COLLEGE SPORTS JOURNAL SAGARIN FBS G5 TOP 25 – NOV. 4
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 4th, 2023 following the Week 10 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 narrowly defeated Rice on the road this past week. James Madison moves up two spots to the #2 position and stays undefeated this week after the Dukes defeated Georgia State on the road easily this past week.
Troy stays in the the #3 position this week following the Trojans home win over South Alabama. Air Force moves down two spots to #4 after the Falcons suffered their first defeat this week in Denver against Army.
Tulane rounds out the top 5 and stays at the #5 spot this week after the Green Wave defeated East Carolina narrowly on the road.
James Madison is the only undefeated teams in G5 in the Top 5 rankings. However, Liberty also remains unblemished in G5 and sit at #9 after the Flames defeated Louisiana Tech at home this week.
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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