August 20, 2007
Football: Guins Picked Sixth in FCS Preseason Coaches Poll
Spartanburg,
S.C. --
The Youngstown State football team
garnered its second top 10 preseason
ranking in as many weeks when it was
picked sixth in the Football
Championship Subdivision (FCS)
Preseason Coaches Poll release on
Monday. The two-time Gateway
Conference defending champion
Penguins tallied 550 points .
Two-time
defending national champion
Appalachian State received 27 out of
a possible 28 first-place votes
while Montana, which is ranked
second, picked up 656 votes.
UMass picked up one first-place
votes and 612 points for a
third-place ranking.
North Dakota State and New Hampshire
round out the top five at fourth and
fifth with 609 and 559 points,
respectively.
Fellow Gateway Conference schools
Illinois State and UNI ranked eighth
and ninth with 471 and 424 points,
respectively, while Southern
Illinois just missed the top 10 with
406 points and is ranked 11th.
South Dakota, YSU's Sept. 8
opponent, picked up 198 points and
is ranked 19th.
2007 FCS
Preseason Coaches Poll
Team (First-Place Votes) |
Points
1. Appalachian State (27) | 699
2. Montana | 626
3. UMass (1) | 612
4. North Dakota State | 609
5. New Hampshire |559
6. Youngstown State | 550
7. James Madison |477
8. Illinois State |471
9. UNI | 424
10. Furman | 416
11. Southern Illinois | 406
12. McNeese State | 365
13.
Portland State | 313
14. Cal Poly | 302
15. Wofford | 265
16. Hampton | 242
17. Eastern Illinois | 203
18. UT-Martin | 202
19. South Dakota State | 198
20. Coastal Carolina | 191
21. Delaware | 172
22. Montana State | 168
23. Sam Houston State | 130
24. Yale | 76
25. Princeton | 50 |
