Eagles start season ranked No. 1

Published 1:52 pm Tuesday, August 16, 2011

<p>Cody Humphrey</p>

The Eastern Washington Eagles are picking up where

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they left off last season after winning the NCAA Division I

Football Championship Subdivisionn in 2010-11.

Eastern, led by quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, was

tabbed as the top squad in the nation in The Sports

Network/Fathead.com FCS preseason poll. The Eagles garnered 90

first-place votes and 3,377 points overall to stay in front of No.

2 Appalachian State. William and Mary is ranked third, followed by

Georgia Southern and Delaware to round out the top five.

Big Sky Conference rival Montana State is ranked

sixth to begin the season.

Cody Humphrey, a 2009 graduate of Hermiston High

School, is in his third year with the program. He redshirted his

first year in 2009 and was a non-letter winning team member last

season. He was named the offensive scout team player of the week

once last year as an offensive lineman.

This season, hes listed as a backup at left

offensive tackle on the depth chart. He is an applied developmental

psychology major.

The Eagles went 13-2 last year and defeated Delaware,

20-19, in the NCAA FCS title game.

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