Coaches Poll 10/24

[FargoBison]

1. Georgia Southern (27) 7-0 697 1
2. Northern Iowa (1) 6-1 666 2
3. North Dakota State 7-0 622 5
4. Montana State 7-1 618 3
5. Appalachian State 5-2 577 6
6. Lehigh 6-1 528 7
7. Sam Houston State 7-0 510 10
8. Montana 6-2 476 9
9. Wofford 5-2 451 4
10. James Madison 5-2 438 11
11. New Hampshire 5-2 421 12
12. Maine 6-1 403 14
13. Jacksonville State 5-2 393 8
14. Towson 6-1 348 17
15. South Dakota 5-3 276 19
16.Old Dominion 6-2 234 22
17. Jackson State 6-1 211 20
18. Indiana State 5-3 141 16
19. Tennessee Tech 4-2 131 23
20. Delaware 4-4 127 13
21. William & Mary 4-4 119 15
22. Alabama State 6-1 107 NR
23. Harvard 5-1 105 NR
24. Liberty 5-3 82 NR
25. North Dakota 4-3 62 18

Others receiving votes: Illinois State (59); Jacksonville (37); Norfolk State (33); Cal Poly (25); Missouri State (23); Eastern Washington (19); Central Arkansas (18); Chattanooga (15); Brown (14); Richmond (14); Youngstown State (13); Furman (12); Southern Illinois (9); Alcorn State (7); Sacramento State (7); Texas State (7); Albany (6); Florida A&M (5); Pennsylvania (5); Southern Utah (5); McNeese State (4); Massachusetts (3); San Diego (2); UT Martin (1).

[FargoBison]

This poll is so bad, it isn't even funny anymore.

[andy7171]

It's sad that the selection committee uses this as one its polls.

[Tribe4SF]

Still the worst of all the polls and rankings. JMU ahead of a Maine team that beat them in Harrisonburg. Lehigh 6th...UNH 12th. Who won that matchup?

[FargoBison]

Missouri State got 23 votes....What is going on? They just won their first game of the season last week vs Western Illinois.

[slostang]

Cal Poly is 4-3 and just beat a 4-3 UND on the road. UND is ranked at 25th and Cal Poly is not ranked. Explain that one to me.

[TTUEagles]

TTU is not the 19th best team in the nation. No way. Top 19 offense, maybe, but, top 80 defense...

[FargoBison]

I wonder if Missouri State was getting votes meant for Montana State? I wonder if North Dakota is getting votes meant for NDSU as well. I wonder if Jacksonville is getting votes meant for Jacksonville State. I have more and more questions about this poll each week. Clearly there is nobody checking the ballots for accuracy and in a poll of just 28 voters a few mistakes can skew the poll.

[Redbirdz]

I guess then Georgia Southern will drop four slots when Alabama beats them. BCS losses apparently do count some.

[BISON Thunder]

Poor Illinois State...must have done something to the voters.

[JMUNJ08]

1. Georgia Southern (27) 7-0 697 1
2. Northern Iowa (1) 6-1 666 2
3. North Dakota State 7-0 622 5
4. Montana State 7-1 618 3
5. Appalachian State 5-2 577 6
6. Lehigh 6-1 528 7
7. Sam Houston State 7-0 510 10
8. Montana 6-2 476 9
9. Wofford 5-2 451 4
10. James Madison 5-2 438 11
11. New Hampshire 5-2 421 12
12. Maine 6-1 403 14
13. Jacksonville State 5-2 393 8
14. Towson 6-1 348 17
15. South Dakota 5-3 276 19
16.Old Dominion 6-2 234 22
17. Jackson State 6-1 211 20
18. Indiana State 5-3 141 16
19. Tennessee Tech 4-2 131 23
20. Delaware 4-4 127 13
21. William & Mary 4-4 119 15
22. Alabama State 6-1 107 NR
23. Harvard 5-1 105 NR
24. Liberty 5-3 82 NR
25. North Dakota 4-3 62 18

Others receiving votes: Illinois State (59); Jacksonville (37); Norfolk State (33); Cal Poly (25); Missouri State (23); Eastern Washington (19); Central Arkansas (18); Chattanooga (15); Brown (14); Richmond (14); Youngstown State (13); Furman (12); Southern Illinois (9); Alcorn State (7); Sacramento State (7); Texas State (7); Albany (6); Florida A&M (5); Pennsylvania (5); Southern Utah (5); McNeese State (4); Massachusetts (3); San Diego (2); UT Martin (1).

