AGS Poll Results 2024 Week 1

[AGSPoll]

9/2/20244



Rank
Team:
Total Points
First Place Votes


1
South Dakota State Jackrabbits
1140
37


2
North Dakota State Bison
1061
3


3
Montana Grizzlies
1037
2


4
Montana State Bobcats
1035
4


5
Villanova Wildcats
950



6
Idaho Vandals
902



7
South Dakota Coyotes
901



8
Sac State Hornets
640



9
Southern Illinois Salukis
635



10
Furman Paladins
624



11
Central Arkansas Bears
621



12
Chattanooga Mocs
590



13
Richmond Spiders
537



14
William & Mary Tribe
469



15
Incarnate Word Cardinals
444



16
Western Carolina Catamounts
396



17
UC Davis Aggies
395



18
Albany Great Danes
366



19
Nicholls Colonels
286



20
North Dakota Fighting Hawks
282



21
Lafayette Leopards
234



22
Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks
188



23
Mercer Bears
169



24
Youngstown State Penguins
165



25
Illinois State Redbirds
129
















ORV:




26
Tarleton Texans
119



27
Weber State Wildcats
107



28
Abilene Christian Wildcats
93



29
Northern Iowa Panthers
57



30
Elon Phoenix
56



31
North Carolina Central Eagles
42



32T
Missouri State Bears
39



32T
Rhode Island Rams
39



34
Florida A&M Rattlers
37



35
Eastern Washington Eagles
34



36
Southeast Missouri State Redhawks
32



37
Austin Peay Governors
31



38
Eastern Illinois Panthers
17



39
Harvard Crimson
10



40
Holy Cross Crusaders
9













Most Significant Win:
Montana State Bobcats






Most Significant Loss:
Furman Paladins

[MTfan4life]

LFN is going to HATE this poll.

[Catbooster]

Damn. Already used my preseason poll mulligan. Had one of those weekends - went to enter my poll about 10:30 this morning and it was too late.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Damn. Already used my preseason poll mulligan. Had one of those weekends - went to enter my poll about 10:30 this morning and it was too late.

Man, you must have just barely missed it. I screwed up and had to start over on the poll calculations, sorting, etc. and I left that thing open while doing it. You better set an alarm on your phone for 9a Monday mornings title AGS Poll. You are way too close to HOF now to screw that one up.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

1: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
2: Montana State Bobcats
3: North Dakota State Bison
4: Villanova Wildcats
5: Idaho Vandals
6: South Dakota Coyotes
7: Montana Grizzlies
8: Chattanooga Mocs
9: Incarnate Word Cardinals
10: Furman Paladins
11: Central Arkansas Bears
12: Southern Illinois Salukis
13: Richmond Spiders
14: Tarleton Texans
15: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
16: Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks
17: Western Carolina Catamounts
18: Yale Bulldogs
19: Sac State Hornets
20: North Carolina Central Eagles
21: Youngstown State Penguins
22: Lafayette Leopards
23: Nicholls Colonels
24: Eastern Illinois Panthers
25: Harvard Crimson

The Most Significant Win: Montana State Bobcats
The Most Significant Loss: Fordham Rams
Which Conference Does Your Team Play in?: Patriot League

[smilo]

Not much movement from aggregate on the preseason poll. I tried to move based on perceived performance - knowing that FBS games are not great indicators and box scores can be even less reliable (I was at the Towson game in person and can vouch that the score should never have been so close.)

