2023 Sagarin Says

[ByeSonBusiness]

Bison drop 17 spots to #85, still good enough for 3rd highest in FCS. SDSU up 9 to #34, and Montana State up 4 to #63.

Question is becoming "does Vigen pick up the phone when we call?"

[scottietohottie]

Question is becoming "does Vigen pick up the phone when we call?"

Let's call Deion and go fbs so we don't play und anymore. Problem solved.

[bisonaudit]

Thank goodness, I guess. Let's hope we win enough games to justify that ranking.
That should mean we at least make it to the Semi's this year.

Starting to question the infallibility of Sagarin though. Just can't rationalize how any poll human or computer can place us higher than UND after that debacle.

Sagarin isn’t infallible. It’s just unbiased.

[reformedUNDfan]

Might have lost two a pair of top 20 teams but also blew out two.

[The_Sicatoka]

This week is why I tend to follow Massey; I don't understand Sagarin moving UND up that much (frankly, disagree with it).

[Hammerhead]

Sagarin still has the MVFC and Big Sky dominating the top spots.

34 South Dakota State AA 76.94 MISSOURI VALLEY
63 Montana State AA 70.50 BIG SKY
85 North Dakota State AA 67.15 MISSOURI VALLEY
99 North Dakota AA 63.07 MISSOURI VALLEY
103 Idaho AA 61.90 BIG SKY
106 Southern Illinois AA 61.04 MISSOURI VALLEY
112 Sacramento State AA 59.60 BIG SKY
115 Youngstown State AA 59.25 MISSOURI VALLEY
121 Austin Peay AA 58.35 UNITED ATHLETIC
124 South Dakota AA 57.73 MISSOURI VALLEY
126 Montana AA 57.23 BIG SKY
127 Furman AA 56.85 SOUTHERN
129 Central Arkansas AA 56.67 UNITED ATHLETIC
131 Western Carolina AA 56.35 SOUTHERN
132 Northern Iowa AA 56.16 MISSOURI VALLEY
133 Incarnate Word AA 56.14 SOUTHLAND
135 Holy Cross AA 55.54 PATRIOT
137 Illinois State AA 54.99 MISSOURI VALLEY
139 Harvard AA 54.47 IVY LEAGUE
140 UC Davis AA 54.18 BIG SKY
142 Chattanooga AA 53.96 SOUTHERN
143 Missouri State AA 53.84 MISSOURI VALLEY
145 Villanova AA 53.72 COASTAL
147 Delaware AA 53.68 COASTAL
147 Portland State AA 53.44 BIG SKY

[bisonaudit]

This week is why I tend to follow Massey; I don't understand Sagarin moving UND up that much (frankly, disagree with it).

UND +2.5 ish
NDSU -3.25 ish

some people don’t seem to like that NDSU is still higher than UND.
others think UND moved up to much.

can’t make everybody (anybody?) happy.

[BigHorns]

If I'm reading Sagarin predictions correctly, believe it says we are 38 point favorites over WIU this game?
May be the biggest spread of any Division 1 football game this week. Second biggest spread is Tarleton 28 points over Morehead.

NORTH DAKOTA STATE 38.07 38.16 36.67 41.79 western illinois 2823 97% 65.74

[Hammerhead]

If I'm reading Sagarin predictions correctly, believe it says we are 38 point favorites over WIU this game?
May be the biggest spread of any Division 1 football game this week. Second biggest spread is Tarleton 28 points over Morehead.

NORTH DAKOTA STATE 38.07 38.16 36.67 41.79 western illinois 2823 97% 65.74

It is the biggest favorite for this week with only 7 games with a predicted difference of at least 21 points.

[SoCalBison]

Big win over winless Western vaults the Bison up 3 spots to #82. SDSU's underwhelming win drops the Jacks a massive 9 spots to #43.