Ranked FCS, Saturday, 11/9 storylines:
#3 South Dakota State takes care of a good North Dakota team in Grand Forks 38-7, very impressive win
#5 South Dakota absolutely destroys Indiana State 49-0 in Vermillion
Massive Upset: #6 SE Missouri State gets beat at Lindenwood 12-24
For those that don't know, Lindenwood is just NW of St. Louis
#8 Incarnate Word takes care of Lamar 41-20
FBS transitioning Delaware beat #11 Rhode Island yesterday 24-21
#10 Mercer beats VMI 34-0
#13 Richmond squeaks by 3-7 Campbell 27-24
#15 Abilene Christian gets by Austin Peay on the road 35-34, a hell of a football game, a late TD pass by the Wildcats put them up for the win.
#16 Central Arkansas loses again, falling to Eastern Kentucky 24-31
Of note: Formerly the Texas A&M Commerce Lions,
NOW the East Texas A&M Lions (now 2-8)
upset the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks (now 6-4) 19-14
So based on this and what happened in Missoula, the Top 5 aren't changing -- maybe the committee will take USD's blowout win as an indicator that they're hot and should move ahead of the Aggies, but I think most would have a hard time justifying that with the impressive prime time road win Davis just banked.
#6 SE Missouri State will drop
#7 Montana will drop slightly
#8, #9, #10 - Incarnate Word, Idaho, Mercer will move up a spot
#11 Rhode Island might drop
#12 Villanova (8-2) will rise, they are really cooking right now despite a huge setback @ Maine a few weeks ago, and I think they're gong to be a tough team to beat in the playoffs.
#13, #14, #15 - Richmond, Tarleton State and Abilene Christian will up bump up.