College Sports Journal Sagarin FCS Top 25 – FINAL 2023
Below are the final Top 25 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2023 season amongst the FCS teams.
South Dakota State finishes in the top position after winning the national title game over Montana. North Dakota State finishes in the #2 position after losing to Montana in the Division I FCS semifinal round. Montana State finishes in the #3 position despite the Hornets losing in the quarterfinals to NDSU at home. Montana finishes in the #4 spot after losing at SDSU in the national title game. Villanova finishes at the #5 position after losing to SDSU in the quarterfinal round. Albany, which reached the Division I FCS semifinals but lost to SDSU finished in the #10 position in the final rankings.
Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools but our rankings will show just the FCS 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 The USA Today and at Jeff’s site itself.
In the rankings, you will see the the FCS rankings first and the overall Division I ranking to the right of the the FCS ranking.
The numbers show the ranking in the FCS 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 FCS conference rankings and the overall rankings within overall ranking in Division I.
Below is a full listing of all FCS schools and how they ranked in final results (click on the image to see a larger view):
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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