Statesmen Ranked 12th in D3football.com Preseason Poll

D3football.com released their 2014 Preseason Top 25 yesterday and the Hobart College Statesmen landed at #12. Not surprisingly defending champion UWW unanimously earned the #1 position. The Top 6-7 are the "usual suspects" if you are familiar with the D3FB landscape as well.

Hobart was one of four "East Region" teams (i.e., West of OH and North of PA) to land in the Top 25. Saint John Fisher landed at #9, Rowan at #15 and nearby Ithaca was #23. A handful of other "Eastern teams" like Cortland and Framingham landed in the "receiving votes" categories.

A link to the poll can be found here but a run down is also listed below. I also recommend spending the low price of $11 for the D3FB.com Preseason preview "Kickoff 2014" covering all 245 teams in D3. I bought my subscription already.

Entering the 2014 season:

#	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	Prev.	Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan will rank all 245 teams in Kickoff 2014! Find out how you can subscribe.
1	UW-Whitewater (25)	15-0	625	1
2	Mary Hardin-Baylor	13-1	583	2
3	Mount Union	14-1	580	3
4	Linfield	11-1	510	4
5	Wesley	10-3	505	7
6	North Central (Ill.)	13-1	500	5
7	Bethel	12-1	491	6
8	UW-Platteville	10-2	434	9
9	St. John Fisher	10-3	376	8
10	John Carroll	9-2	330	13
11	St. Thomas	8-2	316	20
12	Hobart	10-1	294	14
13	Wittenberg	10-2	244	10
14	Johns Hopkins	10-1	226	12
15	Rowan	9-3	201	23
16	Wabash	9-1	191	22
17	Wartburg	9-3	175	15
18	UW-Oshkosh	8-2	171	11
19	Pacific Lutheran	8-2	169	17
20	Heidelberg	8-2	165	21
21	Hampden-Sydney	9-3	164	18
22	Thomas More	9-1	145	25
23	Ithaca	9-3	140	16
24	Wheaton (Ill.)	8-2	139	--
25	Franklin	8-4	75	19

Others receiving votes: Millsaps 47; Illinois Wesleyan 43; Maryville 35; Lycoming 34; Concordia-Moorhead 32; Redlands 29; Washington and Jefferson 23; St. John's 21; Salisbury 21; Chapman 20; Texas Lutheran 18; Willamette 16; Cortland State 15; Cal Lutheran 9; Guilford 5; Framingham State 2; Muhlenberg 2; Louisiana College 2; Washington U. 1; Wesleyan 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