Matt

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/polls/fcs 2014 NCAA Football FCS Coaches Poll Poll Previous Polls: Rank Team (1st Place Votes) W-L Votes Last Week Next Game 1 North Dakota State (26) 7-0 650 1 @ SouDak 2 Eastern Washington 7-1 624 2 @ NoAri 3 Coastal Carolina 7-0 583 3 ChSou ( #22) 4 Villanova 6-1 566 5 MorgSt 5 New Hampshire 5-1 549 6 StnyBr 6 Montana 5-2 516 7 @ CalPly 7 Jacksonville State 5-1 498 8 TnTech 8 Southeastern Louisiana 6-2 461 9 @ SFA 9 Illinois State 6-0 401 15 MoStU 10 McNeese State 4-2 388 4 @ IncWrd 11 Montana State 6-2 385 14 @ CalPly 12 Eastern Kentucky 6-1 337 16 SEMO 13 Fordham 6-1 286 18 @ Lehigh 14 Bethune-Cookman 6-1 268 17 @ SCSt 15 Chattanooga 4-3 256 12 16 South Dakota State 5-2 246 19 YSU ( #19) 17 Southern Illinois 5-3 245 13 InSt ( #23) 18 William & Mary 4-3 236 11 Del 19 Youngstown State 5-2 216 10 @ SDkSt ( #16) 20 Richmond 5-2 208 20 @ Elon 21 Northern Iowa 3-4 148 21 @ WestIl 22 Charleston Southern 5-2 109 23 @ CoastC ( #3) 23 Indiana State 4-3 77 22 @ SIU ( #17) 24 Harvard 5-0 59 - @ Prince 25 Sam Houston State 3-4 58 - AbChr

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/cfoot225poll.aspx The Sports Network FCS Top 25 College Football Poll Team (First-place votes) 2014 Record Points Previous Rank 1. North Dakota State Bison (152) 7-0 3848 1 2. Eastern Washington Eagles (2) 7-1 3676 2 3. New Hampshire Wildcats 5-1 3402 3 4. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 7-0 3353 4 5. Villanova Wildcats 6-1 3304 5 6. Jacksonville State Gamecocks 5-1 2996 6 7. Montana Grizzlies 5-2 2941 7 8. Southeastern Louisiana Lions 6-2 2683 8 9. Illinois State Redbirds 6-0 2448 10 10. Montana State Bobcats 6-2 2432 9 11. McNeese State Cowboys 4-2 2181 11 12. Fordham Rams 6-1 2129 12 13. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 5-2 1759 18 14. Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 6-1 1733 16 15. Chattanooga Mocs 4-3 1584 17 16. Richmond Spiders 5-2 1558 19 17. Youngstown State Penguins 5-2 1492 21 18. William & Mary Tribe 4-3 1191 15 19. Eastern Kentucky Colonels 6-1 1097 13 20. Southern Illinois Salukis 5-3 1014 14 21. Harvard Crimson 5-0 711 25 22. Indiana State Sycamores 4-3 563 22 23. Northern Iowa Panthers 3-4 402 20 24. Sacred Heart Pioneers 6-1 390 NR 25. Albany Great Danes 5-2 221 NR Others receiving votes: Bryant 119, Charleston Southern 114, Liberty 113, Missouri State 87, Western Carolina 56, Sam Houston State 40, Northwestern State 40, Grambling State 37, Dartmouth 30, James Madison 29, Wofford 22, Alcorn State 22, Delaware 21, Central Arkansas 21, Bucknell 21, North Carolina A&T 21, Jacksonville 20, Stephen F. Austin 14, Tennessee State 14, Western Illinois 13, Presbyterian 13, Northern Arizona 12, Cal Poly 11, Yale 10, Southeast Missouri State 10, Furman 9, South Carolina State 8, Samford 7, Idaho State 3, Monmouth 3, Duquesne 1, Lamar 1.

I agree. I also agree with others that it isn't something Bubba can focus on, he can only focus on winning. But I guarantee the goings on at the ac are something the marketing department keeps an eye on. They are competing for some of the same dollars. And I'd say your 1k figure is probably pretty accurate.

I vote Bartels because why not? Look at the stats for this offense, is there a lot of room to fall?

Great to see the offense, defense, and special teams come up with a big play with the game on the line. My hat is off to Bartels. It is no small thing to come into a game like that absolutely cold. No warm up, limited 1st team reps during the week, and lead the team like he did in that 2nd half. I would be interested to see what he could do with two weeks with the first team to prepare for SUU. He should get the chance. It isn't as though there is a lot of room to regress-Joe hasn't exactly led this offense to even mediocre status in the conference or the nation.

