Yep, I can confirm the Sargarin rankings have NDSU at 31 and JMU and 44. NDSU finished higher in the Sagarin ranking than JMU. (Man, I love this game....did you know that Rob Port got a DUI?)
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In Sagarin, the top 7 FCS schools have one CAA school (JMU at 44), one Big Sky school (Weber State at 80) and 5 FCS schools (NDSU at 31, SDSU at 63, UNI at 78, WIU at 82, and USD at 90)
FROM Highest on down
NDSU
JMU
SDSU
UNI
WS
WIU
USD
Granted this is one 'view', but pretty significant - the Missouri Valley Conference does really well per Sagarin. Except for SDSU's hiccup against JMU, the Valley did well.
No valley gets the nod in sagarian for o e reason and one reason only
DA BISON
The rest of conference is getting a huge bump by us as evidenced by SDSU at jmu
Usd vs Sam Houston
Westernvs Weber
The starting ratings for 2018 are up on Sagarin's site: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/
NDSU starts at #35 for the rating and #34 for the predictor. I'm not sure if that's the highest they've ever started a season at but it wouldn't surprise me if it is. 5 MFVC teams in the top 6 and 8 in the top 25 (FCS only).
EDIT: And somehow they just moved down to #36 for both.... apparently the data entry is still happening???
Can't wait to see JMU talk about disrespect.