Massey Ranking Today

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1. Villanova
2. William & Mary
3. Montana
4. Appalachian St
5. Richmond
6. James Madison
7. Elon
8. S Illinois
9. New Hampshire
10. E Washington
11. Weber St
12. Delaware
13. S Dakota St
14. Massachusetts
15. Penn
16. S Carolina St
17. Northern Iowa
18. Jacksonville St
19. Furman
20. Montana St
21. Liberty
22. Maine
23. Harvard
24. N Arizona
25. McNeese St
26. SF Austin
27. Holy Cross
28. Lafayette
29. UC Davis
30. Colgate
31. South Dakota
32. Chattanooga
33. Texas St
34. Illinois St
35. Samford
36. Wofford
37. Cal Poly SLO
38. North Dakota
39. CS Sacramento
40. Ga Southern
40. Youngstown St
42. Stony Brook
43. Southern Utah
44. Missouri St
45. E Illinois
46. Brown
47. Prairie View
48. Lehigh
49. Citadel
50. N Dakota St
51. Grambling
52. Charleston So
53. Cent Arkansas
54. Florida A&M
55. E Kentucky
56. Albany NY
57. Coastal Car
58. SE Louisiana
59. Yale
60. Norfolk St
61. Fordham
62. Old Dominion
63. Central Conn
64. Dayton
65. Towson
66. N Colorado
67. W Carolina
68. Gardner Webb
69. Tennessee Tech
70. Rhode Island
71. TN Martin
72. Columbia
73. Sam Houston St
74. Princeton
75. Jacksonville
76. Hampton
76. Portland St
78. Drake
79. TX Southern
80. Nicholls St
81. Butler
82. Robert Morris
83. Southern Univ
84. Alabama A&M
85. W Illinois
86. Dartmouth
87. Delaware St
88. Idaho St
89. Morgan St
90. Monmouth NJ
91. Tennessee St
91. Bucknell
93. VMI
94. Austin Peay
95. Bryant
96. Cornell
97. Northwestern LA
98. SE Missouri St
99. Bethune-Cookman
100. San Diego
101. Marist
102. Wagner
103. Alcorn St
104. NC A&T
105. Ark Pine Bluff
106. Jackson St
107. NC Central
108. Murray St
109. Presbyterian
110. Davidson
111. Sacred Heart
112. Duquesne
113. Lamar
114. Indiana St
115. Georgia St
116. Campbell
117. Georgetown
118. Alabama St
119. Howard
120. St Francis PA
121. Morehead St
122. MS Valley St
123. Savannah St
124. Valparaiso

[DFW HOYA]

Some quick thoughts:

27. Holy Cross: Probably too high
62. Old Dominion: Much too low.
115. Georgia St.: Probably too low.
119. Howard: Ouch--even below Georgetown.

[tw_fatcat]

wow, that list is not nice to the SLC SE Louisiana at 58? Holy hell
SFA at 26? I have seen neither of these schools being ranked so low anywhere else.

[JohnStOnge]

Here's the explanation of pre season rankings from Massey's site:

"Preseason ratings are typically derived as a weighted average of previous years' final ratings. As the current season progresses, their effect gets damped out completely. The only purpose preseason ratings serve is to provide a reasonable starting point for the computer. Mathematically, they guarantee a unique solution to the equations early in the season when not enough data is available yet. "

[darell1976]

#31 South Dakota????? Seriously?!

[SideLine Shooter]

Well, from what I'm seeing, the bottom 100 teams must be really bad.

[UNH Fanboi]

8 CAA teams in the top 25 and 5 in the Top 10. That can't last very long.

[LakesBison]

MASSSEY is a joke, even when NDSU was 10-1 they werent in the top 5. whatever, MASSEY can suck it.

[WestCoastAggie]

It appears 14-17 are out of order. according to the Massey Website, http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare1aa.htm:

14. S. Carolina St.
15. Northern Iowa
16. Penn
17. Massachusetts

[OL FU]

Here's the explanation of pre season rankings from Massey's site:

"Preseason ratings are typically derived as a weighted average of previous years' final ratings. As the current season progresses, their effect gets damped out completely. The only purpose preseason ratings serve is to provide a reasonable starting point for the computer. Mathematically, they guarantee a unique solution to the equations early in the season when not enough data is available yet. "


Everybody needs to read this one and then wait five weeks to worry about Massey or Sagarin or any of the other power ratings.

[lionsrking2]

Here's the explanation of pre season rankings from Massey's site:

"Preseason ratings are typically derived as a weighted average of previous years' final ratings. As the current season progresses, their effect gets damped out completely. The only purpose preseason ratings serve is to provide a reasonable starting point for the computer. Mathematically, they guarantee a unique solution to the equations early in the season when not enough data is available yet. "

In layman's terms, "we're using the ole dart-board method until October."

[HensRock]

8 CAA teams in the top 25 and 5 in the Top 10. That can't last very long.

8 CAA in the top 25 is not that surprising, but I think 4 in the top 6 is a bit extreme!

If this is just a weighted average of last year's results as was stated, then why aren't these the same his final 2009 rankings since there is no 2010 data to weigh? In his final 2009 rankings, the top 3 are the same, but UR and ASU were swapped and SIU was at #6...

2009 Massey
1. Villanova
2. William & Mary
3. Montana
4. Richmond
5. App. State
6. SIU
7. Elon
8. UNH
9. JMU
10. EWU

[TheBisonator]

#31 South Dakota????? Seriously?!

Yeah, I was thinking WTF??? I mean, really??...

[darell1976]

Yeah, I was thinking WTF??? I mean, really??...

Unless this guys knows something the rest of the FCS world doesn't

[coover]

xchinscratchx

[heath]

6 of the top 12, CAA dominance! except for #65, four should remain in the top 10 all season & should get most of the at large bids come playoff time. ODU and Gardner Webb too low, with Liberty, a team to watch if they can sneak past JMU.

[nick9c]

Pre-season rankings are pretty much useless. I don't think teams should be ranked until the third or fourth week of the season when they have had a couple of games under their belt.

Problem is you always have two or three teams in the top 25 that should have never been ranked there in the first place. Waiting a few weeks weeds them out.

[UNH72Plus]

Certainly hoping Massey is wrong. Based on their rankings UNH plays six top 25 teams and FBS #15 Pittsburgh. Talk about strength of schedule! For comparison, App State plays two top 25 teams and Florida (ranked anywhere from 2-4); and Montana plays three top 25 teams and a D-II team.