My EQ has always been lowest as well with a big difference, 602 vs. 635 or 680 now they both bombed thanks to my closing a few accounts last fall. But I have the LVNV bugger that must be paying the CRs to keep the crap on there.
EQ is the only report that people in MN seem to pull, and it doesn't help that my crappy auto finance loan is not reported to EQ, maybe it's because they know my score would go up. One late in two & half years

Sick part is it was due to job transition, and it's the only late I've had reported on me since my divorce almost 7 years ago.