I-AA strength of schedule rankings

[touchdown]

Here are the top 10 toughest schedules in 1-aa based on the top 35 1-aa teams from the sagarin ratings. (sagarin Rank 1-aa)

1.Northeastern-90 (21)
2.Eastern Washington-91 (33)
3.NAU-106 (18)
4.Portland State-107 (7)
5.Sacramento State-123 (34)
6.Maine-126 (19)
7.UC Davis-127 (13)
8.Montana-128 (1)
9.West.Illinois-129 (26)
10.So.Dakota State-130 (14)

5 from Big Sky and 2 Great West and A-10
Easiest schedule of top 35 teams USD (San Diego)-226 (10):mad:

[AppGuy04]

Surprise surprise

[ToreroTime]

Here are the top 10 toughest schedules in 1-aa based on the top 35 1-aa teams from the sagarin ratings. (sagarin Rank 1-aa)
1.Northeastern-90 (21)
2.Eastern Washington-91 (33)
3.NAU-106 (18)
4.Portland State-107 (7)
5.Sacramento State-123 (34)
6.Maine-126 (19)
7.UC Davis-127 (13)
8.Montana-128 (1)
9.West.Illinois-129 (26)
10.So.Dakota State-130 (14)

5 from Big Sky and 2 Great West and A-10
Easiest schedule of top 35 teams USD (San Diego)-226 (10):mad:


Whats 1-AA?:nono:

[HiHiYikas]

AGS top 10, rearranged according to Sagarin-rated schedule strength. Most everyone is relatively close, with the exception of Tenn-Martin...

Montana, 128
Youngstown St, 131
Cal Poly, 136
Illinois St 143
James Madison, 146
Appalachian St, 147
North Dakota St, 149
New Hampshire, 153
Massachusetts, 156
Tenn Martin, 192

[GrizRchattybound]

Funny...someone today said Montana did not really have any quality wins besides "PSU"???

Hmmmmmm...SOS says different.

[kirkblitz]

Whats 1-AA?:nono:
the correct way?
I=1
1=I

isnt it called the something new anyways?

[RabidRabbit]

WOW!!! Not much of an east coast (and even less southern) bias in that SOS.

I am a bit surprised that the two GWFC teams are UC-D and SDSU. I would have thought that Poly & NDSU with two IA's would be tougher.

[Coastal89]

Special props go out to the CSU Bucs(229) 3 spots lower than USD.:hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

[FlyYtown]

AGS top 10, rearranged according to Sagarin-rated schedule strength. Most everyone is relatively close, with the exception of Tenn-Martin...

Montana, 128
Youngstown St, 131
Cal Poly, 136
Illinois St 143
James Madison, 146
Appalachian St, 147
North Dakota St, 149
New Hampshire, 153
Massachusetts, 156
Tenn Martin, 192

Now thats more like it.
By the end of this season:
YSU will have faced at least 5; maybe 6 Ranked teams if WKU beats UNI this week.

They were:
MAINE
UC-DAVIS
NORTHERN IOWA
ILLINOIS STATE
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
and maybe:
WESTERN KENTUCKY

[Go...gate]

Special props go out to the CSU Bucs(229) 3 spots lower than USD.:hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

Hey, Nixon went to a DIII school (Whittier)! What's he doing here?? :smiley_wi

[BULLDOG8180]

I'm sorry, but if anyone plays a tougher schedule than my Bulldogs, I have yet to see it.

Texas A&M
Pittsburgh
Charleston Southern (hey, they are undefeated)
VMI (okay, a weak one)

and the complete lineup of SoCon schools.

