First FCS poll released (McNeese No. 10)

[HoopInsider_Cooper]

The Sports Network Preseason Top 25 Poll

Rk.   Team (First-place votes)    Rec.          Pts.     Prv.

1.     Appalachian State (97)       13-2       2,546          1

2.     North Dakota State (1)       10-1       2.275          9

3.     Northern Iowa                    12-1       2,204          4

4.     Richmond                           11-3       2,162          5

5.     Massachusetts                    10-3       2,148          7

6.     James Madison (3)               8-4       2,078        12

7.     Eastern Washington            9-4       1,951          8

8.     Montana                             11-1       1,848        10

9.     Delaware                             11-4       1,747          2

10.  McNeese State               11-1      1,687       11

11.   Southern Illinois                12-2       1,286          3

12.   Youngstown State               7-4       1,228        16

13.   Wofford                                9-4       1,158          6

14.   Cal Poly                                 7-4       1,081        24

15.   Elon                                       7-4       1,028        23

16.   New Hampshire                   7-5          760        14

17.   Georgia Southern                7-4          656        17

18.   Eastern Illinois                      8-4          622        18

19.   South Dakota State             7-4          547        19

20.   Eastern Kentucky                 9-3          487        13

21.   Villanova                               7-4          396       NR

22.   Central Arkansas                  6-5          374       NR

23.   The Citadel                           7-4          317       NR

24.   Harvard                                 8-2          316        21

25.   Western Illinois                    6-5          299       NR

Others receiving votes: Northern Arizona 249, Fordham 212, Delaware State 198, Jacksonville State 195, Yale 170, Sam Houston State 166, Montana State 146, Furman 120, Liberty 115, Jackson State 79, South Carolina State 76, Holy Cross 74, Colgate 56, Grambling 55, Norfolk State 48, Coastal Carolina 44, Hampton 41, Southern 32, Northwestern State 30, Tennessee-Martin 30, UC Davis 22, Weber State 17, Lafayette 16, Alabama A&M 10, Texas Southern 9, Brown 9, Lamar 9, Nicholls State 9, Dayton 6, Tennessee State 5, San Diego 4, Albany 4, Maine 1, Prairie View 1.

[TexasTerror]

First preseason poll? That's the second of the 'big three'. I actually vote in two of the three.

We'll teach you Coop!

Any Given Saturday Poll, Coaches Poll and Sports Network. The SME Broadcasting poll is relatively new -- we'll see how well that does.

Yes, the AGS poll is considered one of the top three and actually has had more teams in the playoffs from their preseason poll than the other two the last few years, plus more in the preseason as in the final poll as well. They're probably the most educated bunch.

AGS POLL

PRE-SEASON 5/26/2008

(First place votes in parenthesis)

1. Appalachian St. (76)

2. James Madison (2)

3. Richmond (1)

4. North Dakota St. (2)

5. Northern Iowa

6. Massachusetts

7. Montana

8. McNeese St.

9. Eastern Washington

10. Wofford

11. Delaware

12. Southern Illinois

13. Cal Poly (1)

14. Youngstown St.

15. Elon

16. Georgia Southern

17. Villanova

18. South Dakota St.

19. Eastern Illinois

20. New Hampshire

21. The Citadel

22. Eastern Kentucky

23. Fordham

24. Yale

25. Furman

Others receiving votes (minimum of 5 votes): Harvard (33), Sam Houston St. (31), Delaware St. (29), Northern Arizona (27), Central Arkansas (24), Montana St. (24), Jackson St. (23), South Carolina St. (22), Jacksonville St. (18), Grambling St. (16), Liberty (16), Holy Cross (14), Western Illinois (13), Albany (12), Hofstra (12), Dayton (10), Hampton (10), Nicholls St. (7), Coastal Carolina (5), Colgate (5), Norfolk St. (5)

TEAM MOST ON THE RISE: Cal Poly

TEAM FALLING THE MOST: Delaware

[AggiesAreWe]

Hey, I see where Lamar received some votes. Wow!!! Won't play till 2010 and get some votes, sign of a great program, don't you think? ;D

[KFDM COOP]

[Guest coachacola]

Coach Woodard is bringing in some highly talented walk-ons!!

[UNLV]

Lamar should rise to at least a top 3 ranking or higher since we will go undefeated this year...

[Guest abovetherim]

:D

[AggiesAreWe]

Lamar should rise to at least a top 3 ranking or higher since we will go undefeated this year...

That's the positive side. The negative side, or the TexasTerror side, would be that Lamar will go winless and drop completely out of sight of the polls. ;D

[TexasTerror]

That's the positive side. The negative side, or the TexasTerror side, would be that Lamar will go winless and drop completely out of sight of the polls. ;D

Told you guys not to schedule as tough a schedule or to hop into the SLC so quickly...look for Lamar to vanish pretty quickly. I know I did not vote for them and will continue not to do so...

[UNLV]

The really sad part is we will have the nations lowest attendance...

[Guest coachacola]

The really sad part is we will have the nations lowest attendance...

But compared to some SLC schools we're not doing that bad. 

[Guest abovetherim]

That's the positive side. The negative side, or the TexasTerror side, would be that Lamar will go winless and drop completely out of sight of the polls. ;D

Told you guys not to schedule as tough a schedule or to hop into the SLC so quickly...look for Lamar to vanish pretty quickly. I know I did not vote for them and will continue not to do so...

Don't vote for Lamar, we haven't earned votes at this point. Do you think the administration waits to see what Texas Terror says before making a decision? Please, that sounds very arrogant.

[TexasTerror]

Don't vote for Lamar, we haven't earned votes at this point. Do you think the administration waits to see what Texas Terror says before making a decision? Please, that sounds very arrogant.

I was making a sarcastic reference to Lamar's "appearance" in this year's poll...

[Guest abovetherim]

Sorry, I missed the sarcasm.... I apologize for my remark. I admit it was funny seeing Lamar with votes and until next Monday there isn't a single player on the team.

[TexasTerror]

Sorry, I missed the sarcasm.... I apologize for my remark. I admit it was funny seeing Lamar with votes and until next Monday there isn't a single player on the team.

Sarcasm has a way of not making the transition successfully to message boards or online chats, eh?

Lamar actually did not have any votes...unless there was an error and they changed it. Apparently, Hofstra was admitted from the initial release according to a post on AGS.

This is the official ORV:

Others receiving votes: Northern Arizona 249, Fordham 212, Delaware State 198, Jacksonville State 195, Yale 170, Sam Houston State 166, Montana State 146, Furman 120, Liberty 115, Jackson State 79, South Carolina State 76, Holy Cross 74, Hofstra 61, Colgate 56, Grambling 55, Norfolk State 48, Coastal Carolina 44, Hampton 41, Southern 32, Northwestern State 30, Tennessee-Martin 30, UC Davis 22, Weber State 17, Lafayette 16, Alabama A&M 10, Texas Southern 9, Brown 9, Nicholls State 9, Dayton 6, Tennessee State 5, San Diego 4, Albany 4, Maine 1, Prairie View 1.

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Went and watched McNeese final inter squad scrimmage tonight , they had some bright spots mainly on defense but its been a long hard August camp and it looked like they were a bit beat up, but I think thier gonna do fine.