Where to start....

H2H winners
Alabama State (22) over Jackson St. (17) - Only ASU loss to FBS...
Maine (12) over JMU (10) - @ JMU and Maine only loss to FBS...
Illinois St (26) over Indiana State (18) - ISUr must be highly ranked for only dropping ISUb 2 spots...oh wait, they lost to an unranked team....
UNH (11) over Leigh (6) - close game and UNH has loss to somehow still ranked W&M on the road as its only blemish since then...

We could go on and on obviously but these are clear...we saw them on the field...

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

Please quantify how Lehigh has played better because all I see are weaker teams on their schedule (Liberty, Yale, Bucknell and Fordham) than UNH has played since their game at Goodman. I'd truly love to see how Lehigh would have fared playing at Richmond, Villanova (who beat Penn), at W&M (an absolute nemesis for UNH)and UMass on a neutral field. We'll soon see how Lehigh does with Holy Cross and we've already seen UMass win at Holy Cross. Having seen every UNH game in person this year, I'm not sure Lehigh could go through that same series of games better than UNH did.

[FargoBison]

Yep nobody checks for accuracy....

Last week
Montana State 641 points and three first place votes
--Missouri State 0 points.

This week
Montana State 618 points and three first place votes.
--Missouri State 23 points

[frozennorth]

This poll is an abomination.

[NDSU_grad]

Yep nobody checks for accuracy....

Last week
Montana State 641 points and three first place votes
--Missouri State 0 points.



This week
Montana State 618 points and three first place votes.
--Missouri State 23 points

Nice catch. Makes sense since I'm presuming 23 points would be a 3rd place vote, about where Montana State is ranked.

[cpalum]

Cal Poly is 4-3 and just beat a 4-3 UND on the road. UND is ranked at 25th and Cal Poly is not ranked. Explain that one to me.

Slo....Im still scratching my head on that one as well

Maybe the voters value quality wins over NAIA and DII schoolsxdontknowx

[apaladin]

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[mainejeff]

Can Maine make the Top 10 if they win the rest of their games?

[Strommer10]

Week 8 Poll - October 24, 2011
Team (No. 1 Votes)
1. Georgia Southern (27)7-0 697 1
2. Northern Iowa (1) 6-1 666 2
3. North Dakota State 7-0 622 5
4. Montana State 7-1 618 3
5. Appalachian State 5-2 577 6
6. Lehigh 6-1 528 7
7. Sam Houston State 7-0 510 10
8. Montana 6-2 476 9
9. Wofford 5-2 451 4
10. James Madison 5-2 438 11
11. New Hampshire 5-2 421 12
12. Maine 6-1 403 14
13. Jacksonville State 5-2 393 8
14. Towson 6-1 348 17
15. South Dakota 5-3 276 19
16. Old Dominion 6-2 234 22
17. Jackson State 6-1 211 20
18. Indiana State 5-3 141 16
19. Tennessee Tech 4-2 131 23
20. Delaware 4-4 127 13
21. William & Mary 4-4 119 15
22. Alabama State 6-1 107 NR
23. Harvard 5-1 105 NR
24. Liberty 5-3 82 NR
25. North Dakota 4-3 62 18

Others receiving votes: Illinois State (59); Jacksonville (37); Norfolk State (33); McNeese State (27); Cal Poly (25); Eastern Washington (19); Central Arkansas (18); Chattanooga (15); Brown (14); Richmond (14); Youngstown State (13); Furman (12); Southern Illinois (9); Alcorn State (7); Sacramento State (7); Texas State (7); Albany (6); Florida A&M (5); Pennsylvania (5); Southern Utah (5); Massachusetts (3); San Diego (2); UT Martin (1).


