Originally Posted by
Professor Chaos
Yep, especially in the coach's poll. I guess you could call it voter fatigue trying to throw a bone to some other team along with the "they've gotta come back down to earth at some point" mentality. It almost always seems like NDSU falls more than they should after taking their token loss for the season. Of course that's my opinion and I'm a homer. But the main problem with that is then those voters refuse to move them back up unless a team in front of them loses so you end up with NDSU being ranked below paper tigers like SHSU and Jacksonville St, among others, at the end of the regular season in those polls.