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Ferris and Grand Valley settled their grip over #1 on the field (for the time being), and if you missed that game, what are you even doing as a D2 fan? That puts West Georgia and Valdosta now snuggling up to take over #1 for the state of Georgia, for SR2 and for D2 overall; they'll meet to end the season but both have games in the meantime that could trip them up if they aren't careful. And Minnie St. continues to lag in the computer polls even though they have the two #1 overall selections by the human polls.
Tarleton and Indianapolis are the biggest benefactors this week from ranked teams beating ranked teams; both have moved up slowly all season but with Commerce, S. Arkansas and in a way GVSU losing we see Tarleton and Indy garner votes. FHSU last week had the greatest fall going from 9th to 30th and this week have the largest jump back from 30th to 19th. A roller coaster ride like that means they'll probably throw up all over their shoes this weekend. Because new to the rankings is their opponent UNK - which is crazy since UNK lost last week, but the strength of schedule jumped by adding NW Mo. Also new this week (again) is Emporia St. which takes the place of Central Mo. dropping out of the rankings.
Missouri S&T and Saginaw also enter for the first time this year with Saginaw really jumping in at 28th and actually we all should have seen it coming. S&T, well that's still to be determined how legit their move is. Dropping out Davenport which is fine because they aren't eligible for playoffs anyway and Cal P - man they could have rode a win over IUP a long way but followed up by dropping a game to 1-5 Gannon, what in the world?
Regional thoughts
SRI - A little bit of shuffling of the same top 7 teams from last week, the only significant change was dropping Cal P out all together from consideration, as I mentioned above a loss to Gannon, what in the world?
SRII - I flipped Morehouse and Virginia Union; Morehouse lost to Albany and looked terrible doing it but they still lead the SIAC at 6-1 (technically). That gets settled Saturday when they play 5-1 Benedict. So look for Benedict to overtake a spot in the regionals next week. The question that's going to arise out of SRII is can Gulf South get 5 teams in? 6? I mean West Alabama and North Greenville are obviously better than what the SIAC or CIAA conference champs might be.
SRIII - Fort Hays takes over Pitt St. for 7th spot this week and of course Ferris takes over #1. I'm still not convinced despite all the arguing in this spot of the internet MIAA doesn't get 2 teams in even if that means a 3 loss team. The likelyhood that GAC second place team has 3 losses is high and the 3rd place team in the GAC is almost certainly going to have 3 losses. Harding still has to play SE OK, one of them will get a 3rd loss there. Harding may finish with 2 losses then but to Ouachita and S. Arkansas; S. Arkansas still has Ouachita and Henderson to play. As we know both conferences in silo schedule we have no comparison of what conference is stronger; and shame on me I guess but just because it's not NW Mo and Pitt at the top doesn't mean the MIAA is any weaker than previous years. I just don't see at this time the committee taking 3 from one silo conference over 1 in another when you can take 2 each since we have no idea which conference is better. So that leaves us with Saginaw for the GLAC to take 3 spots - Saginaw plays Ferris and Grand Valley back to back here so the nightmare scenario for MIAA and GAC is really if there happens to be a three way tie in the GLAC. I don't think so, I think Sagi has little chance and with a loss to Ashland which will probably lose at least another game, Saginaw by the end of the season shouldn't look as strong as again a 2nd place team in either the MIAA or GAC.
SRIV - Like SRI one, only shuffled a few of the teams; Tarleton moves to the second line. I don't know what to do with Central Washington, they haven't done anything except beat bad teams by a lot, which is what you're supposed to do. I should probably put them on the 4 line for one home playoff game before having to travel but I just can't. Central Washington and Indianapolis should be forced to play each other every year to determine who is the best of the bad good teams that might deserve a playoff spot.
Once again I modified some things on the pics so hopefully they can be seen.
Tarleton and Indianapolis are the biggest benefactors this week from ranked teams beating ranked teams; both have moved up slowly all season but with Commerce, S. Arkansas and in a way GVSU losing we see Tarleton and Indy garner votes. FHSU last week had the greatest fall going from 9th to 30th and this week have the largest jump back from 30th to 19th. A roller coaster ride like that means they'll probably throw up all over their shoes this weekend. Because new to the rankings is their opponent UNK - which is crazy since UNK lost last week, but the strength of schedule jumped by adding NW Mo. Also new this week (again) is Emporia St. which takes the place of Central Mo. dropping out of the rankings.
Missouri S&T and Saginaw also enter for the first time this year with Saginaw really jumping in at 28th and actually we all should have seen it coming. S&T, well that's still to be determined how legit their move is. Dropping out Davenport which is fine because they aren't eligible for playoffs anyway and Cal P - man they could have rode a win over IUP a long way but followed up by dropping a game to 1-5 Gannon, what in the world?
Regional thoughts
SRI - A little bit of shuffling of the same top 7 teams from last week, the only significant change was dropping Cal P out all together from consideration, as I mentioned above a loss to Gannon, what in the world?
SRII - I flipped Morehouse and Virginia Union; Morehouse lost to Albany and looked terrible doing it but they still lead the SIAC at 6-1 (technically). That gets settled Saturday when they play 5-1 Benedict. So look for Benedict to overtake a spot in the regionals next week. The question that's going to arise out of SRII is can Gulf South get 5 teams in? 6? I mean West Alabama and North Greenville are obviously better than what the SIAC or CIAA conference champs might be.
SRIII - Fort Hays takes over Pitt St. for 7th spot this week and of course Ferris takes over #1. I'm still not convinced despite all the arguing in this spot of the internet MIAA doesn't get 2 teams in even if that means a 3 loss team. The likelyhood that GAC second place team has 3 losses is high and the 3rd place team in the GAC is almost certainly going to have 3 losses. Harding still has to play SE OK, one of them will get a 3rd loss there. Harding may finish with 2 losses then but to Ouachita and S. Arkansas; S. Arkansas still has Ouachita and Henderson to play. As we know both conferences in silo schedule we have no comparison of what conference is stronger; and shame on me I guess but just because it's not NW Mo and Pitt at the top doesn't mean the MIAA is any weaker than previous years. I just don't see at this time the committee taking 3 from one silo conference over 1 in another when you can take 2 each since we have no idea which conference is better. So that leaves us with Saginaw for the GLAC to take 3 spots - Saginaw plays Ferris and Grand Valley back to back here so the nightmare scenario for MIAA and GAC is really if there happens to be a three way tie in the GLAC. I don't think so, I think Sagi has little chance and with a loss to Ashland which will probably lose at least another game, Saginaw by the end of the season shouldn't look as strong as again a 2nd place team in either the MIAA or GAC.
SRIV - Like SRI one, only shuffled a few of the teams; Tarleton moves to the second line. I don't know what to do with Central Washington, they haven't done anything except beat bad teams by a lot, which is what you're supposed to do. I should probably put them on the 4 line for one home playoff game before having to travel but I just can't. Central Washington and Indianapolis should be forced to play each other every year to determine who is the best of the bad good teams that might deserve a playoff spot.
Once again I modified some things on the pics so hopefully they can be seen.
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