By Southern Pigskin Staff
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With Appalachian State and Georgia Southern ineligible for the poll, two SoCon teams landed in the preseason top 25.

RANK SCHOOL (FIRST-PLACE VOTES) 2012 RECORD POINTS FINAL 2012 RANK

1 North Dakota State (23) 14-1 645 1

2 Montana State (1) 11-2 591 5

3 Eastern Washington 11-3 549 4

4 Sam Houston State (1) 11-4 534 2

5 Wofford 9-4 450 7

6 Central Arkansas 9-3 428 10

7 South Dakota State 9-4 410 17

8 New Hampshire 8-4 386 13

9 Villanova 8-4 381 16

10 Illinois State 9-4 379 9

11 Cal Poly 9-3 348 11

12 Towson 7-4 347 15

13 Stony Brook 10-3 326 12

14 Richmond 8-3 274 18

15 James Madison 7-4 235 21

16 Northern Iowa 5-6 218 NR

17 Lehigh 10-1 198 14

18 Northern Arizona 8-2 196 20

19 Eastern Kentucky (1) 8-3 188 19

20 Bethune-Cookman 9-3 159 23

21 Coastal Carolina 8-5 140 24

22 Montana 6-2* 135 NR

23 Eastern Illinois 7-5 120 25

24 Youngstown State 7-4 107 NR

25 Chattanooga 6-5 104 NR

Others receiving votes: Wagner (87), Colgate (67), Tennessee State (52), Harvard (48), Delaware (47), The Citadel (39), Liberty (39), Arkansas Pine-Bluff (35), Indiana State (27), Stephen F. Austin (19), McNeese State (16), Penn (13), Alcorn State (12), Jacksonville State (11), Samford (10), Norfolk State (7), Alabama State (7), UC Davis (7), Southern Illinois (6), Maine (5), Albany (5), Tennessee Tech (5), UT Martin (4), Gardner Webb (4), Sacramento State (3), Hampton (3), San Diego (2), Jackson State (1), Missouri State (1), Brown (1).