2017 Sagarin Says

[MNLonghorn10]

our score went up 2 pts in the predictor...unfortunately that doesnt matter much when your schedule is a nasty 237. MVSU is 3rd from last. 252 out of 254 games.

[THEsocalledfan]

FCS Top 25 per Sagarin:

50 North Dakota State AA = 74.95 2 0 31.09( 237) 0 0 | 0 0 | 74.20 51 | 74.73 49 | 75.25 50
70 James Madison AA = 68.09 2 0 46.25( 195) 0 0 | 0 0 | 68.68 70 | 66.33 79 | 68.87 70
77 South Dakota State AA = 67.17 2 0 45.27( 202) 0 0 | 0 0 | 66.21 78 | 67.02 75 | 67.50 74
88 Youngstown State AA = 64.25 1 1 52.96( 147) 0 0 | 0 0 | 65.00 84 | 64.35 89 | 63.77 90
96 Jacksonville State AA = 61.63 1 1 67.27( 62) 0 0 | 0 1 | 61.21 100 | 61.22 98 | 61.91 97
98 Northern Iowa AA = 61.14 1 1 58.26( 111) 0 0 | 0 0 | 59.89 106 | 62.07 95 | 60.91 102
100 Wofford AA = 61.04 2 0 45.74( 198) 0 0 | 0 0 | 57.84 115 | 61.45 96 | 61.92 96
101 Sam Houston State AA = 60.87 2 0 43.77( 208) 0 0 | 0 0 | 58.86 112 | 60.11 104 | 62.00 95
103 Illinois State AA = 60.61 1 0 16.55( 244) 0 0 | 0 0 | 60.87 101 | 60.49 102 | 60.45 105
104 The Citadel AA = 60.58 2 0 35.66( 228) 0 0 | 0 0 | 62.15 95 | 59.91 106 | 60.28 106
105 North Dakota AA = 60.30 1 1 62.37( 84) 0 0 | 0 1 | 62.27 94 | 59.48 109 | 59.93 108
108 Western Illinois AA = 60.10 2 0 47.61( 184) 0 0 | 0 0 | 60.71 102 | 58.04 117 | 61.04 101
110 South Dakota AA = 59.24 2 0 43.58( 211) 0 0 | 0 0 | 61.87 97 | 56.81 124 | 59.64 110
119 Samford AA = 57.48 2 0 47.73( 182) 0 0 | 0 0 | 54.89 135 | 57.59 121 | 58.29 115
121 Villanova AA = 57.00 1 1 59.09( 103) 0 0 | 0 0 | 57.06 124 | 56.74 126 | 57.01 120
124 New Hampshire AA = 56.71 2 0 51.37( 155) 0 0 | 0 0 | 55.40 130 | 54.73 132 | 58.32 114
126 Richmond AA = 56.13 1 1 55.51( 129) 0 0 | 0 0 | 55.10 132 | 56.81 125 | 55.97 127
127 Central Arkansas AA = 55.97 1 1 63.31( 77) 0 0 | 0 1 | 56.66 125 | 55.20 129 | 56.06 126
133 Eastern Washington AA = 54.69 0 2 74.75( 23) 0 0 | 0 0 | 51.99 143 | 56.23 127 | 54.64 130
139 Chattanooga AA = 53.71 0 2 78.21( 13) 0 1 | 0 1 | 54.41 136 | 54.43 135 | 52.87 140
142 Southern Illinois AA = 53.01 1 0 5.07( 245) 0 0 | 0 0 | 53.39 138 | 52.81 140 | 52.86 141
144 Tennessee-Martin AA = 52.26 1 1 78.74( 12) 0 0 | 0 0 | 53.53 137 | 51.99 144 | 51.80 144
145 Southern Utah AA = 51.52 1 1 60.89( 96) 0 0 | 0 1 | 51.20 146 | 50.57 148 | 52.10 143
146 Charleston Southern AA = 51.47 0 1 85.49( 4) 0 0 | 0 1 | 49.57 155 | 51.93 145 | 51.77 145
147 Harvard AA = 51.22 0 0 0.00( 0) 0 0 | 0 0 | 51.13 147 | 51.13 147 | 51.18 147


Thoughts:
1. Historical nature of poll appears to be over-valuing UNI still.
2. My gut tells me NDSU and JMU are on a collision course, likely in Frisco.
3. Crazy to see all 4 dakota schools legitimately in the top 25. The UXDs may both be top 10 teams, too.
4. Not sure what to make of WIU. They are either really good, or the Big Fluffy is just that bad.
5. 8, count them, 8 Valley teams in top 25.

[Professor Chaos]

It's truly the twilight zone when NDSU has a lower SOS than SHSU:

North Dakota State 31.09 (237)
Sam Houston State 43.77 (208)

Luckily that won't last for long.

My gut tells me NDSU and JMU are on a collision course, likely in Frisco.

This was the overwhelming thought in 2013 also between NDSU and the Jimmy Garappolo led Eastern Illinois Panthers. There's a lot of season (and postseason) left.

[Bison 4 Life]

It's truly the twilight zone when NDSU has a lower SOS than SHSU:

North Dakota State 31.09 (237)
Sam Houston State 43.77 (208)

Luckily that won't last for long.


This was the overwhelming thought in 2013 also between NDSU and the Jimmy Garappolo led Eastern Illinois Panthers. There's a lot of season (and postseason) left.

It will be iffy until Late October. I'm cool with that though.

[SoCalBison]

The bye week is good to the Bison (EWU's win at Fordham may have helped). NDSU up 2 spots to #48. Bison are favored by 44.91 over Robert Morris (#222). Go Bison!

[LITTLEGUYSINGREEN]

The bye week is good to the Bison (EWU's win at Fordham may have helped). NDSU up 2 spots to #48. Bison are favored by 44.91 over Robert Morris (#222). Go Bison!

Yeah, another yawner. Probably be interesting for about a 2 minutes.

My son is a diehard Bison fan and a student at NDSU and he is coming home this weekend to hunt. Tells you how much excitement there is for this game. Against MVSU, he said student tickets were easy to get, even late into the week. We need to do something about the crap non-conference games.

[PattyBison]

Yeah, another yawner. Probably be interesting for about a 2 minutes.

My son is a diehard Bison fan and a student at NDSU and he is coming home this weekend to hunt. Tells you how much excitement there is for this game. Against MVSU, he said student tickets were easy to get, even late into the week. We need to do something about the crap non-conference games.

Tickets were easy to get because it was Labor Day weekend. I don't think any opponent would have changed that.

[Bison 4 Life]

Yeah, another yawner. Probably be interesting for about a 2 minutes.

My son is a diehard Bison fan and a student at NDSU and he is coming home this weekend to hunt. Tells you how much excitement there is for this game. Against MVSU, he said student tickets were easy to get, even late into the week. We need to do something about the crap non-conference games.

Yeah, we should totally have 2 top 10 and a FBS team on the schedule so we're so beat up we can't get through the playoffs.

Fuckin genius.

[unbison]

Yeah, we should totally have 2 top 10 and a FBS team on the schedule so we're so beat up we can't get through the playoffs.

Fuckin genius.

I believe your example is a bit extreme .... so before calling names you probably shouldn't spit equally idiotic garbage out of your mouth
You are wrecking what used to be a enjoyable bison message board

[Bison 4 Life]

I believe your example is a bit extreme .... so before calling names you probably shouldn't spit equally idiotic garbage out of your mouth
You are wrecking what used to be a enjoyable bison message board

You forget what happened last year, dummy?