The Sports Network Poll 11/5

[asucrutch23]

The Sports Network FCS Top 25
College Football Poll

Team (First-place votes) 2012 Record Points Previous Rank
1. North Dakota State Bison (120) 8-1 4072 1
2. Montana State Bobcats (17) 8-1 3887 3
3. Sam Houston State Bearkats (14) 7-2 3643 4
4. Old Dominion Monarchs (2) 8-1 3545 5
5. Eastern Washington Eagles 7-2 3374 7
6. Stony Brook Seawolves (4) 9-1 2996 9
7. Georgia Southern Eagles (1) 7-2 2995 2
8. Lehigh Mountain Hawks (4) 9-0 2975 8
9. James Madison Dukes (1) 7-2 2880 10
10. New Hampshire Wildcats (1) 8-2 2633 11
11. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks (2) 8-1 2531 12
12. Appalachian State Mountaineers 7-3 2392 15
13. Wofford Terriers 7-2 2215 6
14. Central Arkansas Bears 8-2 2108 13
15. Illinois State Redbirds 8-2 1922 17
16. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 7-2 1291 21
17. Towson Tigers 5-4 1198 19
18. Indiana State Sycamores 7-3 1143 14
19. Cal Poly Mustangs 7-2 1057 16
20. Richmond Spiders 6-3 976 22
21. Villanova Wildcats 6-3 667 23
22. Eastern Kentucky Colonels 7-3 603 25
23. Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks 7-2 504 NR
24. Tennessee State Tigers 8-2 377 18
25. Harvard Crimson 7-1 366 NR


Others receiving votes: Bethune-Cookman 290, Eastern Illinois 256, Samford 212, Albany 192, Delaware 149, McNeese State 106, Sacramento State 96, Youngstown State 51, Wagner 47, Chattanooga 42, Alabama A&M 37, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 34, Colgate 28, The Citadel 27, Southern Illinois 21, Northern Iowa 7, Jacksonville State 2, North Carolina Central 2, Butler 1

[bluehenbillk]

Better this week, but still not as good as AGS or CS. Lehigh love affair continues & NAZ too low.

[BEAR]

Da**.... just not sure about this one. xlolx

[asucrutch23]

10 teams receiving a first place vote?!?

[Twentysix]

Please tell me alot of these #1 votes are homer votes.

JMU #1??? give me a break. And to top this madness off, EWU did not even get one #1 vote. IMO they are more deserving of a #1 than 6 or 7 of the teams that got #1's. P.S. how does butler end up on anyones ballot?

[JMUNJ08]

I didn't think Stony Brooks win over the powerhouse that is VMI was worthy of a 3 spot jump....neither was our manhandling of a good Maine team in Orono worthy of a first place vote...

1 thing to credit them on is they got 24/25 as the AGS poll. Only Albany & TSU were flopped.

[bostonspider]

I will be interesting to see how Towson versus Richmond would play out when it comes playoff time if each wins out. They would have the same conference record and each have beaten Villanova and one of JMU or UNH. Each would have lost to ODU and one of JMU or UNH. Each would have finished strong with 4 or 5 straight wins. UR would have lost to UVA, while Towson lost to LSU and Kent State. Out of conference UR beat VMI and Gardner Webb, while Towson beat St. Francis. Does 8-3 trump 7-4 in this situation? Towson is currently ranked a few sports higher than UR in this poll at least.

[JMUNJ08]

Please tell me alot of these #1 votes are homer votes.

JMU #1??? give me a break. And to top this madness off, EWU did not even get one #1 vote. IMO they are more deserving of a #1 than 6 or 7 of the teams that got #1's. P.S. how does butler end up on anyones ballot?

Butler is 8-2 & 7-0 in conference. Only losses to 3-6 W. Ill & 5-3 Dartmouth. Not great at all but at least the record is.

Come on, all the SWAC's above them, UNI @ 3-6, Jax St. @ 5-4 & NNC @ 5-4 are definitely worse eye sores...

[Twentysix]

Butler is 8-2 & 7-0 in conference. Only losses to 3-6 W. Ill & 5-3 Dartmouth. Not great at all but at least the record is.

Come on, all the SWAC's above them, UNI @ 3-6, Jax St. @ 5-4 & NNC @ 5-4 are definitely worse eye sores...

If you want to sell this bull**** you need to look me in the eye and tell me Western Illinois is a good team this year.

[JMUNJ08]

If you want to sell this bull**** you need to look me in the eye and tell me Western Illinois is a good team this year.

Believe me, they weren't in my discussion when doing my poll for AGS. Point is that there are some PFL voters and people who pay attention to them. Plus, it was a #25 vote. The teams I listed do not have good records and/or quality wins to be considered IMO either but got much more recognition.

Of course W. Ill & Dartmouth are N-O-T great or even good teams. Just showing that they weren't complete eye sores of losses to GaSt or Valpo or something.

[Twentysix]

Believe me, they weren't in my discussion when doing my poll for AGS. Point is that there are some PFL voters and people who pay attention to them. Plus, it was a #25 vote. The teams I listed do not have good records and/or quality wins to be considered IMO either but got much more recognition.

Of course W. Ill & Dartmouth are N-O-T great or even good teams. Just showing that they weren't complete eye sores of losses to GaSt or Valpo or something.

I just want to point out UNI beat W. Ill 40-0 this weekend on the road.

[Twentysix]

UNI beat WIU 40-0 on the road this weekend.... WIU isn't even a bad team they are a HORRIBLE team.

[JMUNJ08]

UNI beat WIU 40-0 on the road this weekend.... WIU isn't even a bad team they are a HORRIBLE team.

Overlooked xlolx

Point taken. let's move on with this terrible poll....

[sgt smash]

Too many OVC teams to be taken seriously.

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Please tell me alot of these #1 votes are homer votes.

JMU #1??? give me a break. And to top this madness off, EWU did not even get one #1 vote. IMO they are more deserving of a #1 than 6 or 7 of the teams that got #1's. P.S. how does butler end up on anyones ballot?

11-5-2012.


The day I agreed with a Bison fan. Maybe the world really is ending in a month or so? xlolx

[Engineer86]

Better this week, but still not as good as AGS or CS. Lehigh love affair continues & NAZ too low.

Speaking of love affairs what has NAU done to warrant a top 10 ranking that you feel they should have if they are too low at 11?

Before you go there no argument that Lehigh is too high.

[MTfan4life]

I just want to point out UNI beat W. Ill 40-0 this weekend on the road.

I am not defending Butler, but I see you claiming teams are poor because of one bad loss. Colgate is awful cuz they got beat by South Dakota at the start of the season. Butler is awful because they got beat by WIU. So is NAU awful because they only beat Northern Colorado by 2? Was NDSU crappy last season for beating SIU by less than any other conference team beat them by? No. Because you don't judge a team based off one game. You justify other teams as being bad because of one loss or one game all too often. Your one trick arguments don't exactly cut that deep into claiming the true quality of teams. It just gets really bland and really old.

[Mountaineer#96]

Ga South 1st place vote right after loss......what are these people cookin?