The defense won't allow PSU to do much, but the offfense leaves them in field position to kick field goals. Until this offense shows me they can score, I can't pick them to score. UND 13 PSU 9

I'm very hesitant to make playoff projections for a two win team, particularly when those two wins are against teams with only a total of two wins between them. But, in the event 7 wins does happen...as great as that would be for the program and even with the expanded field I think 5 losses puts them out.

IALTO

Or Poly.

It's their defense.

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/cfoot225poll.aspx The Sports Network FCS Top 25 College Football Poll Team (First-place votes) 2014 Record Points Previous Rank 1. North Dakota State Bison (153) 5-0 3897 1 2. Eastern Washington Eagles (3) 5-1 3725 2 3. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 6-0 3413 3 4. New Hampshire Wildcats 4-1 3355 4 5. McNeese State Cowboys 3-1 3212 5 6. Villanova Wildcats 4-1 3186 6 7. Montana Grizzlies 4-2 2870 7 8. Jacksonville State Gamecocks 4-1 2866 8 9. Southeastern Louisiana Lions 4-2 2411 11 10. William & Mary Tribe 4-1 2141 12 11. Montana State Bobcats 4-2 1974 13 12. Southern Illinois Salukis 5-1 1954 15 13. Chattanooga Mocs 3-2 1776 14 14. Fordham Rams 5-1 1684 16 15. Illinois State Redbirds 4-0 1570 22 16. Youngstown State Penguins 4-1 1485 18 17. Eastern Kentucky Colonels 5-0 1396 19 18. Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 4-1 1393 17 19. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 3-2 1248 9 20. Indiana State Sycamores 4-1 1175 25 21. Northern Iowa Panthers 2-3 1095 19 22. Richmond Spiders 3-2 1048 20 23. Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 4-2 397 NR 24. Charleston Southern Buccaneers 5-0 325 NR 25. Tennessee State Tigers 4-2 158 21 Others receiving votes: Alcorn State 137, Harvard 115, Albany 109, Sam Houston State 98, Sacred Heart 65, Missouri State 63, Yale 53, South Carolina State 37, Delaware 34, Maine 32, Samford 27, Bryant 25, Liberty 20, Presbyterian 16, Jacksonville 15, Northern Arizona 15, Eastern Illinois 13, Towson 11, Furman 10, Central Arkansas 9, Wofford 9, James Madison 8, San Diego 6, Western Illinois 5, Alabama State 5, Northwestern State 3, Stony Brook 2, Princeton 1, Dayton 1, Cal Poly 1, Bucknell

Never been a worse time for me to be on the road for a game. The ending hurts but couldn't be prouder of the way these guys battled. Sometimes the most difficult thing for a program that is struggling to come back from the depths is learning how to win again.

But they didn't beat a bad UConn team, and the fact the SB defense played well vs a bad FBS team (or a bad UND offense) doesn't make them live up to the hype.

Perusing your posts over recent seasons, you are in no position to characterize anyone's assertions as foolish.

Let's live in 2014 for a moment. SB is not good. UND is not good. UConn is not good, but they are better than both UND and SB. Yes, UND winning at UConn would do something for me, but I'm not living in fantasy land and the bar is set so low this year that a win against SUU-a difficult road game vs an opponent actually on the schedule-really would mean something to me.

I think there are 3 teams, possibly 4, in this conference that win at UConn. SB didn't win at UConn and neither would UND. But having seen both teams, that has more to do with SB and UND than it does about UConn. If UND were to go to SUU and win that will do something for me.

The coaches are trying to prepare their team for a game, I get that. And I don't think SB has a bad D. They don't. I just haven't seen enough from them to agree with the hype they've been given. And with all due respect, unless you are talking basketball don't throw out the name UConn and think it means a damn thing. They stink. SB is their only win, and they just got whacked by Temple at home last week. http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/conn-m-footbl-sched.html

To me the Stony Brook D has become a meme for the UND O isn't that bad, the opponent D is that good. That's why the SB D reference elicited an IALTO from me as I read it.

Yes.

IALTO!

24-9 Griz

I'm tempted to say the offense will run the ball well given how easily the ac was able to run on the griz...but somehow i don't think the UND O line and the ac o line are quite the same.

Not making a prediction yet, but just an observation. The griz already have an fcs loss with a road game at EWU then MSU still to play. From their perspective, I don't think they can afford a loss to UND. Unlikely they will be overlooking this one.

Even so, the secondary has still shown they will give up the big play for a TD. They've done so vs every talented offensive team this year.

Considering the rankings those matchups are unavoidable.