Lindy Sports has Sycamores finishing 6th in preseason rag

[Jason Svoboda]

Lindys is nowhere near as detailed as the Sporting News preseason mag, but they did a prediction and here is how they have it looking:

1) North Dakota State
2) South Dakota State
3) Northern Iowa
4) Youngstown State
5) Illinois State
6) Indiana State
7) Southern Illinois
8) Missouri State
9) Western Illinois
10) South Dakota

OPoTY: Zach Zenner, South Dakota State
DPoTY: Colton Underwood, Illinois State

Outside of this, there is a quick paragraph devoted to the conference. Only thing they say about is is "graduation losses at Illinois State and Indiana State could be problematic." Profound.

Their Top 25:

1) North Dakota State
2) Georgia Southern *
3) Montana State
4) South Dakota State
5) Wofford
6) Eastern Washington
7) Central Arkansas
8) Towson
9) Villanova
10) Sam Houston State
11) New Hampshire
12) Appalachian State *
13) Northern Iowa
14) Stony Brook
15) Coastal Carolina
16) Northern Arizona
17) Bethune-Cookman
18) Eastern Illinois
19) Youngstown State
20) Chattanooga
21) Richmond
22) Illinois State
23) Montana
24) Wagner
25) Tennessee State

On their All-FCS team, they do list Shakir as co-first team RB along with SDSU's Zach Zenner. Their FCS MVP is Zenner, OPoTY is Erik Lora of EIU, DPoTY is Williams from NDSU and Newcomer of the Year is Bryan Bennett of SE Louisiana.