Football Team Picked 10th In Preseason Poll
7/1/2009 9:27:55 PM
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Bomber football team is ranked 10th in USA Today Sports Weekly's preseason poll. Ithaca finished 9-2 in 2008 and reached the NCAA playoffs for the fifth time in eight years.
The Bombers return 41 letter winners from last year's team, which won the Empire 8 title and recorded the program's 38th straight winning season (the second longest strek at any level of college football). Ithaca opens the 2009 season Sept. 5 at St. Lawrence.
USA Today Sports Weekly 2009 College Football Special Edition Preseason Top 25
1. Mount Union
2. Wisconsin-Whitewater
3. Mary Hardin-Baylor
4. Hardin-Simmons
5. North Central
6. Wisconsin-Stevens Point
7. Willamette
8. Wheaton (Ill.)
9. Wartburg
10. ITHACA
11. Wesley
12. Cortland
13. St. John's (Minn.)
14. Monmouth (Ill.)
15. Washington & Jefferson
16. Hobart
17. St. Thomas (Minn.)
18. Case Western Reserve
19. DePauw
20. Trinity (Texas)
21. Christopher Newport
22. Curry
23. Redlands
24. Salisbury
25. Delaware Valley