Bison 6th in GPI Rankings

[NDSUstudent]

The Gridiron Power Index (GPI), the ranking for I-AA and top indicator of at-large playoff selection debuts for the 2006 season with New Hampshire and Montana knotted at the top spot. The Great West Football Conference is the top ranked conference. I-AA's largest league, the Atlantic 10 Conference has seven of their teams in the top 25; the Gateway Football Conference placed five; the Great West Football Conference placed three; the Ivy League, the Big Sky and the Southern Conferences placed two each; the Pioneer Football League, the Mid-Eastern and Ohio Valley Conferences placed one each. There is one Independent ranked in the top 25. (Games through 10/1/06) ...

Top 25:
Rank Team
1T New Hampshire
1T Montana
3 Appalachian St
4 Youngstown St
5 S Illinois
6 N Dakota St
7 Massachusetts
8 Portland St
9 Illinois St
10 Richmond
11 Cal Poly
12 Furman
13 James Madison
14 UC Davis
15 Towson
16 Northern Iowa
17 Harvard
18 Hampton
19 Princeton
20 C Arkansas
21 Maine
22 San Diego
23 Jacksonville St
24 W Kentucky
25 Hofstra

http://www.i-aa.org/section_front.asp?arttypeid=564

Georgia Southern is 34th

[ralph]

http://www.i-aa.org/articles/artfiles/81115_confrank.txt

Rank, Conference (Average Rating)
1. Great West (20.80)
2. Atlantic 10 (23.57)
3. Gateway (28.10)
4. Big Sky (33.32)
5. Southern (34.61)
6. Ivy League (42.86)
7. Southland (48.32)
8. Big South (48.87)
9. Ohio Valley (50.93)
10. Patriot League (54.52)
11. Mid-Eastern (61.07)
12. Independent (63.33)
13. SWAC (63.71)
14. Northeast (68.52)
15. Pioneer (73.52)
16. Metro Atlantic (84.00)

1. Great West (20.80)
6. N Dakota St (7.78)
11. Cal Poly (10.00)
14. UC Davis (14.33)
33. S Dakota St (34.44)
41. Southern Utah (37.44)

[mn-bison]

N. Colorado is at 81. If they had still been in the GWFC, our average would have been at 31.00 and the Big Sky would have moved up & the GWFC would be in 4th...

[Paulie]

Yeah but if they counted loses to D-IIIs then SDSU would have draged us down, God only knows how far? :o

[ralph]

Yeah but if they counted loses to D-IIIs then SDSU would have draged us down, God only knows how far? * :oAll games are taken into account in the GPI.

[cabis]

You've got to love this, new kid on the D-1AA power block NDSU vs down on its luck perrenial power GSU... in their house.... This is what its all about!!!