I-AA Schools Now Eligible For Football Poll

App State is No. 38 in the Sagarin ratings and is No. 31 in everyone's favorite list, ELO_CHESS.

Still not Top 25. Their SOS will make it hard for them to stay even in the top 50.

So they may get votes, but it's moot.

 

I guess Division II teams will become eligible next week.

 

I-AA players can win the Heisman and, in theory, Appy State could skip the playoffs and accept a bowl invite. Or at least I think they could, the SWAC schools don't do the playoffs now.
When they took the restrictions off I-AA games counting or not counting toward the six-win mark, that should have made the I-AA teams eligible for the poll then, not that it mattered.

 

And the coaches get ripped for not seeing enough teams play before they vote? How the fuck can an AP voter cast a legitimately researched ballot when they never, ever see I-AA teams play? What a ridiculous fucking idea.

If AP feels that strongly about I-AA football they should start publishing a I-AA Top 25.

 

"Why not? The poll was always intended to measure teams that compete against each other, regardless of division, based solely on on-field performance," she said.

As someone alluded to with a reference to schedule strength, it becomes a moot point unless Appalachian and other schools in that subdivision decide to become independents and play a lot of games against the big boys and a lot fewer against teams on their own tier. Does McNeese State get a shot at Michigan soon?

 

This is the kind of shit you get when you put a woman in charge of the sports department...

I keed... I keed...

 

Good point.

Sincerely,

The most anti-poll college beat writer in America.

 

Bingo.

Though just about all of the poll-related reaction to that game has been pretty knee-jerk.

 

They do. Don't they?

We run a I-AA poll in our agate and we get it via AP.

 

I don't think that's their poll. Not sure.

 

It's not. I believe it's voted on by the coaches.