to #6 Richmond (decisive loss)
3) #17 Maine loses to #11 New Hampshire (decisive loss)
4) #14 Elon loses @ #20 Liberty (close Libety win, want respect but not too much)
5) #23 Furman loses @ #10 Wofford

Then we have to worry about the crappy OVC teams. I'm concerned they are giving them too much respect. Here are the OVC teams in the mix. Only 1 of them can get in for us to make the playoffs and that has to be as an auto bid.

#18 Tennesee Martin plays at unranked (#30 w/votes) Eastern Kentucky. If TM loses, they don't have enough wins to get in. Eastern Kentucky would get the auto bid.

#30 Eastern Kentucky. If they win, they get an auto bid playoff spot. If they lose, they won't get in at all.

#25 Tennesee State. @ Murray State. Win or lose, they probably won't make it but a loss will help NDSU's cause.

Jacksonville State. #24 sports network and #21 coaches poll. They are done for the year so they will probably drop a spot or 2. We can only hope that if NDSU wins and these other teams lose, we jump from 24-20 and Jacksonville State falls from #21-25.

Then we have to worry about Liberty. If they win and are ranked in the top 16 average in all the polls, they will likely get in.


Then we can only hope the pollsters recognize that the MVC is much better than the OVC. I can only find one common opponent and that is Austin Peay.

NDSU 41- Austin Peay 0. That was the score after 3 quarters. NDSU held them to under 100 yards of offense for the entire game.

Eastern Kentucky 13 - Austin Peay 10. OT! Austin Peay won every major statistical category.

Jacksonville State 35 - Austin Peay 22. The score was 28-22 after 3 quarters. JVSU gave up nearly 400 yards of offense.

Tennessee State 37 - Austin Peay 34. 34-27 TS after 3 quarters. Austin Peay put up 340 yards of offense.


Can you see these scenerio's going our way?
The most unlikely scenerio is for Liberty to beat Elon. Even though it's at Liberty it's going to be tough. I think Liberty is way overrated. The other games are very likely to go in NDSU's favor.

[HerdBot]

Never thought by years end we would have teams like holy cross and prairie view ranked ahead of the bison......wah!

It's a joke because we beat those teams by 40 on the road. Heck we dont even have to throw a pass to win.

[Yellow]

Agreed, it is a joke

[HerdBot]

Agreed, it is a joke

Like the Missouri State coach said, there is an eastern bias. They want their first round games to be against easy teams out of the OVC, not teams like NDSU who can acutally win.