With less than a month until Selection Sunday, it feels like a good time to look at potential at-large candidates from outside of the top conferences. For the purposes of this exercise, I am not including teams from leagues like the Atlantic 10, Mountain West, and West Coast Conference.
At this point, the list is a relatively short one with the top two contenders being East Tennessee State and Northern Iowa. Both picked up key non-conference road wins over a major conference team, with ETSU winning at LSU and Northern Iowa doing the same at Colorado.
ETSU boasts a second Quad 1 victory by virtue of winning at UNC Greensboro, and the Buccaneers also own a pair of Quad 2 victories as well as nine true road wins.