Say what you will, but Sagarin was dead on last week. Predicted a 26.22 point Bison win over Weber, and the result was a 27 point win. Sag is predicting a nearly identical result over UND on Saturday.
SDSU is now favored against NDSU in a 1.72 point spread. ISUr would also be favored if the game were to be played at their place.
Big Sky retains it's 2nd place spot among FCS conferences, but there's still a mile of difference between them and the bottom FBS conference. And the CAA is within a hairsbreadth of the Sky(0.06).
Sagarin's 2015 Week 3 Predictions
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Rank Team Sagarin Predict Result Diff
66 North Dakota State 68.93
113 Montana 58.56 +7.72 -3.00 -10.72
177 Weber State 44.02 +27.56 +27.00 -0.56
175 North Dakota 44.37 +27.21
68 South Dakota State 68.00 -1.72
105 Northern Iowa 61.28 +10.30
154 South Dakota 49.71 +21.87
139 Indiana State 52.86 +13.42
126 Southern Illinois 56.59 +9.69
133 Western Illinois 54.35 +17.23
120 Youngstown State 57.09 +9.19
157 Missouri State 48.04 +23.54
72 Illinois State 67.03
Total Diff: -11.28
Home Field 2.65
Sagarin FCS Top-25
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Rank SagRank RATING Team
1 66 68.93 North Dakota State
2 68 68.00 South Dakota State
3 72 67.03 Illinois State
4 80 66.13 Jacksonville State
5 92 64.05 Sam Houston State
6 96 62.60 Eastern Washington
7 101 61.54 Coastal Carolina
8 103 61.45 James Madison
9 105 61.28 Northern Iowa
10 106 60.98 Chattanooga
11 107 60.52 Samford
12 108 60.17 Villanova
13 113 58.56 Montana
14 116 58.10 Cal Poly-SLO
15 118 57.47 SE Louisiana
16 119 57.13 William & Mary
17 120 57.09 Youngstown State
18 123 56.97 Portland State
19 126 56.59 Southern Illinois
20 130 55.12 Wofford
21 131 54.80 Montana State
22 132 54.73 The Citadel
23 133 54.35 Western Illinois
24 135 53.85 Liberty
25 138 52.96 New Hampshire
Sagarin Conference Ranking
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Rank Conference CntMean NDSU
1 SEC 80.25 14
2 BIG 12 79.85 10
3 ACC 76.86 14
4 BIG TEN 76.74 11
5 PAC-12 75.65 10
6 I-A INDEPENDENTS 75.14 3
7 AMERICAN ATHLETIC 65.99 5
8 MWC 62.47 3
9 CONFERENCE USA 59.00 3
10 MISSOURI VALLEY 58.10 1
11 MAC 57.55 2
12 SUN BELT 55.99 1
13 BIG SKY 49.12 1
14 COLONIAL 49.06 1
15 SOUTHERN 48.30 1
16 OHIO VALLEY 44.26 1
17 SOUTHLAND 43.28 1
18 BIG SOUTH 39.40 1
19 NORTHEAST 38.72 1
20 IVY LEAGUE 38.24 1
21 PATRIOT 34.92 1
22 MID-EASTERN 32.53 1
23 SWAC 28.22 1
24 PIONEER 23.00 1
