Athlon Sports Preseason Top 20

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1.NDSU
2.SHSU
3. UNI
4.Richmond
5.Jville St
6.Charleston Southern
7.Chattanooga
8.SDSU
9.Coastal
10.The Citadel
11.Illinois St
12.Eastern Washington
13.W&M
14.JMU
15.N. Dakota
16.Montana
17.McNeese St.
18.Towson
19.W Illinois
20.Nova

 

[BillyWayne]

Five CAA teams in the top 20 bodes for an exciting season.

 

[SFspidur]

High expectations, but I'll take them. A lot better than starting out off the radar and having to fight to get noticed...cost us a playoff bid in 2012.

 

[I-M-UR]

Five CAA teams in the top 20 bodes for an exciting season.

And we play all of them and don't play UNH, Maine, or RI. When is the last time UHN wasn't in a preseason ranking?

 

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Stats final 2015 Poll(compared to 2016 Athlon Preseason Poll):

1North Dakota State NC
2 Jacksonville State (goes to 5)
3 Sam Houston State (goes to 2)
4 Richmond NC
5 Illinois State(goes to 11)
6 Charleston Southern NC
7 McNeese State(goes to 17)
8 UNI(goes to 3)
9 Chattanooga(goes to 7)
10 Portland State NR
11 James Madison(goes to 14)
12 William & Mary(goes to 13)
13 Citadel(goes to 10)
14 Montana(goes to 16)
15 South Dakota State(goes to 8)
16 Coastal Carolina(goes to 9)
17 Colgate NR
18 Southern Utah NR
19 Fordham NR
20 Harvard NR
21 North Carolina A&T NR
22 Western Illinois(goes to 19)
23 Dartmouth NR
24 Grambling State NR
25 Eastern Illinois NR
Others(by votes):Eastern Washington (goes to 12),Bethune-Cookman (182) , Alcorn State (143) , New Hampshire (131) , Duquesne (117) , Northern Arizona (113) , Dayton (108) , North Dakota (goes to 15),Central Arkansas (40) ,Penn (35) , Eastern Kentucky (33) , UT Martin (31) , North Carolina Central (15) , Youngstown State (14) , Western Carolina (8) , Towson (goes to 18),Montana State (2) , Villanova (goes to 20), Liberty (2)

UNI(8--->3),SDSU(15--->8),EWU(26-->12),North Dakota(33--->15),Towson(41--->18),Nova(43--->20)are making the biggest jumps in the preseason poll from Stats final poll.