D3football.com Top 25 Poll
BELTON, Texas – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team tops the D3football.com Preseason Top 25 poll, released Tuesday.
UMHB went 15-0 last season and won the program's second NCAA Division III national title. UMHB totaled 619 points and 23 first-place votes to lead the poll by more than 30 points. North Central is ranked second with 587 points. The Cardinals went 13-1 last season, falling 57-24 to the Cru in the 2021 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. Mount Union is ranked third with 577 points and two first-place votes while UW-Whitewater is fourth with 537 points. Both teams went 13-1 last season, ending their campaigns in the semifinal round.
St. John's rounds out the top five with 480 points, followed by Hardin-Simmons in sixth with 451 points and Linfield in seventh with 445 points. Wheaton, Trinity and Johns Hopkins round out the top 10.
UMHB is set to face three top-25 opponents this season. The Cru opens the season hosting No. 11 Muhlenberg on September 3
rd. UMHB then travels to No. 4 UW-Whitewater before taking on No. 6 Hardin-Simmons on September 24
th in Abilene.
For more information on the 2022 schedule or to purchase tickets, visit
www.cruathletics.com.
