AGS FCS Top 25 Pre-Season Poll

[EWURanger]

Any Given Saturday Poll Top 25

(First place votes in parenthesis), Points
1. Villanova (81) 2344
2. Montana (7) 2106
3. Appalachian St. (2) 1965
4. William & Mary (3) 1909
5. Southern Illinois (1) 1825
6. New Hampshire 1644
7. Elon 1578
8. Richmond 1414
9. South Dakota St. 1359
10. South Carolina St. 1352
11. Stephen F. Austin 1218
12. Northern Iowa 1028
13. McNeese St. 1011
14. Eastern Washington 1002
15. Delaware 885
16. James Madison 871
17. Jacksonville St. 720
18. Weber St. 639
19. Liberty 582
20. Furman 491
21. Eastern Illinois 480
22. Montana St. 377
23. Cal Poly 319
24. Pennsylvania 277
25. Holy Cross 262

Another virtually meaningless pre-season poll. Still, nice to get some recognition I suppose. Four BSC teams in the top 25, not too bad.

I think we are at about the right spot at #14. We're definitely not a top 10 team at this point with the ? marks defensively and with a new QB; but I would also have a hard time putting us any lower than #15 with the proven weapons we do have.

Not really sure about WSU at #18 - too much turnover from last year and they will live and die by Higgins, who has proven somewhat inconsistent.

I also think I would put NAU in there in lieu of MSU.

 

[Anonymous]

With the new crew at Montana I would put them closer to 5. The others seem reasonable to me but sometimes I think these 1-AA publications just look at who made the playoffs the year before and then rank teams based off of where they finished. I'm not sure if there's really a lot of thought put into most of these things.

 

[LDopaPDX]

If South Carolina State is really the 10th best team in FCS, then FCS is going to be WAY DOWN this year. AGS is usually pretty on target, but that is about as unproven as a top 10 team can be.

 

[flyingnail]

SOOOO true , another meaningless poll but still interesting to see what others think ! Agreed on NAU, think they're gonna surprise if they can stay healthy. I also think the season for EWU will be decided on the first red turf game, win that one and quite possible to run the table ! That would be a TON of momentum heading into the next 3 weeks ! GO EAGS !!!!

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

If South Carolina State is really the 10th best team in FCS, then FCS is going to be WAY DOWN this year. AGS is usually pretty on target, but that is about as unproven as a top 10 team can be.

They've given App State and AE all they can handle the last two years in the first round.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

With the new crew at Montana I would put them closer to 5. The others seem reasonable to me but sometimes I think these 1-AA publications just look at who made the playoffs the year before and then rank teams based off of where they finished. I'm not sure if there's really a lot of thought put into most of these things.

That's right where I had them.


Preseason
Approved
1. Villanova
2. Southern Illinois
3. New Hampshire
4. William & Mary
5. Montana
6. South Carolina St.
7. South Dakota St.
8. Elon
9. Stephen F. Austin
10. Eastern Washington
11. Appalachian St.
12. Richmond
13. Northern Iowa
14. Montana St.
15. McNeese St.
16. Delaware
17. Eastern Illinois
18. Liberty
19. Weber St.
20. James Madison
21. Jacksonville St.
22. Northern Arizona
23. Maine
24. Prairie View A&M
25. Cal Poly
W. James Madison
L. Richmond


In retrospect, I would flip NAU and Weber. I guess last season's results influenced me a little. NAU should be good like always, but then again they always collapse in the second half of the season, so we'll see.

 

[EWURanger]

With the new crew at Montana I would put them closer to 5. The others seem reasonable to me but sometimes I think these 1-AA publications just look at who made the playoffs the year before and then rank teams based off of where they finished. I'm not sure if there's really a lot of thought put into most of these things.

This one's not a publication. It's from the Any Given Saturday web site. That probably makes it even more subjective though.