They must have edited it because Missouri State doesn't appear anymore.

[profisme]

McNeese jumped from 4 votes to 27 though. I think that is were the 23 misplaced votes were.

[darell1976]

Cal Poly is 4-3 and just beat a 4-3 UND on the road. UND is ranked at 25th and Cal Poly is not ranked. Explain that one to me.

Again I would love to see how these coaches voted. We need the name, school, and who they voted for...then a hammer to knock some sense into them.xtroublex

[ncbears]

Who has UND beaten that would warrant a top 25 vote? Honest question.

[Hambone]

Who has UND beaten that would warrant a top 25 vote? Honest question.
Honest answer - nobody really. Only good win was SUU.......

[darell1976]

Who has UND beaten that would warrant a top 25 vote? Honest question.

I think these "coaches" look more at records than who the teams actually played. They see 4-3 for UND and probably think 4 wins were DI where only 2 are DI.

[Squealofthepig]

Again I would love to see how these coaches voted. We need the name, school, and who they voted for...then a hammer to knock some sense into them.xtroublex

Oh, let's just get the full list and a bunch of hammers.

[danefan]

Again I would love to see how these coaches voted. We need the name, school, and who they voted for...then a hammer to knock some sense into them.xtroublex

Here's your names and schools.

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

No info on how they vote though.....except badly.

[NDB]

They must have edited it because Missouri State doesn't appear anymore.

Too bad they didn't do this a month ago when NDSU dropped 6 spots after a bye...

[blackfordpu]

McNeese jumped from 4 votes to 27 though. I think that is were the 23 misplaced votes were.

That only proves the idiocy of this poll. McNeese got manhandled at home on Saturday.

[LakesBison]

its a pathetic poll by pathetic voters, we have all proven this all year.

[Srdnaty]

Can Maine make the Top 10 if they win the rest of their games?

I don't think that we would be ranked in the top ten in this poll even if we won the national title.

[mainejeff]

I don't think we would be ranked in the top ten in this poll if we win the national title.

You're probably right. Maybe we can ask Delaware to wear their helmets for the rest of the season THEN there's no doubt we would rise to the top!

[MTfan4life]

It's nice to see I'm not the only one noticing this. It's amazing how a coach filling out a poll at the FCS level can come up with so many mistakes. There is substantial FCS information all over the internet. My guess is this is actually the FCS Coaches' youngest daughter/granddaughter Poll. Alcorn State is 2-4 out of the SWAC and someone put them on their top 25 poll. North Dakota's best win was against a local high school team and they've been ranked as high as 18.

[coover]

Coaches Poll? Who's voting, I doubt it's the coaches. The only teams they are AWARE of are the ones they have played, the ones they have yet to play, and their own team. They wouldn't give the job to any assistant coaches. They want tunnel vision for the team they play next. Perhaps the voter is the AD or the SID? But the AD probably knows less than the coach. Vote for your friends, or make friends. The Sports Information Director? He wants to make his schools opponents look good, make his school's schedule look more difficult.

Coaches Poll? Bah!

[DFW HOYA]

Lots of votes for eight different CAA schools but not a single vote for a 7-2 Patriot team that faces Lehigh for the conference title on 11/12.

[Squealofthepig]

My guess is this is actually the FCS Coaches' youngest daughter/granddaughter Poll.

The duty is usually regulated to the SID (Sports Information Director) at their university - see my post on page two of this thread to see the absolutely despicable panel of voters, and please shame them any chance you get!

[Squealofthepig]

Lots of votes for eight different CAA schools but not a single vote for a 7-2 Patriot team that faces Lehigh for the conference title on 11/12.

Absolutely, and this pisses me off, as the Hoyas are one of my five favorite good-news teams this year (along with Maine, Towson, Portland State and Central Arkansas). (I've had the Hoyas in my poll the last two weeks - should be a great game vs. Lehigh).

[Squealofthepig]

why not post this in the 10/31/11 Coaches Poll instead of the thread from the previous week?

Probably like me and just assumed this was the most recent thread. Weird, that. Last week's poll was about as laughable as this one, to be fair. :)