FB: Region 3 fan poll

[Ron Boerger]

Best wishes to everyone for a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year from Austin.   May the season bring y'all happiness and joy!

[Ralph Turner]

Final South Region Fan Poll

Team	Record	Points	Votes	Losses; D-III Playoff  ECAC Bowl game
1) UMHB   (5)	13-1	50	1,1,1,1,1	at Mount Union
2) Wesley	10-2	45	2,2,2,2,2	UMHB Home & Away
3) La College	8-3	38	3,3,3,4,4	Wesley; UMHB Home & Away
4) JHU	10-2	35	3,3,4,5,5	at F&M; at Mount Union
5) HSU	6-4	29	4,4,5,5,8	Willamette; at Linfield; at La Coll; at UMHB
.	.	.	.	.
6) Wash & Lee	8-3	21	5,6,7,8,8	at F&M; at Bridgewater VA; at Hobart
7) Trinity	7-3	16	6,6,7,9,x	at Sul Ross; UMHB; at Centre
8T) Huntingdon	6-3	14	6,7,9,9,10	B-SC; Wesley; Adrian
8T) Wash & Jeff	8-3	14	6,7,8,9,x	St John Fisher; at Thomas More; at JHU
10) Muhlenberg	8-3	8	8,9,10,10,10	JHU; at Susquehanna; Delaware Valley
.	.	.	.	.
RV  Waynesburg	10-1	4	7,x,x,x,x	Wash & Jeff
RV  Franklin & Marshall	7-4	1	10,x,x,x,x	at Muhlenberg; at Susquehanna; at Gettysburg; Albright

[jknezek]

Ralph-- W&L's last loss was at Hobart, not twice at F&M. Otherwise, looks good.

[Bob.Gregg]

Waynesburg's loss to Wash & Jeff was a home loss, not AT W&J

[Ralph Turner]

Karma to both for the corrections, friends.   

[Ralph Turner]

South Region Fan Poll Pre-season Ballots are coming in. I should have this up by Labor Day night.

Once again, jknezek, PA Wesleyan, roocru and Toby Taff have agreed to participate and represent all parts of the region in their interest and understanding of the Region.

[Ralph Turner]

Pre-season Poll:

Team	Record	Points	Votes
1)   UMHB	0-0	50	1,1,1,1,1
2)   Wesley	0-0	45	2,2,2,2,2
3)   JHU	0-0	38	3,3,3,4,4
4)   B-SC	0-0	28	4,4,6,6,7
5)   HSU	0-0	27	3,4,5,5,x
.	.	.	.	.
6)   LaCollege	0-0	23	3,5,5,8,x
7)   Wash & Jeff	0-0	14	5,7,8,10,x
8T)   Thomas More	0-0	13	6,7,8,10,x
8T)   Trinity TX	0-0	13	6,7,9,9,x
10)  H-SC	0-0	10	8,8,9,10,10
.	.	.	.	.
RV   Bridgewater	0-0	9	6,7,x,x,x
RV  F&M	0-0	2	9,x,x,x,x
RV  Millsaps	0-0	2	9,x,x,x,x
RV   Huntingdon	0-0	1	10,x,x,x,x
.	.	.	.	.

Corrections are appreciated.  Thanks.

[jknezek]

Lot of ASC love. Traditionally they have earned it, but at the end of the season, one of those teams is 3 or 4 losses deep. Tough when you eat your own. Very traditional top 10. It will be interesting to see if any new faces break in and stick as the season goes on. Coming off an odd year I'm still struggling with B-SC, but when you have 3 first year teams on your schedule you should rack up the wins. I intend to be at the Wesley-BSC game in a couple weeks, hopefully they will impress me more than last year's Trinity game that was followed by the Sewanee splat. Can't help but feel that the one touchdown road loss to Wesley fed the next two games. Will history repeat and Sewanee and Millsaps be this year's beneficiaries?

Other fun early matchups include LaCollege at Huntingdon, JHU at RMC, Wesley at UMHB, Linfield at HSU, and more. You can say the North has UMU, the west has a good crowd, but the South, oh the south, where many of the top teams actually slug it out before the playoffs...

[ExTartanPlayer]

Fascinating to see the general consensus at the top followed by a fair amount of variation from #4-10.  Will be very interesting to see how the bottom half of this poll evolves over the course of the season!

[Ralph Turner]

Week #1 Poll:

Team	Record	Points	Votes
1)   UMHB	1-0	50	1,1,1,1,1
2)   Wesley	1-0	45	2,2,2,2,2
3)   JHU	1-0	39	3,3,3,3,4
4)   B-SC	1-0	30	4,4,5,5,7
5)   LaCollege	1-0	24 28	3,4,5,5,10
.	.	.	.	.
6)   Trinity TX	1-0	20	6,6,6,8,9
7)   Wash & Jeff	1-0	17	4,6,7,10,x
8)   Thomas More	1-0	16	5,7,7,9,x
9)   H-SC	1-0	12	7,8,9,9,10
10) Bridgewater	1-0	9	6,8,x,x,x
.	.	.	.	.
RV  Millsaps	1-0	5	8,9,x,x,x
RV  CNU	1-0	3	8,x,x,x,x
RV   Huntingdon	0-0	2	10,10,x,x,x
.	.	.	.	.

Corrections are appreciated.  Thanks.

Sorry about the mis-tabulation of ballots for LaCollege.

[Ron Boerger]

Week #1 Poll:

RV  Millsaps

0-0

5

8,9,x,x,x

Corrections are appreciated.  Thanks.

Millsaps is 1-0, a 52-19 blowout of Mississippi College that I'm surprised didn't get more attention from the voters.

[Ralph Turner]

Thx. +1! 

[jknezek]

Week #1 Poll:

RV  Millsaps

0-0

5

8,9,x,x,x

I just don't think much of Mississippi College right now. They were 2-8, 3-7 and 4-6 the last three years. Five of those eight losses last year were by 30 points or more. Granted that's what Millsaps did this year, but it seems to happen quite frequently lately. Millsaps goes to LaGrange this week. BSC pretty much spanked LaGrange. We'll see how Millsaps stacks up. But with Trinity and B-SC on the schedule, the Majors will get a chance to make a case.

I don't get the Bridgewater love. Seems to be pretty speculative. Blowing out St. Vincent isn't getting you anywhere, and they finished third in the ODAC last year. Seems to me there just isn't an "earned" ranking here.

[Pat Coleman]

The Bridgewater "love" is just No. 10 in the region. I'm not sure that's really a huge vote of confidence. Didn't show any more or any less than Hampden-Sydney did in Week 1.

[jknezek]

The Bridgewater "love" is just No. 10 in the region. I'm not sure that's really a huge vote of confidence. Didn't show any more or any less than Hampden-Sydney did in Week 1.

Agreed it's not a big deal. I'm more interested in the logic behind voting them 6, rather than the aggregate at 10. Usually there is an ODAC team toward the middle/bottom of the poll, and it could be either of those teams. It's more the single 6 vote that interests me. I just wonder if it is a "gut feel" kind of thing, which I have occassionally used as well, or something I'm missing or just willfully ignoring. It could be any or all of the above. The six just seems to stand out to me based on the readily available information.

And speaking of that, I'm surprised CNU didn't get more love for topping Salisbury. I understand Salisbury may not be the Salisbury of the last couple years, but you beat a top 25 team you usually get some love. CNU struggled to get over that hurdle the last couple years, and had some benefit of the doubt, this year they get through the hurdle and got almost no love! Of course, any issues with that should get corrected this week when HSC and CNU meet. Can't help but think that the winner of that game will deserve a decent spot in the poll.