non-selection for the 24-man Four Nations squad due to off-field dramas

(STATS) -- As the FCS heads toward its final full weekend of the regular season, some head-to-head matchups within the STATS FCS Top 25 stand out for whats riding on them.It starts with No. 1 Sam Houston State and No. 2 Jacksonville State, which held those spots for the fifth straight week on Monday.Both teams will play the other top team in their respective conference, with an outright championship and automatic bid to the FCS playoffs at stake. In the MEAC, an outright title and a spot in the Celebration Bowl are on the line.Sam Houston State (10-0), which gained 108 of the 160 first-place votes and 3,873 points in this weeks national media poll, will host No. 11 Central Arkansas (9-1) in a matchup of unbeaten Southland Conference teams.It feels great to be 10-0, have a conference championship game coming up this weekend, Sam Houston coach K.C. Keeler said. As a player, as a coach, you dream about playing in a conference championship game. We get the chance to play in one.Jacksonville State (9-1), which has won 23 straight games in the Ohio Valley Conference, will try to complete a third straight unbeaten campaign in the conference when it hosts UT Martin (7-4), which is two spots outside the Top 25. A UT Martin win would create a shared title between the two teams.Supremacy in the MEAC will be decided when No. 9 North Carolina A&T (9-1) makes the short 55-mile trip from Greensboro to No. 24 North Carolina Central (8-2) in Durham.The three big matchups will help cap a memorable FCS regular season, which includes 10 teams posting wins over FBS opponents and more trying this weekend. The NCAA will announce the pairings of its 24-team FCS playoffs Sunday morning.The top six teams in the Top 25 held their rankings after each won a conference game by double-digits. After Sam Houston State and Jacksonville State, Eastern Washington (9-1) was third, five-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State (9-1) fourth, The Citadel (10-0) fifth and James Madison (9-1) sixth. The Citadel (Southern) and JMU (CAA Football) have clinched outright conference titles and automatic playoff bids.The Top 10 was rounded out by Richmond (8-2), South Dakota State (7-3), North Carolina A&T and North Dakota (9-2).After Central Arkansas, Chattanooga (8-2) fell five spots to No. 12 following a loss. Then it was Villanova (7-3), Charleston Southern (6-3), Youngstown State (7-3), Coastal Carolina (8-2), Grambling State (7-1), Samford (7-3), Lehigh (8-2) and Wofford (7-3), which beat Chattanooga and entered the rankings for the first time since Nov. 11, 2013.Cal Poly (6-4) slipped to No. 21 and was followed by Montana (6-4), Western Illinois (6-4), North Carolina Central and Saint Francis (7-3). N.C. Central and Saint Francis, the Northeast Conference champion, both reached the rankings for the first time in program history.New Hampshire, Harvard and Liberty fell from the Top 25 following losses. Three conferences tied for the most ranked teams with four -- the Big Sky, Missouri Valley and Southern.A national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries select the STATS FCS Top 25. In the voting, a first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.The Top 25 is released on Monday afternoons during the regular season, but next weeks will be out Sunday morning prior to the announcement of the playoff field.A final Top 25 will follow the FCS championship game, to be held Jan. 7 in Frisco, Texas. Alexandre Lacazette Arsenal Jersey . 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Greg Inglis candidly admits he will go into Saturdays rugby league Test underprepared and expects to be targeted by the Kiwis.Inglis arrived in Perth on Thursday, four days later than his teammates after staying in Sydney for the birth of his daughter Quinn Sybella.The Australian centre will only have Fridays captains run as training before the nib Stadium encounter in what will be his 36th Test appearance.Crucially, it will be his only training session inside likely left winger Valentine Holmes, who will make his Test debut.Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga will name his team on Friday morning, with Holmes set to get the nod after Semi Radradras non-selection for the 24-man Four Nations squad due to off-field dramas.Josh Mansour is not with the team because he is getting married on Saturday.I am going in under prepared but Ive played enough footy with these guys and enough footy with Mal so I know what he expects, Inglis said on Thurrsday.ddddddddddddTheres no doubt if I was playing a rookie (combination), Id be targeting them.You never know until after 20 minutes how its going to act.Inglis said he had gone before into representative games, including State of Origin I last year, with familiar teammates such as Johnathan Thurston playing inside him on the left side.Well have a bit of a chat with the boys; JT and my winger will chat about how we all like to defend, Inglis saidIve played a number of games over the years with JT and were pretty comfortable.Theres been a few camps where I went in underprepared. It was Origin last year when I was in hospital for five days and I got down to Sydney.I did one training session in that camp and went off to hospital, did the captains run and then played Origin so its happened a few times. ' ' '