D3Boards.Com Soccer Top 20 Fan Poll

[College Soccer Observer]

In.

[TNAggie]

Great idea. Thanks for doing this jknezek!

[paclassic89]

I'm in

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Why not. I could use an excuse to pay more attention to soccer.

[jknezek]

The first poll of the 2023 season is up! And I'm glad we didn't do one sooner. Next year I'm tempted to wait even another week to get a few more games under belts. Some surprise names, some consistency, but once again I'd like to thank the voters who take on a monumental task. With over 400 teams in men's D3 soccer, whittling down to only 25 is a massive challenge. Newly Ranked and Dropped Out will return next week, but it looked ridiculous using the final poll from last season. I'd also ignore the change in rank column as that also goes back to last year but is much harder to remove from my auto-formatting for the bulletin board.

I will say, this is the first time I've seen teams be ranked #1 and #2 on one ballot, but not appear on any other ballot. As is not unusual at the beginning of the season, there are significantly more teams Receiving Votes than actual spots in the Top 25. So more than 50 teams received a vote of some kind. That may seem like a lot, but it's still only about 8% of the total teams in D3.

D3Boards.com Soccer Fan Poll Games as of 9/10/2023

National Top 25

Rank		School			Points		Weekly Change		Voter Breakdown
1		Messiah (4)			166		0		1, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 3
2		Mary Washington (1)			162		---		5, 2, 1, 3, 25, 2, 4, 4
3		John Carroll			150		---		9, 3, 6, 8, 18, 6, 6, 2
4		Chicago (1)			148		-2		2, 13, 9, 2, 5, 2, 1
5		Calvin			139		3		6, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 20
6		Amherst (1)			136		8		8, 9, 17, 6, 4, 13, 1, 14
7		Franklin and Marshall			109		---		11, 10, 14, 3, 14, 14, 7
8		Tufts			103		3		12, 6, 24, 13, 7, 12, 5
9		Rochester			102		16		4, 17, 20, 17, 7, 19, 9, 13
10		St. Thomas (TX)			94		---		16, 24, 5, 7, 4, 6
11		Oneonta State			85		6		15, 12, 14, 12, 9, 9
12		Christopher Newport			80		---		10, 22, 13, 22, 9, 11, 15
13		Middlebury			79		---		7, 21, 5, 7, 11
14		Bowdoin			75		-5		21, 15, 8, 10, 8, 19
15		Williams			71		---		22, 8, 2, 15, 12
16		Montclair State			69		---		14, 5, 9, 23, 10
17		Connecticut College			66		-6		13, 11, 19, 10, 11
18		Texas Lutheran			63		---		3, 20, 11, 17, 16
19		North Central (IL)			54		---		23, 18, 12, 11, 16, 22
20		North Park			53		-17		24, 16, 10, 15, 20, 20, 24
21		Case Western Reserve			47		---		18, 7, 16, 21, 22, 25
22		Cortland State			43		---		23, 18, 24, 18, 13, 17
23		Trinity (TX)			42		---		17, 25, 12, 8
24		Illinois Wesleyan (1)			25		---		1
25		Bard			24		---		2

Also Receiving Votes:
Stevens (23) , Montclair (21) , Mount Union (21) , Colby (20) , Denison (19) , Montclair St (19) , Case Western (18) , Gustavus Adolphus (18) , New Paltz State (16) , Oneonta (16) , Trinity (CT) (16) , Franklin & Marshall (15) , Aurora (14) , Ohio Wesleyan (14) , Redlands (13) , St. Elizabeth (12) , North Central (11) , Texas Luthern (11) , Wesleyan (11) , Drew (10) , Ohio Northern (9) , Rhode Island College (9) , Rowan (9) , Macalester (8) , Trinty (TX) (8) , Wartburg (8) , Lynchburg (7) , St. Thomas (7) , Mass-Boston (6) , Carnegie Mellon (5) , Scranton (5) , UW-Whitewater (4) , Plattsburgh State (3) , Western Connecticut (3) , Catholic (2) , Claremont Mudd Scrips (2) , Emory (1) , Widener (1)



1 = 1st Place Vote, 25 = 25th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: FCGrizzliesGrad, Mid-Atlantic Fan, Coach Jeff, PaulNewman, Paclassic89, SimpleCoach, College Soccer Observer, Greg Sager

[jknezek]

There are a few errors due to names not matching up. I will post a corrected To 25 sometime this a.m.

[Another Mom]

Bard??? Seriously?!

[Ron Boerger]

Bard??? Seriously?!

Kinda goes along with IWU at 1 and Texas Lutheran at 3 ... tho I have to say I don't envy anyone trying to do the job the voters have here.

[PaulNewman]

Bard??? Seriously?!

Not only that, but a single vote at #2...and Ill Wesleyan at #24 after a single vote for #1?

Here's my ballot....

1) Messiah
2) Chicago
3) Mary Washington
4) Calvin
5) Middlebury
6) Amherst
7) St Thomas (TX)
8) John Carroll
9) Montclair
10) Bowdoin
11) North Central
12) Oneonta St
13) Tufts
14) Franklin & Marshall
15) North Park
16) GAC
17) Rochester
18) Cortland St
19) Stevens
20) TX-Lutheran
21) CWRU
22) Christopher Newport
23) Trinity (TX)
24) OWU
25) Emory

I left out Williams and Conn...was most torn on Williams as lost a fair amount and while getting wins so far the competition has been average at best and even yesterday it's hard to know what to make of the 1-0 win at Hamilton since Hamilton started out 0-0-2 against average competition.  I think it's too early to know whether Conn is worthy.

