• Athlon Sports Website | FCS Preseason Top 25 | FCS Preseason All-Americans
Athlon Sports has ranked Jacksonville State and Eastern Kentucky in its Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Preseason Top 25 for 2016 while also tabbing two OVC players as preseason All-Americans in its annual yearbook which was published recently.
The publication ranked last year's national runner-up Jacksonville State No. 5 while picking Eastern Kentucky, under the leadership of first-year head coach Mark Elder, No. 25.
The two players named to the preseason All-American team both came from the back-to-back defending OVC champion Jacksonville State Gamecocks in senior quarterback
Eli Jenkins and senior offensive center
Casey Dunn.
The OVC will announce its official predicted order of finish preseason poll and preseason All-OVC teams on Monday, July 18 as part of its annual Media Day festivities.
2016 Athlon Sports Preseason FCS Top 25
1. North Dakota State
2. Sam Houston State
3. Northern Iowa
4. Richmond
5. Jacksonville State
6. Charleston Southern
7. Chattanooga
8. South Dakota State
9. Coastal Carolina
10. The Citadel
11. Illinois State
12. Eastern Washington
13. William & Mary
14. James Madison
15. North Dakota
16. Montana
17. McNeese State
18. Towson
19. Western Illinois
20. Villanova
21. Portland State
22. Youngstown State
23. Colgate
24. Northern Arizona
25. Eastern Kentucky