SBNation FanPulse Preseason Top 25: Northwestern gets some respect

And thanks to some conference-wide love, the Northwestern Wildcats are all the way up at #21 as one of eight Big Ten teams ranked.

As a reminder, SBNation’s new FanPulse for its college community serves as a way to make your voice heard with regards to both the national college football landscape and Northwestern specifically. Each week during the season, voters will fill out a poll ballot while also answering some questions about the Wildcats’ progress.

In the meantime, here are the full results of this first set of rankings:

Meanwhile, here are the Northwestern-specific poll results, as voted on by you, the members of the Inside NU community:

Northwestern Fans’ FanPulse Preseason Poll

The Wildcats are a modest four slots higher in our own poll, but otherwise the national landscape looks very similar, with only a few minor changes from the community’s poll as a whole.