RPI Football Ranked Nationally In Preseason

The RPI Engineers football team will enter the season ranked 19th in the country. Last season the Engineers won the Liberty League, and reached the Elite 8 of the NCAA playoffs. The Engineers won ten games and suffered just two losses. One was to their cross town rival Union while the was to Johns Hopkins in the regional final.

Below is the complete 2019 preseason poll from https://www.d3football.com/top25/2019/preseason

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1	Mary Hardin-Baylor (24)	15-0	624
2	Mount Union (1)	14-1	599
3	St. John's	12-1	566
4	UW-Whitewater	12-1	555
5	North Central (Ill.)	10-2	482
6	Johns Hopkins	12-2	457
7	St. Thomas	8-2	414
8	Muhlenberg	11-2	405
9	Hardin-Simmons	9-2	397
10	Bethel	11-2	396
11	Whitworth	10-1	336
12	Linfield	7-2	291
13	Brockport	11-1	230
14	Delaware Valley	9-2	223
15	Illinois Wesleyan	8-2	197
16	Berry	10-2	190
17	John Carroll	9-2	168
18	Wittenberg	9-1	162
19	RPI	10-2	152
20	Centre	10-2	137
21	Washington and Jefferson	9-2	132
22	Wheaton (Ill.)	8-2	109
23	Wabash	9-1	105
24	Randolph-Macon	9-3	91
25	St. Norbert	10-2	83

Others receiving votes: Trine 73; UW-La Crosse 71; Wartburg 61; Wesley 59; Washington U. 58; Montclair State 49; Alfred 48; Ithaca 42; UW-Oshkosh 40; Central 29; Case Western Reserve 25; Baldwin Wallace 20; Salisbury 15; Trinity (Texas) 10; Hope 10; Redlands 6; Marietta 3; Trinity (Conn.) 3, MIT 2.

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