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 8 games.
Most of the top-tier teams in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll are headed to the road this week, but one that’s not has the toughest assignment of all.
Second-ranked South Dakota State is hosting the biggest matchup on the FCS regular season calendar – against No.1 North Dakota State, the defending national champion. The rivals will meet for the 118th time saturday night.
This past weekend, NDSU overcame more than two hours of a weather delay at Indiana State and SDSU brushed off an injury to quarterback Chase mason at Murray State to both improve to 7-0 and set up the 10th all-time meeting of the top two nationally ranked teams.
But other big games are ahead as well,with No. 3 Tarleton State, the Big Sky trio of Montana (4). Montana State (5) and UC Davis (6), and No. 7 Lehigh also on the road within conference play. Montana puts its 7-0 record on the line in perhaps the week’s second-biggest game at Sacramento State.
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.
Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll (Oct. 20)
Table of Contents
1. north Dakota State (7-0, 4-0 MVFC)
Points: 1,399 (55 of 56 first-place votes); Previous Ranking: 1; Week 8: 38-7 win at Indiana State; Week 9: at No. 2 South Dakota State
2. south Dakota State (7-0,3-0 MVFC)
Points: 1,339 (1 first-place vote); Previous Ranking: 2; Week 8: 35-14 win at Murray State; Week 9: no. 1 North Dakota State
FCS Power Rankings: Week 9
1. South Dakota State (7-0, 4-0 MVFC)
Points: 689; Previous Ranking: 1; Week 8: 28-17 win over No. 16 southern Illinois; Week 9: at No. 17 Mercer
2. Montana (6-1, 3-0 Big Sky)
points: 648; Previous Ranking: 2; Week 8: 35-28 win over No.6 Idaho; Week 9: at Portland State
3. Sacramento State (6-1, 3-0 Big Sky)
Points: 612; Previous Ranking: 3; Week 8: 49-13 win over Cal Poly; Week 9: at Weber State
4.Idaho (5-2, 2-1 Big Sky)
Points: 578; Previous Ranking: 4; Week 8: 35-28 loss at No. 2 Montana; Week 9: No.23 Montana State
5. Villanova (6-1, 4-0 CAA)
Points: 572; Previous Ranking: 5; Week 8: 45-28 win over Richmond; Week 9: at Coastal Carolina
6. William & Mary (6-1, 3-0 CAA)
points: 561; Previous Ranking: 6; Week 8: 31-10 win over Charleston Southern; Week 9: at Stony Brook
7. North Dakota (6-1, 3-0 MVFC)
Points: 559; Previous Ranking: 7; Week 8: 38-19 win over Southern Illinois; Week 9: at No. 1 South Dakota State
8. Eastern Washington (5-2,2-1 Big Sky)
Points: 534; Previous Ranking: 8; Week 8: 34-31 win over Northern Colorado; Week 9: at No. 3 Sacramento State
9. Princeton (5-1, 3-0 Ivy)
Points: 518; Previous Ranking: 9; Week 8: 35-20 win over Brown; Week 9: at Princeton
10. Chattanooga (6-1, 3-0 SoCon)
Points: 512; Previous Ranking: 11; week 8: 38-14 win over Samford; Week 9: at Furman
11. UAlbany (6-1,3-0 CAA)
Points: 498; Previous Ranking: 14; Week 8: 28-21 win over Towson; Week 9: at New Hampshire
12. Weber State (4-3, 2-1 Big Sky)
Points: 488; Previous Ranking: 15; Week 8: 35-14 win over Northern Arizona; Week 9: No. 3 Sacramento state
13. Delaware (5-2, 3-0 CAA)
Points: 485; Previous Ranking: NR; Week 8: 27-24 win over Elon; week 9: at Hampton
14. Gardner-Mewb (5-2, 2-1 UAC)
Points: 483; Previous Ranking: 18; Week 8: 35-28 win over Central Arkansas; Week 9: at North Alabama
15. Lamar (6-1, 3-0 Southland)
Points: 585; Previous Ranking: 17; Week 8: 23-21 win over UTRGV; Week 9: at Northwestern State
16. southern Illinois (4-3, 1-2 MVFC)
Points: 481; Previous Ranking: 12; Week 8: 38-19 loss to then-No. 9 North Dakota; Week 9: Northern Iowa
17. Mercer (5-1, 4-0 SoCon)
Points: 475; Previous Ranking: 20; Week 8: No game; Week 9: VMI
18. Illinois State (4-3, 1-2 MVFC)
Points: 4
Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll: Week 8 Results (october 20, 2024)
Here are the results from the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll, released on October 20, 2024:
Top 25 Rankings:
* Lafayette (5-3, 3-0 Patriot): 9 points
* Penn (4-1, 2-0 Ivy): 8 points
* Gardner-Webb (4-3, 2-1 OVC-Big South): 7 points
* Alabama State (4-2, 2-1 SWAC): 6 points
* Duquesne (5-3, 3-0 NEC): 2 points
* West Georgia (5-3, 2-3 UAC): 2 points
Voting Panel:
the poll is determined by a voting panel comprised of:
* 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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Note: The original date in the prompt (2025-10-20) was corrected to 2024-10-20 as it is more likely to be the current date for a weekly poll release.