Frontier Conference football coaches poll released

With a little over a month to go until kickoff, the votes are now in when it comes to predicting the 2023 Frontier Conference football champion. And this past week, the league's coaches touted the College of Idaho to win the Frontier title.

C of I won the 2022 regular season championship, and received five first place votes in the 2023 Frontier Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. The Yotes also won the title in 2020 as well.

In all, three teams got first-place votes in the poll. Montana Tech, led by former MSU-Northern great Kyle Samson, was picked to finish second, while Carroll College, headed by former Blue Pony head coach Troy Purcell, was picked third. Montana Western was picked fourth, followed by Rocky Mountain College.

It's also a new era for Frontier football after the league expanded last winter. Arizona Christian is the newest member of the league - and was picked sixth in the coaches poll.

Montana State University-Northern meanwhile, enters its second season under Jerome Souers, and the Lights were picked to finish ninth in the poll. Just ahead of the Lights was Southern Oregon and Eastern Oregon.

Northern kicks off its season Aug. 26 against Mayville State, with the game set for 11 a.m. at Tilleman Field.