Each week, throughout the college football season, alumni, fans, media and the teams themselves look to the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll to see who is rising and moving within the national rankings. The newest poll follows Week 11 games.
Top teams in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll and the nation’s longest winning streaks are colliding this week – a natural as the regular season winds down.
Thank you, Mr. Schedule Maker.
While there aren’t changes among the top five teams in the new national media poll, there may be in another week.
Top-ranked North Dakota State (9-1), which has captured nine straight games to tie for the second-longest active FCS streak, will host FBS-bound Missouri State (8-2), which has won eight straight to tie for the fourth-longest streak. The Bears, though, are ineligible for the poll in their final FCS season.
Second-ranked Montana State (10-0) is enjoying the best start in program history and will take its FCS-leading 10-game winning streak to No. 4 UC Davis (9-1). The host Aggies, like NDSU, have a nine-game winning streak, including a 30-14 victory at then-No. 7 Montana this past Saturday night.
South Dakota State (8-2) and South Dakota (7-2) remain No. 3 and 5, respectively, but there’s a lot of movement after them.
Two full weeks of the regular season remain before the announcement of the FCS playoffs pairings on Nov. 24. Seventh-ranked Mercer (9-1) is the first team to qualify for the 24-team field, earning the Southern Conference’s automatic bid.
A national media panel selects the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll. A first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.
(For more on the FCS football weekend, here is a look at conference title races)
Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll
1. North Dakota State (9-1, 6-0 MVFC), 1,386 points (42 of 56 first-place votes)
Previous Ranking: 1; Week 11: No game; Week 12: Missouri State
2. Montana State (10-0, 6-0 Big Sky), 1,354 (14)
Previous Ranking: 2; Week 11: 49-7 win over Sacramento State; Week 12: at No. 4 UC Davis
3. South Dakota State (8-2, 5-1 MVFC), 1,286
Previous Ranking: 3; Week 11: 38-7 win at then-No. 21 North Dakota; Week 12: Southern Illinois
4. UC Davis (9-1, 6-0 Big Sky), 1,229
Previous Ranking: 4; Week 11: 30-14 win at then-No. 7 Montana; Week 12: No. 2 Montana State
5. South Dakota (7-2, 5-1 MVFC), 1,183
Previous Ranking: 5; Week 11: 49-0 win over Indiana State; Week 12: at North Dakota
6. UIW (8-2, 5-0 Southland), 1,059
Previous Ranking: 8; Week 11: 41-20 win over Lamar; Week 12: at Stephen F. Austin
7. Mercer (9-1, 6-1 SoCon), 1,027
Previous Ranking: 10; Week 11: 34-0 win at VMI; Week 12: at Alabama
8. Idaho (7-3, 4-2 Big Sky), 1,014
Previous Ranking: 9; Week 11: 39-30 win at Portland State; Week 12: Weber State
9. Villanova (8-2, 5-1 CAA), 864
Previous Ranking: 12; Week 11: 31-3 win over North Carolina A&T; Week 12: at Monmouth
10. Montana (7-3, 4-2 Big Sky), 840
Previous Ranking: 7; Week 11: 30-14 loss to then-No. 4 UC Davis; Week 12: Portland State
11. Richmond (8-2, 6-0 CAA), 818
Previous Ranking: 13; Week 11: 27-24 win at Campbell; Week 12: at Hampton
12. Southeast Missouri (8-2, 5-1 Big South-OVC), 747
Previous Ranking: 6; Week 11: 24-12 loss at Lindenwood; Week 12: Western Illinois
13. Tarleton State (8-2, 5-1 UAC), 735
Previous Ranking: 14; Week 11: 38-21 win at West Georgia; Week 12: No. 14 Abilene Christian
