D3 Top 25 Fan Poll

[HOPEful]

Someone had them at 4. It balances out. It always does, it seems.

Massey has them 6. D3football has them 9. I feel like there are good arguments for 5-10 being whatever order you want. Any order of St. John's, Trinity, Hardin Simmons, Linfield, Johns Hopkins, and La Crosse feels fine after MHB, WW, Mount, and NC in whatever order.

LaCrosse at 21 had to be either a mistake or haters gonna hate.   

[wally_wabash]

Yeah there are not 21 teams better than La Crosse (either by actual team performance or by 2022 season resumé), but that's why we don't do polls of 1.   

[02 Warhawk]

Not sure what's worse, saying there's 20 teams better than UWL, or saying there's at least 25 teams better than UWO. They only lost to 13th ranked UWRF (by only 3 points in RF) and a D2 school.

[Ralph Turner]

How do we compare JHU's 34-27 win over Muhlenberg in which the Mules missed a 31 yd FG and a PAT?

Muhlenberg takes the #1 or #2 team in Region 2 down to the wire.

UMHB dominated Muhlenberg.

[Cowboy2]

How do we compare JHU's 34-27 win over Muhlenberg in which the Mules missed a 31 yd FG and a PAT?

Muhlenberg takes the #1 or #2 team in Region 2 down to the wire.

UMHB dominated Muhlenberg.

I thought the same thing....also, JHU made some plays to win the game. The INT early. The 4&1 on their own 29 to convert. The fake punt. They played to win! They also had 90-100 KR TD taken off the board. Yea, could have been 34-31, or could have been 42-20ish, but it was 34-27. I thought the mules played well and had a chance to win but they didn't make the needed stops. JHU look to be a bit better.


I also thought the same about the UWW - UWO game. Reminded me of the UWW Berry contest earlier in the season. Same score as well....

[MRMIKESMITH]

How do we compare JHU's 34-27 win over Muhlenberg in which the Mules missed a 31 yd FG and a PAT?

Muhlenberg takes the #1 or #2 team in Region 2 down to the wire.

UMHB dominated Muhlenberg.

I thought the same thing....also, JHU made some plays to win the game. The INT early. The 4&1 on their own 29 to convert. The fake punt. They played to win! They also had 90-100 KR TD taken off the board. Yea, could have been 34-31, or could have been 42-20ish, but it was 34-27. I thought the mules played well and had a chance to win but they didn't make the needed stops. JHU look to be a bit better.


I also thought the same about the UWW - UWO game. Reminded me of the UWW Berry contest earlier in the season. Same score as well....

It's about familiarity. Each team has many years of film and tendency data. Muhlenberg could have been winless and played a good game against Johns Hopkins and vice versa.

[Ralph Turner]

The loud noise that we heard coming from the plains of west Texas was the HSU crowd hearing the score of the UWP/ UWRF game. Once again, the WIAC is Wiac-ky!

[Captainred81]

Good post. For the 80s, don't forget Augustana. 4 straight national titles and (I think) 60 consecutive victories.
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1000%  My bad, I was shooting from the hip.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Only 7 ballots this week.


2022 WEEK 7 TOP 25 FAN POLL

Rank	Team	W-L	Points	Prev
1)	North Central (4)	6-0	170	1
2)	UW-Whitewater (2)	5-1	160	2
T3)	Mary Hardin-Baylor	6-1	156	4
T3)	Mount Union (1)	6-0	156	3
5)	Linfield	5-0	143	6
6)	Trinity (TX)	6-0	137	5
7)	St John's	5-1	134	7
8)	Johns Hopkins	6-0	122	8
9)	UW-La Crosse	5-1	111	9
10)	Bethel	5-1	108	10
11)	Hardin-Simmons	5-1	106	11
12)	Cortland	6-0	95	12
13)	Delaware Valley	7-0	86	16
14)	Wheaton	4-2	84	T14
15)	Ithaca	6-0	83	T14
16)	Wartburg	7-0	65	17
T17)	Carnegie Mellon	7-0	61	19
T17)	Randolph-Macon	6-0	61	20
19)	Susquehanna	6-0	47	21
20)	Albion	6-0	46	22
21)	UW-River Falls	4-2	31	13
22)	Huntingdon	5-1	29	23
23)	UW-Oshkosh	3-3	28	18
24)	Washington U	6-0	19	24
25)	John Carroll	5-1	16	NR

