Chaos continues for the Group of Five with just a couple weeks left in the regular season.
South Florida, the team ranked the highest by the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, lost to Navy last weekend. That basically took the Bulls out of CFP consideration.
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And now James Madison is in the No. 1 spot in the HERO Sports Group of Five Top 25 media poll for this week. Members of nationally-focused media outlets as well as at least one team beat reporter from every G5 conference is involved.
Here’s how they collectively voted:
Group of Five College Football Rankings
- James Madison (13 first-place votes)
- North Texas (three first-place votes)
- Tulane (two first-place votes)
- Navy
- South Florida
- East Carolina
- San Diego State
- Memphis
- UConn
- UNLV
- Hawaii
- Old Dominion
- New Mexico
- Western Kentucky
- Fresno State
- Southern Miss
- Jacksonville State
- Boise State
- Western Michigan
- (tie) Kennesaw State and Toledo
- Ohio
- Missouri State
- Army
- Coastal Carolina
RV: UTSA, Troy, Marshall, Central Michigan, Arkansas State, Rice, Temple, Miami (Ohio), Utah State, FIU, Georgia Southern.
HERO Sports Group of Five Top 25 Media Poll Voters
Josh Boutwell, Troy Messenger
Michael Calabrese, Action Network
Ron Counts, HERO Sports
The G5 Hive
Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman
Catie Harper, Daily News-Record
The Herd Bros
Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News
Colton McWilliams, San Marcos Record
Robert Munoz, HERO Sports
Jeff Nations, Bowling Green Daily News
Marc Narducci, HERO Sports
Colton Pool, HERO Sports
Cam Robertson, Athens Messenger
Kyle Rowland, NIL Wire
Ty Scheiner, Mike Farrell Sports
Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle
Seth Woolcock, BettingPros/In-Between Media