14. Abilene Christian (7-3, 6-1 UAC), 684
Previous Ranking: 15; Week 11: 35-34 win at Austin Peay; Week 12: at No. 13 Tarleton State
15. Rhode Island (8-2, 5-1 CAA), 678
Previous Ranking: 11; Week 11: 24-21 loss at Delaware; Week 12: UAlbany
16. Stony Brook (8-2, 5-1 CAA), 554
Previous Ranking: 17; Week 11: 24-6 win over UAlbany; Week 12: at New Hampshire
17. Illinois State (7-3, 4-2 MVFC), 500
Previous Ranking: 18; Week 11: 31-9 win at Northern Iowa; Week 12: at Indiana State
18. UT Martin (7-3, 5-1 Big South-OVC), 480
Previous Ranking: 19; Week 11: 40-14 win at Charleston Southern; Week 12: Tennessee Tech
19. Chattanooga (6-4, 5-2 SoCon), 298
Previous Ranking: 23; Week 11: 31-7 win at The Citadel; Week 12: Samford
20. Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy), 259
Previous Ranking: 24; Week 11: 26-6 win over Columbia; Week 12: at Penn
21. ETSU (6-4, 4-2 SoCon), 189
Previous Ranking: NR; Week 11: 24-21 win over then-No. 22 Western Carolina; Week 12: Furman
22. Duquesne (7-2, 4-0 NEC), 185
Previous Ranking: 25; Week 11: 31-6 win over Robert Morris; Week 12: Wagner
23. Jackson State (8-2, 6-0 SWAC), 145
Previous Ranking: NR; Week 11: 51-14 win over Mississippi Valley State; Week 12: at Alabama State
24. Central Arkansas (6-4, 3-3 UAC), 116
Previous Ranking: 16; Week 11: 31-24 loss at Eastern Kentucky; Week 12: Southern Utah
25. Northern Arizona (6-4, 4-2 Big Sky), 86
Previous Ranking: NR; Week 11: 31-14 win at Cal Poly; Week 12: at Northern Colorado
Dropped Out: William & Mary (20), North Dakota (21), Western Carolina (22)
Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): South Carolina State (7-2, 3-0 MEAC), 82; Eastern Kentucky (6-4, 4-2 UAC), 59; North Dakota (5-5, 2-4 MVFC), 57; William & Mary (6-4, 4-3 CAA), 55; Drake (7-1, 6-0 Pioneer), 49; Tennessee State (7-3, 4-2 Big South-OVC), 47; North Carolina Central (6-3, 2-1 MEAC), 44; Dartmouth (7-1, 4-1 Ivy), 41; Southeastern Louisiana (6-5, 5-1 Southland), 20; New Hampshire (6-4, 4-2 CAA), 10; Southern Utah (5-5, 4-2 UAC), 7; Western Carolina (5-5, 4-2 SoCon), 5
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Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Voters – Stats Perform: Craig Haley, Gary Reasons. Big Sky Conference: Doug Kelly, Tyson Rodgers, Larry Weir. Big South-OVC Football Association: Mike Bradd, Kyle Schwartz, Mark Simpson. CAA Football: Roger Brown, Matt Harmon, Rob Washburn. Ivy League: JJ Klein, Craig Larson. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference: Kendrick Lewis, Alysse Scripter. Missouri Valley Football Conference: Dom Izzo, Mike Kern, Randy Reinhardt. Northeast Conference: Sarah Boissonneault, Brian Cleary. Patriot League: Eric Malanoski, Ryan Sakamoto. Pioneer Football League: Cody Bush, Larry Hansgen. Southern Conference: Scott Keeler, Andrew Miller, Ralan Wardlaw. Southland Conference: Matthew Bonnette, James Dixon, James Hill. Southwestern Athletic Conference: Ronnie Johnson, Joshua Padilla. United Athletic Conference: Brian Morgan, Benjamin Ray, Jake Withee. National Representatives: Sean Anderson, Stan Becton, Zack Carlton, Gene Clemons, Riley Corcoran, Joe DeLeone, Steven J. Gaither, Sam Herder, Emory Hunt, Kyle Kensing, Brandon Lawrence, Zach McKinnell, Brian McLaughlin, Jon Passman, Omar Rashon Borja, Ryan Roberts, Kent Schmidt, Phil Sokol, Reggie Thomas, Ralph Ventre, Jamie Williams.
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