 The Appalachian State football is the unanimous No.1 team in the country for the fifth consecutive week.
The Mountaineers (8-0 overall; 6-0 in the Southern Conference), off to their best start in 81 years, are ranked No.1 in both The Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS Poll and the FCS Coaches Poll. The Mountaineers received 134 first-place votes in the TSN Poll; and 38 first-place votes in the FCS Poll.
ASU, which plays at Georgia Southern on Saturday, is followed by Jacksonville State (16 first-place votes), Villanova (one first-place vote), William & Mary (three first-place votes) and Delaware in the top five. Wofford, which received a first-place votes, is ranked seventh; Stephen F. Austin, which lost to Texas State last Saturday, falls to No.10 in this week's poll.
But the Lumberjacks are ranked third in the Coaches Poll and also received the other first place vote. Jacksonville State is second, William & Mary is fourth and Villanova rounds out the top five. Wofford is tenth in the Coaches Poll; Chattanooga, which had its five-game winning streak snapped by Elon last Saturday, is 23rd.
ASU has won 26 consecutive SoCon games, and the Mountaineers are slowly creeping up to the league record of 30 straight wins set by West Virginia back in the 1950's. Our coverage of ASU-Georgia Southern begins at high noon on Saturday on AM 1450, WATA.
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The Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS Top-25 College Football Poll
Team (First-place votes) Record Points Previous Rank
1. Appalachian State Mountaineers (134) 8-0 3,847 1
2. Jacksonville State Gamecocks (16) 8-0 3,685 2
3. Villanova Wildcats (1) 6-2 3,388 5
4. William & Mary Tribe (3) 6-2 3,375 3
5. Delaware Blue Hens 7-1 3,294 6
6. Eastern Washington Eagles 7-2 3,002 8
7. Wofford Terriers (1) 7-1 2,900 9
8. New Hampshire Wildcats 5-3 2,537 10
9. Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 8-1 2,440 11
10. Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks 6-2 2,370 4
11. Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 8-0 2,275 12
12. Montana State Bobcats 7-2 2,137 13
13. Montana Grizzlies 6-3 1,751 7
14. Liberty Flames 6-2 1,720 16
15. Massachusetts Minutemen 5-3 1,624 18
16. South Carolina State Bulldogs 6-2 1,615 17
17. Northern Iowa Panthers 5-3 1,333 19
18. Penn Quakers 6-1 1,058 21
19. Cal Poly Mustangs 6-3 913 22
20. Richmond Spiders 4-4 823 14
21. Grambling State Tigers 7-1 757 23
22. James Madison Dukes 4-4 722 15
23. Jacksonville Dolphins 8-1 597 24
24. Western Illinois Leathernecks 6-3 400 NR
25. North Dakota State Bison 5-3 325 NR
Others receiving votes: Chattanooga 291, Robert Morris 284, Weber State 202, Lehigh 167, Southern Utah 102, Dayton 96, Jackson State 58, Sacramento State 46, Elon 40, Indiana State 30, McNeese State 28, Furman 19, Northern Arizona 17, Harvard 17, Yale 13, Texas State 12, Missouri State 9, Central Arkansas 9, Youngstown State 7, Brown 7, Florida A&M 7, Georgia Southern 6, Old Dominion 4, Northwestern State 4, Central Connecticut State 3, South Dakota 3, Texas Southern 2, North Dakota 2, Hampton 1, South Dakota State 1.
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FCS Coaches Poll
No. School Record Points Prev
1 Appalachian St. (26) 8-0 674 1
2 Jacksonville St 8-0 633 3
3 Stephen F. Austin (1) 6-2 612 4
4 William & Mary 6-2 611 5
5 Villanova 6-2 550 6
6 Delaware 7-1 518 2
7 Montana 6-3 514 7
8 Eastern Washington 7-2 480 8
9 New Hampshire 5-3 444 9
10 Wofford 7-1 427 10
11 Southeast Missouri St. 8-1 382 13
12 Liberty 6-2 348 14
13 Montana St 7-2 324 16
14 Richmond 4-4 300 15
15 James Madison 4-4 253 11
16 Bethune-Cookman 8-0 246 19
17 South Carolina St 6-2 242 17
18 UMass 5-3 202 12
19 Northern Iowa 5-3 178 22
20 CalPoly 6-3 159 21
21 Pennsylvania 6-1 135 23
22 North Dakota St. 5-3 93 24
23 Chattanooga 5-3 84 27
24 Western Illinois 6-3 79 18
25 Grambling 7-1 68 26
Others Receiving Votes: Northern Arizona (4-4) 60; Jacksonville (8-1) 22; Dayton (8-1) 17; Geogia Southern (4-4) 15; Robert Morris (7-1) 15; Murray St. (3-5) 14; South Dakota St(3-5) 13; Lehigh (6-2) 10; Colgate (4-4) 9; Weber St. (5-3) 8; Harvard (5-2) 7; McNeese St. (4-4) 6; SoUthern U. (5-4) 5; Furman (4-4) 4; Sam Houston St. (4-4) 4; Sacramento State (4-4) 3; Florida A&M (5-3) 3; Indiana St. (5-3) 2; Elon (3-5) 2
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