Top 25 rankings

[Pat Coleman]

Figured I'd put this board up, since it will get discussed eventually. 

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

For those who never saw the Lindy's or Street & Smith's preseason rankings that came out, I put them on my site:

http://www.bridgewaterfootball.com/d3rankings.html

Also, Sports Illustrated's preseason top 10 was posted on SI.com:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2005/08/08/lower.divisions0815/ (scroll down)

I was informed that USA Today's Sports Weekly will have a preseason poll in their issue to hit newsstands Monday, August 22.

The only other poll I know of it Don Hansen's preseason top 40 ... but I've checked his site for the past three weeks (he mentioned on his message forum it would be out late-July) and he still hasn't released it.  Needless to say, I'm going to stop checking.

[D O.C.]

Thanks for the links
Let's see...I like LINFIELD getting The Beast From the East at home again and.....Mt Union traveling to Harden-Simmons.
Yeah, that's it. That's the fantasy football I'm engaged in.

[jdean]

The Beast from the East?? Linfield is going to play George Steinbrenner?

[Pat Coleman]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Pat Coleman, 703-854-5313

McLEAN, Va. -- Linfield has been picked to repeat as national champion, with the No. 1 ranking in NCAA Division III football. The ranking appears in USA TODAY Sports Weekly's College Football Preview publication, a special edition which hits newsstands nationally Monday, Aug. 22.

Linfield, which returns All-America quarterback Blake Elliott among 14 starters from last year's national title team, is followed by national runner-up Mary Hardin-Baylor. Mount Union, Hardin-Simmons and Ohio Northern round out the top five. Sports Weekly also names five players to watch.

The special edition covers Division I-A, I-AA, II and III football and is on newsstands through Sept. 12.

The full preseason Top 25, as selected by Sports Weekly staffers Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan.

1. Linfield (Ore.)
2. Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas)
3. Mount Union (Ohio)
4. Hardin-Simmons (Texas)
5. Ohio Northern
6. Rowan (N.J.)
7. Occidental (Calif.)
8. Wisconsin-La Crosse
9. Salisbury (Md.)
10. Washington & Jefferson (Pa.)
11. St. John's (Minn.)
12. Bridgewater (Va.)
13. Ithaca (N.Y.)
14. Trinity (Texas)
15. Christopher Newport (Va.)
16. Augustana (Ill.)
17. Wisconsin-Eau Claire
18. Albright (Pa.)
19. Wisconsin-Whitewater
20. Capital (Ohio)
21. Carthage (Wis.)
22. Whitworth (Wash.)
23. Delaware Valley (Pa.)
24. Concordia-Moorhead (Minn.)
25. St. John Fisher (N.Y.)

Pat Coleman
Operations Chief
Sports Weekly

[K-Mack]

Yeah kid,
I print them all out just to have ... and we'll probably compare a bit in Around the Nation, as we did early last season.

I think you got 'em all, but the SCAC preseason prospectus has a PDF with d3, Lindy's and S&S side-by-side, for what that's worth. SI and USAT SW are the only ones I know of at the moment too.

The AFCA will do an in-season poll, and as far as Don Hansen ... well kid's post asking when the rankings will be out is sitting in the forum, alone, unanswered.

For those who never saw the Lindy's or Street & Smith's preseason rankings that came out, I put them on my site:

http://www.bridgewaterfootball.com/d3rankings.html

Also, Sports Illustrated's preseason top 10 was posted on SI.com:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2005/08/08/lower.divisions0815/ (scroll down)

I was informed that USA Today's Sports Weekly will have a preseason poll in their issue to hit newsstands Monday, August 22.

The only other poll I know of it Don Hansen's preseason top 40 ... but I've checked his site for the past three weeks (he mentioned on his message forum it would be out late-July) and he still hasn't released it.  Needless to say, I'm going to stop checking.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

[...] as far as Don Hansen ... well kid's post asking when the rankings will be out is sitting in the forum, alone, unanswered.

Haha ... funny you saw that ... but he did post his Top 40 today ...

http://www.donhansen.com/polls/ncaaiii.php

[Ron Boerger]

The full preseason Top 25, as selected by Sports Weekly staffers Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan.

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Pat Coleman
Operations Chief
Sports Weekly

Geez, I thot you guys didn't have a life LAST year.  Now besides keeping D3football.com humming you are "Sports Weekly" stafffers and creators of your very own personal Top 25 poll.   

Seriously, congrats on [what I think is a?] new gig.  It's gotta be nice when you get recognition like this from the big guys.   

[Pat Coleman]

Well, I've been working at Sports Weekly (formerly Baseball Weekly) since 1995. But Keith has only been on staff since January or February.

[Kilted Rat]

Pat,
Why SJU at 11 in this poll and 10 on the site?

Not complaining, just wondering why the difference.

Loving the Kickoff by the way

[Pat Coleman]

Well, it says who picked this poll on the poll itself -- just two of the D3football.com Top 25 voters. This was our opinion.

[K-Mack]

Yes, it's a fine study in the difference between two opinions (Pat and I did the SW poll) and 25 opinions.

Also, for instance, I personally ranked Augustana way high, which helped them a ton in the two-man poll (No. 16), not so much in D3's larger pool of voters (ARV, No. 27)

Same with SJU ... I'd have to look, but I don't think I had them near 10 or 11, which means Pat must have had them higher ... and most of our top 25 voters agree with him.

Whoa. Maybe this is too much insight.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

Okay ... all six preseason polls are posted here:

http://bridgewaterfootball.com/d3rankings.html

[Pat Coleman]

I had SJU 10.

[Kilted Rat]

Weird, I had them #1.


Pat, feel free to make a comment about life with the red blinders on whenever you wish.