I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
This site has NDSU at #5 with Wofford at #1 although it does say rankings are more reliable after week 8.
http://www.compughterratings.com/FCS/ratings
It's OK to not be OK.
Mississippi Valley State? Robert Morris? Missouri State? Indiana State? Sounds pretty weak to me. Especially when a lot of other teams get to play an FBS team OOC to (usually) boost their SoS a little bit. We'll see that metric continue to change as we get further into the slate of Valley teams. We should end up in the 160 to 180 range, I would think, which is about right for a Valley team that doesn't play NDSU and has a weak OOC.
Projected regular season record based on Sagarin's pre-season ratings plus 2.61 pts for a bye-week:
W-L chance change
11-0 45.0% +5.1%
10-1 40.2%. -0.7%
9-2.. 12.9%. -3.0%
8-3.... 1.8%. -1.2%
7-4.... 0.1%. -0.2%
Opp....... Win%.. Line.. change
v. UNI..... 85.2% -14.0 -2.5% +1.5
@ SDSU.. 75.1%.. -9.0 -1.2% +0.5
v. USD.... 79.8% -11.5 +2.6% -1.5
@ Ill. St.. 88.1% -16.0 -3.9% +3.0
Games by projected order of difficulty:
Change Opp.. Win%.. Line
... @ SDSU.. 75.1%.. -9.0
... v. USD.... 79.8% -11.5
... v. UNI..... 85.2% -14.0
... @ Ill. St.. 88.1% -16.0
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie