Rankings

[alleycat]

ESPN/USA Today I-AA Top 25 Poll
(Records through October 31, 2005)

TEAM PTS PVS
---- --- ---
1. Furman (23) (7-1) 1,060 2
2. New Hampshire (7) (7-1) 1,020 4
3. Hampton (12) (8-0) 1,017 3
4. Montana (1) (6-2) 975 7
5. Southn Illinois (1) (6-2) 934 9
6. Westrn Kentucky (6-2) 812 1
7. Appalachian St (6-2) 795 12
8. Coastl Carolina (7-1) 689 13
9. Massachusetts (6-2) 675 6
10. Eastern Wash (5-3) 626 15
11. (Tie) Texas State (6-2) 581 5
11. (Tie) Montana St (5-3) 581 14
13. Lehigh (6-2) 513 16
14. Northern Iowa (5-3) 450 22
15. Ga Southern (6-3) 419 20
16. Grambling (6-1) 387 23
17. Youngstown St (7-2) 368 11
18. William & Mary (5-3) 362 8
19. Cal Poly (5-3) 343 10
20. S Carolina St (6-2) 284 24
21. UC Davis (5-3) 212 Nr
22. Richmond (5-3) 164 Nr
23. Brown (6-1) 155 Nr
24. Eastrn Illinois (6-2) 140 Nr
25. No Dakota St (5-3) 120 Nr

[Newsbreaker]

We win out, and we're in. We slip up, and we can start dreamin of 06.

[pantherclaw]

I love how Illinois ST. *****ed about getting into the top 25, then they were there for 2 weeks, and now, oh wow, They're out. HAHAHA. Dats right cats, 14 is alright, well we know who's going to lose this week for sure, well 2 teams, WKU, and FURMAN. Why furman b/c they are no. 1!!!

P.S. to whoever edited this, thanks, I let my mouth get a little out of control there.

[JCPanthers]

Wow, we move up 7 spots and are actually ahead of Youngstown State. However, this all means nothing if we don't win this Saturday.

[UNIAlum95]

That poll looks better than the Sporting News which has us at 17. Another win and maybe we'll be sniffing the top ten again.

[GoCats05]

Hopefully the polls won't matter cause if we win out and Youngstown loses to both Southern & WKU, UNI gets the automatic bid. It just would mean a higher seating and hopefully a couple of home playoff games. I saw a whole new team last week! If we can stuff the league's leading rusher last week, we can beat anybody. The team as a whole is playing with a sense of urgency and determination. Something that has been sorely lacking all season. We need to get behind our boys, we still have a lot of exciting football left to go.

GO PANTHERS!

[Newsbreaker]

I was under the impression that if we win out, we only need YSU to lose once to get the auto-bid.

[alleycat]

If we win out and YSU looses 1 we both would have 2 losses and we should have the tie breaker against all other teams.

JC is right we have to take it one game at a time. Polls mean nothing unless you win.

[UNI Fight]

So basically UNI needs to win out and we're in the playoffs? Is there a scenario that if UNI wins out we don't get a bid?

[alleycat]

There is no way we are left out if we take care of business.

[Chitown Panther]

8-3 and we will be in at-large.....win out and YSU loss, we win Conf.

I don't see YSU beating SIU and WKU......but that is our task as well....
But we CAN DO IT!!!

SIU has an up hill battle as well.....YSU at home, UNI at Dome.....NDSU at home.....that is a tough stretch....makes alot of sense how well they played at WKU last week.