Here are the new FCS tiers after the fourth week...

For starters, here are the teams from the nine conferences who actually participate in the "Football Championship Subdivision" championship... the highest tier is Tier N, lining up with tier N within the FBS (meaning we think they match up evenly with those teams), and the lowest is Tier "d", lower case, which would be four levels below capital Z. (We've stretched these groups out two more rungs since last week, which is why we didn't publish them with the FBS teams last night.)

FF tier	Team	Conference	Conf Record		Overall Record
N	Jacksonville State	ovc	1	0	2	1
N	North Dakota State	mvc	0	0	2	1
N	Northern Iowa	mvc	0	0	2	1
N	Portland State	b-sky	1	0	2	0
N	South Dakota State	mvc	0	0	2	0
O	Coastal Carolina	b-sou	0	0	3	0
O	Illinois State	mvc	0	0	2	1
O	Liberty	b-sou	0	0	2	1
O	Montana	b-sky	0	1	1	2
O	South Dakota	mvc	0	0	2	1
O	William & Mary	caa	0	0	1	1
P	Chattanooga	sthrn	1	0	2	1
P	Eastern Kentucky	ovc	0	0	1	1
P	James Madison	caa	1	0	3	0
P	Montana State	b-sky	0	0	1	1
P	Southern Illinois	mvc	0	0	0	2
P	Western Illinois	mvc	0	0	1	2
Q	Cal Poly SLO	b-sky	1	0	1	2
Q	Eastern Illinois	ovc	0	0	0	3
Q	Eastern Washington	b-sky	1	0	2	2
Q	Indiana State	mvc	0	0	2	1
Q	Southern Utah	b-sky	1	0	1	2
R	Lamar	s-land	1	0	2	1
R	Northern Arizona	b-sky	0	0	2	1
R	Sam Houston St	s-land	0	1	0	2
R	Stony Brook	caa	1	0	2	0
R	Youngstown State	mvc	0	0	2	1
S	Furman	sthrn	0	0	1	2
S	New Hampshire	caa	0	1	1	2
S	North Dakota	b-sky	0	0	2	1
S	SE Missouri State	ovc	0	0	1	2
S	Weber State	b-sky	1	0	1	2
T	Charleston Southern	b-sou	0	0	2	1
T	McNeese State	s-land	2	0	2	0
T	Samford	sthrn	0	1	2	1
T	SE Louisiana	s-land	1	0	2	1
T	Towson	caa	0	0	2	1
U	Central Arkansas	s-land	0	0	0	2
U	Idaho State	b-sky	0	1	1	3
U	Richmond	caa	0	0	2	1
U	Tennessee State	ovc	0	1	2	1
U	Wofford	sthrn	0	0	1	2
V	Abilene Christian	s-land	1	0	1	1
V	Bryant	nec	0	0	2	0
V	Jacksonville	pion	0	0	2	0
V	UT-Martin	ovc	0	0	1	1
V	Villanova	caa	1	0	2	1
W	Dayton	pion	0	0	1	0
W	Delaware	caa	0	1	1	2
W	Drake	pion	0	0	1	1
W	Elon	caa	0	0	1	2
W	Stephen F Austin	s-land	0	1	0	3
W	Tennessee Tech	ovc	0	0	1	2
X	Albany	caa	1	1	1	2
X	Mercer	sthrn	0	0	2	1
X	Northwestern St	s-land	0	1	0	3
X	Presbyterian	b-sou	0	0	1	2
X	The Citadel	sthrn	1	0	2	1
Y	Duquesne	nec	0	0	2	1
Y	Monmouth	b-sou	0	0	1	2
Y	Morehead State	pion	0	0	0	2
Y	Sacramento State	b-sky	0	2	1	3
Y	San Diego	pion	0	0	1	1
Y	VMI	sthrn	0	0	1	2
Z	Murray State	ovc	0	0	1	2
Z	Northern Colorado	b-sky	0	1	2	1
Z	Sacred Heart	nec	0	0	2	1
Z	UC Davis	b-sky	0	0	0	3
Z	Western Carolina	sthrn	0	1	1	2
a	Gardner-Webb	b-sou	0	0	1	2
a	Marist	pion	0	0	0	2
a	Missouri State	mvc	0	0	1	2
a	Robert Morris	nec	0	0	1	2
a	St. Francis - PA	nec	0	0	1	2
b	Butler	pion	0	0	1	1
b	Campbell	pion	0	0	2	0
b	Kennesaw St	b-sou	0	0	3	0
b	Maine	caa	0	0	0	2
b	Wagner	nec	0	0	0	2
c	Austin Peay	ovc	0	0	0	3
c	Central Connecticut	nec	0	0	1	2
c	Incarnate Word	s-land	1	1	2	2
c	Rhode Island	caa	0	1	0	3
c	Stetson	pion	0	0	1	1
d	Davidson	pion	0	0	0	2
d	East Tennessee St*	sthrn	0	0	0	3
d	Houston Baptist	s-land	0	1	1	2
d	Nicholls State	s-land	0	1	0	2
d	Valparaiso	pion	0	0	0	2

Next, we look at the two conferences who choose not to play a post-season with the rest of the FCS, but rather hold their own "Celebration Bowl", matching the titlists of the two Historically Black College conferences (the SWAC and the MEAC:

FF tier	Team	Conference	Conf Record		OverallRecord
S	SC State	meac	1	0	2	1
T	Southern	swacW	2	0	2	1
U	Bethune-Cookman	meac	0	0	2	1
V	Alcorn State	swacE	2	0	2	1
V	Grambling St	swacW	1	0	1	2
W	NC A&T	meac	0	0	2	1
X	Hampton	meac	1	0	2	1
X	Morgan State	meac	0	0	1	2
X	Norfolk State	meac	0	0	0	3
X	Alabama State	swacE	0	2	0	3
Y	NC Central	meac	0	0	1	2
Y	Alabama A&M	swacE	0	1	0	2
Z	Florida A&M	meac	0	1	0	3
Z	Jackson State	swacE	0	1	0	3
a	Howard	meac	0	1	0	3
a	Texas Southern	swacW	1	1	2	1
b	Prairie View A&M	swacW	2	0	2	1
b	Ark-Pine Bluff	swacW	0	1	1	2
c	Delaware State	meac	0	0	0	3
c	Miss Valley St	swacE	0	2	0	3
d	Savannah State	meac	0	0	0	2

And finally, the two conferences who choose not to compete in a post-season for academic reasons, the Ivy League and the Patriot League:

FF tier	Team	Conference	Conf Record		OverallRecord
R	Dartmouth	ivy	0	0	1	0
S	Fordham	patr	0	0	2	1
T	Harvard	ivy	0	0	1	0
U	Colgate	patr	0	0	0	3
V	Princeton	ivy	0	0	1	0
W	Yale	ivy	0	0	1	0
W	Holy Cross	patr	0	0	1	1
X	Lehigh	patr	0	0	2	1
Y	Penn	ivy	0	0	0	1
Y	Bucknell	patr	0	0	2	1
Z	Georgetown	patr	0	0	1	2
Z	Lafayette	patr	0	0	0	3
a	Brown	ivy	0	0	0	1
b	Cornell	ivy	0	0	0	1
c	Columbia	ivy	0	0	0	1