Two upsets in the top 12, an epic clash in the lower half of the poll, and other than that a whole bunch of what you’d expect. Details after this brief clicky.
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Everything’s gone haywire and topsy-turvy, helping to make me look like an idiot. Only 16 undefeated teams remain in FCS, and that’s because three of them didn’t play last week. Leading the mighty CAA after two weeks of play is… what? TOWSON? Check it out after the jump.
I know I said I was holding off on the NAIA this week, and I am, but I did want to tip off a few games of interest. (One reason I held off was that there still weren’t updated rankings, but I figured out today, stupid me, that they’re not releasing the first post-preseason poll until next week.)
So after the jump, a list of games this week involving ranked teams, with the caveat that at least one of these teams would not be ranked this week had there been a poll. (I’m looking at you, 0-2 #10 Ottawa, although to be fair they did lose both games to other ranked squads.)
All games Saturday Eastern Oregon (1-0) at #1 Carroll (MT) (1-0) #2 Saint Xavier (1-0) at #24 Saint Francis (IL) (1-0) #3 MidAmerica Nazarene (1-0) at #11 Missouri Valley (1-0) #4 Saint Francis (IN) (0-0) at Saint Ambrose (1-0) #5 Morningside (1-0) at #14 Northwestern (IA) (1-0) Quincy (1-0) at #6 Marian (IN) (2-0) Valley City State (0-1) at #7 Dickinson State (0-2) #8 William Penn (2-0) at Luther (0-1; D-III) #21 Kansas Wesleyan (0-1) at #10 Ottawa (0-2) Bethany (KS) (1-0) at #12 McPherson (0-1) #13 NW Oklahoma State (0-1) at Colorado State-Pueblo (1-0; D-II) #15 Azusa Pacific (0-1) at La Verne (D-III; 0-0) Virginia-Wise (1-0) at #16 Cumberlands (KY) (1-0) #17 Midland (1-0) at Nebraska Wesleyan (1-0) #18 Cumberland (TN) (1-0) at Campbellsville (1-0) Haskell (0-2) at #19 Southern Nazarene (1-0) Shorter (0-0) at #20 Webber International (0-1) #25 Grand View (1-1) at Drake (0-1; FCS)
A top five team chooses their opening opponent poorly, an entire conference loses their openers, and one game never even finishes. All the info after this.
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Delay of Game.
Sep 8
D-III recap will not be up until sometime tomorrow. Things have been hectic; this is, admittedly, partially due to FBS nonsense, and you all know to what I am referring here.
There will NOT be an NAIA recap this week. We’ll get started with them next week.
The gears grind slowly as the D-II season lurches into motion. The #2 team in the nation has a rude awakening, the bottom falls out of the top 25, and right in the middle of the rankings, someone got something wrong. All this and more… next.
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A couple of teams forged upsets, several more came up just short, and one team laid a very embarrassing egg. Scores and notes beyond the jump.
If you’re new, or have forgotten, I hold off on my weekly recaps until the polls come out, so expect those to start rolling out tomorrow.
In the meantime, some site-related begging. (Not for money, relax.)
After that infodump, it’s time to take a look at changes in Division III and the NAIA. There’s not too much shuffling in D-III, aside from chaos surrounding two conferences in particular; the NAIA, on the other hand, is losing a ton of teams, and therefore its conferences are being impacted quite a but.
With every off-season comes the inevitable reshuffling of teams between conferences and divisions. A mess of them were announced last year, but we’ll go over what’s already changed, and who’s on their way out at the end of the season.