D3 Top 25 Fan Poll

[PurpleSuit]

Once we got outside the top 6, it got immensely more difficult. And this is seen in our voting pattern. No team in the top 6 was ranked lower than 6. From number 7 on, the spread's got wider and the subjectivity got greater.

Fun exercise, but it wasn't easy or infallible!

Thanks for taking point Griz +k

How's the fan poll being set up this year?

1. Mount

2-25 - random teams

[D3MAFAN]

Once we got outside the top 6, it got immensely more difficult. And this is seen in our voting pattern. No team in the top 6 was ranked lower than 6. From number 7 on, the spread's got wider and the subjectivity got greater.

Fun exercise, but it wasn't easy or infallible!

Thanks for taking point Griz +k

How's the fan poll being set up this year?

1. Mount

2-25 - random teams

You can arguably put two or three teams in place of Mount Union and have Mount Union at number two. However, as defending champs and history telling us otherwise, you are right Mount Union number one and 24 other random teams.

[D3MAFAN]

I think with D3Football Top 25 Poll coming very soon. I think the teams on the front page poll are the most likely candidates as Top 10 teams?

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Now that it's August it's time to start gearing up for football season. Registration is now OPEN for the Fan Poll.

To apply you must fill out a 42 page questionnaire in triplicate, have 6 forms of government ID, submit a urine and blood sample for drug testing, and pay a fee of $314.15... or you can just send me a PM if you've visited the Biogenesis lab and don't want tested Let me know what conference/region you follow closest and I'll announce what kind of distribution we have this year.

You don't have to commit to anything, voters have a tendency to come and go during the season. Ballots are due on Tuesdays but if you are unable to get it submitted by then (or know you won't submit one that week) please send me a PM. I am willing to extend the deadline until Wednesday but it will absolutely go up by that point. The earlier you submit a ballot the sooner I can check it and respond if you've duplicated a team or appear to have left a team off and you can get it corrected before Tuesday. Also, please be impartial... no putting your 2-5 team in the top 10 or leaving an 8-0 Mount Union off your ballot.

Preseason ballot will be due Saturday August 31st.

Any other questions or comments please let me know

[02 Warhawk]

Sounds like a bargain...I'm in again

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

So far we've got 8 people who have confirmed participation and even 1 ballot in already. Still plenty of time to let me know. First ballot isn't due until August 31st. Would like to see some more balance in the regions though (read: people who don't live near the Great Lakes should apply immediately... I'm looking at you south and east regions )

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

I'm up to 9 confirmed participants and have 5 ballots in already. Still a week and a half to let me know if you'd like to participate and get those ballots in for the preseason poll.

[02 Warhawk]

I'm waiting for Kickoff to come out before submitting my ballot. I want to read up on some teams first.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

There's still time to join in the fun. I have 9 confirmed participants but the more the merrier. Let me know if you'd like to participate. It's never too late to join, even if the season has already started.

Remember, preseason ballots are due on the 31st. Now that Kickoff is out I expect the ballots to come pouring in

[Mr. Ypsi]

Just got back from helping move my 95-year-old mother from assisted living (NOT nursing home, thank you very much!) in Peoria to a similar facility in Aledo IL where my sister and several other relatives live.  Moving day (yesterday) the heat index reached 105 by mid-afternoon - talk about exhausting work!  I'm too beat to really study Kickoff tonight (haven't even opened it at all yet), and tomorrow is moving day for my son (but fortunately he needs my van more than he needs me!), but I'll try to get my ballot in either tomorrow or Saturday.

If not, my apologies; I'll definitely have a week one ballot, even if I miss the preseason.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Last day to get those preseason ballots in. We're up to 8 in with one more who said they'd participate. Send me a PM if you're interested in doing one.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

2013 PRESEASON TOP 25 FAN POLL

Rank         Team             Points   Prev Rank
1)   Mount Union (5)     196    1
2)   St Thomas (1)       189    3
3)   Linfield (2)        187    5
4)   Mary Hardin-Baylor  177    2
5)   Wesley              171    6
6)   North Central       148   10
7)   Hobart              143    7
8)   UW Platteville      138    9
9)   Bethel              137   12
10)  UW-Whitewater       129   NR
11)  Wittenberg          123   13
12)  Pacific Lutheran    105   17
13)  UW-Oshkosh           92    4
14)  Salisbury            83   14
15)  Franklin             82   18
16)  Wheaton              72   22
17)  Heidelberg           67   24
18)  Johns Hopkins        64  T19
19)  Cal Lutheran         59  T15
20)  Widener              42   11
21)  Coe                  33  T15
22)  Wabash               32   NR
23)  St John Fisher       30   NR
24)  Baldwin-Wallace      23   NR
25)  Illinois Wesleyan    16   NR

Dropped Out: Elmhurst, Cortland St, Concordia-Moorhead, Louisiana College, Concordia-Chicago

Also Receiving Votes: Delaware Valley (10), Rowan (10), Elmhurst (9), Central (6), Hardin-Simmons (6), Concordia-Moorhead (5), Louisiana College (5), Ohio Wesleyan (4), Cortland St (3), Franklin & Marshall (2), Framingham St (1), Lycoming (1)

Voters: 02 Warhawk, desertcat1, FCGrizzliesGrad, Mr. Ypsi, NCF, and smedindy plus new voters D3MAFAN and Scots13

[02 Warhawk]

Kind of shocked I'm the only one who gave Central any love (all 6 points came from me).

I wouldn't be surprised it they knock off Oshkosh at home this weekend (although I was too afraid to pick them in Pickems  )

[D3MAFAN]

Kind of shocked I'm the only one who gave Central any love (all 6 points came from me).

I wouldn't be surprised it they knock off Oshkosh at home this weekend (although I was too afraid to pick them in Pickems  )

I am sure if that happens, they will definitely make a jump into. However, they have to show me somthing this weekend.

[02 Warhawk]

Kind of shocked I'm the only one who gave Central any love (all 6 points came from me).

I wouldn't be surprised it they knock off Oshkosh at home this weekend (although I was too afraid to pick them in Pickems  )

Damn....I was one half of football away from looking like I knew what I was talking about.