Augustana 11th, Sioux Falls Receiving Votes Ahead of Rivalry Tilt

It's been nothing short of an impressive start for both the Augustana Viking and USF Cougar Football programs this Fall.

Arguably the biggest game of the regular season for both is coming up on Saturday, as the two rivals will clash at Kirkeby-Over Stadium for the Key to the City.

Kickoff is set for 1:00 on Saturday afternoon from the Augustana campus, and both teams enter the matchup with sterling 4-0 records on the season.

Tickets for the big game are available through the Augustana website.

Anticipation is high for the matchup, as both programs appear in the latest rankings released by the AFCA this week.

Here are the complete rankings:

1	Ferris St. (Mich.) (29)	3-0	749	1	D. Waldorf (Iowa), 69-3	Oct. 1 at Findlay (Ohio)
2	Grand Valley St. (Mich.) (1)	4-0	719	3	D. Wayne St. (Mich.), 48-9	Oct. 1 vs. No. 17 Saginaw Valley St. (Mich.)
3	Angelo St. (Tex.)	4-0	686	4	D. West Texas A&M, 34-14	Oct. 1 at Western Oregon
4	Shepherd (W.Va.)	4-0	649	5	D. Kutztown (Pa.), 42-35	Oct. 1 at Shippensburg (Pa.)
5	West Georgia	3-0	623	8	D. West Alabama, 22-7	Oct. 1 vs. Mississippi College
6	Ouachita Baptist (Ark.)	4-0	605	9	D. No. 7 Harding (Ark.), 21-13	Oct. 1 at Northwestern Oklahoma St.
7	Newberry (S.C.)	4-0	553	10	D. Erskine (S.C.), 32-14	Oct. 1 at Carson-Newman (Tenn.)
8	Slippery Rock (Pa.)	4-0	526	11	D. Seton Hill (Pa.), 30-2	Oct. 1 at Indiana (Pa.)
9	Ashland (Ohio)	3-0	477	12	D. Quincy (Ill.), 34-14	Oct. 1 vs. Northwood (Mich.)
10	Pittsburg St. (Kan.)	4-0	421	14	D. Emporia St. (Kan.), 14-13	Oct. 1 vs. Missouri Southern St.
11	Augustana (S.D.)	4-0	402	13	D. Northern St. (S.D.), 21-13	Oct. 1 vs. Sioux Falls (S.D.)
12	Northwest Missouri St.	3-1	384	2	Lost to Central Oklahoma, 23-14	Oct. 1 vs. Missouri Western St.
13	Valdosta St. (Ga.)	3-1	328	15	D. Shorter (Ga.), 34-30	Oct. 1 at No. 25 Delta St. (Miss.)
14t.	Indianapolis (Ind.)	3-0	321	16	D. Ohio Dominican, 44-38	Oct. 1 vs. Southwest Baptist (Mo.)
14t.	West Florida	2-1	321	6	Lost to Delta St. (Miss.), 45-42 2OT	Oct. 1 vs. North Greenville (S.C.)
16	Harding (Ark.)	3-1	310	7	Lost to No. 9 Ouachita Baptist (Ark.), 21-13	Oct. 1 vs. Oklahoma Baptist
17	Saginaw Valley St. (Mich.)	4-0	258	19	D. Michigan Tech, 35-13	Oct. 1 at No. 2 Grand Valley St. (Mich.)
18	Notre Dame (Ohio)	3-1	245	17	D. West Virginia St., 48-13	Oct. 1 vs. Charleston (W.Va.)
19	Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.)	3-1	244	18	D. Carson-Newman (Tenn.), 34-13	Oct. 1 at Virginia-Wise
20	Virginia Union	4-0	172	22	D. Fayetteville St. (N.C.), 31-28	Oct. 1 vs. St. Augustine’s (N.C.)
21	Albany St. (Ga.)	3-1	171	20	D. Clark-Atlanta (Ga.), 35-0	Oct. 1 vs. Miles (Ala.)
22	Colorado School of Mines	2-2	163	21	D. Colorado St.-Pueblo, 45-17	Oct. 1 at Chadron St. (Neb.)
23	Nebraska-Kearney	3-1	108	25	D. Central Missouri, 38-6	Oct. 1 vs. Fort Hays St. (Kan.)
24	New Haven (Conn.)	3-1	80	23	D. Bentley (Mass.), 21-13	Oct. 1 at St. Anselm (N.H.)
25	Delta St. (Miss.)	4-0	78	NR	D. No. 6 West Florida, 45-42 2OT	Oct. 1 vs. No. 13 Valdosta St. (Ga.)

Showing 1 to 25 of 25 entries

Dropped Out: Henderson St. (Ark.) (24)

Others Receiving Votes: Indiana (Pa.), 38; Sioux Falls (S.D.), 34; Texas A&M-Kingsville, 33; Washburn (Kan.), 16; Midwestern St. (Tex.), 9; Henderson St. (Ark.), 5; Wayne St. (Neb.), 5; Western Colorado, 5; Benedict (S.C.), 4; Fort Valley St. (Ga.), 3; Truman St. (Mo.), 3; Minnesota St., 2.

The Augustana Vikings come in to the matchup 4-0 and fresh off of a home win over Northern State 21-13 on Saturday. It wasn't as easy for USF this past weekend, as they edged Minnesota Duluth 34-31 at Bob Young Field in Sioux Falls.

As always, something has to give between these two rivals, and all in the Sioux Empire will have their attention on Saturday's contest for the Key to the City.

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13 Times Sioux Falls Made it into a 'Jeopardy!' Question

If the world was divided into Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune people, I would be down for Jeopardy! all the way. It's a lot more fun, it makes me feel smart because I can retain lots of trivia, and I am a horrible speller. So Wheel is out, no whammies.

Recently I discovered (I mean wasted a lot of time on) a website that is an archive of clues that have been on Jeopardy!.

While digging around the archive, I wanted to find out how often Sioux Falls came up in a question (Answer) on the show. Since 1990 Sioux Falls has been part of a question or an answer 13 times.

Source: j-archive.com