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Delaware Strengthens Hold on Top Spot

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Delaware Blue Hens have maintained the No. 1 ranking in this week’s Football Championship Subdivision Coaches Poll following a 45-27 win at Massachusetts on Saturday. The Blue Hens were a near-unanimous choice for the top spot, receiving 26 of 28 possible first-place votes and 698 points overall.

There was a significant shakeup in the poll this week as 10 of the top 25 teams last on Saturday, including four from the top 10. Appalachian State rose to No. 2 after dispatching then-No. 4 Wofford, 43-13, to claim at least a share of the Southern Conference championship.

Eastern Washington jumped up two spots to third in the rankings and received one first-place vote, while Jacksonville State likewise moved up a pair of positions to fourth.

Stephen F. Austin rounded out the top five and collected a single first-place nod.

Bethune-Cookman is new to the top 10 this week, coming in at ninth, after the 10-0 Wildcats held off Howard, 35-20, to claim at least a share of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship. B-CU is the only undefeated team in this week’s poll.

Lehigh and Dayton are the new members to the rankings this week, sitting in the 22nd and 25th spots, respectively.

There are 13 conferences that are represented in this week’s poll. The Colonial Athletic Association leads the way with six ranked teams, while the Big Sky has three representatives. The Mid-Eastern Athletic, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Pioneer and Southern Conferences have two teams each, and the Big South, Great West, Ivy, Northeast, Southland and the Southwest Athletic Conferences each have one team in this week’s poll.

FCS Coaches Poll is based exclusively on a voting panel of head coaches in the FCS under the cooperation of the Collegiate Commissioners Association (CCA) and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and is administered by the Southern Conference.

2010 FCS Coaches Week 11 Poll (November 15, 2010)

Team (No. 1 Votes) Record Points Last Week
1. Delaware (26) 9-1 698 1
2. Appalachian State 9-1 666 3
3. Eastern Washington (1) 8-2 636 5
4. Jacksonville State 9-1 613 6
5. Stephen F. Austin (1) 8-2 569 7
6. William & Mary 7-3 520 2
7. Wofford 8-2 512 4
8. Montana State 8-2 503 10
9. Bethune-Cookman 10-0 474 12
10. Southeast Missouri State 9-2 428 8
11. South Carolina State 8-2 396 14
12. Northern Iowa 7-3 394 16
13. New Hampshire 6-4 350 15
14. Montana 7-3 332 17
15. Villanova 6-4 314 9
16. Penn 8-1 264 19
17. North Dakota State 7-3 227 20
18. Liberty 7-3 219 11
19. Massachusetts 6-4 214 13
20. Richmond 6-4 181 23
21. Jacksonville 10-1 123 24
22. Lehigh 8-2 88 NR
23. Cal Poly 7-4 71 18
24. Grambling State 8-2 49 22
25. Dayton 10-1 44 NR

Others receiving votes (points in parentheses): Georgia Southern (40), Western Illinois (28), Florida A&M (25), Sacramento State (23), James Madison (21), Robert Morris (17), McNeese State (16), Weber State (14), Texas Southern (11), Chattanooga (7), Southern Utah (5), Northern Arizona (3), Old Dominion (2), Indiana State (2), Harvard (1).

How does J'ville St get a first-place vote and Appy doesn't? Is that a homer vote?

SuperHornet wrote:How does J'ville St get a first-place vote and Appy doesn't? Is that a homer vote?

Have you looked at that atrocious piece of shit you have been turning in? You're going to call a homer vote on that but give a pass to what you turn in?

Did you return Montana to #1 this week?

Where is Liberty after that loss? Dropped from #2 to #3?

SuperHornet wrote:How does J'ville St get a first-place vote and Appy doesn't? Is that a homer vote?

Jacksonville State didn't get a first place vote.

SFA and EWU did though. I'll assume you meant SFA. Probably because their loss was three weeks ago rather than two.

siuham: Thanks for the correction. I must have gone too fast.

clenz: Did I ever claim that I wasn't homering? Besides, you guys focus so much on THREE teams in my rankings that you don't even bother to notice that I have Delaware and Appy in the Top Three. Are those automatically bad picks because I favor those other three?

