Cheney Free Press -

Picking the Eagles one spot higher than the media did, the Eastern Washington University football team has been selected third in the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Top 25 Poll released on Monday (Aug. 19). Two weeks earlier, EWU was ranked fourth in the STATS preseason media poll. 

North Dakota State, which has won seven of eight NCAA Division I titles since EWU won it in 2010, was a unanimous No. 1 pick by the coaches. James Madison was ranked second, followed by EWU in third. South Dakota State was fourth, a year after JMU bowed out o...