3/1 Stats FCS Football Poll

[Gil Dobie]

STATS PERFORM FCS TOP 25

1. James Madison (2-0, 0-0 CAA), 992 points (34 first-place votes)
Previous Ranking: 2; Week 3 Result: 36-16 win over Robert Morris

2. Weber State (1-0 Big Sky), 945 (4)
Previous Ranking: 4; Week 3 Result: 49-21 win at Idaho State

3. Northern Iowa (1-1 Missouri Valley), 855
Previous Ranking: 5; Week 3 Result: 21-0 win at Youngstown State

4. North Dakota (2-0 Missouri Valley), 846 (2)
Previous Ranking: 14; Week 3 Result: 28-17 win over then-No. 3 South Dakota State

5. Villanova (0-0 CAA), 788
Previous Ranking: 6; Week 3 Result: No game

6. North Dakota State (2-1, 1-1 Missouri Valley), 784
Previous Ranking: 1; Week 3 Result: 38-14 loss at Southern Illinois

7. Nicholls (2-0, 1-0 Southland), 756
Previous Ranking: 9; Week 3 Result: 55-0 win over Lamar

8. South Dakota State (1-1 Missouri Valley), 736
Previous Ranking: 3; Week 3 Result: 28-17 loss at then-No. 14 North Dakota

9. Kennesaw State (1-0, 0-0 Big South), 714
Previous Ranking: 8; Week 3 Result: 35-3 win over Shorter

10. Jacksonville State (4-1, 1-0 Ohio Valley), 597
Previous Ranking: 16; Week 3 Result: 27-10 win over then-No. 23 Tennessee Tech

11. Southern Illinois (2-1, 1-1 Missouri Valley), 594
Previous Ranking: Unranked; Last Week’s Result: 38-14 win over then-No. 1 North Dakota State

12. Sam Houston (1-0 Southland), 552
Previous Ranking: 17; Week 3 Result: 43-38 win over then-No. 18 Southeastern Louisiana

13. Albany (0-0 CAA), 456
Previous Ranking: 13; Week 3 Result: No game

14. New Hampshire (0-0 CAA), 382
Previous Ranking: 15; Week 3 Result: No game

15. Illinois State (0-1 Missouri Valley), 374
Previous Ranking: 7; Week 3 Result: 27-20 loss to South Dakota

16. Southeast Missouri (1-1, 1-0 Ohio Valley), 329
Previous Ranking: 21; Week 3 Result: 47-7 win at Eastern Illinois

17. Furman (1-1 Southern), 277
Previous Ranking: 10; Week 3 Result: 14-13 loss at VMI

18. Chattanooga (1-1, 1-0 Southern), 268
Previous Ranking: Unranked; Last Week’s Result: 24-13 win over then-No. 11 Wofford

19. Idaho (1-0 Big Sky), 267
Previous Ranking: Unranked; Last Week’s Result: 28-21 win over then-No. 12 Eastern Washington

T20. South Dakota (1-0 Missouri Valley), 229
Previous Ranking: Unranked; Last Week’s Result: 27-20 win over then-No. 7 South Dakota

T20. Wofford (1-1 Southern), 229
Previous Ranking: 11; Week 3 Result: 24-13 loss at Chattanooga

22. Eastern Washington (0-1 Big Sky), 228
Previous Ranking: 12; Week 3 Result: 28-21 loss at Idaho

T23. Monmouth (0-0 Big South), 165
Previous Ranking: 20; Week 3 Result: No game

T23. Southeastern Louisiana (0-1 Southland), 165
Previous Ranking: 18; Week 3 Result: 43-38 loss at then-No. 17 Sam Houston

25. Delaware (0-0 CAA), 101
Previous Ranking: 25; Week 3 Result: No game

Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Austin Peay 75, UIW 58, McNeese 39, VMI 32, Jackson State 22, Richmond 17, Gardner-Webb 16, San Diego 16, Dixie State 14, ETSU 14, Tennessee Tech 13, Tarleton 11, South Carolina State 10, Southern 8, UC Davis 7.

[Gil Dobie]

NDSU is too high, should be 15 or lower. This wasn't a game where the Bison committed too many turnovers, they were dominated on both sides of the ball. Coming off a lackluster performance against YSU the week before. Should be a good time to build towards the fall season.

[UNI88]

How can you have UNI ahead of UND?