BTW, I dropped Liberty to 10.

SuperHornet wrote:siuham: Thanks for the correction. I must have gone too fast.

clenz: Did I ever claim that I wasn't homering? Besides, you guys focus so much on THREE teams in my rankings that you don't even bother to notice that I have Delaware and Appy in the Top Three. Are those automatically bad picks because I favor those other three?

BTW, I dropped Liberty to 10.

You are going to be the catalyst for group action to have the poll changed for next year SH. No big deal man, we all had hoped that our voters would take all the teams and voting seriously and try to at least set aside the homer part aside for the voting so as not to try and make a mockery of what we are trying to do as a group.

You have single-handedly proven that this was a bad judgment call on the rest of our parts. I will lobby that any new rule to this effect have your name on it. You will continue to live on with the infamy you've placed upon yourself.

Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:

SuperHornet wrote:siuham: Thanks for the correction. I must have gone too fast.

clenz: Did I ever claim that I wasn't homering? Besides, you guys focus so much on THREE teams in my rankings that you don't even bother to notice that I have Delaware and Appy in the Top Three. Are those automatically bad picks because I favor those other three?

BTW, I dropped Liberty to 10.

You are going to be the catalyst for group action to have the poll changed for next year SH. No big deal man, we all had hoped that our voters would take all the teams and voting seriously and try to at least set aside the homer part aside for the voting so as not to try and make a mockery of what we are trying to do as a group.

You have single-handedly proven that this was a bad judgment call on the rest of our parts. I will lobby that any new rule to this effect have your name on it. You will continue to live on with the infamy you've placed upon yourself.

So.

Are you confirming that he actually votes?

I thought it was just an elaborate joke.

No...he votes....


We seriously need a SuperHornet rule.

Liberty at 10? Based on fucking what you fucking retard? Even the real Liberty fans, yes I said real Liberty fans, would call bull shit on that one.

Montana at 1? The might not even get to 7 D1 wins you fuck tard

So.

Are you confirming that he actually votes?

I thought it was just an elaborate joke.


Our poll isn't mean to be a "I'm a homer so I'm going to rank my shitty ass team high" poll. Our poll is supposed to be an actual poll that isn't out in some fucking retard la-la land.

Clenz, I think I understand where you are coming from, but I wish you wouldn't be so bashful. Just come out and tell us how you really feel.

SumItUp wrote:Clenz, I think I understand where you are coming from, but I wish you wouldn't be so bashful. Just come out and tell us how you really feel.

I don't know...he kinda vacillated back & forth there.

Calling out a voter in a public form, interesting to say the least.

Gil Dobie wrote:Calling out a voter in a public form, interesting to say the least.

We call out each other on any forum. It's not new and you know it. Mods, posters, hell even spammers have been called out so why would this be different?

SumItUp wrote:Clenz, I think I understand where you are coming from, but I wish you wouldn't be so bashful. Just come out and tell us how you really feel.

That's our clenzy!!!!

Ursus A. Horribilis wrote:

Gil Dobie wrote:Calling out a voter in a public form, interesting to say the least.

We call out each other on any forum. It's not new and you know it. Mods, posters, hell even spammers have been called out so why would this be different?

Yeah, Miss Manners, what Ursus said.

I'm really not sure how Liberty stays in the top 25 after a loss to Coastal Carolina?

Go Runnin' Bulldogs!

I agree elcid. We shouldn't be ranked. We've been overrated all season. I'm not complaining though.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

SumItUp wrote:Clenz, I think I understand where you are coming from, but I wish you wouldn't be so bashful. Just come out and tell us how you really feel.

That's our clenzy!!!!

That's the one constant thing you know you'll get with me. I'm going to call a spade a spade and I'm not afraid to say it.


BTW Cap, you need to text TBH and help me convince her to head down to Western this weekend to part with you, D, the kittens, and PantherRob