(WNFL) – The defending national champion University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football is ranked No. 1 in the D3football.com preseason poll. Whitewater received 18 first place votes and finished with 614 points in teh pool. Mount Union, the team which the Warhawks defeated last season to win the national title, is ranked second after receiving six first-place votes and 603 points in the poll. UW-Platteville received 36 points.
UW-Oshkosh is ranked 18th and will host UW-Whitewater on Oct. 10th.
No team from the Midwest Conference received votes.
1 UW-Whitewater (18) 15-0 614 1
2 Mount Union (6) 14-1 603 2
3 Linfield (1) 11-2 535 3
4 Mary Hardin-Baylor 11-1 531 6
5 Wesley 12-2 516 7
6 Wartburg 12-1 504 4
7 Wheaton (Ill.) 11-1 430 8
8 John Carroll 11-2 362 5
9 St. John’s 10-2 356 12
10 Wabash 10-2 335 13
11 North Central (Ill.) 8-2 324 15
12 Widener 12-1 320 11
13 Johns Hopkins 11-1 303 10
14 St. Thomas 8-3 300 16
15 Washington and Jefferson 10-2 270 14
16 Hobart 12-1 257 9
17 Wittenberg 9-2 231 17
18 UW-Oshkosh 6-4 178 20
19 St. John Fisher 9-2 170 21
20 Bethel 7-3 153 —
21 Texas Lutheran 9-2 104 19
22 Centre 10-1 100 22
23 Thomas More 8-2 84 18
24 Chapman 8-2 70 23
25 Muhlenberg 9-2 61 —
Others receiving votes: Heidelberg 44; Franklin 42; Rowan 42; UW-Platteville 36; Delaware Valley 34; Hardin-Simmons
30; Christopher Newport 26; Montclair State 25; St. Lawrence 24; Guilford 24; Ithaca 21; MIT 16; Lycoming 11; Bridgewater (Va.) 9; Pacific Lutheran 8; Framingham State 7; Salisbury 5; Monmouth 3; Amherst 2; Louisiana College 2; Chicago 1; Hampden-Sydney 1; Redlands 1.
The D3football.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.
