College Sports Journal Re-Introduces the Gridiron Power Index (GPI) For the 2023 FCS Football Season
South Dakota State took the No. 1 spot in the official re-introduction of the Gridiron Power Index on September 27th, 2023.
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South Dakota State took the No. 1 spot in the official re-introduction of the Gridiron Power Index on September 27th, 2023.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 23rd, 2023 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State and North Dakota State stay at the top two spots.
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 23rd, 2023 following the Week 4 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 top spot.
The green Powerade covered Dartmouth head coach Sammy McCorkle after the Big Green pushed around Lehigh 34-17 Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
This was going to be a tough, physical matchup before the untimely death of Buddy Teevens. Adding the fire and emotion from the moment will add a layer of complication to Lehigh’s task this week as well.
It’s an ingenious idea. But it cannot possibly work in college football.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 16th, 2023 following the Week 2 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 following the Jackrabbits neutral site.
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 16th, 2023 following the Week 3 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 top spot.
Cornell (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League) instead would be the team to jump up by three scores to a 17-0 lead on Lehigh (1-2, 0-0 Patriot League), and would be efficient enough to hold onto a 23-20 victory in front of 4,087 fans at Murray Goodman Stadium.
There were a lot of tough, disappointing weekends last year during the Mountain Hawks’ 2-9 season, but taking away the loss to Lafayette, Lehigh’s 19-15 loss to Cornell could have been the toughest one for Lehigh Nation to stomach.
“College football is better for having Roy Kidd on the sidelines, EKU is better for having Roy Kidd on its campus, and we are all better for knowing and working with him,” Roan said.
Maybe something about those team building activities, that bus ride to Merrimack and then Harvard, really paid off this weekend for the Mountain Hawks.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 9th, 2023 following the Week 2 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 following its narrow win at.
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 9th, 2023 following the Week 2 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the College Football Playoff national championship game in January. SMU moves into the top position.
After all the storms, delays and rescheduling, Lehigh (1-1, 0-0 PL) would gut together a 14-12 victory over Merrimack (0-2, 0-0 NEC) on a wet, steamy evening in Cambridge that, like that Yale victory last November, would feature a superlative defensive effort to preserve the victory.
Ole Miss is scheduled to New Orleans on Saturday to take on Tulane in one of just two games across the nation between ranked teams.
Before Pacific Athletic Conference (PAC-12) foes go their separate ways, there is one last time for the league to showcase the high level of volleyball the league has been known for when Stanford plays host to the final Big Ten/PAC-12 Challenge.
I’ll be honest – I hadn’t thought a lot about Merrimack since they left Murray Goodman with that 10-3 defeat back in 2019.
On a near-perfect afternoon in Ann Arbor, J.J. McCarthy and his Michigan teammates were almost as flawless as the No. 2 Wolverines had little trouble in cruising past East Carolina 30-3 on Sept. 2 in the season opener for both teams.
The Spartans scored three touchdowns in a span of eight minutes in the send half to pull away from Central Michigan 31-7 on Sept. 1 in front of 73,216 fans in the season opener for both teams.
Wyoming fans storm War Memorial Stadium after the Cowboys defeated Texas Tech 25-33 in double overtime. After the appetizer in Week 0, a full slate of games were in place in the traditional Week 1 Labor Day weekend for the 2023 season. In this first week that started Thursday night and games through Sunday afternoon.
Villanova looked like a well-oiled machine with tons of veterans and few weak spots, at least in the first week of the season.
While Nebraska was busy setting a collegiate volleyball attendance record earlier this week by playing host to a match against in-state foe Omaha inside historical Memorial Stadium on the campus of the University of Nebraska, two other collegiate powers are set to take on one another in a pair of matches between ranked foes.
This Saturday at Lehigh, folks will be able to see for themselves the progress that has been made since Cahill’s hiring last December.
While Jim Harbaugh’s absence from the sidelines in Ann Arbor for the season opener has been getting plenty of attention, even his absence cannot hide the fact Michigan figures to be one of just a handful of teams that has the potential to unseat Georgia as the top team in the country when the dust settles on the 2023 college football season.
Just two years removed from being voted the top coach in the Big Ten Conference, Mel Tucker has to be feeling some heat as Michigan State prepares to open the 2023 season.
