15 thoughts on “Top 25 poll”

1. I would switch Mt. State with EWU.

   Mt State was losing to non-scholarship Drake 17 to 14 at half and then pulled away in the second half. Mt. State did not have very impressive wins against Steven Austin and Chadron St.

2. sam houston too low. still #2 in my eyes. stony brook too low. montana st too high. still top 10 but havent seen anything from them that tells me theyre a top 5 team

3. wow these fcs schools are garbage, filling out a top 20 once you get past #10 is brutal. ndsu does not belong in this group, with UNI putting pressure on itself to go fbs how in the heck is the MWC or MAC not calling up UNI and NDSU and inviting the 2 of them?

   • Bad Teams, I think that the FBS mid majors(MAC, MWC) and FCS schools are waiting ’til the FBS big boys(SEC, Big Ten,
     Pac-12, ACC, Big 12.) decide what they are going to do as far as moving to “Super Conferences”. I believe that once one of the Big Conferences moves to 16 teams there will be a domino effect that eventually will trickle down to the NDSU’s, UNI’s and Montana’s. I always thought that NDSU belonged in the FCS. Now I think that if the other FCS powers move to FBS the Bison have to go as well. If you stay with the weaker schools you will start to have scholarship reductions just like D-II did. None of us want that. I have faith in Gen Taylor and the rest of the Bison leadership to make the right decisions at the appropriate time. Go Bison!

     • I would still take the upper half of the FCS academically and athletically) (assortment of FCS schools – NDSU, SDSU, Indiana State, Illinois State, Montana, Montana State, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, South Dakota, Cal Poly, Idaho State, Citadel, Villanova, Delaware, James Madison, New Hampshire, Main, Leihigh, Georgetown, Butler, Drake, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, etc) over the bottom half of FBS (Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Bowling Green, Akron, Troy, Florida Atlantic, South Alabama, North Texas, Florida International, Middle Tennessee, Tulane, etc)

       Now to contradict myself a bit. But from a future prospective and the reality of the changing landscape of college football. I think BisonJeff is right in that in a couple years the top 48 DI teams are most likely going to pick up all their toys and will want to do their own thing. What NDSU and I think the MVFC as a whole along with other respectable FCS Conferences (Big Sky, CAA, Southern) need to do is be ready for that “middle” tier of DI football (dropping down of the Conference USA, MAC, MWC, Sun Belt). I believe there is more parody with those teams than people realize. Plus I think all of bolting of teams from FCS to FBS is going to do nothing but speed up this process. Because a school like Texas does not want schools like UTSA and Texas State at its level. They don’t see them as peers. I personally think it is crazy that a school like University of North Carolina – Charlotte who has not played a down of football gets picked over a school like Appalachian State University for membership in Conference USA. Quality of football programs don’t seem to matter. Just market size.

   • Guess I’m not seeing any bad teams in 11-20. If they are bad, they’ll drop out as the season progresses.

   • ha ha

     Yet another persona.

     Schizophrenic much?

     Polls are a tough deal. They’re like opinions. Everyone has one anymore. Too many people watch sportscenter and think they are experts on teams all across the country. You can’t educate yourself enough to rank teams. Give a nerd the internet, he starts a blog, and he’s a football pollster. Credibility there, right?

4. Will all 120 teams in FBS have a shot at the current Championship, or will two levels be created. Either way, the lower part of FBS needs a means to a Championship. Until they do, I wouldn’t take my Ndsu squad anywhere but their current level.

   The top of FBS needs the lowever FBS level . . . to get W’s. Bottom line, they need to continue to play each other. With the same number of scholly’s the two will be very hard to separate, even if the top conferences want it. IMO, all conferences need a avenue to the championship, and that will happen at some point.

5. I just saw some Stony Brook highlights on ESPN. Their running back looks pretty good, too bad they lost to Syracuse.

6. Why is the South Dakota game, being played in Sioux Falls ????

   • USD wants to make a splash in the biggest city in South Dakota. It is a ploy to make money selling more expensive tickets and hopefully to help recruiting in Sioux Falls. SDSU fans think it could backfire if the Bison win big. Many people expect there to be more NDSU fans in attendance than Coyote fans. Go Bison!

7. Moving a team from out of the poll to #8 based on highlights and/or stats and box scores proves how much of a joke polls are. How do you turn in a poll like that, and on the other hand complain about pollsters mixing up UND and NDSU? What you turned in proves how it could happen.

8. Please explain how Eastern Washington (who has 6 wins versus FBS teams who this year beat Idaho of the WAC), Northern Iowa (who has 9 wins against FBS schools last one was against Iowa State in 2007), Delaware (who has 15 wins and a .577 average against FBS teams), Appalachian State (who has 7 wins against FBS teams including beating nationally ranked Michigan in 2007), Montana (who has 7 wins vs FBS schools), New Hampshire (who has 7 wins a .577 winning percentage against FBS teams), Indiana State (has 8 wins against FBS schools including Western Kentucky in 2011 and a 7 point loss to Indiana this year), Northern Arizona (who beat UNLV of the MWC in 2012), and Sacramento State (beat Colorado of the Pac-12 in 2012) are bad teams?

9. Agreeing with yourself. Funny

10. Lakes, what? When SDSU first moved up they too played a game or two in Sioux Falls. Not sure if it worked as intended or not but it no longer makes sense as they now average more in Brookings than Howard Wood holds.

    Anyhow, USD is not doing it to ‘beat’ SDSU to Sioux Falls