• Final FCS Polls

 #83936  by AstroDin
 Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:46 pm
Don't get me started with this BS… the love for the Big Sky and Idaho is blind!!!
 #83940  by Yadkin
 Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:57 pm
This poll is bad, the other one even worse. It’s run by a longtime CAA cheerleader.
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 #83943  by cavedweller2
 Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:27 pm
We are 3/4 this year. We kill Idaho And USD.
 #83944  by FUBeAR
 Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:43 pm
cavedweller2 wrote:
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:27 pm
We are 3/4 this year. We kill Idaho And USD.
Reasonable Poll would be…
1. SDSU
2. MT
3. NDSU
4. FU
5. Villa
6. SDak
7. Albany
8. Idaho.

That said…
1. SDSU
2. FU
2. MT
2. NDSU

…is not unreasonable. And…

If FU & MT play 10x on neutral field (where Refs are not too intimidated/awestruck to call 11 Blocks-in-Back’s / Holds on Returns), FU wins 6 to 8 of 10.

Furman is #2 in FUBeAR’s poll. #2 and wishing we had had a shot to take on #1.
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 #83996  by apaladin
 Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:09 pm
Good thing we should start high in the polls to start next season.Ole Miss L won’t mean much, 2 winnable games and an iffy ooc road game after Ole Miss. Should start the conference season ranked. Waitng for schedule release.
 #84000  by Thorny
 Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:48 pm
I'm fine with Furman being ranked sixth.

I'm not fine with Idaho bring ranked above Furman, University of Albany, and Villanova...

I can understand holding it against University of Albany for being steam rolled by SDSU but not to the betterment of an Idaho team that couldn't beat them.
 #84021  by The Jackal
 Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:28 pm
Thorny wrote:
Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:48 pm
I'm fine with Furman being ranked sixth.

I'm not fine with Idaho bring ranked above Furman, University of Albany, and Villanova...

I can understand holding it against University of Albany for being steam rolled by SDSU but not to the betterment of an Idaho team that couldn't beat them.

I watched Idaho play a few times and never came away wowed. They got a lot of love most of the season for whatever reason.
 #84055  by Choir Boy
 Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:05 pm
Thorny wrote:
Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:48 pm
I'm fine with Furman being ranked sixth.

I'm not fine with Idaho bring ranked above Furman, University of Albany, and Villanova...

I can understand holding it against University of Albany for being steam rolled by SDSU but not to the betterment of an Idaho team that couldn't beat them.
Your either first or it really don’t matter
 #84056  by FUBeAR
 Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:15 pm
Craig Haley (STATS Poll Grand Poobah) is such a goob. Really have had enough of these self-appointed pundits that have HUGE effects on outcomes of FCS Football…

Never-Too-Early Outlook for 2024 FCS Season: SDSU Seeing Bison in Rear-View Mirror
JAN 11, 2024 - CRAIG HALEY / AUTHOR

1. NDSU
2. SDSU
3. Montana
4. South Dakota
5. Montana State
6. Villanova
7. Sacramento State
8. Idaho
9. William & Mary
10. Central Arkansas

Next Wave (11-18) (Alphabetical):

Chattanooga
Illinois State
Lafayette
Richmond
Southern Illinois
UIW
Weber State
Western Carolina
Last edited by FUBeAR on Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
 #84059  by Jasper
 Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:48 pm
FUBeAR wrote:
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:43 pm
cavedweller2 wrote:
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:27 pm
We are 3/4 this year. We kill Idaho And USD.
Reasonable Poll would be…
1. SDSU
2. MT
3. NDSU
4. FU
5. Villa
6. SDak
7. Albany
8. Idaho.

That said…
1. SDSU
2. FU
2. MT
2. NDSU

…is not unreasonable. And…

If FU & MT play 10x on neutral field (where Refs are not too intimidated/awestruck to call 11 Blocks-in-Back’s / Holds on Returns), FU wins 6 to 8 of 10.

Furman is #2 in FUBeAR’s poll. #2 and wishing we had had a shot to take on #1.
I could not agree more. The loss to MT sucks in many ways. The refs were mesmerized by cowboy football into ignoring flagrant violations in that game. We shoulda hired some Comanche warriors ride in bareback and scalp some of them at halftime. We screwed ourselves out of a home game vs friggin NDSU in which we would have best their farmer addes. Our defense holds its own against SDSU and maybe we get a few breaks. VOILA.
2023/24 national champs. Wounda, coulda , shouda.!
 #84209  by FUBeAR
 Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:01 pm
Seems valid - good metrics system to run this evaluation…

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