This Saturday, Lehigh will kick off the 2023 season, and the Kevin Cahill era, at home against Villanova. And there are a lot of unknowns.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 26th, 2023 following the Week 0 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. The top five positions remain unchanged from the preseason rankings as none of.
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 26th, 2023 following the Week 0 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the College Football Playoff national championship game in January. The top five positions remain unchanged.
The 2023 college football season got started in what used to be a select few games on the week before most teams start over Labor Day weekend. This year, there were seven FBS games with all of those involving at least one Group of Five squad. There were also three FCS games in this week.
Since I can’t do anything half-assed, here’s a detailed Lehigh fan’s guide to the Mountain Hawks’ 2023 non-conference opponents. There’s no easy win penciled in here, as you will see.
While sustained success on the court has been hard to come by for the Auburn volleyball team, Brent Crouch has instilled optimism to a program that has continued to climb the ladder in terms of wins since his arrival at the school in 2020.
This past Saturday at Murray Goodman stadium, you could hear loud music, the Marching 97 and loud yelling on 3rd down, only the season hadn’t started.
Below are the Top 25 FCS preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2023 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Last season’s champion of South Dakota State is the preseason #1 team with.
Below are the Top 25 Group of Five (G5) preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2023 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. With conference realignment, four schools that were showcased in year’s.
Conference rivals kept pace with one another throughout the 1923 college football season and in the end it was almost impossible to determine a true national champion.
With the stunning collapse of the Pac 12 comes a golden opportunity to reshape collegiate athletics for the better.
Holy Cross’ dominance over the last four seasons really means there is only one main question worth asking in terms of a Patriot League preview: Is it an impossible task for the other six teams to have any sort of shot to dethrone Holy Cross?
As the biggest Lehigh fan you know, what would I want my son to experience over the next four years? I developed a list of “fan asks” to say exactly what I think would be an excellent way for my son, and indeed anyone in and around the Lehigh football program, to experience.
It doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t matter to almost everyone, and increasingly it seems like it doesn’t matter to the NCAA. Therefore, why should I pretend to care about it?
Ever since the hiring of head coach Kevin Cahill in December – the first true “outsider” to be hired as a Lehigh head football coach in decades – it’s been an adjustment for everyone.
Advocates of NIL will mine whatever viewing data they can to spin the numbers to pretend that fans are not leaving. And the same people will contort themselves to deny the fact that NIL and the new college landscape, brought to us by Skinner and Kavanaugh, has anything to do with it. But they’re wrong.
The win moves the Lions, who improved to 25-5 on the season, into the Super 16 round where they will play in-state foe Syracuse of the Atlantic Coast Conference on March 24 at home.
Whatever Griffith and her staff put together during practice after learning the Lions had been left out of the NCAA Tournament played out near-perfectly as Columbia rolled past Fairleigh Dickinson 69-53 on March 17 at Levien Gymnasium on the Columbia campus.
Drexel’s Keishana Washington, the Colonial Athletic Association player of the year, scored a game-high 43 points in the game and reached double figures in scoring for the 65th straight game.
The CSJ’s NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament using the Sagarin rankings to field of the 68 teams that make-up the tournament for March 5th, 2023. This is the next to last projection in the field as we now are in the midst of conference tournament play. Houston is not only the top High Major team in.
Below are the Top 25 High Major rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending March 5th, 2023. Houston remains in the #1 position and also remains into overall top spot in the rankings as the Cougars won its final two regular season games in AAC play over Wichita State and Memphis this.
Below are the Top 25 Mid-Major rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending March 5th, 2023 as conferences have completed their regular season and in some cases their conference tournaments. College of Charleston remains in the #1 position this week. The Cougars won their opening Colonial Athletic Conference Tournament game over Stony.
The CSJ’s NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament using the Sagarin rankings to field of the 68 teams that make-up the tournament are currently projecting Houston as the overall number two overall seed for the week ending February 26th, 2023. Another High Major team in Gonzaga is also projected as a #2 seed. A total of 8.
Below are the Top 25 High Major rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Feb. 26th, 2023. Houston remains in the #1 position and also moves into overall top spot in the rankings as the Cougars won its two games this past week over Tulane and East Carolina in AAC play. Gonzaga.