Skyhawks soar in polls

UT-Martin cracked the top 10 in all three I-AA polls we follow here at the blog, ranking 10th in all three. That's the highest ranking I can remember for an OVC team since I started following the league with Jax State's entry in 2003. Does anyone out there recall a higher ranking in recent years?

Here are links to The Sports Network's media poll, College Sporting News' coaches poll (the official page isn't updated yet, so click here for the thread at AnyGivenSaturday.com), and the AnyGivenSaturday.com fan poll. The Skyhawks were ranked #12 in the first two polls last week, #14 in the fan poll.

Eastern Illinois, after a tough 15-9 loss to Martin Saturday, fell from #14 to #20 in the TSN & and CSN polls, and from #15 to #21 in the AGS poll.

Tennessee State managed to turn heads only among the media with a 29-7 win over Samford, garnering 30 votes for what would be 35th place in the "others receiveing votes" category of the TSN poll. The Tigers visit EIU this week, followed by games against Southeast Missouri State and Eastern Kentucky.

Martin, meanwhile, will attempt to climb even higher in the polls over the next three weeks, with games against SEMO, EKU and Murray State.

After the TSU game, EIU faces Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State, trying to keep the Panthers' playoff hopes alive.