Preseason Coach's Poll

[smallcollegefbfan]

Preseason 2012 FCS Coaches Poll (August 22, 2012)

Team (No. 1 Votes) 2011 Record Points Final 2011 Ranking
1. North Dakota State (19) 14-1 640 1
2. Sam Houston State (6) 14-1 623 2
3. Georgia Southern (1) 11-3 592 3
4. Montana State 10-3 540 7
5. Appalachian State 8-4 504 11
6. Old Dominion 10-3 470 10
7. Northern Iowa 10-3 466 5
8. James Madison 8-5 456 14
9. Towson 9-2 454 9
10. Montana 11-3 425 4
11. Lehigh 11-2 371 6
12. New Hampshire 8-4 337 12
13. Wofford 6-2 322 13
14. Delaware 7-4 294 20
15. Eastern Washington 6-5 248 NR
16. Maine 9-4 232 8
17. Stony Brook 9-4 228 16
18. Youngstown State 6-5 184 NR
19. Central Arkansas 9-4 157 15
20. Illinois State 7-4 148 22
21. Eastern Kentucky 7-5 127 21
22. Harvard 9-1 113 17
23. Norfolk State 9-3 72 NR
24. Stephen F. Austin 6-5 69 NR
25. Indiana State 6-5 66 NR

Others Receiving Votes: Jacksonville State (54); Liberty (48); Murray State (32); Jackson State (30); Bethune-Cookman (21); Tennessee Tech (20); South Carolina State (15); Florida A&M (14); Grambling State (13); William & Mary (12); North Dakota (10); Albany (9); Northern Arizona (9); Cal Poly (8); Chattanooga (7); Portland State (7); Alabama A&M (3); Idaho State (3); Cornell (2); Pennsylvania (2); Alabama State (1); McNeese State (1); San Diego (1)

[bluehenbillk]

coaches polls should be banned - lazy

[jmufan999]

Looks decent except that Towson continues to be disrespected. Returning CAA Champs that returned a ton of players.

[danefan]

Stony Brook and Wofford are both way too low, IMO.

[Apphole]

Chatty should be in the 20-25 range and App is a little high. No doubt we should finish the year in the top 5, but with the state of question our young O-line is in, I wouldn't put us any higher than 7. Solid poll though.

[Mr. C]

Whoever voted for Idaho State should be summarily executed.

[SpiritCymbal]

No GaState votes, so it's automatically better than TSN's poll.

[cpalum]

I bet this will change after they play the gamesxrolleyesx

[AmsterBison]

coaches polls should be banned - lazy

Idaho State... how about just banning the 3 schools who gave the Bengals votes?

[GeauxLions94]

Preseason 2012 FCS Coaches Poll (August 22, 2012)

Team (No. 1 Votes) 2011 Record Points Final 2011 Ranking
1. North Dakota State (19) 14-1 640 1
2. Sam Houston State (6) 14-1 623 2
3. Georgia Southern (1) 11-3 592 3
4. Montana State 10-3 540 7
5. Appalachian State 8-4 504 11
6. Old Dominion 10-3 470 10
7. Northern Iowa 10-3 466 5
8. James Madison 8-5 456 14
9. Towson 9-2 454 9
10. Montana 11-3 425 4
11. Lehigh 11-2 371 6
12. New Hampshire 8-4 337 12
13. Wofford 6-2 322 13
14. Delaware 7-4 294 20
15. Eastern Washington 6-5 248 NR
16. Maine 9-4 232 8
17. Stony Brook 9-4 228 16
18. Youngstown State 6-5 184 NR
19. Central Arkansas 9-4 157 15
20. Illinois State 7-4 148 22
21. Eastern Kentucky 7-5 127 21
22. Harvard 9-1 113 17
23. Norfolk State 9-3 72 NR
24. Stephen F. Austin 6-5 69 NR
25. Indiana State 6-5 66 NR

Others Receiving Votes: Jacksonville State (54); Liberty (48); Murray State (32); Jackson State (30); Bethune-Cookman (21); Tennessee Tech (20); South Carolina State (15); Florida A&M (14); Grambling State (13); William & Mary (12); North Dakota (10); Albany (9); Northern Arizona (9); Cal Poly (8); Chattanooga (7); Portland State (7); Alabama A&M (3); Idaho State (3); Cornell (2); Pennsylvania (2); Alabama State (1); McNeese State (1); San Diego (1)

That's a lot of respect for a team that only played eight games last year. Other than that, it's a pretty solid poll. xnodx

[walliver]

That's a lot of respect for a team that only played eight games last year. Other than that, it's a pretty solid poll. xnodx

The coaches poll is managed by the SoCon, they probably just looked up the conference record. The actual record was 8-4.

[SpeedkingATL]

Chatty should be in the 20-25 range and App is a little high. No doubt we should finish the year in the top 5, but with the state of question our young O-line is in, I wouldn't put us any higher than 7. Solid poll though.

Agree with Apphole as App is a little high based on returning players and coaching changes and UTC should be in there somewhere. I think Stoneybrooke and Wofford might be a little low too as danefan suggests. Certainly the best of the pre-season polls I've seen so far though.

[GlassOnion]

I agree. App should prolly be in the 8-12 range to start.

[Twentysix]

Idaho State... how about just banning the 3 schools who gave the Bengals votes?

One school might have voted them 23. Rather than 3 schools at 25.

[MSUBobcat]

One school might have voted them 23. Rather than 3 schools at 25.

Either option is preposterous. 3 schools that couldn't fill out the last spot and pulled a name from a hat or one school that is absolutely clueless about FCS football.

I'm not sure I'd vote them 23rd in the BSC and there's only 13 teams. :D

[Mr. C]

Maybe Mike Kramer voted for his own team.

[mountaineer in Cane Land]

Chatt should be in there somewhere, defense is just too good to atleast not to get mention.. QB has alot of talent. Better beat App early, tons of talent, but very young, once they get it, they are going to be really tough to beat. I like their chances if they make the playoffs.

[Twentysix]

Either option is preposterous. 3 schools that couldn't fill out the last spot and pulled a name from a hat or one school that is absolutely clueless about FCS football.

I'm not sure I'd vote them 23rd in the BSC and there's only 13 teams. :D

Perhaps the Idaho State voter voted them 23rd? There are 26 votes, I am unsure if ISU-potato has one.

[Ginsbach]

Go Bengals! I'm predicting a one win improvement over last year.


Perhaps the Idaho State voter voted them 23rd? There are 26 votes, I am unsure if ISU-potato has one.

We're the real ISU, not like ISU-blue or ISU-red or ISU-Cyclones.

Source: http://isu.edu/ directs you to Idaho State's website, not one of the others.

[blackfordpu]

Should be called the "Coach's assistant's poll".

[AmsterBison]

One school might have voted them 23. Rather than 3 schools at 25.

D'oh!

Could somebody have gotten Idaho State and Indiana State mixed up?

Cripes, if they moved to the FCS tomorrow, Idaho wouldn't even deserve a Top 25 vote.

[coover]

Whoopee! Cal Poly finally get votes in a poll. We're #39, we're #39!

[Twentysix]

Go Bengals! I'm predicting a one win improvement over last year.



We're the real ISU, not like ISU-blue or ISU-red or ISU-Cyclones.

Source: http://isu.edu/ directs you to Idaho State's website, not one of the others.

Noted. I am gonna stick with ISU-potato.

[GoAgs72]

Whoopee! Cal Poly finally get votes in a poll. We're #39, we're #39!

But you're only five votes better than Idaho State.