[*****]

Massey top ten I-AA SoS

36 E Washington 2 7 0.727 1.64 ( 1) 39 Big Sky
24 Northeastern 3 5 0.980 1.59 ( 2) 24 A10
8 Portland St 5 4 1.228 1.58 ( 3) 9 Big Sky
31 CS Sacramento 3 5 0.815 1.42 ( 4) 36 Big Sky
1 Montana 7 1 1.630 1.36 ( 5) 4 Big Sky
22 UC Davis 4 4 0.998 1.33 ( 6) 12 GWFC
11 S Dakota St 5 3 1.152 1.31 ( 7) 19 GWFC
23 N Arizona 4 4 0.982 1.30 ( 8) 17 Big Sky
34 Rhode Island 3 5 0.748 1.27 ( 9) 34 A10
56 Weber St 2 6 0.515 1.25 ( 10) 48 Big Sky
19 San Diego 8 0 1.031 -0.03 (103) 8 PFL

[grizband]

I'm sorry, but if anyone plays a tougher schedule than my Bulldogs, I have yet to see it.

Texas A&M
Pittsburgh
Charleston Southern (hey, they are undefeated)
VMI (okay, a weak one)

and the complete lineup of SoCon schools.
Portland State has a pretty tough schedule this year:

New Mexico
Cal
Oregon
Montana
Montana St.

[BillLuc1982]

I'm sorry, but if anyone plays a tougher schedule than my Bulldogs, I have yet to see it.

Texas A&M
Pittsburgh
Charleston Southern (hey, they are undefeated)
VMI (okay, a weak one)

and the complete lineup of SoCon schools.

Substitute Gateway for SoCon then we'll talk!

[Umass74]

If you add in travel time, game times and away games, tough schedules begin and end with Northeastern.

Five straight away games:
@ Virginia Tech
@ Holy Cross (possible Patriot League Champ)
@ North Dakota State (top 5 team I-AA)
@ JMU (possible A10 Champ and after a late airplane trip)
@ Richmond (top 20 I-AA)

Whew, now the Huskies are home:

Delaware
UNH (top 10 I-AA team)
UMass (top 10 I-AA team

Then away again

@ Maine (ask anyone what a joy it is to play in Orono)
@ Hofstra

And Home to Rhody. Seven straight top 20 teams. Seven away games.

Retire the trophy .:D

[AZGrizFan]

Here are the top 10 toughest schedules in 1-aa based on the top 35 1-aa teams from the sagarin ratings. (sagarin Rank 1-aa)

1.Northeastern-90 (21)
2.Eastern Washington-91 (33)
3.NAU-106 (18)
4.Portland State-107 (7)
5.Sacramento State-123 (34)
6.Maine-126 (19)
7.UC Davis-127 (13)
8.Montana-128 (1)
9.West.Illinois-129 (26)
10.So.Dakota State-130 (14)

5 from Big Sky and 2 Great West and A-10
Easiest schedule of top 35 teams USD (San Diego)-226 (10):mad:

That is one hell of a lot of love given to the Big Sky teams. Guess Montana is last in that list because they don't get to play.....here it comes...








...MONTANA!!!!!

[Husky Alum]

If you add in travel time, game times and away games, tough schedules begin and end with Northeastern.

Five straight away games:
@ Virginia Tech
@ Holy Cross (possible Patriot League Champ)
@ North Dakota State (top 5 team I-AA)
@ JMU (possible A10 Champ and after a late airplane trip)
@ Richmond (top 20 I-AA)

Whew, now the Huskies are home:

Delaware
UNH (top 10 I-AA team)
UMass (top 10 I-AA team

Then away again

@ Maine (ask anyone what a joy it is to play in Orono)
@ Hofstra

And Home to Rhody. Seven straight top 20 teams. Seven away games.

Retire the trophy .:D

Not a trophy we want, and when you consider we lost to Richmond by 5 (and missed 2 FG's), and UMass by a TD (albeit in a monsoon), you can't really complain about being 3-5 with a REAL young team.

Next year there's some sanity to the schedule as we have at least 5 home games and at least one in September. The insanity comes with playing Northwestern and Northwestern St. in 2 of our first 3 games.

Luckily we're going to Orono this weekend where it won't be as chilly as one would expect.

[birdsflyhigh]

I'm not sure I'd want to make a strength of sched list based only on Sagarin. Think the GPI list would give a true and much clearer SOS picture because it would be based on the average of many ranking lists.

