Well, the NAIA will start week 2 of their football season this coming Thursday night and D3 will begin their season this Saturday. The time seemed ripe to take a look at the Preseason D3 Top 25. It will surprise nobody familiar with Division 3 football that Wisconsin-Whitewater and Mt Union are ranked 1 and 2. For the past 5 years in a row the D3 Championship Game has been between these 2 teams when the dust settles in the playoffs. Yes, playoff-hungry 1A football fans will revel in the fact that the lower divisions settle it on the field in a playoff and not with the BCS system. Anyway, some people love the fact that the Warhawks and Purple Raiders have owned the playoff game for half a decade and some find it boring. Others insist if the other teams don’t like it one of them can rise up and actually beat one of these 2 in the playoffs. To the Top 25. I threw in their helmets, too, since part of this blog’s purpose is to familiarize new fans with these teams. Helmets courtesy of The Helmet Project at : http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/
1. WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER WARHAWKS
2. MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS
3. WESLEY WOLVERINES
4. LINFIELD WILDCATS
5. ST THOMAS TOMMIES
6. MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS
7. CENTRAL DUTCH
8. WITTENBERG TIGERS
9. ST JOHN’S JOHNNIES
10. DELAWARE VALLEY AGGIES
11. OHIO NORTHERN POLAR BEARS
12. COE KOHAWKS
13. THOMAS MORE SAINTS
14. NORTH CENTRAL CARDINALS
15. HARDIN-SIMMONS COWBOYS
16. UW-STEVENS POINT POINTERS
17. MONMOUTH FIGHTING SCOTS
18. WILLAMETTE BEARCATS
19. TRINE THUNDER
20. OTTERBEIN CARDINALS
21. WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON PRESIDENTS
22. MISISSIPPI COLLEGE CHOCTAWS
23. JOHNS HOPKINS BLUE JAYS
24. WABASH LITTLE GIANTS
25. MONTCLAIR STATE RED HAWKS
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The Whitewater Warhawks are a fantastic team!
I agree!!
Thanks for writing your opinions on the subject at hand with an open mind. This topic tends to get skewed in many different ways so it’s great so see someone give it a good shake.
No problem.