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FCS 2020 PREVIEW: CAA Preseason Rankings

Brian McLaughlin by Brian McLaughlin
June 11, 2020
FCS 2020 PREVIEW: CAA Preseason Rankings

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Welcome to the 2020 FCS summer preview series.

Every week will be dedicated to a conference as we break down the top teams, top players and what you need to know about the league heading into the season. We’ll have standings predictions, preseason All-Conference teams, top players to keep an eye on, podcasts and more.

The full conference-by-conference schedule and all of our preview content can be seen right here.

This week, we have the …

Colonial Athletic Association

THE REASONING: The No. 1 through No. 6 schools listed below are the ones I had on my HERO Sports Preseason ballot for our Top 25, in that order. However … you can take No. 3 through No. 11 below, throw their school names on scribbled paper and in a hat, and pull them out, one by one. That’s probably just as good a shot at this fall’s order as any. Or why not go alphabetical? 

The truth is, this league is good, and it has mega-parity. Two thirds of this league won between five and seven games last year overall. And two thirds of this league finished between 5-3 and 3-5 in CAA play. So if you profess to know what in the hell is going to happen in the CAA this fall, you’re a liar, or you’ve invented a time-warp machine and flashed forward to Thanksgiving time, got the standings and you’re cheating. I do think one defining difference with this morass of talented teams is that elite quarterback play will break the ties. I think a few big-time names will emerge from this pack below and will take their teams above the fray and into the postseason.

I do feel strongly that the best two teams on paper are James Madison and Villanova, but I’m not firm in the order I have that in below, either. And after the first two? Just watch the sparks fly. I’ll be the first one looking for the coaches’ preseason CAA poll that comes out later this summer. I’m sure they’ll feel the same way in trying to rank this, and may just revert to last year’s rankings after they throw their hands up in the air out of frustration.

Preseason Rankings

NOTE: These rankings are a prediction of what the standings will look like at the end of the season. It is the opinion of the author of this story and may differ from the order of our staff’s Top 25 FCS rankings. Conference schedules are taken into consideration.

RankTeam
1James Madison
2Villanova
3Delaware
4Albany
5New Hampshire
6Elon
7Richmond
8Towson
9Stony Brook
10William & Mary
11Maine
12Rhode Island
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