It's been noted over and over here on AGS that the Sagarin is not always a great I-AA indicator. Just my :twocents:

[GeeWiz]

If you add in travel time, game times and away games, tough schedules begin and end with Northeastern.

Five straight away games:
@ Virginia Tech
@ Holy Cross (possible Patriot League Champ)
@ North Dakota State (top 5 team I-AA)
@ JMU (possible A10 Champ and after a late airplane trip)
@ Richmond (top 20 I-AA)

Whew, now the Huskies are home:

Delaware
UNH (top 10 I-AA team)
UMass (top 10 I-AA team

Then away again

@ Maine (ask anyone what a joy it is to play in Orono)
@ Hofstra

And Home to Rhody. Seven straight top 20 teams. Seven away games.

Retire the trophy .:D

Amen brotha, amen!:nod:

[Tod]

Massey top ten I-AA SoS

36 E Washington 2 7 0.727 1.64 ( 1) 39 Big Sky
24 Northeastern 3 5 0.980 1.59 ( 2) 24 A10
8 Portland St 5 4 1.228 1.58 ( 3) 9 Big Sky
31 CS Sacramento 3 5 0.815 1.42 ( 4) 36 Big Sky
1 Montana 7 1 1.630 1.36 ( 5) 4 Big Sky
22 UC Davis 4 4 0.998 1.33 ( 6) 12 GWFC
11 S Dakota St 5 3 1.152 1.31 ( 7) 19 GWFC
23 N Arizona 4 4 0.982 1.30 ( 8) 17 Big Sky
34 Rhode Island 3 5 0.748 1.27 ( 9) 34 A10
56 Weber St 2 6 0.515 1.25 ( 10) 48 Big Sky
19 San Diego 8 0 1.031 -0.03 (103) 8 PFL

I've always said it. With the Big Sky regular season, COMBINED with OOC scheduling vs the Great West and I-A schools, the BSC is at a disadvantage. :nod: :nod: : smh : : smh :

[Ol Blue]

Special props go out to the CSU Bucs(229) 3 spots lower than USD.:hurray: :hurray: :hurray:

So that would be the 38th hardest schedule out of 120 or so teams?:rolleyes: Not too shabby.

[ysubigred]

Now thats more like it.
By the end of this season:
YSU will have faced at least 5; maybe 6 Ranked teams if WKU beats UNI this week.

They were:
MAINE
UC-DAVIS
NORTHERN IOWA
ILLINOIS STATE
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
and maybe:
WESTERN KENTUCKY

Got to mention #25 1A Big 10 Penn State :)

[JMU2K_DukeDawg]

Although we had no I-A team, we still have faced 6 ranked teams by the end. The other 5 ranked A-10 teams and App St.

JMU definitely had one of the harder schedules. Can anyone else say they played away at 2 #1 Teams in the country?

Not buying it that Montana has one of the toughest schedule. According to the stats in I-aa.org, Montana ranks 44 and Montana St. 100 when looking at combined past and future competition's win%. What this helps provide is the unbiased advantage of schedule strength from adding a I-A. Beating Colorado means very little in this method. Sag. biases I-A competition as much stronger, perhaps too much. JMU was listed at 22. Just another tool, I know it has its flaws as well.

[Appstate29]

Funny...someone today said Montana did not really have any quality wins besides "PSU"???

Hmmmmmm...SOS says different.


Yeah but most of those schools have a tough SOS because they play you, just because you have a tough SoS doesn't mean that you are a good team, so therefore I don't think you can make that assumption.

[AppGuy04]

So that would be the 38th hardest schedule out of 120 or so teams?:rolleyes: Not too shabby.

3 DII's and an NAIA, I think not

[Coastal89]

So that would be the 38th hardest schedule out of 120 or so teams?:rolleyes: Not too shabby.
No, I think your thinking about South Dakota, I meant San Diego. CSU's SOS is at 229, 13 spot from being the very worst in all D-I football.