COLLEGE SPORTS JOURNAL SAGARIN FBS G5 TOP 25 – NOV. 18
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 18th, 2023 following the Week 12 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the College Football Playoff national championship game in January.
SMU stays in the the #1 position this week after the Mustangs defeated Memphis on the road this past week. Boise State moves up three spots to the the #2 position after the Broncos easily defeated Utah State on the road this past week.
James Madison moves down a spot to the #3 position this week following the Dukes overtime loss at home to Appalachian State for their first loss of the season. Troy moves down a spot also to the #4 position this week despite the Trojans defeating Louisiana at home this week.
UTSA moves up a spot this week to get into the Top 5 at the #5 position. The Roadrunners easily handled South Florida this week at home.
With James Madison losing this week, Liberty is the lone undefeated Group of Five team remaining. The Flames defeated UMass easily at home this week but moved down three spots in the poll to #7.
Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the G5 side of things and have been used for several years with his own computer ranking system to distinguish strength of schedule and strength of team when comparing teams.
You can see the full Division I Sagarin rankings at Jeff’s site itself.
In the rankings, you will see the the G5 rankings first and the overall Division I ranking to the right of the the G5 ranking.
The numbers show the ranking in the Group of Five Top 25 as well as the overall Division I ranking.
The Top 10 and Top 30 are the overall Division I Sagarin rankings.
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The following are the individual G5 conference rankings highlighted in yellow and the overall rankings within overall ranking in Division I FBS.
Originally from LaMoure, North Dakota, Kent is a 1996 graduate of North Dakota State University. His prior writing experience is over 15 years having previously worked with D2football.com, I-AA.org, and College Sporting News before coming to College Sports Journal in 2016. His main focus is college football is the Missouri Valley Football Conference within the Division I FCS. And in 2017, he began also to look at the FBS Group of Five conferences of the American Athletic, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.
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