AGS Poll Results - WEEK 3 POLL - 2018 SEASON

[AGSPoll]

9/17/2018

Rank	Team:	Total Points	First Place Votes	Previous Wk.
1	North Dakota State Bison	2296	89	1
2	James Madison Dukes	2198	3	2
3	South Dakota State Jackrabbits	2093		3
4	Kennesaw State Owls	1873		5
5	Eastern Washington Eagles	1817		4
6	North Carolina A&T Aggies	1811		6
7	Weber State Wildcats	1645		12
8	Maine Black Bears	1591		11
9	Wofford Terriers	1488		10
10	Illinois State Redbirds	1353		13
11	Elon Phoenix	1279		14
12	McNeese State Cowboys	1122		22
13	Jacksonville State Gamecocks	1033		17
14	Central Arkansas Bears	949		18
15	Villanova Wildcats	901		9
16	Samford Bulldogs	786		7
17	UC Davis Aggies	771		19
18	Sam Houston State Bearkats	733		8
19	Rhode Island Rams	520		24
20	Stony Brook Seawolves	439		25
21	Nicholls State Colonels	423		15
22	Montana Grizzlies	349		16
23	North Dakota Fighting Hawks	269		NR
24	Northern Iowa Panthers	250		23
25	Western Illinois Leathernecks	249		31
	ORV:
26	Towson Tigers	235		NR
27	Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens	234		27
28	Chattanooga Mocs	181		30
29T	Sac State Hornets	164		28T
29T	South Dakota Coyotes	164		20T
31	Montana State Bobcats	158		33
32	Mercer Bears	144		NR
33	Colgate Raiders	120		26
34	Austin Peay Governors	119		28T
35	Richmond Spiders	29		34
36	Missouri State Bears	23		NR
37	Princeton Tigers	22		NR
38	Harvard Crimson	20		40
39	Northern Arizona Lumberjacks	11		20T
40	Western Carolina Catamounts	10		NR
	Most Significant Win:		North Dakota Fighting Hawks
	Most Significant Loss:		Sam Houston State Bearkats
	Fell Out Of Poll:
36	Furman Paladins
38	New Hampshire Wildcats
37	Prairie View A&M Panthers
32	Southern Illinois Salukis
35	Yale Bulldogs
39	Youngstown State Penguins

[TheKingpin28]

1: North Dakota State Bison
2: James Madison Dukes
3: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
4: Kennesaw State Owls
5: Wofford Terriers
6: Eastern Washington Eagles
7: North Carolina A&T Aggies
8: Maine Black Bears
9: Central Arkansas Bears
10: Weber State Wildcats
11: Illinois State Redbirds
12: McNeese State Cowboys
13: Mercer Bears
14: Elon Phoenix
15: Chattanooga Mocs
16: Samford Bulldogs
17: Towson Tigers
18: Villanova Wildcats
19: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
20: Rhode Island Rams
21: Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
22: Stony Brook Seawolves
23: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
24: Sam Houston State Bearkats
25: Sac State Hornets

TheKingpin28

The Most Significant Win: McNeese State Cowboys
The Most Significant Loss: Sam Houston State Bearkats
Which Conference Does Your Team Play in?: Missouri Valley Football Conference

Flame away. I struggled after around 10. This was easily the toughest week I have had for poll voting.

After going through the aggregate, I was fairly accurate with the top 12. I had 9 teams perfectly placed and had over half of the teams within 2 spots away.

I'm shocked Sac St, Chatty, Mercer, Delaware, and Towson did not crack the T25. I feel like there is zero excuse to exclude Mercer and Towson for what they did to Samford and Nova respectively as well as Chatty beating the teams they should beat.

[Daytripper]

Here is my ugliness...

1: North Dakota State Bison
2: James Madison Dukes
3: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
4: Kennesaw State Owls
5: North Carolina A&T Aggies
6: Maine Black Bears
7: Eastern Washington Eagles
8: Elon Phoenix
9: Weber State Wildcats
10: Wofford Terriers
11: Villanova Wildcats
12: Rhode Island Rams
13: UC Davis Aggies
14: Illinois State Redbirds
15: Samford Bulldogs
16: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
17: McNeese State Cowboys
18: Central Arkansas Bears
19: Nicholls State Colonels
20: Stony Brook Seawolves
21: Northern Iowa Panthers
22: Western Illinois Leathernecks
23: Sam Houston State Bearkats
24: Sac State Hornets
25: Austin Peay Governors

[Professor Chaos]

This week's blog post on the poll: http://thefcswedge.com/ags-poll/ags-...op-25-results/

I was a little surprised we saw some teams hanging on as high as they did like Villanova, Samford, and Sam Houston all still being ranked higher than the teams that beat them last week. Villanova I can somewhat see since they've got a nice win against Temple to fall back on but what have Samford and Sam Houston done to prove they deserve the benefit of the doubt against the teams that beat them at home? They have one D1 win between them so far on the year yet SHSU is ranked 5 spots in front of the team that beat them and Samford is ranked 16(!) spots in front of the team that beat them.

