2021 Sagarin Says

[THEsocalledfan]

Yes, yes it has. I'm curious to see if the Montana's will actually start playing good defense year in and year out. Until a few teams in that conference play legit D consistently over a period or years you will never convince me they are anything better than the 3rd best conference overall.

CAA is terrible; they are clearly number 2 at this point.

[MankatoBison]

the entire FCS is terrible at this point.[/B]

FIFY
10 char

[MankatoBison]

the entire FCS is terrible at this point.

FIFY
10 char

[TAILG8R]

Towson is going to have to put a couple more TDs on the board to not negatively impact us.

[23Bison]

I believe SDSU will get another bump up, or is it down, for their performance and how CSU played the Hawkeyes.

[THEsocalledfan]

FCS top 25 per Sagarin. Lowest I think I've ever seen NDSU relative to other FCS since I started following closely years ago:

45 South Dakota State AA = 75.39 3 0 60.71( 115) 0 0 | 0 0 | 74.51 53 | 75.18 50 | 77.58 38 MISSOURI VALLEY
71 James Madison AA = 70.93 3 0 41.43( 234) 0 0 | 0 0 | 71.75 68 | 69.09 79 | 73.15 61 COLONIAL
77 Montana AA = 69.75 3 0 49.48( 193) 0 0 | 1 0 | 68.22 88 | 69.72 76 | 73.16 60 BIG SKY
80 North Dakota State AA = 69.38 3 0 38.19( 249) 0 0 | 0 0 | 69.61 76 | 68.76 80 | 69.83 71 MISSOURI VALLEY
96 Sam Houston State AA = 65.46 3 0 47.87( 206) 0 0 | 0 0 | 65.02 100 | 64.99 97 | 67.13 83 AQ7
97 Northern Iowa AA = 65.16 2 1 55.05( 154) 0 0 | 0 1 | 65.97 94 | 63.36 103 | 67.10 84 MISSOURI VALLEY
100 Southern Illinois AA = 64.78 3 1 49.82( 187) 0 0 | 0 1 | 65.40 97 | 63.29 105 | 66.41 88 MISSOURI VALLEY
106 UC Davis AA = 62.42 4 0 48.79( 197) 0 0 | 0 0 | 61.36 112 | 61.78 109 | 65.95 91 BIG SKY
114 Eastern Washington AA = 60.30 4 0 50.53( 179) 0 0 | 0 0 | 58.37 121 | 61.22 112 | 62.15 104 BIG SKY
116 Missouri State AA = 60.01 2 1 59.78( 120) 0 0 | 0 1 | 59.55 116 | 59.20 116 | 62.50 103 MISSOURI VALLEY
117 Weber State AA = 59.30 1 3 62.22( 100) 0 0 | 0 0 | 61.73 110 | 57.41 126 | 57.71 126 BIG SKY
119 SE Louisiana AA = 58.83 2 1 48.52( 198) 0 0 | 0 0 | 59.82 115 | 56.88 130 | 60.60 111 SOUTHLAND
121 Montana State AA = 58.59 3 1 40.11( 242) 0 0 | 0 0 | 58.54 120 | 58.00 123 | 59.60 115 BIG SKY
122 North Dakota AA = 57.59 2 1 45.53( 218) 0 0 | 0 0 | 57.11 124 | 58.00 122 | 57.26 128 MISSOURI VALLEY
124 Princeton AA = 56.93 2 0 21.96( 258) 0 0 | 0 0 | 56.07 128 | 57.70 124 | 56.65 133 IVY LEAGUE
126 East Tennessee State AA = 56.82 4 0 47.22( 210) 0 0 | 0 0 | 53.98 142 | 57.51 125 | 61.28 107 SOUTHERN
127 South Dakota AA = 56.39 2 2 51.05( 175) 0 0 | 0 0 | 57.91 122 | 54.54 139 | 56.66 132 MISSOURI VALLEY
131 Villanova AA = 56.09 3 1 40.50( 240) 0 0 | 0 1 | 55.83 130 | 55.43 134 | 57.71 125 COLONIAL
132 Kennesaw State AA = 55.50 2 1 61.55( 109) 0 0 | 0 0 | 54.89 133 | 55.30 135 | 56.89 130 BIG SOUTH
135 Harvard AA = 55.27 2 0 35.49( 251) 0 0 | 0 0 | 54.97 132 | 54.69 138 | 56.77 131 IVY LEAGUE
136 Incarnate Word AA = 55.06 3 1 46.42( 216) 0 0 | 0 0 | 54.70 134 | 53.52 142 | 58.85 117 SOUTHLAND
137 Mercer AA = 54.99 2 1 74.90( 7) 0 1 | 0 1 | 54.09 139 | 53.94 141 | 58.92 116 SOUTHERN
139 Delaware AA = 54.80 2 1 49.74( 188) 0 0 | 0 0 | 53.53 145 | 55.51 133 | 55.59 134 COLONIAL
141 Chattanooga AA = 54.48 1 2 54.75( 156) 0 0 | 0 1 | 56.96 125 | 51.77 152 | 54.39 140 SOUTHERN
145 Nicholls State AA = 53.40 1 2 65.50( 77) 0 0 | 0 0 | 54.01 140 | 52.24 150 | 54.11 143 SOUTHLAND

[bisonaudit]

Sagarin suggests between 7.5 and 10 point road favorite depending on which of his ratings methods you prefer.

[MankatoBison]

Wow the quality of our football players dropped so hard this week! I cant believe we arent good anymore. Truly the end of an era.

[THEsocalledfan]

Wow the quality of our football players dropped so hard this week! I cant believe we arent good anymore. Truly the end of an era.

I know you are joking, but NDSU's SOS is killing them right now. Towson got blasted by the real SDSU......for example. They lay the wood to UND, and all will be right in the world again and they start climbing.

[TAILG8R]

Sagarin suggests between 7.5 and 10 point road favorite depending on which of his ratings methods you prefer.

Should see a decent move up after this weekend.