East Region Fan Poll

[Jonny Utah]

While RPI is undefeated, I think an argument can be made for Rowan at #2.  A close road loss to open the season at a very good CNU team is nothing that should anchor them indefinitely.  Look at what they have done since.  41-0 over Widener?  40-18 over West Conn?  They are getting scary again.

I cannot help but wonder if Alfred is undefeated only because they haven't played Fisher, IC, and Hartwick yet.  Their scores have been convincing, but the real season is still ahead of them.

Time to introduce TCNJ into the conversation?  3-1 overall, 19-9 over Montclair.

Without question Hartwick has to be ranked, but I cannot wait to see where y'all put them. 

Especially with the WNEC-Hartwick score likely to be trumpeted by the NEFC all season, how far does Curry move up the poll since they are obviously the class of the conference?

The wild, wild East!  2007 is shaping up to be a lot of fun.

Oh yea.  TCNJ and Hartwick are the two teams that are stepping it up this year. 

[union89]

While RPI is undefeated, I think an argument can be made for Rowan at #2.  A close road loss to open the season at a very good CNU team is nothing that should anchor them indefinitely.  Look at what they have done since.  41-0 over Widener?  40-18 over West Conn?  They are getting scary again.

I cannot help but wonder if Alfred is undefeated only because they haven't played Fisher, IC, and Hartwick yet.  Their scores have been convincing, but the real season is still ahead of them.

Time to introduce TCNJ into the conversation?  3-1 overall, 19-9 over Montclair.

Without question Hartwick has to be ranked, but I cannot wait to see where y'all put them. 

Especially with the WNEC-Hartwick score likely to be trumpeted by the NEFC all season, how far does Curry move up the poll since they are obviously the class of the conference?

The wild, wild East!  2007 is shaping up to be a lot of fun.

You conveniently omitted 1 point squeeeeker over a 1-3 Wilkes....

[pg04]

They changed QBs during that game.  Since then, they've been very very good.  I think I agree that Rowan could be very high this week. 

[pg04]

All pollsters know the drill, Polls in by 8pm Monday.  I will do my best to have them up around 9 or 10pm. 

Have fun! 

[labart96]

lookin at the poll it seems someone left curry out of their top ten but had hartwick at 8... dont see the logic in that when Wnec beats hartwick 48-21 and Curry just beat Wnec this past week 48-3...wondering if anyone else thinks Hartwick would beat Curry on a neutral site?

I had Hartwick as my number 8.  I thought the IC win warranted inclusion on the poll.  The SJF-Wick outcome validated I was onto something.

[Tags]

Anyone dare put Alfred #1 yet?

In my mind they should be awful close, and they have been tested - let's not forget the trouncing of Springfield.

On the flip side, I don't think they'll make it through IC and Fisher without losing one of those.

[AUPepBand]

Alfred's always been #1 in my book -- no matter what their record.   

[pg04]

Anyone dare put Alfred #1 yet?

In my mind they should be awful close, and they have been tested - let's not forget the trouncing of Springfield.

On the flip side, I don't think they'll make it through IC and Fisher without losing one of those.

I think almost EVERYONE will dare to put Alfred #1.  I could be wrong, though.  But Most had them as number 2 last week, and those that didn't seemed to have MSU ahead.  However I won't guarantee and clean sweep of #1 votes. 

[Tags]

Alfred's always been #1 in my book -- no matter what their record.   

+k Pep, you're a loyal soul!

[pg04]

Another thing I have noticed is that people aren't really recognizing or don't know anything about Albright.   They are 3-1 as well. 

[AUPepBand]

Pep isn't so impressed with Albright's competition to date. Nevertheless, the MAC should have some representation among the region's top ten -- or no?

[pg04]

Well if the NEFC does, they probably should.  The problem is that every team seemed to fair horribly out of conference and no team in the MAC is undefeated. 

I guess that's up to the voters.  Albright was in mine last week, therefore they will be this week. 

[pg04]

If we were to hash out the Eastern Region top 10, using the D3football.com top 25, it would look like this:

1.  Fisher #10
2.  Rowan #19
3.  Alfred #20
4.  Montclair State #22
5.  RPI (25 Votes)
6.  Hartwick (3 votes)
7.  TCNJ (2 votes)

There are no other Eastern teams receiving votes. 

[DanPadavona]

'gro and I brought up Albright last week.  They warrant discussion, and as messed up as the top 10 is they seem just as deserving as anyone to garner a few votes.

My guess is before the season is done, Albright won't even win the MAC.  But right now they are sitting with only 1 loss to a very strong team, and a blowout win over a difficult to classify Kean team.

[lewdogg11]

If we were to hash out the Eastern Region top 10, using the D3football.com top 25, it would look like this:

1.  Fisher #10
2.  Rowan #19
3.  Alfred #20
4.  Montclair State #22
5.  RPI (25 Votes)
6.  Hartwick (3 votes)
7.  TCNJ (2 votes)

There are no other Eastern teams receiving votes. 

I'm amazed how the poll voters have such a hard time letting go of their early votes...Montclair finally broke into the pollsters minds, and then they go and lose to TCNJ, and Montclair is still up at #22, but TCNJ receives 2 votes?  That makes sense.