Voters usually don't want to drop a team too far when it loses to another top-ranked team, so that's probably why Nova ends up ahead of us, just barely. On average, most voters dropped them a couple spots and upped us a couple, but the average didn't quite get it done for us. I agree that we should be ahead of them, since our only FCS loss was to a top-3 team and their was not (even though it was to us).
NDSU is a different kind of animal. They have been playing closer games on the road lately, but that's all relative. My brother-in-law went to NDSU, so I would enjoy meeting them in the title game, but not anytime before then. They will not lose at home.