Athlon Sports drops the Ags from #6 to #16.

#4 Montana State
#5 EWU
#8 Sac State
#9 Montana
#16 UC Davis

Top 25 here: https://athlonsports.com/college-football/fcs-rankings-top-25-power-poll-following-week-11-2021

STATS FCS poll has the Ags down 4 spots to #10 (click on the photo to enlarge):



https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/stats-perform-fcs-top-25

The AFCA Coaches Poll has the Aggies down 7 spots from #4 to #11:

#3 Montana State
#6 EWU
#7 Montana
#11 UC Davis
#18 Sac State

Top 25 here: https://www.afca.com/fcs-poll-mercer-enters-afca-top-25-after-big-win/

The dedicated FCS fans at anygivensaturday.com have the Ags at #10:

#2 Montana State
#5 EWU
#9 Montana
#10 UC Davis
#13 Sac State

Entire poll here: https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?287339-AGS-Poll-Results-Week-11-2021

These positions seem more reasonable.

Like Sisyphus' rock, it sure is a lot easier to roll downhill than to push uphill, but I agree with movielover that UC Davis should be around 10-11.

It was definitely a "finally played a good team" reaction. Weber's fine, but they're not what they normally are.

Plus some people are going to look at the box score because it was a big game and see that the result probably should have been worse. An 18-point loss where we get outgained by 100 yards and EWU gets a late TD to make it look worse and maybe we only drop 3-5 spots instead of 4-7 spots.

But yeah, 100% a market correction on our rank.

It's deceiving because of the Tulsa win, that team seems a far cry from what we saw last Saturday. We're such a confused product on offense, not sure what to expect. A breakout game and win for Hastings vs. Sac would go a long way to a home playoff game...but that's asking a lot. The OL play must be better, Larison or Gilliam needs to have a monster game.

The X Factor is Tompkins? 4 or 5 explosive plays

Good points.

Some were predicting a possible loss to NAU - that didn't happen. Most predicted an EWU win, we didn't play an error free game, we missed some big plays, we couldn't run the ball and EB was EB.

It's all down to Sac, at home. No EB.

We've had several INT's that were dropped in the last couple of games also. After our first two games, we led the nation in INT's but we've had some unfortunate drops here lately. I hope we've got a lot of the missed opportunities out of our system.

The best defenses capitalize on their opportunities, they don't drop the ball so to speak...you take, and take and take what the offense gives you, and if they're giving early Christmas presents, take them!