Last Four In: North Dakota, Nicholls, East Tennessee State, Rhode Island
First Six Out: Delaware, Northern Iowa, Central Arkansas, South Dakota, Missouri State, Chattanooga
Turmoil. Turbulence. Weekly changes to the FCS Bracketology.
Wofford was beaten by Furman and tumbled from a seed position to a road team in the First Round. Eastern Washington (to Weber State) and Elon (to Delaware) lost and fell from a seed positions to a First Round home teams. Jacksonville State, Illinois State and UC Davis all readily jump in the take those spots.
The bottom of the bracket saw major changes too. Montana plummeted right off the tree and rolled down the hill into a creek. Fellow Big Sky member, Idaho State fell off also. Ironically, the bubble is relatively small this week. A serious case could be made for Delaware, as could there for Northern Iowa. But those after the first six out are all with more flaws on their resumes than these six and those in the bracket.
The chances of that staying the same for the last five weeks of the regular season? Slim to none.
Big Sky (4): *UC Davis, Eastern Washington, Weber State, Montana State
Big South (1): *Kennesaw State
Colonial (6): *James Madison, Elon, Maine, Towson, Stony Brook, Rhode Island
FCS Independent (1): North Dakota
Missouri Valley (3): *North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Illinois State
Northeast (1): *Central Connecticut State
Ohio Valley (1): *Jacksonville State
Patriot (1): *Colgate
Pioneer (1): *San Diego
Southern (2): *East Tennessee State, Wofford
Southland (3): *McNeese, Sam Houston State, Nicholls
* denotes conference’s projected automatic qualifier
