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JMU moves into national top 25s

Following a seven-game win streak, James Madison is nationally ranked in both major polls for the first time this season, coming in at No. 24 in the Associated Press Top 25 and 25th in the coaches’ poll.

This is the first time since the Nov. 12, 2023 polls that JMU appeared in either survey. The Dukes are among the top contenders to take the one College Football Playoff spot certain to go to a Group of Five conference school.

Since joining the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2022, JMU has been ranked in the AP Top 25 in three seasons and the coaches’ poll in two seasons.

JMU will return home this week to host Appalachian State at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Bridgeforth Stadium.

Virginia, which lost at home to Wake Forest, dropped eight spots in

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