Should not hurt the SOS too terribly. https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
Awesome news and if we actually get to the point of being a playoff contender it might matter to the humans discussing it, but I will wonder out loud if the computers that ESPN et al use to compute SOS actually differentiate FCS teams at all or just lump them in as "generic non-FBS opponent."Should not hurt the SOS too terribly. https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
Did anybody take note of what ndsu is doing in top division now? I think they are 5-0. These Dakota teams are legitAwesome news and if we actually get to the point of being a playoff contender it might matter to the humans discussing it, but I will wonder out loud if the computers that ESPN et al use to compute SOS actually differentiate FCS teams at all or just lump them in as "generic non-FBS opponent."
Sagarin at least seems to lump FCS and FBS together. I saw a post on TwiX yesterday with a read-out that had SDSU above Colorado, Purdue and Rutgers, IIRC.Awesome news and if we actually get to the point of being a playoff contender it might matter to the humans discussing it, but I will wonder out loud if the computers that ESPN et al use to compute SOS actually differentiate FCS teams at all or just lump them in as "generic non-FBS opponent."
Correction. Maryland, not Purdue.Sagarin at least seems to lump FCS and FBS together. I saw a post on TwiX yesterday with a read-out that had SDSU above Colorado, Purdue and Rutgers, IIRC.
Funny that Sagarin has SDSU ranked two spots above NDSU.Did anybody take note of what ndsu is doing in top division now? I think they are 5-0. These Dakota teams are legit
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