UW-Platteville Ranked No. 23 in D3Football.com Preseason Poll
The start of fall practice is just a few days away for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville football team. Construction continues on a brand new Daktronics video scoreboard at Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium but the headlines for Monday centered around the Pioneers being ranked No. 23 in the D3football.com preseason Top 25 poll.
The start of fall practice is just a few days away for the
University of Wisconsin-Platteville football team. Construction
continues on a brand new Daktronics video scoreboard at Ralph E.
Davis Pioneer Stadium but the headlines for Monday centered around the Pioneers being
ranked No. 23 in the D3football.com preseason Top 25 poll.
UW-Platteville is coming off a 7-3 campaign in 2011 that returns
eight offensive starters, nine more on defense as well as a
specialist in 2012. The No. 23 ranking is the highest the Pioneers
have been ranked since October
2004, when they started 4-0 and beat Drake, Augustana
and UW-Whitewater to begin the season, when they were ranked No. 20
in that poll.
At the top of the poll is defending champion, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, who received 17 of 25 first-place votes. The
Pioneers and the Warhawks are the only two teams from the WIAC and
UW-Platteville is one of just four teams that was not ranked in the
final top 25 poll in 2011.
Complete poll