AGS Poll Results - WEEK 0 POLL - 2020 SEASON

[AGSPoll]

8/3/2020

Rank	Team:	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	North Dakota State Bison	1423	56
2	James Madison Dukes	1259
3	Northern Iowa Panthers	1210
4	South Dakota State Jackrabbits	1183
5	Weber State Wildcats	1143
6	Montana Grizzlies	1115	1
7	Montana State Bobcats	1095
8	Illinois State Redbirds	997
9	Central Arkansas Bears	865
10	Kennesaw State Owls	752
11	Sac State Hornets	745
12	Austin Peay Governors	724
13	Nicholls State Colonels	641
14	Villanova Wildcats	549
15	Furman Paladins	501
16	Southeastern Louisiana Lions	497
17	Eastern Washington Eagles	452
18	Wofford Terriers	446
19	Sam Houston State Bearkats	372
20	Southern Illinois Salukis	332
21	Southeast Missouri State Redhawks	323
22	North Dakota Fighting Hawks	215
23	Jacksonville State Gamecocks	196
24	Albany Great Danes	182
25	The Citadel Bulldogs	164
	ORV:
26T	Monmouth Hawks	103
26T	Elon Phoenix	103
28	New Hampshire Wildcats	101
29	San Diego Toreros	100
30	UC Davis Aggies	87
31	Chattanooga Mocs	79
32	North Carolina A&T Aggies	67
33	Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks	59
34	Central Connecticut State Blue Devils	54
35	Youngstown State Penguins	41
36	Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens	35
37T	McNeese State Cowboys	35
37T	South Dakota Coyotes	35
39	Towson Tigers	28
40	Eastern Kentucky Colonels	22

[Professor Chaos]

Here's this week's poll article: http://thefcswedge.com/ags-poll/ags-...op-25-results/

Not much to quibble about with even more unknowns than in a "normal" preseason poll. It does seem like the voters gravitated to the "known" conferences with 24 of the top 25 teams coming from the MVFC, Big Sky, CAA, Southland, OVC, and SOCON.

Here's to hoping we have a bunch more of these polls to debate this fall still!

[McCowboys]

Here's this week's poll article: http://thefcswedge.com/ags-poll/ags-...op-25-results/

Not much to quibble about with even more unknowns than in a "normal" preseason poll. It does seem like the voters gravitated to the "known" conferences with 24 of the top 25 teams coming from the MVFC, Big Sky, CAA, Southland, OVC, and SOCON.

Here's to hoping we have a bunch more of these polls to debate this fall still!

Thanks to Mr. Plesuk for the article, but two punctuation errors in the first sentence of the article should be corrected.

[Professor Chaos]

Thanks to Mr. Plesuk for the article, but two punctuation errors in the first sentence of the article should be corrected.

Haha, well I do see that I put "it's" when it should be "its" (I'm really good at that) but I'm not sure about the other one... you'll have to educate me.

[POD Knows]

Haha, well I do see that I put "it's" when it should be "its" (I'm really good at that) but I'm not sure about the other one... you'll have to educate me.

You missed a comma in the first sentence, I didn't even notice it until the Cowboy dude pointed it out.

[McCowboys]

Haha, well I do see that I put "it's" when it should be "its" (I'm really good at that) but I'm not sure about the other one... you'll have to educate me.

POD Knows thinks you need a comma after the word "season," and so he gets an A+.

[POD Knows]

Hello POD Knows,

We have received your AGS Top 25 vote on 8/2/2020 9:04:41

Your vote is listed below.


1: North Dakota State Bison
2: South Dakota State Jackrabbits
3: Montana State Bobcats
4: James Madison Dukes
5: Northern Iowa Panthers
6: Weber State Wildcats
7: Montana Grizzlies
8: UC Davis Aggies
9: Central Arkansas Bears
10: Sac State Hornets
11: Eastern Washington Eagles
12: Illinois State Redbirds
13: Southern Illinois Salukis
14: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
15: Nicholls State Colonels
16: Sam Houston State Bearkats
17: Samford Bulldogs
18: Southeastern Louisiana Lions
19: Southeast Missouri State Redhawks
20: Kennesaw State Owls
21: The Citadel Bulldogs
22: Wofford Terriers
23: North Dakota Fighting Hawks
24: McNeese State Cowboys
25: Furman Paladins

[BEAR]

Nice!

Week zero game on August 29th. --- #9 UCA vs. #12 Austin Peay. Good matchup. Rough times with their coaching loss but a huge influx of transfers from FBS schools.

Nicholls may be too high since Chase Fourcade is gone now from QB.
SLU will be good. Senior QB Cole Kelley (transfer from Arkansas) should win them some big games.
Not entirely sure on Sam. Maybe one of the Bearkat fans can comment.

[Daytripper]

Nice!

Week zero game on August 29th. --- #9 UCA vs. #12 Austin Peay. Good matchup. Rough times with their coaching loss but a huge influx of transfers from FBS schools.

Nicholls may be too high since Chase Fourcade is gone now from QB.
SLU will be good. Senior QB Cole Kelley (transfer from Arkansas) should win them some big games.
Not entirely sure on Sam. Maybe one of the Bearkat fans can comment.

As the health of QB Eric Schmid goes, so go the Bearkats. If he stays healthy, we have a chance to have a special season. Believe it or not, our defense is the strength of the team. I believe we had the number 1 rush defense in FCS last season. Most of our D-line and DBs are back. We do have to replace some good linebackers. As with most teams, it's about depth. We had a transfer QB from a California JC that had a skill set similar to Schmid. He showed up, went back home, and we haven't seen him since. No longer on the roster.

I'm curious why people gave votes to McNeese. They were already going to struggle this year, and then their HC is run off and the new guy takes over during the pandemic. Maybe a Cowboy can give more insight.

Just hope we have a season.

[POD Knows]

As the health of QB Eric Schmid goes, so go the Bearkats. If he stays healthy, we have a chance to have a special season. Believe it or not, our defense is the strength of the team. I believe we had the number 1 rush defense in FCS last season. Most of our D-line and DBs are back. We do have to replace some good linebackers. As with most teams, it's about depth. We had a transfer QB from a California JC that had a skill set similar to Schmid. He showed up, went back home, and we haven't seen him since. No longer on the roster.

I'm curious why people gave votes to McNeese. They were already going to struggle this year, and then their HC is run off and the new guy takes over during the pandemic. Maybe a Cowboy can give more insight.

Just hope we have a season.

I had McNeese at 24 because I was running out of guys to put in. It was basically down to a coin flip between them, Furman, AP and one other team I can't remember. A bigger issue is AP at 12, who knows, it is tough to tell.