Biggest Surprises?

[Preferred Walk-On]

With just over half the season finished (6 games in with 5 remaining for most teams), just wondering what teams are the biggest surprises (good or bad).

I am torn, because it seems like almost all of the teams that have made perhaps an unexpected jump have mostly played the weaker parts of their schedules. For the teams that have dropped precipitously, it is unclear and somewhat debatable in most cases whether or not that team deserved its ranking in the first place. For my money, I would have to say my biggest surprise is Youngstown State. I don't know if losing to Butler was just the demoralizing loss that sunk the remainder of the season, but I truly did not think they would be a team that could only manage to beat Southern Illinois by 3.

Below is a listing of the AGS preseason rankings compared to the AGS rankings after week 7:

BOLD CAPS = Moved from NR to Top 25 (or vice versa)
Bold italics = Moved from ORV to Ranked (or vice versa)
bold lowercase = Moved from NR to ORV (or vice versa)

Rank	Preseason	Week 7
1	North Dakota State	North Dakota State
2	James Madison	South Dakota State
3	South Dakota State	James Madison
4	Kennesaw State	Kennesaw State
5	Sam Houston State	California-Davis
6	Eastern Washington	Illinois State
7	NEW HAMPSHIRE	Eastern Washington
8	Jacksonville State	TOWSON
9	Weber State	Jacksonville State
10	SAMFORD	Weber State
11	Northern Iowa	McNeese State
12	Delaware	Elon
13	Wofford	Maine
14	Elon	Wofford
15	Illinois State	Colgate
16	Central Arkansas	Stony Brook
17	Nicholls State	RHODE ISLAND
18	Furman	Central Arkansas
19	North Carolina A&T	PRINCETON
20	Stony Brook	EAST TENNESSEE STATE
21	Western Illinois	IDAHO STATE
22	VILLANOVA	Sam Houston State
23	SOUTHERN UTAH	Northern Iowa
24	YOUNGSTOWN STATE	Delaware
25	McNeese State	Nicholls State
ORV
26	austin peay	north dakota
27	Northern Arizona	dartmouth
28	Montana	North Carolina A&T
29	South Dakota	missouri state
30	idaho	Montana State
31	san diego	chattanooga
32	richmond	South Dakota
33	yale	florida a&m
34	sacramento state	Furman
35	grambling state	Northern Arizona
36	Colgate	Montana
37	monmouth	Western Illinois
38	Maine
39	Montana State
40	California-Davis