College Sports Journal Spring Top 25, Week of 3/1/2021
As expected there was a bunch of movement this week. The biggest shock is the one everyone has been talking about: North Dakota State not...
College Sports Journal Spring Top 25, Week of 2/21/2021
Here is this week’s College Sports Journal Top 25 as voted on by the staff....
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Nov. 14
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 14th, 2020. BYU stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Nov. 7
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 7th, 2020. BYU stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 31
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 31st, 2020. BYU stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 24
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 24th, 2020. BYU stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 17
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 17th, 2020. BYU stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 10
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 10th, 2020. BYU stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 3
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 3, 2020. BYU takes...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 26
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 26, 2020. UCF remains...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 19
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 19, 2020. Despite UCF...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 12
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 12, 2020. Despite UCF...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Sept. 7
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 30th, 2019. BYU with...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25–Preseason 2020
Below are the Top 25 Group of Five (G5) preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2020 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings...
2020 College Sports Journal FCS Preseason Top 25 Announced
Of our preseason poll last year, only 6 of the top 10 teams made the playoffs. 13 of the full 25 played past Thanksgiving. Its...
College Sports Journal Sagarin High Major Men’s Basketball Top 25 – FINAL
With the Coronavirus pandemic, the NCAA has ended the 2019-2020 men’s basketball season early just before the NCAA tournament and with several conference tournaments unfinished....
BOXTOROW Polls: FAMU unanimous No. 1 in HBCU football for the first time, 11/12/2019
While FAMU had a bye week, losses coupled with upsets caused shifts in both the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls. The Rattlers are the unanimous...
College Sports Journal Top 25 11/12/19
While North Dakota State and James Madison continued to beat their opponents into submission, out west, Weber State and Sacramento State each used strong 4th...
BOXTOROW Polls: Marquee Game Causes Shifts in HBCU Football Polls; 11/5/2019
The North Carolina A&T Aggies win over South Carolina State in the marquee game of the weekend caused slight shifts in both the BOXTOROW Coaches...
College Sports Journal Top 25 11/05/19
Weber State showed it’s the best team in the Big Sky, and may be the best team in the country with its 19 point win...
BOXTOROW Polls: FAMU Remains No. 1 in HBCU Football; 10/29/2019
As Florida A&M handled Morgan State to win its second straight game and stay atop both the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls, it was South Carolina State’s...
College Sports Journal Top 25 10/29/19
The Dakota Marker is staying Fargo after an exciting finish that saw Matt Entz gamble on 4th down in his own territory. Adam Cofield took...
College Sports Journal Top 25 10/21/19 – Taking a Different Approach
As we are about half way through the season, we are going to take a look at the FCS rankings through a different prism. At...
College Sports Journal Top 25 10/15/19
It was a week of marquee matchups across the FCS. North Dakota State, James Madison and South Dakota State all proved that they are the...
College Sports Journal Top 25 Rankings, 10/8/2019
It was another up and down week in the FCS. The top of the order all picked up wins, where the middle and bottom were...
BOXTOROW Polls: Aggies continue as top 10 in HBCU football; 10/1/2019
The North Carolina A&T Aggies continue to hold the top spot in HBCU football as the newest rankings of the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls...
College Sports Journal Top 25 Rankings, 10/1/2019
We finally had our first crazy weekend of the FCS season. Eight of last week’s top 25 fell, but we saw the reemergence of a...
BOXTOROW Polls: Aggies continue as top team in HBCU football, 9/24/2019
The North Carolina A&T Aggies remain No.1 in the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls for the fourth straight week. The Aggies’ reign as the top...
College Sports Journal Top 25 Rankings, 9/17/2019
North Dakota State faced down their first real test of the season and survived. UC Davis give the Bison all they could handle, but in...
The Week That Was: Highlights of the Five Top FCS Games, Week Ending 9/21/2019
Without question the top FCS game of the week was the battle of FCS powerhouses in the Fargodome.Returning home after 47-22 victory the week before...
College Sports Journal Top 25 Rankings, 9/17/2019
Week three was highlighted by a couple of much maligned teams pulling off exciting upsets – Houston Baptist 53-52 over South Dakota and VMI 31-24...
The Week That Was: Highlights of the Five Top FCS Games, Week Ending 9/14/2019
It was a week of high-profile Top 25 clashes in FCS this week, as the marquee games of the week pitted Delaware vs. North Dakota...
College Sports Journal Top 25 Rankings, 9/10/2019
Week two was a little more tame than week one from a top 25 standpoint. At the bottom of the FCS, six teams lost to...
College Sports Journal Top 25 Rankings, 9/3/2019
Week one is in the books in the FCS. There was only one FCS upset over an FBS team, but another 11 teams came within...
CSJ Preseason Top 25 Media Poll
The College Sports Journal Staff have put their collective heads together to release our 2019 preseason Top 25 for the upcoming FCS season. CSJ’s voter...
College Sports Journal Sagarin Mid-Major Men’s Basketball Top 25–Feb. 17
Below are the Top 25 Mid-Major rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Feb. 17. The Mid-Major conferences include America East, Atlantic Sun, Big...
College Sports Journal Sagarin High-Major Men’s Basketball Top 25–Feb. 17
Below are the Top 25 High-Major rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Feb. 17. The High-Major conferences include AAC, A-10, Conference USA, Mountain...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FCS Top 25 – Nov. 18
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 18th, 2018. North Dakota State continues to hold...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 11 – November 13, 2018
Half of the automatic bids have been handed out with one week to play: North Dakota State (MVFC), Colgate (Patriot League), Kennesaw State (Big South),...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 10 – November 7, 2018
North Dakota State and Colgate were the first two teams to officially punch their ticket to the FCS playoffs this year, winning the Missouri Valley...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 9 – October 31, 2018
For the first time in a long time, the top teams all won. Towson suffered an upset loss, but it was to a Delaware team...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 8 – October 23, 2018
Another week in the FCS, another set of upsets. The only consistent is North Dakota State. Every other team is vulnerable at this point in...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25 – Oct. 20
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 20th, 2018. Fresno State stays...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FCS Top 25 – Oct. 20
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 20th, 2018. North Dakota State continues to hold...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 7 – October 16, 2018
Three of last week’s top 10 teams lost last week, including number two Eastern Washington. The last few weeks in the FCS have been wild...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 6 – October 9, 2018
The three top teams from last week all wound up in tough fought conference games this past weekend. North Dakota State outpaced Northern Iowa in...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 5 – October 2, 2018
Compared to previous weeks this week was much tamer. North Dakota State reclaimed the Dakota Marker in a hard fought game against rival South Dakota...
College Sports Journal FCS Top 25 after Week 4 – September 25, 2018
The top two teams, North Dakota State and James Madison each won easily and continue to cement themselves as the top two teams in the...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FBS G5 Top 25–Sept. 22
Below are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 22nd, 2018. Sagarin rankings provide...
College Sports Journal Sagarin FCS Top 25–Sept. 22
Below are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 22nd, 2018. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings...