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(STATS) -- They met in a terrific intersectional game that could have been overlooked on a busy early September evening, but Central Arkansas and Samford are commanding attention as the regular season nears its final month.They can be found in their conference title races and moving up the STATS FCS Top 25. On Monday, Central Arkansas reached No. 19 and Samford rose to No. 20.The first nine spots went unchanged in the national media poll, with Sam Houston State continuing on as No. 1, gaining 120 of the 163 first-place votes. Jacksonville State, Eastern Washington, North Dakota State and The Citadel also received first-place votes.Samford beat Central Arkansas 35-29 back on Sept. 10 and both teams have been impressive since then.UCA (6-1) has won five straight games, including one over FBS opponent Arkansas State, as well as 22-12 over Lamar this past Saturday, which pushed the Bears to 5-0 in the Southland Conference and a half-game behind Sam Houston in the standings.Samfords only loss is to Chattanooga, so the Bulldogs (6-1, 4-1) are one game behind The Citadel and in third place in the Southern Conference, but after playing at Mississippi State this week, they have an Oct. 29 game at the conference leader.Linked by their early-season game, UCAs team mantra may as well be Samfords because both surging teams hope to win their conference title and qualify for the FCS playoffs.We started off our year with our motto being Finishing, UCA coach Steve Campbell said. Last year, we played well at times and did some good things. But our whole deal is about finishing and making sure that were getting better each week.Sam Houston (7-0) is getting better, winning each of its games by double digits, including 38-21 at Nicholls this past Saturday (the Bearkats built a 24-0 halftime lead). Coach K.C. Keelers team will step out of the conference schedule on Saturday by hosting Texas Southern and then wraps up the regular season with three more Southland games. They will host Central Arkansas on Nov. 19, the final day of the regular season.The other teams in the Top 5 also received first-place votes: Jacksonville State (6-1), which beat Eastern Kentucky 24-7 in the Ohio Valley Conference, had 16; Eastern Washington (6-1), which topped Montana State 41-17 in the Big Sky Conference, had 18; North Dakota State (6-1), which held off Western Illinois 21-13 in the Missouri Valley Football Conference, had six; and The Citadel (7-0), which beat Wofford 24-21 in overtime in the Southern Conference, had three.CAA Football leader Richmond (7-1) was sixth, meaning the top six teams were from a different FCS conference. South Dakota State (5-2) was seventh, followed by James Madison (6-1), Charleston Southern (4-2) and Chattanooga (7-1), whose one-spot rise was the only change in the Top 10.Villanova (6-2) and North Carolina A&T (6-1) climbed to a season-high No. 11 and 12, respectively. Then it was Western Illinois (5-2), Cal Poly (5-2), Youngstown State (5-2), Montana (5-2), North Dakota (6-2), Coastal Carolina (5-2), Central Arkansas and Samford.Rounding out the Top 25 were No. 21 Grambling State (5-1), Stony Brook (5-2), Eastern Illinois (5-3), Harvard (5-1) and Tennessee State (5-2). Harvard moved back into the ranking, while Albany fell out.Ten conferences had at least one representative in the rankings, led by the Big Sky, CAA Football and Missouri Valley with four each.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 every Monday afternoon during the regular season, except for Sunday morning, Nov. 20, prior to the selection of the 24-team FCS playoff field. 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The 26-year-old Ireland striker, who has four goals this season, has signed a three-and-a-half year contract with his new club. St George Illawarra are scratching around for confidence, Benji Marshall admits, as the joint-venture desperately try to keep their NRL season alive.The Dragons have won just three of their last eight fixtures and slumped to their third successive loss to Wests Tigers on Sunday.The joint venture remain in finals contention, sitting two points outside the top eight with six rounds remaining.But star playmaker Marshall, who has struggled with a hamstring injury for much of the year, knows they have to turn things around quickly.We have definitely made it tough for ourselves and probably got a lot of people on our backs because of it, Marshall said.But we need to stick together as a team and find out what is going to turn it around.We just need that one moment to click our confidence into gear. Because I will be honest with you we are lacking confidence in a lot of areas of the game.Whether that is due to outside noise or outside pressure or (being) scared to make a mistake or the pressure of where we are on the table, we just need something to go our way, something to turn the season around and that is going to be hard work.ddddddddddddMarshall said his side were letting themselves down in key moments.We need to be better, we need to be tougher in those moments when the game is in the balance. We are not toughening those moments out, he said.The Wests Tigers premiership winner admitted he was struggling to overcome his injury troubles.It is very frustrating because it is hard to get consistency and timing, he said.For me it has been a bit of a step forward and then a step back and then starting again and trying to get through games not worrying about injury.You might think you are not worrying about it but it is the back of your head there. ' ' '