2018 Preseason Conference Polls

***Updated (7/26) with Patriot League, (7/30) with MEAC and MVFC., and (8/20) with Ivy League

With the 2018 season just around the corner and FCS conferences around the country holding their media days here’s a rundown of the preseason conference polls as they are released.

Big Sky (media)

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Eastern Washington	651	27
2	Weber State	636	19
3	Northern Arizona	535	1
4	Montana	496	2
5	Idaho	483	3
6	Southern Utah	449	1
7	Sacramento State	415
8	Montana State	391	1
9	UC Davis	331
10	Idaho State	170
11	Cal Poly	169
12	Northern Colorado	166
13	Portland State	103

Big Sky (coaches)

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Eastern Washington	134	6
2	Weber State	124	3
3	Northern Arizona	121	3
4	Idaho	101	1
5	Sacramento State	94
6	Southern Utah	91
7	Montana	82
8	Montana State	73
9	UC Davis	64
10	Cal Poly	40
11	Northern Colorado	30
12	Idaho State	29
13	Portland State	21

Big South

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Kennesaw State	107	17
2	Monmouth	82	1
3	Charleston Southern	75
4	Gardner-Webb	52
5	Campbell	36
6	Presbyterian	26

CAA

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	James Madison	241	21
2	New Hampshire	206	2
3	Delaware	182
4	Stony Brook	169
5	Elon	168	1
6	Villanova	164
7	Richmond	127
8	Maine	81
9	Albany	78
10	Towson	74
11	William & Mary	55
12	Rhode Island	39

Ivy League

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Yale	129	11
2	Princeton	104	3
3	Harvard	99	1
4T	Columbia	76	1
4T	Penn	76	1
6	Dartmouth	65
7	Cornell	37
8	Brown	26

MEAC

Rank	Team	First Place Votes
1	North Carolina A&T	19
2	Howard
3	N.C. Central
4	Bethune-Cookman
5	Florida A&M	1
6	Norfolk State
7	S.C. State
8	Savannah State
9	Morgan State
10	Delaware State

MVFC

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	North Dakota State	390	39
2	South Dakota State	340
3	UNI	270
4	Youngstown State	258
5	Illinois State	248
6	South Dakota	206
7	Western Illinois	163
8	Southern Illinois	139
9	Missouri State	90
10	Indiana State	41

NEC

Rank	Team	First Place Votes
1	Central Connecticut State	5
2	Duquesne	1
3	Bryant	1
4	Saint Francis
5	Wagner
6	Sacred Heart
7	Robert Morris

OVC

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Jacksonville State	126	14
2	Austin Peay	112	4
3	Tennessee-Martin	95
4	Eastern Illinois	73
5	EKU	69
6	Tennessee State	64
7	Southeast Missouri	62
8	Murray State	24
9	Tennessee Tech	23

Patriot League

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Colgate	71	11
2	Lehigh	63	3
3	Fordham	45
4	Holy Cross	40
T5	Bucknell	31
T5	Lafayette	31
7	Georgetown	13

SOCON (media)

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Samford	204	20
2	Furman	174	2
3	Wofford	163	1
4	Mercer	133
5	Western Carolina	114
6	Chattanooga	88
7	The Citadel	83
8	ETSU	53
9	VMI	23

SOCON (coaches)

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Samford	63	7
2	Wofford	53	1
3	Furman	52	1
4	Western Carolina	39
5	Chattanooga	34
6	Mercer	32
7	The Citadel	28
8	ETSU	15
9	VMI	8

Southland

Rank	Team	Total Points	First Place Votes
1	Sam Houston State	187	10
2	Nicholls	173	6
3	Central Arkansas	170	5
4	McNeese	159	1
5	Southeastern Louisiana	119
6	Stephen F Austin	90
7	Abilene Christian	89
8	Northwestern State	86
9	UIW	53
10	Lamar	52
11	Houston Baptist	32