First you had the FCS Coaches Poll, then the PL Head Coaches/Sports Information Directors Poll, and now to round out the preseason hoopla you have Jeff Sagarin’s (USA Today) 2009 Division I Preseason Football Ratings. Each projects a four team race with little separating HC, LU, CU and LC.
As for Sagarin, here are his numbers……………..
DI Teams: 245
DI Leagues: 27 (including Independents)
League Rankings of Interest:
Colonel #12 (Villanova)
Ivy #18 (Princeton, Harvard, Yale)
Patriot League #20
NEC #25 (CCSU)
PL Rankings (245 teams)
LC 151
HC 153
LU 155
CU 156
FU 186
BU 205
GT 230
Based on the ratings Sagarin applies to each team, LU (52.96) and CCSU (39.89), the "projected" winner on Saturday is LU by 16. Don’t beat on it.