[Wildcat Ryan]

Weber's highest ranking in school history. Jay Hill has done wonders there. Now gotta beat the big boys NDSU and JMU

[Gil Dobie]

Weber's highest ranking in school history. Jay Hill has done wonders there. Now gotta beat the big boys NDSU and JMU

NDSU has to show me a lot more then they did the first 2 games to still be considered a big boy. Weber is and has been one of the big boys for a few years now.

[BDKJMU]

Montana, Montana St, Villanova, Albany, UNH, and UD all haven‘t played in 15 months or longer. Yet the Montana schools aren‘t ranked and the CAA are. These polls are retarded.

[Wildcat Ryan]

Weber's highest ranking in school history. Jay Hill has done wonders there. Now gotta beat the big boys NDSU and JMU

NDSU has to show me a lot more then they did the first 2 games to still be considered a big boy. Weber is and has been one of the big boys for a few years now.

While I do believe Weber is a top 5 team nationally now, they need to show they can compete and even beat NDSU and JMU before they can really be considered a big boy. NDSU may be having a down spring but its a weird one to begin with. NDSU will be back to being NDSU soon enough.

[Wildcat Ryan]

Montana, Montana St, Villanova, Albany, UNH, and UD all haven‘t played in 15 months or longer. Yet the Montana schools aren‘t ranked and the CAA are. These polls are retarded.

Do those CAA teams plan on playing this spring?

[kalm]

Montana, Montana St, Villanova, Albany, UNH, and UD all haven‘t played in 15 months or longer. Yet the Montana schools aren‘t ranked and the CAA are. These polls are retarded.

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams that aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

[dbackjon]

Montana, Montana St, Villanova, Albany, UNH, and UD all haven‘t played in 15 months or longer. Yet the Montana schools aren‘t ranked and the CAA are. These polls are retarded.

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams tgat aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

[BDKJMU]

Montana, Montana St, Villanova, Albany, UNH, and UD all haven‘t played in 15 months or longer. Yet the Montana schools aren‘t ranked and the CAA are. These polls are retarded.

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams that aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

Swing and a miss-I KNOW the Montana schools aren’t playing. That was my whole point- they are no different now than the ranked CAA that haven’t played since 2019. They are ALL 0-0, intentions to play this winter/spring or not, and ANY school that hasn’t played since 2019 should not be included in the polls, whether they plan to play in the winter/spring season or not, when you have 60 or so teams that HAVE played games in 2020-2021, and around 40 or so that have played multiple games. This is basically a Week 3 poll. There’s nothing to say you could not include a team in polls that hasn’t played, then plug them in at 5, 15, 25, whatever if deemed deserving, once they have played.

So yes, these polls are retarded.

[BDKJMU]

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams tgat aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

WHOOSH again.

[dbackjon]

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams that aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

Swing and a miss-I KNOW the Montana schools aren’t playing. That was my whole point- they are no different now than the ranked CAA that haven’t played since 2019. They are ALL 0-0, intentions to play this winter/spring or not, and ANY school that hasn’t played since 2019 should not be included in the polls, whether they plan to play in the winter/spring season or not, when you have 60 or so teams that HAVE played games in 2020-2021, and around 40 or so that have played multiple games. This is basically a Week 3 poll. There’s nothing to say you could not include a team in polls that hasn’t played, then plug them in at 5, 15, 25, whatever if deemed deserving, once they have played.

So yes, these polls are retarded.

So if Alabama has their first game cancelled because of a hurricane, no one should vote for them, since they haven't started the season...

Yeah, that's the ticket.


Montana schools chickened out of playing, so no point in ranking them. While the CAA schools you mention WILL be playing.

[BDKJMU]

Swing and a miss-I KNOW the Montana schools aren’t playing. That was my whole point- they are no different now than the ranked CAA that haven’t played since 2019. They are ALL 0-0, intentions to play this winter/spring or not, and ANY school that hasn’t played since 2019 should not be included in the polls, whether they plan to play in the winter/spring season or not, when you have 60 or so teams that HAVE played games in 2020-2021, and around 40 or so that have played multiple games. This is basically a Week 3 poll. There’s nothing to say you could not include a team in polls that hasn’t played, then plug them in at 5, 15, 25, whatever if deemed deserving, once they have played.

So yes, these polls are retarded.

So if Alabama has their first game cancelled because of a hurricane, no one should vote for them, since they haven't started the season...

