Something else I noticed. 9 of 13 Big Sky teams (or 10 of 14 if you want to include UND since they're still playing a Big Sky schedule) are ranked or in the ORV this week. The Big Sky is shaping up to have some nice depth this year even though it may not be as strong at the top as it was last year.
Professor Chaos is a proud supporter of the 9-time NCAA Division 1 Football National Champion North Dakota State Bison.
No Votes for Sac State?????
I thought they would at least be in the ORV.
Update: After clicking on the article I see they did receive votes and are tied for 36.
Professor Chaos is a proud supporter of the 9-time NCAA Division 1 Football National Champion North Dakota State Bison.
My votes this week:
1 North Dakota State Bison 2 James Madison Dukes 3 South Dakota State Jackrabbits 4 Weber State Wildcats 5 Towson Tigers 6 UC Davis Aggies 7 Kennesaw State Owls 8 Northern Iowa Panthers 9 Illinois State Redbirds 10 Southeastern Louisiana Lions 11 Maine Black Bears 12 Eastern Washington Eagles 13 Furman Paladins 14 Montana State Bobcats 15 JacksonvilleState Gamecocks 16 Central Arkansas Bears 17 Nicholls State Colonels 18 Montana Grizzlies 19 Villanova Wildcats 20 Youngstown State Penguins 21 Elon Phoenix 22 The Citadel Bulldogs 23 North Carolina A&T Aggies 24 Delaware Fighting Blue Hens 25 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks
Great job as usual, voters!
Surprised as a Big Sky person to see all the conference representation. For Portland State and Cal Poly to move up after their "performances" last week is surprising, as well as Montana moving up one spot. Seeing PSU and Poly in ORV make me think Idaho should have received some consideration.
But I am nitpicking. It does look great overall.
Curious to see A&T drop after a win, even though it was close to a winless team. They did beat Elon in the first game.
Living the Dream
Some of those teams at the very bottom of the ORV are just moving up because other teams are falling out I think. In the preseason and week 1 polls a team needed 29 points to crack the ORV, last week it was 16 points, and now this week it's 10 points. So teams like NAU and Cal Poly are probably just popping up because of other teams above them falling off and those votes/points are going to teams further up.
They only lost 4 points from last week. It was just that SELA and YSU picked up about 350 points each to hop over them (and JSU picked up about 650).
Professor Chaos is a proud supporter of the 9-time NCAA Division 1 Football National Champion North Dakota State Bison.
Bookmarks