The dust has settled on the first week of FCS play and if the STATS FCS Top 25 poll is correct the UMaine Black Bears have one tough schedule ahead.

After playing FBS Toledo this week, it's on to FCS play and 7 of the 9 teams on the Maine schedule are listed in the week one Top-25/also receiving votes.

The only teams not on the list but on the Black Bear schedule - Bryant University(Oct.1) and Rhode Island(Oct.22).

Maine lost a 24-21 game at UConn last Thursday night to start the season.

Here's the week one STATS national poll.

RANKSCHOOLRECORDVOTESPREV
1North Dakota State (137)1-040671
2Richmond (21)1-038604
3UNI (5)1-036995
4Sam Houston State1-036272
5Jacksonville State (1)1-035353
6Chattanooga1-030046
7Charleston Southern1-129377
8Eastern Washington (1)1-0284914
9South Dakota State0-126418
10Illinois State1-0258410
11McNeese1-0235211
12James Madison1-0235012
13William & Mary0-121959
14Montana1-0199413
15Citadel1-0166715
16Portland State1-0153917
17Coastal Carolina1-0142816
18Western Illinois1-0128020
19Northern Arizona0-1110818
20Youngstown State1-0692NR
21Colgate0-160021
22Villanova0-155423
23North Carolina A&T1-052825
24New Hampshire0-146022
25North Dakota0-125319

Others receiving votes:  Towson 243, Stony Brook 207, Central Arkansas 200, Harvard 183, Albany 181, Fordham 131, Grambling State 111, Eastern Kentucky 105, Southern Utah 67, Alcorn State 50, Delaware 37, Wofford 37, Bethune-Cookman 30

 

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