1: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
2: Montana State Bobcats (+2)
3: North Dakota State Bison
4: Idaho Vandals (+3)
5: South Dakota Coyotes
6: Villanova Wildcats (+7) - Maybe a slight overreaction with a non existent passing game but that should piece itself together.
7: Montana Grizzlies (-5)
8: Sac State Hornets (-2) - I was actually really impressed with Sac State and did watch the game but too many solid squads to rank
9: Central Arkansas Bears (+5)
10: Western Carolina Catamounts (+6)
11: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
12: Furman Paladins (-4)
13: Abilene Christian Wildcats (New)
14: William & Mary Tribe (-2)
15: Southern Illinois Salukis (-5)
16: Nicholls Colonels (+5)
17: Chattanooga Mocs (-8)
18: Youngstown State Penguins (+7) - liked the fight!
19: Incarnate Word Cardinals (+3)
20: Mercer Bears (+4)
21: Richmond Spiders (-1)
22: Missouri State Bears (New)
23: Southeast Missouri State Redhawks (New)
24: Weber State Wildcats (-6)
25: Eastern Washington Eagles (New)

Dropped: #15 Illinois State; #17 Tarleton; #19 Albany; #23 UT-Martin

UC-Davis and Lafayette on the outside looking in both weeks.

[Catbooster]

Man, you must have just barely missed it. I screwed up and had to start over on the poll calculations, sorting, etc. and I left that thing open while doing it. You better set an alarm on your phone for 9a Monday mornings title AGS Poll. You are way too close to HOF now to screw that one up.
Yep - gonna have to hit all of them now. At least I had the preseason poll in.

I've only voted on Monday morning a handful of times over the years. Usually I finalize and submit the poll on Sunday night.

[NDSU1980]

You're not going to tell us the most significant win or loss?

[wcugrad95]

We have received your AGS Top 25 vote on 9/1/2024 20:01:25

Your vote is listed below.


1: Montana State Bobcats
2: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
3: North Dakota State Bison
4: Montana Grizzlies
5: Villanova Wildcats
6: Idaho Vandals
7: South Dakota Coyotes
8: Central Arkansas Bears
9: Sac State Hornets
10: Chattanooga Mocs
11: Western Carolina Catamounts
12: William & Mary Tribe
13: UC Davis Aggies
14: Illinois State Redbirds
15: Southern Illinois Salukis
16: Furman Paladins
17: Elon Phoenix
18: Mercer Bears
19: Lafayette Leopards
20: Eastern Illinois Panthers
21: Nicholls Colonels
22: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
23: Tarleton Texans
24: Richmond Spiders
25: Incarnate Word Cardinals


My most significant loss was Idaho. I normally use that for the team that got hurt by the loss, but in this case if Oregon is an actual FBS playoff contender to think their loss might be the best performance so far by an FCS team.

Most significant win was Montana State week 0. At 2-0 and a scalp, they moved to the top of my list.

Leaving some teams in and some even relatively high, but expect to make a fair amount of changes the next 2 or 3 weeks as we learn about many of the teams who played P4 opponents.

[POD Knows]

Sent my poll in this morning. Zero clue whether or not it was received.

[SFA 93]

After #10 it's just jockeying for position.

I'll weed out after week 3.

1: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
2: North Dakota State Bison
3: Montana State Bobcats
4: Villanova Wildcats
5: Montana Grizzlies
6: South Dakota Coyotes
7: Idaho Vandals
8: Central Arkansas Bears
9: Southern Illinois Salukis
10: Sac State Hornets
11: UC Davis Aggies
12: Western Carolina Catamounts
13: Tarleton Texans
14: Chattanooga Mocs
15: Richmond Spiders
16: Incarnate Word Cardinals
17: William & Mary Tribe
18: Furman Paladins
19: Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks
20: Weber State Wildcats
21: Lafayette Leopards
22: Elon Phoenix
23: Eastern Washington Eagles
24: Abilene Christian Wildcats
25: Portland State Vikings

The Most Significant Win: Montana State Bobcats
The Most Significant Loss: Chattanooga Mocs

[ursus arctos horribilis]

You're not going to tell us the most significant win or loss?

Shoot, don't know why I missed that copy and paste portion.

Montana State MSW
Furman MSL

I will go fix the original post.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Sent my poll in this morning. Zero clue whether or not it was received.

It was, just ran out of quota so need to wait until this evening to send the last 10-15 or them. I'll go try now and see what happens.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Sent my poll in this morning. Zero clue whether or not it was received.

