I don’t have much to say by way of preamble regarding the NAIA, so let’s just get on down to it. The same method which I used for Division I FCS actually does work well for the NAIA despite a low voter total.
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NAIA: Week Seven.
Oct 14
Division III: Week Seven.
Oct 13
As I stated in the introductory post, Division III is very well covered by two fantastic sites, D3football.com and D3hoops.com. If you’re really interested in digging deeper, I cannot, cannot, cannot recommend them more highly.
My attempt at ranking the conferences in Division III simply does not work, unfortunately. Here’s the problem: there are only 40 voters in the AFCA D-III poll. There are 38 D-III football conferences, plus the independents. There are 25 slots on each ballot.
I’m sure you can see the problem now. Using my rankings, five conferences plus the independents would score a big fat zero, and another 8 conferences would have scores so low that they’re completely irrelevant — including one that actually has a ranked team.
So we’re not using that method here; indeed, I’m not even going to bother posting it as a comment like I did with Division II. Massey it is.
Division II: Week Seven.
Oct 13
My conference rankings for Division II… well, let’s just say they’re not nearly as instructive as the rankings I did for FCS. That’s because the Division II poll only has 26 voters, which creates the exact opposite situation that the FCS poll creates as far as using total votes as a metric.
Division I FCS: Week Seven.
Oct 13
The first half of the 2010 season has seen some brilliance on the part of the reduced-scholarship D-I crowd. We all know what James Madison did to Virginia Tech, and that was just the pinnacle.
But, as much as these FCS-over-FBS wins are nice and all, that’s not what we’re here to discuss. This being the first post, I’m going to give a rundown of relative conference strength among the FCS conferences.