ST. LOUIS – The Drake University football team is picked third in the 2021 Pioneer Football League standings in a preseason vote of the league's head coaches, the PFL office announced Tuesday, July 27.
Drake received 67 points for a third-place nod behind Davidson (97) and San Diego (93). Davidson, which snapped San Diego's streak of PFL regular-season titles at six this past spring, received eight first-place votes. The Toreros received the remaining three first-place votes and were tabbed second on the other seven ballots. Dayton rounds out the top four with 62 points. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams.