WACO, TX (KFGO)\u2013 Defending national champion North Dakota State will begin the 2022 season as the No. 1 team in the AFCA FCS Coaches Top 25 poll, which was released Monday, Aug. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
North Dakota State went 14-1 overall and won its ninth national title in 11 seasons last year. The Bison earned 24 of 25 possible first-place votes in the poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Montana, a national quarterfinalist last year, is No. 2 in the preseason poll followed by South Dakota State, which received one first-place vote. National runner-up Montana State starts the year No. 4 followed by Villanova at No. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Missouri Valley Football Conference has five ranked teams including No. 8 Missouri State, No. 9 Southern Illinois and No. 21 Northern Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022 Preseason AFCA FCS Coaches Top 25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Others receiving votes:<\/strong> South Dakota 49, Florida A&M 44, Harvard 38, South Carolina St. 38, Princeton 29, Central Arkansas 23, Eastern Kentucky 18, Dartmouth 17, Nicholls 8, Furman 6, North Carolina A&T 6, William & Mary 6, Murray St. 5, Davidson 3, Fordham 3, Southeast Missouri St. 3, North Dakota 2, Utah Tech 2, Austin Peay 1, Elon 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WACO, TX (KFGO)\u2013 Defending national champion North Dakota State will begin the 2022 season as the No. 1 team in the AFCA FCS Coaches Top 25 poll, which was released Monday, Aug. 15. North Dakota State went 14-1 overall and won its ninth national title in 11 seasons last year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254299,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254297\/revisions\/254299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/td> Team (First-Place Votes)<\/strong><\/td> 2021
W-L<\/strong><\/td>Pts<\/strong><\/td> Final
2021<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>1.<\/td> North Dakota St. (24)<\/td> 14-1<\/td> 624<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> 2.<\/td> Montana<\/td> 10-3<\/td> 567<\/td> 6<\/td><\/tr> 3.<\/td> South Dakota St. (1)<\/td> 11-4<\/td> 566<\/td> 5<\/td><\/tr> 4.<\/td> Montana St.<\/td> 12-3<\/td> 560<\/td> 2<\/td><\/tr> 5.<\/td> Villanova<\/td> 10-3<\/td> 493<\/td> 8<\/td><\/tr> 6.<\/td> Kennesaw St.<\/td> 11-2<\/td> 453<\/td> 10<\/td><\/tr> 7.<\/td> Sacramento St.<\/td> 9-3<\/td> 452<\/td> 11<\/td><\/tr> 8.<\/td> Missouri St.<\/td> 8-4<\/td> 405<\/td> 14<\/td><\/tr> 9.<\/td> Southern Illinois<\/td> 8-5<\/td> 379<\/td> 17<\/td><\/tr> 10.<\/td> Stephen F. Austin<\/td> 8-4<\/td> 362<\/td> 18<\/td><\/tr> 11.<\/td> East Tennessee St.<\/td> 11-2<\/td> 352<\/td> 7<\/td><\/tr> 12.<\/td> Eastern Washington<\/td> 10-3<\/td> 337<\/td> 9<\/td><\/tr> 13.<\/td> Chattanooga<\/td> 6-5<\/td> 294<\/td> NR<\/td><\/tr> 14.<\/td> Incarnate Word<\/td> 10-3<\/td> 277<\/td> 13<\/td><\/tr> 15.<\/td> Tennessee-Martin<\/td> 10-3<\/td> 257<\/td> 12<\/td><\/tr> 16.<\/td> Southeastern Louisiana<\/td> 9-4<\/td> 254<\/td> 15<\/td><\/tr> 17.<\/td> Jackson St.<\/td> 11-2<\/td> 245<\/td> 19<\/td><\/tr> 18.<\/td> Holy Cross<\/td> 10-3<\/td> 184<\/td> 22<\/td><\/tr> 19.<\/td> Delaware<\/td> 5-6<\/td> 172<\/td> NR<\/td><\/tr> 20.<\/td> Weber St.<\/td> 6-5<\/td> 141<\/td> NR<\/td><\/tr> 21.<\/td> Northern Iowa<\/td> 6-6<\/td> 119<\/td> 25<\/td><\/tr> 22.<\/td> UC Davis<\/td> 8-4<\/td> 101<\/td> 16<\/td><\/tr> 23.<\/td> Mercer<\/td> 7-3<\/td> 78<\/td> NR<\/td><\/tr> 24t.<\/td> Rhode Island<\/td> 7-4<\/td> 66<\/td> NR<\/td><\/tr> 24t.<\/td> Richmond<\/td> 6-5<\/td> 66<\/td> NR<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n