It told me to **** off so I guess we still have to wait a bit. xlolx

[POD Knows]

It was, just ran out of quota so need to wait until this evening to send the last 10-15 or them. I'll go try now and see what happens.
Not a problem but it important that the answer key is available to the masses. And yea, Albany is still not in the top 25.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Not a problem but it important that the answer key is available to the masses. And yea, Albany is still not in the top 25.

I know, that is my main worry about running out of quota each week.

[NY Crusader 2010]

To whoever ranked Holy Cross in the Top 25 -- I'll have some of whatever you're having.

[Professor Chaos]

This week's poll article: https://thefcswedge.com/ags-poll/ags-poll-week-1-top-25-results-5/

Like smilo mentioned it was very calm which is atypical for a poll this early in the season where we usually see massive movement. I guess that's due to only one FBS win and a lot of pretty underwhelming performances in FBS games from many of the teams in the top 25 IMO. The poll is incredibly top heavy with MVFC and Big Sky teams though. The top 4 and 8 of the top 9 in the consensus are from those two conferences. There's going to be some teams up there that will have to falter once they all start playing each other in the conference season.

[Chalupa Batman]

Unlike the consensus I did have a massive amount of movement in mine. One oversight I had was not including Southern Illinois in my poll, I would probably replace Weber State with the Salukis.

1: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
2: Montana State Bobcats
3: Idaho Vandals
4: North Dakota State Bison
5: Western Carolina Catamounts
6: Villanova Wildcats
7: Montana Grizzlies
8: South Dakota Coyotes
9: Central Arkansas Bears
10: Chattanooga Mocs
11: Sac State Hornets
12: William & Mary Tribe
13: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
14: Southeast Missouri State Redhawks
15: Youngstown State Penguins
16: Furman Paladins
17: Abilene Christian Wildcats
18: Elon Phoenix
19: Richmond Spiders
20: Mercer Bears
21: Nicholls Colonels
22: Incarnate Word Cardinals
23: Weber State Wildcats
24: UC Davis Aggies
25: North Carolina Central Eagles

The Most Significant Win: Villanova Wildcats
The Most Significant Loss: Western Carolina Catamounts

[mvemjsunpx]

Preseason ballot in parentheses…


1. South Dakota St. (1)
2. Montana St. (2)
3. North Dakota St. (4)
4. Villanova (7)
5. Montana (3)
6. South Dakota (5)
7. UC Davis (6)
8. Idaho (13)
9. Central Arkansas (12)
10. Tennessee-Chattanooga (9)
11. Western Carolina (18)
12. Tennessee-Martin (11)
13. Youngstown St. (8)
14. North Dakota (17)
15. Furman (14)
16. Sacramento St. (16)
17. Lafayette (10)
18. Florida A&M (15)
19. Southern Illinois (20)
20. William & Mary (23)
21. Abilene Christian (NR)
22. Nicholls St. (22)
23. Southeast Missouri St. (NR)
24. Illinois St. (21)
25. Lamar (NR)

Dropped - Albany (19), Harvard (24), East Tennessee St. (25)


W - Villanova
L - Lafayette

[uofmman1122]

Preseason ballot in parentheses…


1. South Dakota St. (1)
2. Montana St. (2)
3. North Dakota St. (4)
4. Villanova (7)
5. Montana (3)
6. South Dakota (5)
7. UC Davis (6)
8. Idaho (13)
9. Central Arkansas (12)
10. Tennessee-Chattanooga (9)
11. Western Carolina (18)
12. Tennessee-Martin (11)
13. Youngstown St. (8)
14. North Dakota (17)
15. Furman (14)
16. Sacramento St. (16)
17. Lafayette (10)
18. Florida A&M (15)
19. Southern Illinois (20)
20. William & Mary (23)
21. Abilene Christian (NR)
22. Nicholls St. (22)
23. Southeast Missouri St. (NR)
24. Illinois St. (21)
25. Lamar (NR)

Dropped - Albany (19), Harvard (24), East Tennessee St. (25)


W - Villanova
L - Lafayette
You still have us in the top 10???

Who are you?

:p