Pre- Season Top 25 announced by D3football.com

If the quality of Ferrum's schedule has ever been in doubt, these doubts may have been erased with the release of the D3football.com preseason top 25. Three of Ferrum's opponents have received votes to be listed in the top 25, but lie just outside of that group. There are 239 Division 3 teams, and these votes theoretically extend the top 25 to the top 48.
Ferrum will play Hampden -Sydney in week three. This poll has the Tigers ranked 27th.  In week 4, Ferrum hosts Bridgewater, who is currently ranked 34th., and in week 10, Ferrum hosts Christopher Newport, who are currently ranked 40th.

The entire poll is below:

D3football.com 2011 preseason Top 25

Entering the 2011 season:

Rank	School (1st votes)	Rec	Pts	2010 final
1	UW-Whitewater (19)	15-0	619	1
2	Mount Union (6)	14-1	606	2
3	Wesley	12-1	561	4
4	North Central (Ill.)	12-1	526	3
5	St. Thomas	12-1	491	7
6	Mary Hardin-Baylor	12-1	481	5
7	Bethel	12-2	480	6
8	Wheaton (Ill.)	10-2	382	11
9	Linfield	9-2	347	9
10	Coe	9-2	321	14
11	Thomas More	11-1	277	15
12	Montclair State	10-2	270	19
13	Cortland State	10-2	267	18
14	Ohio Northern	10-2	259	8
15	Wartburg	10-1	238	12
16	Hardin-Simmons	8-2	230	24
17	Cal Lutheran	8-2	199	21
18	Alfred	10-3	195	13
19	Wabash	8-2	175	--
20	Wittenberg	10-1	165	17
21	Trine	11-1	129	10
22	Rowan	9-1	108	23
23	UW-Stevens Point	7-3	89	--
24	Franklin	9-2	86	22
25	St. John's	7-3	78	--

Others receiving votes: Delaware Valley 76, Hampden-Sydney 73, Central 64, Pacific Lutheran 62, Salisbury 55, Baldwin-Wallace 45, Springfield 29, Redlands 24, Bridgewater (Va.) 22, Johns Hopkins 16, Willamette 15, Louisiana College 13, Monmouth 10, St. John Fisher 9, Christopher Newport 9, Washington and Jefferson 6, DePauw 5, McMurry 3, Washington and Lee 3, Lebanon Valley 2, UW-Oshkosh 2, Millsaps 1, UW-Stout 1, Williams 1.