Sporting News FCS Top 25

[wkuhillhound]

This is according to the Sporting News Magazines FCS section and their Top 25:

1) Villanova
2) Montana
3) Appalachian State
4) Southern Illinois
5) Richmond
6) Stephen F. Austin
7) South Dakota State
8) James Madison
9) Elon
10) New Hampshire
11) Prairie View A&M
12) Montana State
13) William & Mary
14) Holy Cross
15) South Carolina State
16) Illinois State
17) Samford
18) Delaware
19) Eastern Kentucky
20) Colgate
21) Eastern Washington
22) Wofford
23) Penn
24) Cal Poly
25) Northern Iowa

FCS All-America Team Offense
QB-Jeremy Moses-Stephen F. Austin
RB-Chase Reynolds-Montana
RB-Kyle Minett-South Dakota State
OL-Ben Ijalana-Villanova
OL-David Pickard-Southern Illinois
OL-Johnny Culbreath-South Carolina State
OL-David Arkin-Missouri State
OL-D.J. Hall-Texas State
TE-Stephen Skelton-Fordham
WR-Matt Szczur-Villanova
WR-Tysson Poots-Southern Utah
K-Matt Bevins-Liberty
RS-Mareo Howard-Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Defense
DL-Christian Clark-Sacramento State
DL-Martin Parker-Richmond
DL-Christian Anthony-Grambling State
DL-Malcolm Taylor-Alcorn State
LB-J.C. Sherritt-Eastern Washington
LB-D.J. Smith-Appalachian State
LB-Terrence Thomas-Villanova
DB-Korey Lindsey-Southern Illinois
DB-Mark LeGree-Appalachian State
DB-Jason House-Southern
DB-T.J. Heath-Jacksonville State
P-Jonathan Plisco-Old Dominion

Top Players
Offense-WR-Matt Szczur-Villanova
Defense-LB-J.C. Sheritt-Eastern Washington
Newcomer-QB-Aaron Corp-Richmond

Conference Projections:
Big Sky
1) Montana
2) Montana State
3) Eastern Washington
4) Northern Arizona
5) Weber State
6) Sacramento State
7) Idaho State
8) Northern Colorado
9) Portland State

Big South
1) Liberty
2) Stony Brook
3) Charleston Southern
4) Coastal Carolina
5) Gardner-Webb
6) VMI
7) Presbyterian

Colonial
1) Villanova
2) Richmond
3) James Madison
4) New Hampshire
5) William & Mary
6) Delaware
7) Massachusetts
8) Maine
9) Towson
10) Rhode Island

Great West
1) Cal Poly
2) UC Davis
3) North Dakota
4) Southern Utah
5) South Dakota

Independents (not necessarily in order)
1) Georgia State
2) Lamar
3) Old Dominion
4) Savannah State

Ivy League
1) Pennsylvania
2) Harvard
3) Brown
4) Columbia
5) Princeton
6) Yale
7) Dartmouth
8) Cornell

MEAC
1) South Carolina State
2) Florida A&M
3) Norfolk State
4) Hampton
5) Morgan State
6) North Carolina A&T
7) Delaware State
8) Bethune-Cookman
9) Howard

Missouri Valley
1) Southern Illinois
2) South Dakota State
3) Illinois State
4) Northern Iowa
5) Missouri State
6) Youngstown State
7) North Dakota State
8) Western Illinois
9) Indiana State

NEC
1) Wagner
2) Albany
3) Robert Morris
4) Central Connecticut State
5) Duquesne
6) Bryant
7) Monmouth
8) Sacred Heart
9) Saint Francis (PA)

Ohio Valley
1) Eastern Kentucky
2) Eastern Illinois
3) Jacksonville State
4) Tennessee-Martin
5) Tennessee Tech
6) Tennessee State
7) Murray State
8) Austin Peay
9) Southeast Missouri State

Patriot League
1) Holy Cross
2) Colgate
3) Lafayette
4) Lehigh
5) Fordham
6) Bucknell
7) Georgetown

Pioneer League
1) Butler
2) Jacksonville
3) Dayton
4) Drake
5) Marist
6) Davidson
7) San Diego
8) Morehead State
9) Campbell
10) Valparaiso

Southern
1) Appalachian State
2) Elon
3) Samford
4) Wofford
5) Chattanooga
6) Furman
7) Western Carolina
8) Georgia Southern
9) The Citadel

Southland Conference
1) Stephen F. Austin
2) McNeese State
3) Texas State
4) Southeastern Louisiana
5) Central Arkansas
6) Northwestern State
7) Nicholls State
8) Sam Houston State

SWAC-East
1) Alabama A&M
2) Alcorn State
3) Jackson State
4) Alabama State
5) Mississippi Valley State
SWAC-West
1) Prairie View A&M
2) Grambling State
3) Texas Southern
4) Arkansas-Pine Bluff
5) Southern

[wkuhillhound]

*Note: I am only the deliverer not the maker. It should be an interesting season. Let's see how accurate Sporting News is on this preview.

[ladyflame]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Liberty not even ranked top 25. well there's there first mistake.

[CatMom]

I'm just waiting to see how Moses does after losing several of his best targets and the rest of the SLC catching up on D, like TXST did last year. He may be a pre-season AA but he's no A. Edwards. SFA's record the past 3 years is 14-22. I don't call that all that impressive. While his passing is great (they barely have a running game) he has that horrid p/int ratio. Tell me there's no one better out there. What do the people that make up these lists really look at? I don't see nearly the repeat performance unless every WR/TE/SB/wideout that steps into a graduating senior's role is just as good as his predecessor. I found him indecisive in situations when the routes altered due to the D (maybe it was just that one game, I don't know) and this led to the high # of INTs

Will be interesting to watch the season unfold.

[McNeese75]

Interesting. Only one SLC team in the top 25.