Final Regular Season Coaches Poll

[TexasTerror]

Team (No. 1 Votes) 2011 Record Points Previous Ranking
1. Sam Houston State (17) 11-0 585 3
2. Georgia Southern (4) 9-2 546 2
3. Northern Iowa 10-1 544 4
4. North Dakota State (1) 10-1 528 5
5. Montana 9-2 496 7
6. Lehigh 10-1 489 6
7. Montana State (1) 9-2 458 1
8. Appalachian State 8-3 436 8
9. Towson 9-2 403 10
10. Old Dominion 9-2 392 9
11. Wofford 8-3 352 12
12. New Hampshire 8-3 334 13
13. Maine 8-3 298 11
14. Harvard 9-1 253 T14
15. Central Arkansas 8-3 221 19
16. Delaware 7-4 219 17
17. Illinois State 7-4 187 T14
18. Jackson State 9-2 167 18
19. James Madison 7-4 161 20
20. Tennessee Tech 7-3 134 21
21. North Dakota 8-3 111 22
22. Norfolk State 9-2 97 25
23. Liberty 7-4 78 16
24. Stony Brook 8-3 46 NR
25. San Diego 9-2 30 NR

Others Receiving Votes: Bethune-Cookman (21); Eastern Kentucky (19); South Dakota (19); Furman (16); Drake (15); Southern Utah (12); Portland State (11); William & Mary (10); Chattanooga (9); Indiana State (9); Eastern Washington (8); Jacksonville State (7); Albany (6); Nicholls State (4); South Carolina State (4); Cal Poly (3); Brown (2); Duquesne (2); Youngstown State (2); Alabama State (1); Dayton (1).

[TexasTerror]

How does a 1-10 Nicholls team gets four?!?!?

[MTfan4life]

This is how ridiculously awful the coaches poll is. Liberty and Stony Brook play a very similar schedule. Stony wins the head to head and finishes with a better record and more impressive in-conference games, and yet Liberty is still above them.

[darell1976]

UND #21!!!! Um how can South Dakota be #24 and in the ORV part?

[NoDak 4 Ever]

U of North Dakota with 3 DII wins on their resume is ranked higher than playoff bound Norfolk State and UNI ranked above NDSU after losing the head to head and barely squeaking out a 2OT win against ISUr. unbelievable.

[TexasTerror]

Stony Brook is ranked 24th...You have South Dakota in there twice.

That's what's on the site...

http://www.soconsports.com/fls/4000/socon/FCS/polls/2011/2011_FCS_Coaches_Poll/

Adjusted...

[MTfan4life]

That's what's on the site...

http://www.soconsports.com/fls/4000/socon/FCS/polls/2011/2011_FCS_Coaches_Poll/

Adjusted...

Yahoo Sports (http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls?poll=7)

[Tatanka]

How does a 1-10 Nicholls team gets four?!?!?

Well, Norfolk State is ranked 22nd, which counts for four points. But we all know the coaches never make that kind of mistake, so I have no explanation.

[frozennorth]

Uni went back in time and got another win.

Also, 5-3 und is ranked way above its fellow co-champs who beat both und and usd.

[IaaScribe]

This is how ridiculously awful the coaches poll is. Liberty and Stony Brook play a very similar schedule. Stony wins the head to head and finishes with a better record and more impressive in-conference games, and yet Liberty is still above them.

Was about to post the same thing. Awful.

[Grizzaholic]

This is how ridiculously awful the coaches poll is. Liberty and Stony Brook play a very similar schedule. Stony wins the head to head and finishes with a better record and more impressive in-conference games, and yet Liberty is still above them.

Liberty didn't make it and SB did. The coaches poll is terrible.

[bojeta]

Final Joke is more like it! Thank God that will be the last dribble coming from the coaches.

[Cleets]

Is there even a coach who fills one of these out...
aren't these passed off to the assistants and largely regarded as a joke..?

[darell1976]

Uni went back in time and got another win.

Also, 5-3 und is ranked way above its fellow co-champs who beat both und and usd.

But yet you say nothing about South Dakota and SUU getting more votes than Cal Poly.

[frozennorth]

But yet you say nothing about South Dakota and SUU getting more votes than Cal Poly.

The meaning (at least for usd) was intended in the second sentence but apparantly never conveyed.

[DFW HOYA]

Lehigh finishes sixth, the second place PL team gets not one vote.

[Squealofthepig]

Is there even a coach who fills one of these out...
aren't these passed off to the assistants and largely regarded as a joke..?

Yes, these are done primarily by the school's SID's - but they're still done under the coaches' name.

I've linked this in the past, but just in case anyone missed it, here are the coaches who "vote" on this laughable poll (although I will say that this isn't the worst poll they've done this season, but that's a very low benchmark):

(source: http://www.soconsports.com/fls/4000/socon/FCS/polls/2011/2011_FCS_Coaches_Poll/Voting_Panel.html )

Big Sky
Beau Baldwin, EWU
Marshall Sperbeck, Sacramento State

Big South
Chuck Priore, Stony Brook
Danny Rocco, Liberty

CAA
Sean McDonnell, New Hampshire
Jimmye Laycock, William & Mary

Great West
Ed Meierkort, South Dakota
Ed Lamb, Southern Utah

Ivy League
Al Bagnoli, Penn
Tim Murphy, Harvard

MEAC
Oliver Pough, SC State
Joe Taylor, FAMU

MVC
Trent Miles, ISUb
Mark Hendrickson, WIU

NEC
Kevin Callahan, Monmouth
Jeff McInerney, CCSU

OVC
Bob Spoo, EIU
Dean Hood, EKU

Patriot
Dick Biddle, Colgate
Joe Susan, Bucknell

Pioneer
Ron Caragher, San Diego
Dale Carlson, Valpo

Southern
Kevin Higgins, The Citadel
Russ Huesman, UTC

Southland
JC Harper, SFA
Mike Lucas, SE LA

SWAC
Karl Morgan, MS Valley State
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