June 28, 1010

College Fanz™ Sports Network has the University of Saint Francis football team at No. 8 in its preseason National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Football Top 25 rankings released today.

The rankings were compiled by veteran NAIA guru and College Fanz director of college relations Jason Dannelly, along with members of the College Fanz NAIA Football Game of the Week broadcast team.

“Finding the top teams in the country is not too difficult,” said Dannelly. “Rating all 93 teams in the country is the tough part. It’s very tough to predict how some of these teams will do early in the season. Thankfully the rest of the College Fanz team was able to help out and pitch in their hours of research for this rating.”

Grabbing the top spot in the ranking are the back-to-back defending NAIA National Champions, the University of Sioux Falls Cougars, who have been rated in the College Fanz NAIA ranking’s top spot since winning the 2008 NAIA National Title. The Cougars have a veteran wide receiver core led by one of the NAIA’s best in Jon Ryan. Defensively the Cougars looked to be strong again but will have to replace seven key starters from last year’s top defense in the NAIA.

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