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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