Yeah, that's the ticket.


Montana schools chickened out of playing, so no point in ranking them. While the CAA schools you mention WILL be playing.

Has Bama ever not been in the final 8 a season, then not played for 15 months, skipping a whole calendar year, then not played for the 1st 2 weeks of of the season when 60 some teams have played games, and 40 some or whatever have played multiple games, and been ranked?

[Wildcat Ryan]

So if Alabama has their first game cancelled because of a hurricane, no one should vote for them, since they haven't started the season...

Yeah, that's the ticket.


Montana schools chickened out of playing, so no point in ranking them. While the CAA schools you mention WILL be playing.

Has Bama ever not been in the final 8 a season, then not played for 15 months, skipping a whole calendar year, then not played for the 1st 2 weeks of of the season when 60 some teams have played games, and 40 some or whatever have played multiple games, and been ranked?

Ohio State played half as many games as everyone else but was still ranked the whole year, even when they werent playing So yeah to some degree its happened.

[GannonFan]

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams that aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

Swing and a miss-I KNOW the Montana schools aren’t playing. That was my whole point- they are no different now than the ranked CAA that haven’t played since 2019. They are ALL 0-0, intentions to play this winter/spring or not, and ANY school that hasn’t played since 2019 should not be included in the polls, whether they plan to play in the winter/spring season or not, when you have 60 or so teams that HAVE played games in 2020-2021, and around 40 or so that have played multiple games. This is basically a Week 3 poll. There’s nothing to say you could not include a team in polls that hasn’t played, then plug them in at 5, 15, 25, whatever if deemed deserving, once they have played.

So yes, these polls are retarded.

You said it right there, this is the equivalent of a Week 3 poll. In a normal year, teams have played, by Week 3, anywhere from no games to upwards of 3 games, and you have plenty of teams with just 1 or 2 games under the belt. And those that have played have also had a healthy diet of early season cupcakes, so the number of really pivotal or demonstrative games are few and far between. Early season polls ALWAYS include a healthy dose of forward projecting for the season ahead, even once the season has technically begun. There's a reason why, in a normal football year, some people say we shouldn't even have polls until October (at which time teams are 4 or 5 games into the season). Don't overreact over nothing, which is where we are right now in this odd football season.

[kalm]

Regarded would be not knowing the Montana’s are sitting out the spring and that voters are instructed to not consider teams that aren’t playing.

Also repeatedly punching down (I think) with the word retarded.

Swing and a miss-I KNOW the Montana schools aren’t playing. That was my whole point- they are no different now than the ranked CAA that haven’t played since 2019. They are ALL 0-0, intentions to play this winter/spring or not, and ANY school that hasn’t played since 2019 should not be included in the polls, whether they plan to play in the winter/spring season or not, when you have 60 or so teams that HAVE played games in 2020-2021, and around 40 or so that have played multiple games. This is basically a Week 3 poll. There’s nothing to say you could not include a team in polls that hasn’t played, then plug them in at 5, 15, 25, whatever if deemed deserving, once they have played.

So yes, these polls are retarded.

He who attempts to justify does not convince.

Your long explanation is as worthless as tits on a bull.

This is actually a fun season for polling.

[AZGrizFan]

I think it’s hilarious to argue over “poll” position in a meaningless, exhibition season poll.

[89Hen]

I think it’s hilarious to argue over “poll” position in a meaningless, exhibition season poll.

[tribe_pride]

Ivy League schools get ranked before they start playing and they usually don't start until week 3 or so I think every year.

[Gil Dobie]

Swing and a miss-I KNOW the Montana schools aren’t playing. That was my whole point- they are no different now than the ranked CAA that haven’t played since 2019. They are ALL 0-0, intentions to play this winter/spring or not, and ANY school that hasn’t played since 2019 should not be included in the polls, whether they plan to play in the winter/spring season or not, when you have 60 or so teams that HAVE played games in 2020-2021, and around 40 or so that have played multiple games. This is basically a Week 3 poll. There’s nothing to say you could not include a team in polls that hasn’t played, then plug them in at 5, 15, 25, whatever if deemed deserving, once they have played.

So yes, these polls are retarded.

He who attempts to justify does not convince.

Your long explanation is as worthless as tits on a bull.

This is actually a fun season for polling.

I assume he means, whoever wins the championship this year is a retarded champion, JMU included.