D3 Top 25 Fan Poll

[smedindy]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

[bleedpurple]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

Was at the game.  It was one of the most fun games I've been at for a long time.  Oshkosh is very good.  They are strong at the line of scrimmage, they defend the pass very well, and they have a great athlete at QB.  I know we are miles away from the first game of the season, but the Franklin team I saw on the opening week wasn't close to the level of this Oshkosh team.  If UW-O wins out, they should make the playoffs in my opinion. 

[Raider 68]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

Was at the game.  It was one of the most fun games I've been at for a long time.  Oshkosh is very good.  They are strong at the line of scrimmage, they defend the pass very well, and they have a great athlete at QB.  I know we are miles away from the first game of the season, but the Franklin team I saw on the opening week wasn't close to the level of this Oshkosh team.  If UW-O wins out, they should make the playoffs in my opinion. 

IMHO, Wara is the best QB in the WIAC. What does this tell us about UW-O's common purple foes? MTU/UW-O 41-17, UWW/UW-O 20-17?

Agree, UW-O should make the playoffs, IMHO if they finish 8-2!

[smedindy]

It doesn't say much because it's a WIAC conference game, and was Oshkosh's Homecoming.

We could play the same game with Mt. Union vs. ONU and compare that score to their game with Muskingum or B-W!

[BoBo]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

Was at the game.  It was one of the most fun games I've been at for a long time.  Oshkosh is very good.  They are strong at the line of scrimmage, they defend the pass very well, and they have a great athlete at QB.  I know we are miles away from the first game of the season, but the Franklin team I saw on the opening week wasn't close to the level of this Oshkosh team.  If UW-O wins out, they should make the playoffs in my opinion. 

IMHO, Wara is the best QB in the WIAC. What does this tell us about UW-O's common purple foes? MTU/UW-O 41-17, UWW/UW-O 20-17?

Agree, UW-O should make the playoffs, IMHO if they finish 8-2!

Is this the same person who said the following on the OAC board today:

While there were some close OAC games today, I do not read too much into the comparison that now B-W is a top offensive power based upon one week. Look at the season overall.

Ahhh.....OK...whatever you say!!  Pick and choose your comparisons.   


Your rhetoric is noted, however.  Comparing scores is an imperfect science and you know that full well.  I doubt you would set the spread at Raiders +21 over UWW - or would you?  I'd be first in line for a piece of that action!!   

Furthermore...

bp said Wara is a great athlete, which he is, even with the bum knee like he had today. But...did you see Matt Blanchard today? The vote is in Raider 68...Blanchard is the WIAC best QB (and a great athlete in his own right)! He was also better today.

[02 Warhawk]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

Was at the game.  It was one of the most fun games I've been at for a long time.  Oshkosh is very good.  They are strong at the line of scrimmage, they defend the pass very well, and they have a great athlete at QB.  I know we are miles away from the first game of the season, but the Franklin team I saw on the opening week wasn't close to the level of this Oshkosh team.  If UW-O wins out, they should make the playoffs in my opinion. 

IMHO, Wara is the best QB in the WIAC. What does this tell us about UW-O's common purple foes? MTU/UW-O 41-17, UWW/UW-O 20-17?

Agree, UW-O should make the playoffs, IMHO if they finish 8-2!

Absolutely nothing

[Raider 68]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

Was at the game.  It was one of the most fun games I've been at for a long time.  Oshkosh is very good.  They are strong at the line of scrimmage, they defend the pass very well, and they have a great athlete at QB.  I know we are miles away from the first game of the season, but the Franklin team I saw on the opening week wasn't close to the level of this Oshkosh team.  If UW-O wins out, they should make the playoffs in my opinion. 

IMHO, Wara is the best QB in the WIAC. What does this tell us about UW-O's common purple foes? MTU/UW-O 41-17, UWW/UW-O 20-17?

Agree, UW-O should make the playoffs, IMHO if they finish 8-2!

Is this the same person who said the following on the OAC board today:

While there were some close OAC games today, I do not read too much into the comparison that now B-W is a top offensive power based upon one week. Look at the season overall.

Ahhh.....OK...whatever you say!!  Pick and choose your comparisons.   


Your rhetoric is noted, however.  Comparing scores is an imperfect science and you know that full well.  I doubt you would set the spread at Raiders +21 over UWW - or would you?  I'd be first in line for a piece of that action!!   

