College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25–Oct. 19
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 19th, 2024 following the Week 8 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January.
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.
Boise State stays as the top team after the Broncos had a bye this week. UNLV moves up a spot to the second spot this week after the Rebels defeated Oregon State on the road. Those two teams will meet in Las Vegas this upcoming week in what likely will help decide which of these Mountain West teams will have the inside track towards the College Football Playoff spot.
Tulane moves down a spot to the #3 position this week despite the Green Wave winning at home over Rice this week. Memphis moves up a spot to the fourth position this week after the Tigers won a close match-up at home over North Texas.
Army moves up a spot to the #5 position to round out the Top 5. The Black Knights easily defeated East Carolina this week at home to stay undefeated.
Outside of Army, there are two other G5 undefeated teams as of this week are Navy–ranked #8 and Liberty–ranked #12.
The FBS is moving this year to a 12-team playoff with the top five conferences getting an automatic bid so that means at least one G5 team will be represented in the new playoff structure.
See the remaining Top 25 in the chart below.
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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Just click on “Predictions_with_Totals_and_Moneylines” and it will take you to the daily predictions at Jeff’s site file where you’ll also see the additional set of predictions which are the basic predictions that are adjusted to take into account each team’s tendencies of performance at home and away along with the extra picks column of STRONG RECENT.
The following are the individual G5 conference rankings highlighted in yellow and the overall rankings within overall ranking in Division I FBS with dedicated divisions in conferences shown separately.
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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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