Some bragging rights in the Granite State shifted Monday, and the University of New Hampshire Wildcats are not going to be happy about it.
UNH was the first team sitting outside the STATS FCS Top 25 this week, ending the defending CAA champion's run of 162 straight appearances in the national media poll.
The team that snuck into the rankings in front of it? Upstate neighbor Dartmouth, which made its season debut in the poll at No. 25. The Ivy League title hopeful is located in Hanover, about 100 miles northwest of the UNH campus.1 Jacksonville State (5-1) 3897 (108) 1
2 Coastal Carolina (6-0) 3743 (27) 3
3 Illinois State (5-1) 3628 (6) 4
4 James Madison (7-0) 3594 (18) 5
5 Chattanooga (5-1) 3170 6
6 South Dakota State (5-1) 3120 7
7 Eastern Washington (4-2) 2933 8
8 North Dakota State (4-2) 2777 2
9 Sam Houston State (4-2) 2592 9
10 Fordham (6-1) 2332 10
11 Richmond (5-1) 2279 13
12 McNeese State (6-0) 2224 15
13 Eastern Kentucky (4-2) 2065 14
14 Portland State (5-1) 2052 17
15 Harvard (5-0) 1530 18
16 Youngstown State (3-3) 1321 11
17 William & Mary (4-2) 1252 24
18 Indiana State (4-2) 1181 21
19 Montana (3-3) 1093 20
20 Western Illinois (4-2) 825 NR
21 Montana State (3-3) 766 16
22 UNI (2-4) 631 12
23 Villanova (3-3) 501 25
24 North Carolina A&T (5-1) 491 NR
25 Dartmouth (5-0) 349 NR
Others: New Hampshire (347) , Charleston Southern (210) , Southern Utah (113) , South Dakota (92) , Grambling State (88) , Southeastern Louisiana (83) , Alcorn State (55) , Cal Poly (39) , North Dakota (39) , Bethune-Cookman (35) , UT Martin (33) , Liberty (30) , Weber State (29) , Citadel (26) , Furman (20) , Jacksonville (20) , Southern Illinois (12) , Dayton (12) , Eastern Illinois (8) , Western Carolina (8) , Central Arkansas (8) , Lamar (5) , Princeton (4) , Bryant (3) , Northern Arizona (2) , Prairie View A&M (2) , Monmouth (2) , Kennesaw State (2) , Southern University (1) , Stony Brook (1)
