UTC's Corey Levin (62) has been selected as a member of the Sporting News Pre-season All FCS team. Last season Levin was an All American and First Team All Southern Conference honoree. He was also the conference's Jacob Blocking Award winner.
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We have not even reached June yet, but the preseason prognostications are already starting for the upcoming college football season. Sporting News has already released its 2015 College Football Preview and picked the Mocs No. 8 in its preseason FCS top-25 and No. 1 in the Southern Conference.
Chattanooga is coming off a 10-4 overall record that included a trip to the quarterfinals of the FCS Playoffs. UTC returns 42 lettermen and 16 starters to a squad that went 7-0 in Southern Conference action for the first time in school history.
Chattanooga’s season opener will be the biggest FCS game in the country.
The Mocs host Jacksonville State on Saturday, Sept. 5, at Finley Stadium. The Gamecocks are No. 7 in the Sporting News Poll and are coming off a 10-2 mark last season.
The Mocs dropped last season’s match up with JSU in overtime. UTC lost that one 26-23 at home on Sept. 6. Jacksonville State won the OVC last year, and this is the only regular season FCS game in the country between two outright conference champs.
Junior offensive lineman Corey Levin gets his first preseason recognition by earning a spot on the Sporting News Preseason All-FCS team. An All-American and first team All-SoCon honoree last season, Levin was the league’s Jacobs Blocking Award winner a year ago.
Season tickets are on sale now for UTC’s 2015 five-game home slate. Order online on GoMocs.com or call the UTC Ticket Office at 423-266-MOCS (6627).
Sporting News FCS Preseason Top-25 Poll
1. North Dakota State
2. Sam Houston State
3. Illinois State
4. Villanova
5. Eastern Washington
6. Coastal Carolina
7. Jacksonville State
8. Chattanooga
9. Montana State
10. Youngstown State
11. Northern Iowa
12. James Madison
13. Idaho State
14. Eastern Kentucky
15. Montana
16. Liberty
17. Stephen F. Austin
18. New Hampshire
19. Indiana State
20. Alcorn State
21. Southeastern Louisiana
22. Northern Arizona
23. South Dakota State
24. Charleston Southern
25. Eastern Illinois
The Mocs will once again look to senior quarterback Jacob Huesman (14) to lead an offense that went 7-0 in Southern Conference play last year.
photo by File/Dennis Norwood