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Aug 5, 2008

Sea Gulls ranked No. 12 in D3football.com preseason poll

MINNEAPOLIS - A third preseason Division III college football poll has the Salisbury University Sea Gulls ranked in the top 20. The latest poll released by D3football.com on Tuesday has the Gulls ranked No. 12.

Salisbury enters the '08 campaign with 16 starters returning from last season's 9-2 team that made it to the NCAA tournament. The maroon and gold will look for a repeat performance in 2008 with a chance to make back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances since 1986. Salisbury has six NCAA appearances in the program's 36-year history.

Two opponents the Sea Gulls will face this season were ranked in the D3football.com poll while three other SU opponents received votes.

Atlantic Central Football Conference rival Wesley College received one first-place vote and was selected third overall just missing the No. 2 spot by 10 points behind defending national champion UW-Whitewater. Salisbury and Wesley will renew the Route 13 rivalry on November 1 in Sea Gull Stadium at 1 p.m. A new opponent for the Gulls in '08 is St. John Fisher. The two schools will meet for the first-time in program history on October 11 at Noon in Rochester, N.Y. The Cardinals went 11-2 last season and are ranked No. 10 in the preseason.

The other SU opponents that received votes in the preseason poll include Albright College, Christopher Newport University and Delaware Valley College. SU opens the season on the road against Albright (September 6) followed two weeks later with a home contest against CNU (September 20) then a road trip to DVC (September 27).

 

D3football.com 2008 Preseason Poll

No.   Team   Points   '07
Record 		  Final '07
Ranking
1.   Mount Union (Ohio)   618   14-1   2
2.   Wisconsin-Whitewater   567   14-1   1
3.   Wesley (Del.)   557   11-2   5
4.   Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas)   523   12-2   3
5.   Bethel (Minn.)   459   12-2   4
6.   St. John's (Minn.)   431   10-2   9
7.   Capital (Ohio)   413   8-3   13
8.   Muhlenberg (Pa.)   394   11-1   8
9.   Central (Iowa)   368   12-1   6
10.   St. John Fisher (N.Y.)   363   11-2   7
11.   Wabash (Ind.)   321   11-2   10
12.   SALISBURY (Md.)   314   9-2   14
13.   Washington & Jefferson (Pa.)   293   10-1   17
14.   Wisconsin-Eau Claire   284   9-3   12
15.   North Central (Ill.)   265   9-3   11
16.   Ohio Northern   163   7-3   --
17.   Wheaton (Ill.)   160   8-2   --
18.   Ithaca (N.Y.)   153   8-3   21
19.   Case Western Reserve (Ohio)   135   11-1   22
20.   Trinity (Texas)   131   9-2   16
21.   Franklin (Ind.)   130   9-2   18
22.   SUNY Cortland   122   8-3   --
23.   Wartburg (Iowa)   119   8-2   20
24.   Redlands (Calif.)   108   8-2   25
25.   Mississippi College    72   8-2   --

Others receiving votes: Curry 70, New Jersey 66, North Carolina Wesleyan 62, Millsaps 61, Linfield 58, Whitworth 48, Christopher Newport 43, UW-La Crosse 27, Montclair State 24, St. Olaf 23, Hardin-Simmons 20, RPI 18, Wittenberg 17, Rowan 17, Illinois Wesleyan 15, Albright 15, Hartwick 12, DePauw 11, St. Norbert 10, Hobart 9, Delaware Valley 7, Waynesburg 6, Dickinson 4, Concordia-Moorhead 4, Carthage 4, Randolph-Macon 3, Augsburg 3, Mt. St. Joseph 2, Hampden-Sydney 2, Carnegie Mellon 1.