College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25–Sept. 7
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 7th, 2024 following the Week 2 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 despite losing narrowly at the Big 10’s Oregon. Memphis stays in the #2 spot after the Tigers defeated Troy at home this past week.
UNLV stays in the #3 position this week after the Rebels defeated FCS Utah Tech in the Rebels home opener. Tulane stays in the #4 position despite the Green Wave losing at home to the Big 12’s Kansas State.
Texas State rounds out the Top 5 and moves up eight spots after the Bobcats defeated out-of-conference rival UTSA for the first time ever.
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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