Here are
the updated tiers for both NCAA and the NFL after this weekend’s games – the NFL
will have just four tiers, still in Roman numerals; after almost every college team’s played two games, however, we
have enough cross referencing to allow us to do our first sub-dividing of the NCAA tiers, moving from four FBS tiers (six overall) in Roman numerals to nine
FBS (thirteen overall) using regular, “Arabic” numerals. For comparison purposes, Roman numeral I roughly corresponds to tiers 1
and 2; II to tiers 3-4-5; III to tiers 6 and 7; IV to 8-9; V to tiers 10, 11,
and part of 12; and tier VI to tiers 12 and 13.
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TIER 1:
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TIER 2:
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TIER 3:
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Alabama
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Auburn
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Arkansas
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Clemson
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Baylor
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Boise St
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Georgia
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BYU
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Boston College
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Michigan St
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Florida St
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Duke
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Notre Dame
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Georgia Tech
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Houston
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Ohio St
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LSU
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Iowa
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Oklahoma
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Miami-FL
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Kansas St
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Ole Miss
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Mississippi St
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Kentucky
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Texas A&M
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Missouri
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Louisville
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UCLA
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North Carolina St
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Minnesota
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USC
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Oregon
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Temple
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TCU
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Toledo
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Tennessee
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Virginia Tech
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Utah
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West Virginia
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Wisconsin
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Western Kentucky
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TIER 4:
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TIER 5:
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TIER 6, FBS:
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Arizona
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Air
Force
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Arkansas
St
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Arizona
St
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Appalachian
St
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Central
Michigan
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California
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Bowling
Green
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Georgia
Southern
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Florida
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Cincinnati
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Indiana
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Louisiana
Tech
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Colorado
St
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Iowa
St
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Marshall
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East
Carolina
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Maryland
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Memphis
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Illinois
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Middle
Tennessee
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Michigan
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North
Carolina
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Penn
St
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Navy
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Northern
Illinois
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Pitt
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Nebraska
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Oklahoma
St
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Rice
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Northwestern
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Purdue
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San
Diego St
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Ohio
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Texas
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San
Jose St
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South
Carolina
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Texas
Tech
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South
Florida
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Stanford
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Vanderbilt
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Southern
Miss
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Washington
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Virginia
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Syracuse
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Tulsa
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U
Conn
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TIER 7, FBS:
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TIER 7, FCS:
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UL-Lafayette
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Ball
St
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Coastal
Carolina
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Utah
St
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Buffalo
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Eastern
Kentucky
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UT-San
Antonio
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Central
Florida
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Eastern
Washington
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Colorado
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James
Madison
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TIER 6, FCS:
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Eastern
Michigan
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Liberty
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Cal
Poly SLO
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Florida
International
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Montana
State
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Illinois
State
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Fresno
St
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New
Hampshire
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Jacksonville
State
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Hawai'i
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Northern
Arizona
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Montana
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Kansas
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Northern
Iowa
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North
Dakota State
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Nevada
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Sam
Houston St
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Portland
State
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New
Mexico
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Samford
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South
Dakota State
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Old
Dominion
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SE
Missouri State
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Oregon
St
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Southern
Illinois
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SMU
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Southern
Utah
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Texas
St
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Villanova
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Troy
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Western
Illinois
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UNLV
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William
& Mary
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UTEP
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Wake
Forest
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Washington
St
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Western
Michigan
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TIER 8, FBS:
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TIER 9, FBS:
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TIER 10, FCS:
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Akron
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Georgia
St
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Albany
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Army
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Idaho
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Delaware
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Florida
Atlantic
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New
Mexico St
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Gardner-Webb
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Kent
St
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North
Texas
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Maine
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Miami-OH
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South
Alabama
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McNeese
State
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Rutgers
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Tulane
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Missouri
State
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U
Massachusetts
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Wyoming
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Monmouth
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UL-Monroe
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Morehead
State
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UNC-Charlotte
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TIER 9, FCS:
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Murray
State
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Abilene
Christian
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Northern
Colorado
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TIER 8, FCS:
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Bryant
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Presbyterian
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Chattanooga
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Central
Arkansas
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Robert
Morris
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Drake
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Charleston
Southern
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Sacred
Heart
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Eastern
Illinois
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Dayton
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San
Diego
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Idaho
State
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Duquesne
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Tennessee
Tech
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Indiana
State
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Elon
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UC
Davis
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North
Dakota
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Furman
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VMI
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SE
Louisiana
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Jacksonville
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Wagner
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South
Dakota
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Lamar
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Western
Carolina
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Stephen
F Austin
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Mercer
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Tennessee
State
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Northwestern
St
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TIER 10, IntraMural:
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Towson
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Richmond
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Brown
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Wofford
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Sacramento
State
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Bucknell
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St.
Francis - PA
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Georgetown
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TIER 8, IntraMural:
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Stony
Brook
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Lafayette
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Fordham
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The
Citadel
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Lehigh
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Harvard
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UT-Martin
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Weber
State
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TIER 10, HBC:
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TIER 8, HBC:
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Youngstown
State
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Alabama
A&M
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Alcorn
State
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Grambling
St
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Bethune-Cookman
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TIER 9, IntraMural:
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Hampton
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Southern
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Colgate
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Morgan
State
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Dartmouth
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NC
A&T
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Holy
Cross
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NC
Central
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Yale
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Norfolk
State
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Prairie
View A&M
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TIER 9, HBC:
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Alabama
State
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SC
State
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TIER 11, FCS:
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TIER 12, FCS:
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TIER 13, FCS:
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Butler
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Austin
Peay
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Davidson
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Campbell
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Houston
Baptist
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East
Tennessee St
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Central
Connecticut
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Kennesaw
St
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Incarnate
Word
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Marist
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Rhode
Island
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Nicholls
State
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Stetson
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TIER 11,IntraMural:
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Valparaiso
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TIER 13, IntraMural:
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Penn
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Columbia
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Princeton
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TIER 12,IntraMural:
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Cornell
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TIER 13, HBC:
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TIER 11, HBC:
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Savannah
State
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Ark-Pine
Bluff
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TIER 12, HBC:
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Delaware
State
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Florida
A&M
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Howard
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Miss
Valley St
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Jackson
State
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Texas
Southern
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As for the NFL, here are the new differentiations...Lots of good teams, not many very good yet:
TIER I: New England, Buffalo, Green Bay, Arizona
TIER II: Seattle, St. Louis, Carolina, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia, NJ Giants, Detroit, Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Pittsburgh
TIER III: NJ Jets, Miami, Houston, Tennessee, Chicago, New Orleans
TIER IV: Tampa, Oakland, Washington, Jacksonville, Cleveland.
PENDING: San Francisco and Minnesota
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