Wednesday, May 28, 2008

First 2008 polls are out

UMass is ranked 6th in the first AGS FCS/I-AA poll of the 2008 season. One article about it so far here .

Lindy's 2008 NCAA Football magazine (not out yet in my area) has UMass as 4th.

FWIW, here is my 2008 preseason ranking:
  1. Appalachian State
  2. Richmond
  3. James Madison
  4. UNI
  5. Eastern Washington
  6. UMass
  7. Wofford
  8. Southern Illinois
  9. NDSU
  10. McNeese State
  11. Eastern Kentucky
  12. Montana
  13. Cal Poly
  14. Youngstown State
  15. Yale
  16. Fordham
  17. Holy Cross
  18. Liberty
  19. Furman
  20. Delaware
  21. New Hampshire
  22. Villanova
  23. Norfolk State
  24. SDSU
  25. Elon
You could also throw in somewhere Jax State, Eastern Illinois, Harvard and Sam Houston State.

Some notes: Appalachian State had 120 players in Spring football. Villanova, Richmond and JMU all return more than 15 starters for 2008. I don't see what everybody is seeing in Elon.

In the AGS poll, UMass plays four teams in the top 25 and three in "others receiving votes' catagory.