COLLEGE SPORTS JOURNAL SAGARIN FCS TOP 25 – SEPT. 2
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 2nd, 2024 following the Week 1 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January.
South Dakota State remains in the top spot despite losing at Oklahoma State in its season opener. MVFC mate North Dakota State is in the second position also despite losing to a Big 12 team in Colorado for its opener.
The Big Sky’s Montana State and Montana flipflop positions with the Bobcats moving up to the #3 position after winning both in Week 0 over FBS New Mexico (so far the only FCS win over an FBS opponent) and also winning at Utah Tech this past week. Montana move down a spot to #4 despite defeating Missouri State at home to start their season.
The fifth spot stays with South Dakota after the Coyotes defeated DII Northern (SD) State at home to start their season.
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.
Please note that FBS transitioning teams of Delaware and Missouri State will be a part of the 2024 rankings. Also note that these two while playing in their current conferences of the Coastal Athletic Association for Delaware and the Missouri Valley Football Conference for Missouri State, those two teams will have the indication of I-AA=>I-A conference affiliation in these rankings. Those two teams will not be eligible for the FCS playoffs and will also be categorized individually in the conference rankings.
You can see the full Division I Sagarin rankings 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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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 FCS conference rankings and the overall rankings within overall ranking in Division I.
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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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