Furthermore...

bp said Wara is a great athlete, which he is, even with the bum knee like he had today. But...did you see Matt Blanchard today? The vote is in Raider 68...Blanchard is the WIAC best QB (and a great athlete in his own right)! He was also better today.

BoBO,

What a reaction! I have just raised the conversation. I did mention that the UWW/UW-O would be closer
than many thought and it was. I have not seen QB Blanchard, but have great respect for the Blanchard
athletes, and QB Wara is UW-O's MVP.

B-W scored 75 pts against Wilmington and 208 thus far 29.7 per game. For the 6 games prior, 133 pts
per game or 22.1 per game. As the playoffs come, we know that the purple powers will be compared and a common opponent is a comparison, despite different game situations.

[smedindy]

Mine is in. Only one team moves in Oshkosh, one team moves out in Montclair, and there's some reshuffling afoot elsewhere.

[K-Mack]

I'm in a pickle. It's not every day where a loser has to find itself in the Top 25. But I gotta put Oshkosh in there. But all of my teams from 16-25 either won or did not play. How far do I drop Montclair, or Bethel?

Need to cogitate!

Was at the game.  It was one of the most fun games I've been at for a long time.  Oshkosh is very good.  They are strong at the line of scrimmage, they defend the pass very well, and they have a great athlete at QB.  I know we are miles away from the first game of the season, but the Franklin team I saw on the opening week wasn't close to the level of this Oshkosh team.  If UW-O wins out, they should make the playoffs in my opinion. 

IMHO, Wara is the best QB in the WIAC. What does this tell us about UW-O's common purple foes? MTU/UW-O 41-17, UWW/UW-O 20-17?

Agree, UW-O should make the playoffs, IMHO if they finish 8-2!

That's like saying what do the common results against Capital tell us about Heidelberg, Baldwin-Wallace and Mount Union?

So dangerous. (and yet i always do it)

Also from a few pages back ... I rank Centre and Endicott very close to the 25th spot and not voting for Franklin currently.

I think 8-2 Oshkosh should get in and could ... we have a committee that pays attention I think to trying to do what is considered the "right" thing if not always the popular thing. In this case, right seems to be what's popular ... until it's your favorite 9-1 team knocked out.

Also started paying attention to Widener this week. Del Val maybe not a lock.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

I'm ready to see the poll. (They never come out soon enough ) I know my ballot had 1 new team in it. I also had 5 teams that aren't top 25 in the d3 poll.

[smedindy]

Somehow I messed up. I had a team listed twice. Thirty lashes...

[K-Mack]

I'm ready to see the poll. (They never come out soon enough ) I know my ballot had 1 new team in it. I also had 5 teams that aren't top 25 in the d3 poll.

That's one of the first things I look at every week, who I had ranked that is in Also Receiving Votes. And then how many of those votes I was responsible for 

[bleedpurple]

I have extended the deadline through email until midnight tonight because we have a few missing ballots.  I will post the poll tomorrow morning regardless of whether the ballots come in or not.

[bleedpurple]

D3 Top 25 Fan Poll: Week 9

1. Wisconsin-Whitewater (13)         373          1(LW)
2. Mount Union (2)                          361          2
3. St. Thomas                                 339          3
4. Mary Hardin-Baylor                     324          4(t)
5. Linfield                                       323          4(t)
6. North Central                              298          6
7. Wesley                                       269          7
8. Wabash                                      246          10
9. Thomas More                              240          9
10. California Lutheran                    214          12
11. Salisbury                                  200          15
12. Delaware Valley                        198          16
13. Wheaton                                  197           14
14. Wisconsin-Oshkosh                   157          18
15. Redlands                                  131          17
16. Johns Hopkins                          121           19
17. Illinois Wesleyan                      101           13
18. Bethel                                        88          11
19. Montclair State                           78           8
20. Adrian                                        74           23
21. Franklin                                      71          21
22. Kean                                          68          20
23. Louisiana College                        62          22
24. Trinity (TX)                                56           24
25. Hobart                                       48           unranked

Dropped Out of Top 25:  Cortland State.

Also Receiving Votes:  St. Olaf (45), Centre (41), Wittenberg (35), Dubuque (25), Cortland State (22), Hampden-Sydney (16), McMurry (14), Baldwin-Wallace (10), Washington and Lee (10), Endicot (7), St. John Fisher (7), Wartburg (3), Monmouth (2), Lycoming (1).

[02 Warhawk]

UWW lose a vote? or was it a matter of someone not submitting their poll?