D3 Top 25 Fan Poll

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

I'll get it up late tonight. Been swamped the past few days.

[Upstate]

I'll get it up late tonight. Been swamped the past few days.

I think they make a pill for that...

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

2014 WEEK 11 TOP 25 FAN POLL

Rank         Team                          Points    Prev
  1)   UW-Whitewater (7)        246     1
  2)   Mary Hardin-Baylor (2)   238     2
  3)   Mount Union (1)          234     3
  4)   Wesley                   218     4
  5)   Wartburg                 208     5
  6)   John Carroll             197     6
  7)   Johns Hopkins            179     7
  8)   Hobart                   173     8
  9)   Wittenberg               165     9
10)   Linfield                 161    10
11)   Wheaton                  160    11
12)   St John's                137    12
13)   Widener                  133    13
14)   Wabash                   130    14
15)   North Central             93    19
16)   Chapman                   77    20
T17)   St John Fisher            61    23
T17)   St Thomas                 61    22
19)   Wash & Jeff               60    15
20)   Centre                    55    21
21)   Delaware Valley           54    18
22)   UW-Oshkosh                52    NR
23)   Thomas More               34    25
24)   Muhlenberg                22    NR
25)   Texas Lutheran            20    NR

Dropped Out: UW-Platteville, Bethel, and Ithaca

Also Receiving Votes: Heidelberg (16), Concordia-Moorhead (15), Bethel (14), Pacific Lutheran (10), UW-Platteville (7), MIT (6), Framingham St (5), Franklin (4), Lycoming (2), St Scholastica (2), Amherst (1)

Voters: 02 Warhawk, D3MAFAN-MG, desertcat1, FCGrizzliesGrad, HSCTiger74, Mr. Ypsi, NCF, smedindy, thewaterboy, and Upstate

[Mr. Ypsi]

Whatever happens in the Stagg next week, I already know one thing - JCU will be above Wesley!  In UMU's first 14 games, only one team has lost by less than 41 - and JCU TWICE lost by just one score.  (BTW, the next closest team to UMU was Heidi. )

[USee]

So is Wheaton ahead of Wesley too?

This will be an interesting top 25!

[Mr. Ypsi]

So is Wheaton ahead of Wesley too?

This will be an interesting top 25!

I hadn't gotten that far in my thinking yet, but I would say probably yes.

My bottom 15 or so is pretty well set in my mind, but with the UWW-Linfield game still undecided there are still too many possible permutations of the top 10 to get into yet.

[Ralph Turner]

So is Wheaton ahead of Wesley too?

This will be an interesting top 25!

Does Wheaton IL lose to UNC-Charlotte by a touchdown?

[Mr. Ypsi]

So is Wheaton ahead of Wesley too?

This will be an interesting top 25!

Does Wheaton IL lose to UNC-Charlotte by a touchdown?

Never seen UNC-Charlotte, so can't say.  But Wheaton has NEVER (in several games) fallen behind UMU by 70-0.

[Ralph Turner]

So is Wheaton ahead of Wesley too?

This will be an interesting top 25!

Does Wheaton IL lose to UNC-Charlotte by a touchdown?

Never seen UNC-Charlotte, so can't say.  But Wheaton has NEVER (in several games) fallen behind UMU by 70-0.

56-0 at the half.
A psychological smackdown. 

What does this say about the East Region?

Is any East Region team worthy of the Top 15-20?


The Linfield score certainly boosts the Island schools in the playoffs, Linfield, UMHB and Texas Lutheran.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Not so fast, Ralph.  As of this season, Wesley was still a South Region team!

[Ralph Turner]

Not so fast, Ralph.  As of this season, Wesley was still a South Region team!

I know!  Look at these scores at relative points in the playoffs.

Wesley 41 Hobart 13!
JHU 24 Rowan 16
Linfield 45   Widener  7
CNU 29 Del Valley 26

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

So far I've received 7 ballots... and there's 36 teams with votes which is the same number of teams in the poll before the tournament. Shouldn't the playoffs have cleared things up a bit?

[smedindy]

I don't think it cleared up the bottom, where the non-playoff teams mingle in with the playoff teams. Oshkosh, Platteville, SJF, etc.

Plus pre-conceived notions still will linger. You still may not be sold on Muhlenberg, for instance, because of the 'national footprint' or "illusionary competitiveness' or some such nonsense.

[02 Warhawk]

I don't think it cleared up the bottom, where the non-playoff teams mingle in with the playoff teams. Oshkosh, Platteville, SJF, etc.

Plus pre-conceived notions still will linger. You still may not be sold on Muhlenberg, for instance, because of the 'national footprint' or "illusionary competitiveness' or some such nonsense.

Correct. The top half jumbled big time, but the bottom half of my ballot didn't change as much.

[HSCTiger74]

   All the playoffs really did was shuffle things around somewhat. For every team near the bottom that dropped off, another lower-end team moved in to take its place.