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When you play in the toughest football league in the Division I FCS ranks, you know an opportunity when you see it.
In this week’s Sagarin Rankings, the Missouri Valley Football Conference is predictably the top-ranked FCS conference, but also ranks ahead of FBS leagues like the Sun Belt, Conference USA and divisions of the MAC and Mountain West. Seven MVFC teams are ranked in this week’s FCS Top 25, and it’s easy to envision as many as five conference teams vying for playoff spots in the coming weeks.