As for omissions, I had GAC and Stevens both easily in and also OWU in a group where the last few imo could have been 3-4 out of 15 or so contenders.  Same with Emory.

[SimpleCoach]

Well, I am just going to start picking Mount Union as #1 in the next poll.  At least at this point they are undefeatable.

SC.

[PaulNewman]

Notables NOT in the top 25 (and fairly)....Hopkins, W&L, Kenyon, NYU, SLU, Babson

And was gonna post this yesterday...I see you Lebanon Valley...just wanna see a little more.

[Gregory Sager]

Illinois Wesleyan and Bard aside, the thing that amazed me was that only four teams (Mary Washington, John Carroll, Amherst, and Paywall U.) appeared on every ballot, which has to be a new low. That, and it's remarkable that the #1 (Messiah) was left off of someone's ballot.

Incidentally, the Illinois Wesleyan anomaly will surely resolve itself in next week's ballot; last night the Titans suffered an ignominious loss -- on their own pitch, no less -- to a SLIAC team. (For reference, the SLIAC is 12-26-6 as a league at the moment.)

[jknezek]

Ok. Corrected. I think I got it this time. We had all kinds of spellings for some of these teams. Montclair State was spelled 4 different ways. TLU had a few different versions. But I think everyone is now paired up. Ignore the weekly change number. That and the added/dropped out will return next week.

D3Boards.com Soccer Fan Poll Games as of 9/10/2023

National Top 25

Rank		School			Points		Weekly Change		Voter Breakdown
1		Messiah (4)			166		0		1, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 3
2		Mary Washington (1)			162		0		5, 2, 1, 3, 25, 2, 4, 4
3		John Carroll			150		0		9, 3, 6, 8, 18, 6, 6, 2
4		Chicago (1)			148		0		2, 13, 9, 2, 5, 2, 1
5		Calvin			139		0		6, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 20
6		Amherst (1)			136		0		8, 9, 17, 6, 4, 13, 1, 14
7		Franklin and Marshall			124		0		11, 10, 11, 14, 3, 14, 14, 7
8		Montclair State			109		4		14, 5, 7, 9, 23, 5, 10
9		Tufts			103		-1		12, 6, 24, 13, 7, 12, 5
10		Rochester			102		-1		4, 17, 20, 17, 7, 19, 9, 13
T11		Oneonta State			101		-1		15, 12, 14, 12, 9, 10, 9
T11		St. Thomas (TX)			101		-1		16, 24, 5, 7, 4, 19, 6
13		Christopher Newport			80		0		10, 22, 13, 22, 9, 11, 15
14		Middlebury			79		0		7, 21, 5, 7, 11
15		Bowdoin			75		0		21, 15, 8, 10, 8, 19
16		Texas Lutheran			74		4		3, 15, 20, 11, 17, 16
17		Williams			71		-1		22, 8, 2, 15, 12
18		Connecticut College			66		-1		13, 11, 19, 10, 11
T19		Case Western Reserve			65		-1		18, 7, 16, 21, 22, 8, 25
T19		North Central (IL)			65		-1		23, 18, 12, 11, 16, 15, 22
21		North Park			53		0		24, 16, 10, 15, 20, 20, 24
22		Trinity (TX)			50		0		17, 25, 12, 18, 8
23		Cortland State			43		0		23, 18, 24, 18, 13, 17
24		Illinois Wesleyan (1)			25		0		1
25		Bard			24		0		2

Also Receiving Votes:
Stevens (23) , Mount Union (21) , Colby (20) , Denison (19) , Gustavus Adolphus (18) , New Paltz State (16) , Trinity (CT) (16) , Aurora (14) , Ohio Wesleyan (14) , Redlands (13) , St. Elizabeth (12) , Wesleyan (11) , Drew (10) , Ohio Northern (9) , Rhode Island College (9) , Rowan (9) , Macalester (8) , Wartburg (8) , Lynchburg (7) , Mass-Boston (6) , Carnegie Mellon (5) , Scranton (5) , UW-Whitewater (4) , Plattsburgh State (3) , Western Connecticut (3) , Catholic (2) , Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2) , Emory (1) , Widener (1)



1 = 1st Place Vote, 25 = 25th Place Vote in Voter Breakdown
Special Thanks to the Voters: FCGrizzliesGrad, Mid-Atlantic Fan, Coach Jeff, PaulNewman, Paclassic89, SimpleCoach, College Soccer Observer, Greg Sager

[Hopkins92]

Because I'm a weirdo, I'm continuing my Widener Watch tendencies from last season. Very interesting to me that last year's scoring leader Sean Fatiga hasn't hit the back of the net, but his fellow senior Christian Doyle has 3 Gs in as many games.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Wow. I was expecting I'd be an outlier on my first soccer ballot but apparently there's some craziness out there. Everyone in the poll top 22 were on my ballot, my other three were Lynchburg, Wartburg, and Macalester

1   Messiah
2   Chicago
3   Texas Lutheran
4   Rochester
5   Mary Washington
6   Calvin
7   Middlebury
8   Amherst
9   John Carroll
10   Chris Newport
11   Franklin & Marshall
12   Tufts
13   Conn College
14   Montclair St
15   SUNY Oneonta
16   St Thomas
17   Trinity (TX)
18   Case Western Reserve
19   Lynchburg
20   Wartburg
21   Bowdoin
22   Williams
23   North Central (IL)
24   North Park
25   Macalester