Polls/Rankings as of 10/12/2015

[ST_Lawson]

MVFC teams and other Western opponents ranked in the various polls this week (previous week in parenthesis following team name):

STATS FCS Poll
#2 North Dakota State (3)
#3 Coastal Carolina (2)
#4 Illinois State (4)
#7 South Dakota State (8)
#11 Youngstown State (9)
#12 Northern Iowa (10)
#21 Indiana State (19)
Others Receiving Votes:
#28 Western Illinois (30)
#36 Southern Illinois (41)

FCS Coaches' Poll
#1 Coastal Carolina (1)
#2 North Dakota State (2)
#4 Illinois State (4)
#7 South Dakota State (9)
#12 Youngstown State (7)
#14 Northern Iowa (10)
Others Receiving Votes:
#27 Indiana State (21)
#28 Western Illinois (35)

AGS Poll
#1 North Dakota State (1)
#4 Illinois State (5)
#5 Coastal Carolina (4)
#7 South Dakota State (8)
#9 Northern Iowa (9)
#13 Youngstown State (11)
#21 Indiana State (16)
#23 Western Illinois (28)
Others Receiving Votes:
#30 Southern Illinois (34)

Also, as sealhall74 mentioned in the previous week's post, we are #24 in the College Sports Madness poll (http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs ... 5-rankings).
In the Sagarin poll, we're #124 in all of Div. I and the MVFC is currently ranked better than the Sun Belt and both divisions of CUSA. The conference is also barely behind the MAC Eastern division.

[ST_Lawson]

The College Sporting News GPI (Gridiron Power Index) first "edition" came out also: http://www.collegesportingnews.com/arti ... 06gpi.html

5 of the top 8, and 8 of the top 21 are MVFC teams

Western comes in tied at #13 with Montana.