Sagarin FCS rankings 10-15-12

[Bear84]

1. North Dakota State
2. Eastern Washington
3. Georgia Southern
4. Harvard
5. Cal Poly-SLO
6. James Madison
7. Wofford
8. Sam Houston State
9. Northern Iowa
10. Villanova
11. New Hampshire
12. Appalachian State
13. South Dakota State
14. Montana State
15. Northern Arizona
16. Youngstown State
17. Stony Brook
18. Montana
19. Richmond
20. Indiana State
21. Old Dominion
22. Illinois State
23. Chattanooga
24. Albany-NY
25. Central Arkansas

Full listing http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt12.htm

[Lehigh'98]

NIU, #9??

[darell1976]

NIU, #9??

Don't seem suprise, Sagarin doesn't know the difference between a loss and a win. Crappy rankings!!

[BEAR]

Thanks Bear!

Link? xeyebrowx

[tingly]

Harvard is #1 on Catherwood's computer rating. I know. I know.

[Maroons]

Can anyone who really understands the numbers tell me what it is that the Sagarin ratings hate about the OVC? Is it strength of schedule? Is it that the OVC isn't in the top 15 in any of the polls?

The OVC has some wins this year over teams in the MVC, SoCon and other conferences. The OVC might even be above .500 in non-conference FCS play. UT-Martin beat Memphis. I know none of these teams are Michigan, but it seems to me that the OVC is having one of its best years in 20 years.

I'm sure some wiseacre will come along with a "because the ovc sux," quote and drop a smug emoticon... so let me just get that out of the way first so we can move on to discuss the numbers. xbadx <- smug emoticon