Each week, throughout the college football season, alumni, fans, media and the teams themselves look to the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll to see who is rising and moving within the national rankings. The new poll follows Week 5 games.
The FCS conference schedule is arriving at the right time because more teams are already in mid-season form.
A season-high 10 conferences are represented in the new Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll, including Harvard as the first Ivy League entrant at No. 25. Additionally, defending Southern Conference champion Mercer – a part of two earlier polls – is knocking at the door in the first spot outside the national media rankings.
The top three spots went unchanged with North Dakota State, South Dakota State and Tarleton State. Montana, which earned a Top 10 win over Idaho, edged past Montana State into the No. 4 spot.
The Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll is released each Monday during the regular season and one day after the FCS championship game (to be played Jan. 5 in Nashville, Tennessee). A first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.
(For more on the college football weekend, here is our FCS Week 5 Review.)
Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll (Sept. 29)
1. North Dakota State (4-0, 1-0 MVFC)
Points: 1,395 (51 of 56 first-place votes); Previous Ranking: 1; Week 5: 51-13 win over then-No. 17 South Dakota; Week 6: at No. 6 Illinois State
2. South Dakota State (4-0)
Points: 1,342 (4 first-place votes); Previous Ranking: 2; Week 5: 51-7 win over Mercyhurst; Week 6: at No. 24 Youngstown State
3. Tarleton State (5-0, 1-0 UAC)
Points: 1,271 (1 first-place vote); Previous Ranking: 3; Week 5: No game; Week 6: Southern Utah
4. Montana (4-0, 1-0 Big Sky)
Points: 1,217; Previous Ranking: 5; Week 5: 41-30 win over then-No. 8 Idaho; Week 6: at Idaho State
5. Montana State (3-2, 1-0 Big Sky)
Points: 1,203; Previous Ranking: 4; Week 5: 57-3 win over Eastern Washington; Week 6: at No. 13 Northern Arizona
6. Illinois State (3-1)
Points: 982; Previous Ranking: 7; Week 5: No game; Week 6: No. 1 North Dakota State
7. UC Davis (3-1, 1-0 Big Sky)
Points: 979; Previous Ranking: 9; Week 5: 34-12 win over Weber State; Week 6: at Cal Poly
8. Rhode Island (4-1, 2-0 CAA)
Points: 974; Previous Ranking: 6; Week 5: 47-14 loss at Western Michigan; Week 6: vs. Brown in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
9. Lehigh (5-0, 2-0 Patriot)
Points: 915; Previous Ranking: 10; Week 5: 44-30 win over Penn; Week 6: Yale
10. Southern Illinois (3-1)
Points: 874; Previous Ranking: 11; Week 5: No game; Week 6: Indiana State
11. Tennessee Tech (4-0, 1-0 OVC-Big South)
Points: 826; Previous Ranking: 13; Week 5: 35-8 win at Tennessee State; Week 6: Western Illinois
12. Idaho (2-3, 0-1 Big Sky)
Points: 765; Previous Ranking: 8; Week 5: 41-30 loss at then-No. 5 Montana; Week 6: No game
13. Northern Arizona (4-1, 1-0 Big Sky)
Points: 708; Previous Ranking: 15; Week 5: 31-17 win at Portland State; Week 6: No. 5 Montana State
14. Monmouth (3-1, 1-0 CAA)
Points: 680; Previous Ranking: 16; Week 5: No game; Week 6: Delaware State
15. North Dakota (2-2)
Points: 668; Previous Ranking: 14; Week 5: No game; Week 6: at Northern Iowa
16. West Georgia (5-0, 2-0 UAC)
Points: 566; Previous Ranking: 18; Week 5: 27-24 win at Southern Utah; Week 6: at No. 22 Austin Peay
17. Jackson State (3-1, 1-0 SWAC)
Points: 422; Previous Ranking: 19; Week 5: 38-13 win at Southern; Week 6: Alabama A&M in Mobile, Alabama
18. Villanova (2-2, 1-1 CAA)
Points: 336; Previous Ranking: 20; Week 5: 31-24 win over William & Mary; Week 6: at New Hampshire
19. Abilene Christian (2-3, 1-0 UAC)
Points: 298; Previous Ranking: 12; Week 5: 38-7 loss at UIW; Week 6: North Alabama
20. Lamar (3-1)
Points: 285; Previous Ranking: 22; Week 5: 35-32 win over Central Arkansas; Week 6: Nicholls
21. South Dakota (2-3, 0-1 MVFC)
Points: 245; Previous Ranking: 17; Week 5: 51-13 loss at then-No. 1 North Dakota State; Week 6: Murray State
22. Austin Peay (3-2, 1-1 UAC)
Points: 241; Previous Ranking: 23; Week 5: 42-10 win over Utah Tech; Week 6: No. 16 West Georgia
23. Presbyterian (5-0, 1-0 Pioneer)
Points: 208; Previous Ranking: 25; Week 5: 41-0 win over Morehead State; Week 6: No game
24. Youngstown State (3-1)
Points: 190; Previous Ranking: 24; Week 5: No game; Week 6: No. 2 South Dakota State
25. Harvard (2-0, 1-0 Ivy)
Points: 163; Previous Ranking: NR; Week 5: 41-7 win over Brown; Week 6: at Holy Cross
Dropped Out of Top 25: Sacramento State (21)
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Mercer (3-1, 3-0 SoCon): 126; UIW (2-3, 0-1 Southland): 121; Stephen F. Austin (3-2, 1-0): 48; Sacramento State (2-3, 0-1 Big Sky): 31; Richmond (3-2, 0-1 Patriot): 29; Dartmouth (2-0): 25; Gardner-Webb (2-2): 20; New Hampshire (3-2, 1-0 CAA): 13; Yale (2-0, 1-0 Ivy): 10; North Carolina Central (4-2): 7
Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll Voting Panel
Stats Perform: Craig Haley. Big Sky Conference: Riley Corcoran, Tyson Rodgers, Larry Weir. CAA Football: Roger Brown, Matt Harmon, Rob Washburn. Ivy League: JJ Klein, Craig Larson. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference: Kendrick Lewis, Patricia Porter-Mayfield. Missouri Valley Football Conference: Kyle Grooms, Dom Izzo, Randy Reinhardt. Northeast Conference: Sarah Boissonneault, Brian Cleary. OVC-Big South Football Association: Mike Bradd, Kyle Schwartz, Mark Simpson. Patriot League: Eric Malanoski, Ryan Sakamoto. Pioneer Football League: Cody Bush, Larry Hansgen. Southern Conference: Scott Keeler, Andrew Miller, Ralan Wardlaw. Southland Conference: Matthew Bonnette, James Dixon, James Hill. Southwestern Athletic Conference: Curtis Ford, Ronnie Johnson. United Athletic Conference: Brian Morgan, Benjamin Ray, Jake Withee. National Representatives: Sean Anderson, Stan Becton, Zack Carlton, Gene Clemons, Joe DeLeone, Matt Dixon, Steven J. Gaither, Sam Herder, Emory Hunt, Doug Kelly, Kyle Kensing, Brandon Lawrence, Zach McKinnell, Jon Passman, Omar Rashon Borja, Ryan Roberts, Timothy Rosario, Kent Schmidt, Phil Sokol, Reggie Thomas, Ralph Ventre, Jamie Williams.
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