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URI Football is ranked #25 in the STATS FCS Football Poll for Week 2:
http://www.fcs.football/cfb/polls.asp?div=fcs

They are #27 receiving votes in the NCAA FCS Coaches Poll:
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/ ... aches-poll

Cross-posting this as it is huge news for the University and Football program.

Pretty impressive start! Nice to be relevant again. Hope the UConn game will be easy to watch online.

Rhody is relevant!

CUT THE PROGRAM THOUGH

Nice , they also made the top plays on sports center the other night with that great catch

What about our soccer team? We just cant be beat in futbol or football! Go Rhody

Trending towards (official) top 25 in soccer, too.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college ... nkings/men

I like the excitement about soccer BAR, but this is Football only thread! After the first two weeks the FB team has had they deserve their own thread.

Section104 wrote: ↑5 years ago Trending towards (official) top 25 in soccer, too.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college ... nkings/men

Are these rankings not considered official?

Huzzah! Awesome!

Rhody is an athletic powerhouse all of a sudden. Golf also had a great weekend, winning the St. John’s tournament at Bethpage, which was won by Florida State last year.

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑5 years ago Rhody is relevant!

hmm that sounds familiar but cant quite put my finger on it...

RhodysRelevant wrote: ↑5 years ago

PeterRamTime wrote: ↑5 years ago Rhody is relevant!

hmm that sounds familiar but cant quite put my finger on it...

I was thinking of you

Will we remain ranked? The way we never folded up against Connecticut, we just kept coming at them, a lot of fun watching this game. Lawson is really good and playing very smart football. I hope a one score loss to a 1a with a chance to tie on the last play of the game is enough to keep us in the rankings even ascend a spot or two.

BOOYAH!!!! #23 baby!!!

Wow that's a little surprising!

Hopefully itll stay through the bye week.
We must've really impressed.
Our offense is the bomb diggety

We've gone from not ranked to 23 in the coaches' poll

It is time for ATP to do the same for the soccer team as this thread is for Football. It is great that we have two sports that are nationally ranked. Soccer is 6-0 and is the only team in the country that is kicking a shutout. They are ranked in the top D1 division. Victories over teams like Penn State, BU and PC are very impressive.
Hopefully both teams can continue their winning ways. Lets tread them the same with both having a tread in our major site area.

I concur thread the soccer squad. URI is an athletic juggernaut!!

#1 destination for scholar athletes in the north east = Kingston!

Can't explain it, but just enjoying the ride.

And URI wins against Harvard to bring their record to 3-1 heading into the governors cup game against Brown. hopefully the QB recovers to run our offense.

Go Rhody!

With Lawson in we would have won that game going away and shot up the polls.

bigappleram wrote: ↑5 years ago With Lawson in we would have won that game going away and shot up the polls.

Yup. Massive falloff to the backup QB's.

You think pollsters are not going to notice beating Harvard at home with backup QB?
If some teams lose in front of Rhody,it's very possible they make a jump.
Harvard is perennial top FCS program-top 15 or 20,maybe higher?
Rhody beat a team with NFL players on it last night.
Still,much room for improvement.

Yes I’m sure pollsters will acknowledge that we beat them without Lawson, but still think us whipping them 31-10 with Lawson would have jumped us up the polls more. And I do believe with lawson that game would have turned into a blowout. While historically Harvard is a powerful program that team last night didn’t impress me. Their QB was very mediocre, his 2 INTs were basically gifts to us and I don’t think he completed a pass over 10 yards all game. They did seem to have a stout D line tho, we really struggled running the ball and creating holes. That said, when Lawson went out we became much more predictable.

Their running back impressed me the most

We rise again.

http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/ ... 1001jogouv

Which poll is the more national recognized / used more? Sort of like the AP poll is recognized more than the Coaches poll in basketball.

Rhody15 wrote: ↑5 years ago Which poll is the more national recognized / used more? Sort of like the AP poll is recognized more than the Coaches poll in basketball.

I think you're supposed to use the one that ranks your team the highest.

Moved up to 15/16 in the 2 polls.

Been ranked about a month now.
Hell's yeah.

If Vito is good enough we can keep it that way till Jajuans back.

So here's a question; does being #15 nationally in FCS mean URI is 15 spots from being as good as an FBS team or could they compete with lower tier FBS teams like UCONN on a regular basis?

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑5 years ago So here's a question; does being #15 nationally in FCS mean URI is 15 spots from being as good as an FBS team or could they compete with lower tier FBS teams like UCONN on a regular basis?

Didn’t we already prove that? Every year good FCS teams beat lousy FBS teams.

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑5 years ago So here's a question; does being #15 nationally in FCS mean URI is 15 spots from being as good as an FBS team or could they compete with lower tier FBS teams like UCONN on a regular basis?

They could at least compete against lower tier with what we have now.

If uconn doesn't have Pindell I think we win that going away.

That is the thing though, with FBS schools, you might be on the same level in most aspects, but they'll have one or two exceptional players that are just way better than everyone on an FBS team and that'll be the difference.

With Pindell it was so hard for us to handle his dual threat abilities. He was just a lot more athletic than everyone on our defense.

The CAA is as close as you get to FBS in the FCS.

Our offense sure looks good enough to compete against a lot of what the FBS has to offer.

Our wideout talent is crazy.

Going into big game Saturday for homecoming
http://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-footbl/ ... 1008pdyt6l

From 12th ranked in CAA (out of 12 teams) in Coaches Preseason Poll to this!!!

We've dropped out of the top 25 in both polls

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑5 years ago We've dropped out of the top 25 in both polls

I would think this was expected given the back to back losses, especially with the last being a blowout.