Bobcats Tied for 7th in HERO Sports FCS Preseason Poll

BOZEMAN, Montana – When Montana State opens the 2021 football season at Wyoming on September 4 in Laramie it will carry the program’s highest preseason ranking in eight years. The Bobcats landed tied for seventh with Big Sky rival Weber State in the HERO Sports Preseason Top 25, released Thursday.
 
MSU is one of five Big Sky schools ranked by HERO Sports. UM enters the season ranked ninth, Eastern Washington is 16^th, and Sacramento State is tied for 23^rd with East Tennessee State. Reigning national champions Sam Houston State begins the fall ranked first, followed by James Madison, South Dakota State, North Dakota State, Southern Illinois, and Delaware.
 
The Big Sky Conference and Missouri Valley Football Conference each placed five teams in the poll.
 
 
2021 HERO Sports Preseason Top 25
1. Sam Houston
2. James Madison
3. South Dakota State
4. North Dakota State
5. Southern Illinois 
6. Delaware
t7. Montana State
t7. Weber State
9. Montana 
10. North Dakota
11. Central Arkansas
12. Monmouth
t13. Southeastern Louisiana 
t13. VMI
15. Jacksonville State
16. Eastern Washington
17. Villanova
18. Austin Peay

19. North Carolina A&T
20. Chattanooga
21. Alcorn State
22. Murray State
t23. East Tennessee State
t23. Sacramento State
25. Missouri State