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First of the four FCS polls is out:

1 North Dakota State Bison 2722 94
2 Sam Houston State Bearkats 2441 9
3 Georgia Southern Eagles 2401 4
4 Montana State Bobcats 2041 0
5 Appalachian State Mountaineers 1883 0
6 Northern Iowa Panthers 1794 0
7 Old Dominion Monarchs 1695 0
8 Montana Grizzlies 1679 0
9 James Madison Dukes 1573 0
10 Towson Tigers 1521 0
11 Lehigh Mountain Hawks 1433 0
12 Maine Black Bears 1327 0
13 Wofford Terriers 1296 0
14 New Hampshire Wildcats 1184 0
15 Stony Brook Seawolves 1042 0
16 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens 1035 0
17 Central Arkansas Bears 751 0
18 Eastern Washington Eagles 701 0
19 Illinois State Redbirds 546 0
20 Youngstown State Penguins 509 0
21 Cal Poly Mustangs 430 0
22 Eastern Kentucky Colonels 394 0
23 Indiana State Sycamores 392 0
24 Liberty Flames 383 0
25 Chattanooga Mocs 377

That'll work!

hahahaha. that didn't take long.

All those silly CAA fans telling us how long it would be until we could compete.

2nd year of CAA and we are preseason #1.

Preaseason #7

Good news for ODU even if it is a message board fan poll.

(05-30-2012 01:20 PM)bigblueodu Wrote:  Preaseason #7

Contrary to popular belief, I can read.

I meant #1 in the CAA.

(05-30-2012 12:10 PM)smudge12 Wrote:  First of the four FCS polls is out:

1 North Dakota State Bison 2722 94
2 Sam Houston State Bearkats 2441 9
3 Georgia Southern Eagles 2401 4
4 Montana State Bobcats 2041 0
5 Appalachian State Mountaineers 1883 0
6 Northern Iowa Panthers 1794 0
7 Old Dominion Monarchs 1695 0
8 Montana Grizzlies 1679 0
9 James Madison Dukes 1573 0
10 Towson Tigers 1521 0
11 Lehigh Mountain Hawks 1433 0
12 Maine Black Bears 1327 0
13 Wofford Terriers 1296 0
14 New Hampshire Wildcats 1184 0
15 Stony Brook Seawolves 1042 0
16 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens 1035 0
17 Central Arkansas Bears 751 0
18 Eastern Washington Eagles 701 0
19 Illinois State Redbirds 546 0
20 Youngstown State Penguins 509 0
21 Cal Poly Mustangs 430 0
22 Eastern Kentucky Colonels 394 0
23 Indiana State Sycamores 392 0
24 Liberty Flames 383 0
25 Chattanooga Mocs 377

Man I'm so glad we're going FBS. Sorry if I'm being elitist, but the names of those schools just make me say "Who is that?"

You mean to tell me the Indiana State Sycamores don't intimidate you?

(05-30-2012 03:19 PM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  You mean to tell me the Indiana State Sycamores don't intimidate you?

Watch out for those Chattanooga Mocs!!! They'll git ya!

Is a Moc like a Water Moccasin or something?

nevermind, I got too curious:

The school's athletic teams are called the Mocs. The teams were nicknamed Moccasins until 1996. (The origin of the name is uncertain; however, Moccasin Bend is a large horseshoe-shaped bend in the Tennessee River directly below Lookout Mountain.)

The mascot has taken on four distinct forms, with a water moccasin being the mascot in the 1920s, and then a moccasin shoe (known as "The Shoe") was actually used as the school's mascot at times in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1970s until 1996, the mascot was Chief Moccanooga, an exaggerated Cherokee tribesman.

In 1996, due to concerns over ethnic sensitivity,[18] the Moccasins name and image were dropped in favor of the shortened "Mocs" and an anthropomorphized northern mockingbird, in accordance with the state bird, named "Scrappy" dressed as a railroad engineer. The school's main athletic logo features Scrappy riding a train (a reference to Chattanooga's history as a major railroad hub and to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The mascot takes its name from former football coach A. C. "Scrappy" Moore.

Most notable alumni that I recognized on Wikipedia:

Dennis Haskins, actor (most notably portrayed Mr. Belding on Saved By The Bell), 1972

(05-30-2012 03:44 PM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  Most notable alumni that I recognized on Wikipedia:

Dennis Haskins, actor (most notably portrayed Mr. Belding on Saved By The Bell), 1972

Didn't Terrell Owens go there as well? I'd say he's a tad more notable than Mr. Belding.

(05-30-2012 05:37 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(05-30-2012 03:44 PM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  Most notable alumni that I recognized on Wikipedia:

Dennis Haskins, actor (most notably portrayed Mr. Belding on Saved By The Bell), 1972

Didn't Terrell Owens go there as well? I'd say he's a tad more notable than Mr. Belding.

Bad day today for T.O.: Got cut by IFL team, is broke, can't pay child support.

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id...ship-share

I was wondering how accurate these rankings were to predicting success (considering it's fans that make up the voters), so I decided to look at last year's preseason rankings. The teams that missed the playoffs are in bold:

1 Eastern Washington Eagles 1182 (35)
2 Georgia Southern Eagles 1088 (6)
3 William & Mary Tribe 1081 (4)
4 Appalachian State Mountaineers 1059 (3)
5 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens 978
6 Montana State Bobcats 884
7 Wofford Terriers 830
8 North Dakota State Bison 749
9 Northern Iowa Panthers 731
10 New Hampshire Wildcats 703
11 Jacksonville State Gamecocks 633
12 Montana Grizzlies 526
13 Villanova Wildcats 513 (1)
14 Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks 496
15 Lehigh Mountain Hawks 429
16 Richmond Spiders 375
17 James Madison Dukes 365
18 Chattanooga Mocs 363
19 Liberty Flames 309
20 Cal Poly Mustangs 244
21 South Carolina State Bulldogs 230
22 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 188
23 Southern Illinois Salukis 187
24 Central Arkansas Bears 163
25 Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 127

Teams that made the playoffs starting the 2011 season unranked: Sam Houston State (eventual runner-up), ODU, Norfolk State, Tennessee Tech, Eastern Kentucky, Albany, Towson, Maine and Stony Brook.

Edited for correctness.. thanks to EverRespect

Towson and Maine as well.

(05-30-2012 03:19 PM)MonarchManiac Wrote:  You mean to tell me the Indiana State Sycamores don't intimidate you?

I will tolerate NO denigration of Larry Bird's alma mater. NONE.

(05-30-2012 08:20 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Towson and Maine as well.

Good call, I forgot about those two.