BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins football team has earned its second top-10 preseason ranking ahead of the 2026 season as the Blue Jays are ranked fourth in the D3football.com Preseason Top 25, which was announced today.  Earlier this summer the Blue Jays had drawn a number six preseason nod from Lindy's.
 
Johns Hopkins earned 515 points in the poll of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and members of the media.  Since the D3football.com Poll debuted in 2004, the number four ranking is the second-highest preseason ranking for the Blue Jays, surpassed only by a number three ranking in the 2025 preseason poll.
 
Johns Hopkins is the only Centennial Conference team in the D3football.com Preseason top 25, but three other CC teams (Franklin & Marshall, Muhlenberg and Carnegie Mellon) are among the teams listed as receiving votes in the poll.
 
In addition to the Blue Jays' three games against Centennial teams receiving votes, head coach Dan Wodicka's team also counts non-conference games against Ithaca (receiving votes), Randolph-Macon (#25) and Susquehanna (#20) on its 2026 schedule, meaning six of JHU's 10 opponents this season have drawn a spot in the D3football.com Preseason Poll.
 
Johns Hopkins will open the 2026 season on Saturday, September 5 when Ithaca visits Homewood Field.  The Blue Jays' exciting home schedule this season also features Susquehanna (Sept. 19), Gettysburg (Oct. 25), Muhlenberg (Oct. 31) and Franklin & Marshall (Nov. 13).
 
Johns Hopkins posted a 12-2 record and advanced to the NCAA Semifinals for the second consecutive year and the third time in program history last season.
 
D3football.com Preseason Top 25
1-North Central, 2-Bethel, 3-Mount Union, 4-Johns Hopkins, 5-Wheaton (IL), 6-Wisconsin-Platteville, 7-Wisconsin-River Falls, 8-John Carroll, 9-Wartburg, 10-Wisconsin-La Crosse, 11-St. John's (MN), 12-Wisconsin-Whitewater, 13-DePauw, 14-Trinity (TX), 15-Hardin-Simmons, 16-Berry, 17-Salisbury, 18-Christopher Newport, 19-Hope, 20-Susquehanna, 21-Mary Hardin-Baylor, 22-Coe, 23-Cortland, 24-Endicott, 25-Randolph-Macon