Football Team Earns Another Preseason Ranking
WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross football team has been ranked 25th in the nation by the FCS coaches in their 2010 preseason poll for the football championship subdivision. The Crusaders were previously ranked 25th in the Sports Network / Fathead.com preseason poll, which was released last week.
Holy Cross received 66 total points in the poll, to tie for 25th place with Cal Poly. The only Crusader opponent in the rankings was Colgate, which received 98 points to rank 22nd. Other Holy Cross opponents to receive votes were Massachusetts (24), Harvard (10), Lehigh (8) and Lafayette (4).
The Crusaders return 12 of 24 starters from their 2009 squad which posted an overall record of 9-3, won the Patriot League title with a 5-1 mark in conference games, and advanced to the NCAA playoffs for the first time since 1983. Holy Cross is scheduled to open the 2010 season when it plays host to Howard in a 1:00 p.m. game on Saturday, Sept. 4.
The complete 2010 preseason FCS coaches' poll follows.
2010 FCS Coaches Preseason Poll (August 23, 2010)
Team
(No. 1
Votes)
2009
Record
Points
2009 Final Ranking
1.
Villanova
(22)
14-1
667 1
2.
Montana
(2)
14-1
632 2
3.
Appalachian State
(4)
11-3
622 T3
4.
William &
Mary
11-3
587 T3
5.
Southern
Illinois
11-2
551
6
6.
Richmond
11-2
484 5
7.
Elon
9-3
474 10
8.
Stephen F.
Austin
10-3
413 9
9.
New
Hampshire
10-3
409 7
10.
South Dakota
State
8-4
403 11
11.
McNeese
State
9-3
376 12
12.
South Carolina
State
10-2
341 8
13.
Northern
Iowa
7-4
333 18
14.
Eastern
Washington 8-4
327 13
15.
James
Madison
6-5
290 NR
16.
Eastern
Illinois
8-4
236 15
17.
Jacksonville
State
8-3
208 16
18.
Weber
State
7-5
186
17
19.
Delaware
6-5
185
NR
20.
Liberty
8-3
171 21
21.
Prairie View
A&M
9-1
135 19
22.
Colgate
9-2
98 20
23.
Northern
Arizona
5-6
87 NR
24.
Montana
State
7-4
85 NR
T25.
Cal-Poly
4-7
66 NR
T25.
Holy
Cross
9-3
66 14
Others receiving votes (points in parentheses): Penn (60), Illinois State (54), Texas State (53), Florida A&M (44), Furman (36), Eastern Kentucky (35), Wofford (35), UC Davis (32), Massachusetts (24), Georgia Southern (23), Alabama A&M (22), Jackson State (19), Maine (19), Alcorn State (17), Southeastern Louisiana (16), Arkansas-Pine Bluff (16), Southern (15), Central Arkansas (14), Morgan State (14), Hampton (12), Bethune-Cookman (11), Harvard (10), Missouri State (10), Nicholls State (10), Sam Houston State (9), Grambling (8), Alabama State (6), Lehigh (8), Youngstown State (6), Texas Southern (5), Albany (4), Lafayette (4), Butler (3), Mississippi Valley State (3), Southern Utah (3), Central Connecticut State (2), Stony Brook (2), Chattanooga (1), Gardner-Webb (1)
