Lehigh Football Nation

I can't say I'm the biggest fan of the TV show that, well, has most of the same letters as this "Sunday's Word." But it's a weekend in the Patriot League that begs for some analysis of the "numbers" that have been generated about Patriot League teams - not to mention that it's the halfway point of the FCS college football season. This week the outfit I write for, the College Sporting News , released the Gridiron Power Index, or GPI . The GPI is an index, comprised of three human polls ( Any Given Saturday , The Sports Network , and the Coaches' Poll ), and seven computer polls (including two very well known computer rankings, Massey and Sagarin , amoung others). From these ten inputs the index comes up with what could be considered the most fair rating of all FCS teams around - it's known as a tool that members of the FCS subcommittee can use in order to choose at-large teams for the FCS playoffs. It ranks all FCS teams from 1 to 125...