Doesn't make much sense to me.

[Professor Chaos]

For full disclosure here was my crack at it:

1: North Dakota State Bison
2: James Madison Dukes
3: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
4: Kennessaw State Owls
5: North Carolina A&T Aggies
6: Maine Black Bears
7: Eastern Washington Eagles
8: Elon Phoenix
9: Weber State Wildcats
10: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
11: Illinois State Redbirds
12: UC Davis Aggies
13: Wofford Terriers
14: Mercer Bears
15: Rhode Island Rams
16: McNeese State Cowboys
17: Samford Bulldogs
18: Towson Tigers
19: Villanova Wildcats
20: Nicholls State Colonels
21: South Dakota Coyotes
22: Central Arkansas Bears
23: Sacramento State Hornets
24: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
25: Sam Houston State Bearkats

[Daytripper]

This week's blog post on the poll: http://thefcswedge.com/ags-poll/ags-...op-25-results/

I was a little surprised we saw some teams hanging on as high as they did like Villanova, Samford, and Sam Houston all still being ranked higher than the teams that beat them last week. Villanova I can somewhat see since they've got a nice win against Temple to fall back on but what have Samford and Sam Houston done to prove they deserve the benefit of the doubt against the teams that beat them at home? They have one D1 win between them so far on the year yet SHSU is ranked 5 spots in front of the team that beat them and Samford is ranked 16(!) spots in front of the team that beat them.

Doesn't make much sense to me.

So Mercer should be ranked ahead of Samford? I just saw your poll. So yes.

[PaladinFan]

Pretty brutal to drop Colgate and Furman for having a weather-related game cancellation.

Elon, who also had a weather related game cancellation, moved up 3 spots.

[Professor Chaos]

So Mercer should be ranked ahead of Samford? I just saw your poll. So yes.

Yeah, I think so. They dominated the ball with over 40 minutes TOP. They had more total yards. You can't use the turnovers or penalties as an excuse since each team had 1 TO and penalties were pretty even also (Samford slightly higher). Nothing about Mercer's win seemed flukish to me so I'm very comfortable ranking them ahead of Samford right now.

Pretty brutal to drop Colgate and Furman for having a weather-related game cancellation.

Elon, who also had a weather related game cancellation, moved up 3 spots.

Colgate actually picked up points this week despite there being 8 less voters. They had 111 last week and this week they had 120. There was a lot more competition for votes/points between spots 25-35 this week than there was last week so teams like Colgate and Austin Peay dropped quite a bit in terms of rank but in terms of points they actually picked up some.

[BEAR]

1: North Dakota State Bison
2: James Madison Dukes
3: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
4: Kennesaw State Owls
5: Wofford Terriers
6: Eastern Washington Eagles
7: North Carolina A&T Aggies
8: Maine Black Bears
9: Central Arkansas Bears
10: Weber State Wildcats
11: Illinois State Redbirds
12: McNeese State Cowboys
13: Mercer Bears
14: Elon Phoenix
15: Chattanooga Mocs
16: Samford Bulldogs
17: Towson Tigers
18: Villanova Wildcats
19: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
20: Rhode Island Rams
21: Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
22: Stony Brook Seawolves
23: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
24: Sam Houston State Bearkats
25: Sac State Hornets

TheKingpin28

The Most Significant Win: McNeese State Cowboys
The Most Significant Loss: Sam Houston State Bearkats
Which Conference Does Your Team Play in?: Missouri Valley Football Conference

Flame away. I struggled after around 10. This was easily the toughest week I have had for poll voting.

After going through the aggregate, I was fairly accurate with the top 12. I had 9 teams perfectly placed and had over half of the teams within 2 spots away.

I'm shocked Sac St, Chatty, Mercer, Delaware, and Towson did not crack the T25. I feel like there is zero excuse to exclude Mercer and Towson for what they did to Samford and Nova respectively as well as Chatty beating the teams they should beat.

I like your pick for UCA but McNeese is playing pretty darn good. We should have beaten Tulsa. Murray state was a rain game. SLU was our first test and we passed it. Top 15 for sure. I'd put McNeese higher after looking at their defensive stats for the year. SHSU looks like its fading. Nicholls is confusing as heck.

[F'N Hawks]

Here is my ugliness...

1: North Dakota State Bison
2: James Madison Dukes
3: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
4: Kennesaw State Owls
5: North Carolina A&T Aggies
6: Maine Black Bears
7: Eastern Washington Eagles
8: Elon Phoenix
9: Weber State Wildcats
10: Wofford Terriers
11: Villanova Wildcats
12: Rhode Island Rams
13: UC Davis Aggies
14: Illinois State Redbirds
15: Samford Bulldogs
16: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
17: McNeese State Cowboys
18: Central Arkansas Bears
19: Nicholls State Colonels
20: Stony Brook Seawolves
21: Northern Iowa Panthers
22: Western Illinois Leathernecks
23: Sam Houston State Bearkats
24: Sac State Hornets
25: Austin Peay Governors