2015 Preseason Polls

[Bison03]

First poll is out from The Sporting News:

1. North Dakota State
2. Sam Houston State
3. Illinois State
4. Villanova
5. Eastern Washington
6. Coastal Carolina
7. Jacksonville State
8. Chattanooga
9. Montana State
10. Youngstown State
11. Northern Iowa
12. James Madison
13. Idaho State
14. Eastern Kentucky
15. Montana
16. Liberty
17. Stephen F. Austin
18. New Hampshire
19. Indiana State
20. Alcorn State
21. Southeastern Louisiana
22. Northern Arizona
23. South Dakota State
24. Charleston Southern
25. Eastern Illinois

[tony]

Sure not seeing an East Coast bias there.

The CAA might be underrated in that poll.

[Bison Loaf]

Must not have gotten the memo that our defense was going to suck.

[TransAmBison]

LOL at SDSU at #23. Talk about no respect.

[Hammersmith]

A quarter of the top-25 come from the MVFC. That seems low. #norespect

[Vet70]

[BisonNeil]

Sure not seeing an East Coast bias there.

The CAA might be underrated in that poll.

I don't disagree, but to me the Big Fluffy is way, way too overrated. Five in the top 25? Wait, what?

[MarkyMark]

Wow NDSU at #1 in preseason poll.

The Sporting News must be tired of being wrong.

[bisonaudit]

There's a lot of Fluff in that poll.

[Tatanka]

There's a lot of Fluff in that poll.

This is the correct statement.

A reasonable person would conclude that the sixth best (according to Sagarin) FCS conference wouldn't have that much representation in the top 25 teams. Unless, of course, the remaining teams that are not listed are so bad as to drag the conference as a whole down that far.