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[Ralph Turner]

Pulling forward an old thread rather than starting a new one...

NCC and UMU were unanimous for 1st and 2nd.

Wartburg and UMHB split almost all of the 3rd and 4th place ballots.

One would expect the 25 third and fourth place ballots to yield 1125 points.

One might assume that Wartburg got 15 3rd place ballots and 10 4th place ballots for 565 points.

On the other hand, the first guess at an allocation of ballots for UMHB is 10 third ballots, 13 4th place ballots and two 5th place ballots for 558 votes.

Bethel's 486 votes is a solid 5th place (21 points x 25 ballots = 525 points) and 30 more points that 6th place Trinity and 37 points ahead of 7th place St Johns.

Linfield is solid at 8th with 401 votes.

Then comes the jumble of 9 thru 12. Del Val 380; Ithaca at 375; HSU at 369; UW-L at 368. Only 12 points separate 4 teams when the perfect allocation should have 75 points separating #9 and #12.

[The Third Division]

Anyone have thoughts on this ranking they (The College Football Network on twitter) just released?

1. North Central
2. Mount Union
3. Mary Hardin Baylor
4. Wartburg
5. La Crosse
6. Hardin Simmons
7. Bethel
8. Whitewater
9. Trinity
10. Aurora
11. Delaware Valley
12. Saint John's
13. Wheaton
14. Utica
15. Linfield
16. Carnegie Mellon
17. Cortland
18. Ithaca
19. Alma
20. Central
21. Randolph Macon
22. John's Hopkins
23. Susquehanna
24. Huntingdon
25. John Carrol

[HSCTiger74]

Anyone have thoughts on this ranking they just released?

1. North Central
2. Mount Union
3. Mary Hardin Baylor
4. Wartburg
5. La Crosse
6. Hardin Simmons
7. Bethel
8. Whitewater
9. Trinity
10. Aurora
11. Delaware Valley
12. Saint John's
13. Wheaton
14. Utica
15. Linfield
16. Carnegie Mellon
17. Cortland
18. Ithaca
19. Alma
20. Central
21. Randolph Macon
22. John's Hopkins
23. Susquehanna
24. Huntingdon
25. John Carrol

  I guess it looks as reasonable as any other preseason ranking. But just for clarity, who is/are "they"?

[The Third Division]

the college football network.

[jknezek]

It looks like someone averaged the last 5 years or so of poll positions and then did some minor tweaking of names that commonly appear. As good a method as any really at this point.

[HSCTiger74]

the college football network.

  Thanks.   

[Inkblot]

I don't know a ton about The College Football Network, but they have a bad habit of re-using content from @RedditCFB or @InkblotSports without attribution.

[The Third Division]

I don't know a ton about The College Football Network, but they have a bad habit of re-using content from @RedditCFB or @InkblotSports without attribution.

Interesting.