Dropped Out: #T25 Bridgewater and #T25 Mount St Joseph

Also Receiving Votes: Mount St Joseph 5, Utica 5, Monmouth 4, Carleton 2, Grove City 2, UW-Platteville 2, Trinity (CT) 1

Voters: 02 Warhawk, Captainred81, desertcat1, FCGG, HOPEful, MRMIKESMITH, NCF, and smedindy

[BSCpanthers]

The Top 25 is out for Oct 23, and someone needs to let the voters know the WIAC is not the SEC.  I get that UW-WW won six national championships, but the last one was eight years ago. Currently the top 25 has 5 WIAC schools ranked, they have a combined 11 loses.  The rest of the top 25 has a combined 8 losses.  The first team ranked with 2 losses is a UW team and two teams with three losses are ranked. 

Platteville, seriously?  They have three losses, the last two were by 41 and 39 respectively.  That's not even competitive in those games.  One was 41-0, the other 46-7.......that is not top 25 performance.

[HSCTiger74]

The Top 25 is out for Oct 23, and someone needs to let the voters know the WIAC is not the SEC.  I get that UW-WW won six national championships, but the last one was eight years ago. Currently the top 25 has 5 WIAC schools ranked, they have a combined 11 loses.  The rest of the top 25 has a combined 8 losses.  The first team ranked with 2 losses is a UW team and two teams with three losses are ranked. 

Platteville, seriously?  They have three losses, the last two were by 41 and 39 respectively.  That's not even competitive in those games.  One was 41-0, the other 46-7.......that is not top 25 performance.

   I can't argue the points you made about Platteville (even if they did beat Whitewater) but in D3 the WIAC is the SEC.

[smedindy]

The Top 25 is out for Oct 23, and someone needs to let the voters know the WIAC is not the SEC.  I get that UW-WW won six national championships, but the last one was eight years ago. Currently the top 25 has 5 WIAC schools ranked, they have a combined 11 loses.  The rest of the top 25 has a combined 8 losses.  The first team ranked with 2 losses is a UW team and two teams with three losses are ranked. 

Platteville, seriously?  They have three losses, the last two were by 41 and 39 respectively.  That's not even competitive in those games.  One was 41-0, the other 46-7.......that is not top 25 performance.

Yeah, they kind of are the SEC and HSC Tiger said.

Platteville has won 3 in a row, and must have fixed their issues. Plus, one of the losses was against a D-2 school, so that doesn't count really.

[BSCpanthers]

The SEC wins national championships, the WIAC hasn't won one in 8 years.  And the two games Platteville lost by 40 were both D3 schools.  So give me more reasons why they deserve to 25.

[Ralph Turner]

The SEC wins national championships, the WIAC hasn't won one in 8 years.  And the two games Platteville lost by 40 were both D3 schools.  So give me more reasons why they deserve to 25.

The Stagg goes thru the WIAC. No other "conference" (not a single team, e.g., NCC, UMHB, UMU and the Tommies are gone) has the same dominance. The WIAC has had a team, either UWW or UWO, in the semifinals every year since 2005. Maybe the CCIW would be second with Wheaton.

[Ralph Turner]

The SEC wins national championships, the WIAC hasn't won one in 8 years.  And the two games Platteville lost by 40 were both D3 schools.  So give me more reasons why they deserve to 25.

The Stagg goes thru the WIAC. No other "conference" (not a single team, e.g., NCC, UMHB, UMU and the Tommies are gone) has the same dominance. The WIAC has had a team, either UWW or UWO, in the semifinals every year since 2005. Maybe the CCIW would be second with Wheaton.

See Question 9.
https://www.d3football.com/interactive/faq/playoffs

For the ASC, 5 of those losses since 2011 were an ASC opponent losing to UMHB in the 1st or 2nd round. Geographic proximity, you know.