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Wittenberg Football Team Ranked Seventh
in Two Preseason Publications

Posted July 3, 2002
Posted by: Ryan Maurer

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Wittenberg University football team, which returns 16 starters from last year's 11-2 team, once again has experts believing they have the talent to make a run at a national championship. Both Street and Smith's College Football Preview 2002 and Lindy's 2002 National College Football Preview gave the Tigers a preseason ranking of seventh.

Preseason Rankings

Street and Smith's	Lindy's
1. St. John's (Minn.)	1. Mount Union
2. Mount Union	2. Bridgewater
3. Rowan	3. St. Johns
4. Augustana (Ill.)	4. Rowan
5. Widener	5. Ohio Northern
6. Washington & Jefferson	6. Washington & Jefferson
7. Wittenberg	7. Wittenberg
8. Ohio Northern	8. Howard Payne
9. Wisconsin-Stevens Point	9. Wisconsin-Stevens Point
10. Bridgewater	10. Hardin-Simmons
11. Trinity (Texas)	11. Central (Iowa)
12. Pacific Lutheran	12. Pacific Lutheran
13. Lycoming	13. Thomas More
14. Western Connecticut	14. John Carroll
15. Montclair State	15. Trinity (Texas)
16. Western Maryland	16. Whitworth
17. Hardin-Simmons	17. Wartburg
18. Wisconsin-Stout	18. Bethel
19. Westfield State	19. Wabash
20. Wabash	20. Widener
21. King's (Pa)	21. Lycoming
22. Linfield	22. McDaniel College
23. Central (Iowa)	23. Augustana
24. Mary Hardin-Baylor	24. Ithaca
25. John Carroll	25. St. Norbert

Two members of the Wittenberg football team also received preseason recognition from Lindy's. Both senior center Adam McClain (Danville Ind./Community) and senior defensive lineman Allen D'Andrea (Naples, Fla./Barron Collier) were named to the preseason All-Division III second team. Street & Smith's names only a first team, and no Tigers were named to that squad.

Wittenberg, which was the highest ranked team in the North Coast Athletic Conference in either poll and is seeking an unprecedented fifth straight NCAC title, opens the 2002 season at home versus Albion College at 1 p.m., Saturday, September 7.

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