JC Football Top 25 Rankings

Seattle, Wash. - Mississippi Gulf Coast opens the 2009 junior college football season ranked number one in the annual JC Grid-Wire Top 25. The Bulldogs, who won the MACJC and finished 10-2 last year, start their 2009 campaign against Northwest Mississippi. A genuine test in week one. The rest of the top five are a who's who of community college power players.

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NATIONAL PRE-SEASON TOP 25

8/25/09

1. Mississippi Gulf Coast C.C. (Perkinston, Miss.)
2. Mt. San Antonio College (Walnut, Calif.)
3. Blinn College (Brenham, Tex.)
4. Butler C.C. (El Dorado, Kans.)
5. El Camino (Torrance, Calif.)
6. Fullerton College (Fullerton, Calif.)
7. Navarro College (Corsicana, Tex.)
8. Georgia Military College (Milledgeville, Georgia)
9. East Mississippi C.C. (Scooba, Miss.)
10. Fresno College (Fresno, Calif.)
11. CC San Francisco (San Francisco, Calif.)
12. Snow College (Ephraim, Utah)
13. Hutchinson C.C. (Hutchinson, Kans.)
14. Palomar College (San Marcos, Calif.)
15. Pearl River C.C. (Poplarville, Calif.)
16. College of the Canyons (Valencia, Calif.)
17. Grossmont College (El Cajon, Calif.)
18. Fort Scott C.C. (Fort Scott, Kans.)
19. College of San Mateo (San Mateo, Calif.)
20. Saddleback College (Mission Viejo, Calif.)
21. Sierra College (Rocklin, Calif.)
22. Arizona Western College (Yuma, Ariz.)
23. Cerritos College (Norwalk, Calif.)
24. Garden City C.C. (Garden City, Kans.)
25. Santa Ana College (Santa Ana, Calif.)

Others - Antelope Valley College, Butte College, Central Lakes College, Chaffey College, Dean College, College of DuPage, Eastern Arizona College, Ellsworth C.C., Foothill College, Glendale C.C. (Ariz.), Itawamba C.C., Jones County J.C., Lackawanna College, Nassau, Northwest Mississippi C.C., Pasadena C.C., Reedley College, San Joaquin Delta College, Santa Rosa J.C., College of Sequoias, Trinity Valley C.C., Tyler J.C. (Tyler, Tex.)