PAC coaches pick defending PAC champion Carnegie Mellon and Tre Vasiliadas to win the PAC. Carnegie Mellon athletics photo |
Might Belhaven win the USA South? Yep, that sure seems possible. Could Washington & Jefferson win the PAC or Anna Maria win the ECFC? Absolutely, but coaches almost always pick the defending champion to repeat.
Some conferences do not do a preseason poll or predictions, while the Empire 8 and Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference issue a preseason release that does not include a poll of coaches. Meanwhile, the 2022 Centennial Conference champion, Susquehanna, is playing its football in the new-to-football Landmark Conference this year, so neither the Centennial nor the Landmark have a defending champion.
Here's the full list of preseason polls released by conferences to date. Check back for updates.
ARCDefending champ: Wartburg |
ASCDefending champ: Mary Hardin-Baylor |
CCDefending champ: None |
CCCDefending champ: Endicott |
CCIWDefending champ: North Central |
ECFCDefending champ: Gallaudet |
E8Defending champ: Cortland |
HCACDefending champ: Mount St. Joseph |
LANDDefending champ: None |
LLDefending champ: Ithaca |
MACDefending champ: Delaware Valley |
MASCACDefending champ: Mass-Dartmouth |
MIAADefending champ: Alma |
MIACDefending champ: St. John's |
MWCDefending champ: Lake Forest |
NACCDefending champ: Aurora |
NCACDefending champ: DePauw |
NESCACDefending champ: |
NEWMACDefending champ: Springfield |
NJACDefending champ: Salisbury |
NWCDefending champ: Linfield |
OACDefending champ: Mount Union |
ODACDefending champ: Randolph-Macon |
PACDefending champ: Carnegie Mellon |
SAADefending champ: Trinity (Texas) |
SCIACDefending champ: CMS/PP (tied for first) |
UMACDefending champ: Northwestern (Minn.) |
USACDefending champ: Huntingdon |
WIACDefending champ: UW-Whitewater |