BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins football team has earned its second top-five preseason ranking ahead of the 2025 season as the Blue Jays are ranked third in the recently-released D3football.com Preseason Top 25.  Previously, the Blue Jays had also drawn a number three preseason nod from Lindy's.
 
Johns Hopkins earned 521 points in the poll of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and members of the media with the number three preseason ranking matching the Blue Jays' showing in final 2024 D3football.com Poll.  Since the D3football.com Poll debuted in 2004, the number three ranking is also the highest preseason ranking the Blue Jays have drawn; Johns Hopkins was ranked sixth in the 2019 preseason poll after advancing to the NCAA Semifinals in 2018 for its previous best spot in the preseason rankings.
 
Johns Hopkins is one of two Centennial Conference teams in the D3football.com Preseason top 25 as league newcomer Carnegie Mellon checks in at #18.  In addition to the highly anticipated game against the Tartans on October 11, the Blue Jays will play two non-conference games against teams that qualified for the NCAA Playoffs last season.  Johns Hopkins will welcome John Carroll to Homewood Field for the home opener on September 13 and will then travel to Susquehanna a week later to wrap up non-conference play.  The Blue Streaks are ranked 25^th in the D3footall.com Preseason Poll after advancing to the second round of the NCAAs in 2024, while the River Hawks, who advanced to the NCAA Semifinals a year ago, are ranked fourth.
 
Johns Hopkins will open the 2025 season on Saturday, September 6 at Ithaca; the Bombers are among the teams listed as receiving votes in the D3football.com Preseason Poll.  In addition, The Blue Jays will welcome Centennial Conference rival and 2024 NCAA participant Ursinus (October 18) to Homewood Field, while road trips to perennial Centennial heavyweights Muhlenberg (November 1) and Franklin & Marshall (November 15) are two of the three away games the Blue Jays will play in the final four weeks of the season.
 
Johns Hopkins posted a 12-2 record, including a perfect 6-0 mark in the Centennial Conference, and advanced to the NCAA Semifinals for the second time in program history last season.
 
D3football.com Preseason Top 25
1-North Central, 2-Mount Union, 3-Johns Hopkins, 4-Susquehanna, 5-St. John's (MN), 6-Hardin-Simmons, 7-Salisbury, 8-Mary Hardin-Baylor, 9-Wartburg, 10-Cortland, 11-Wisconsin-La Crosse, 12-Bethel, 13-Springfield, 14-DePauw, 15-Wisconsin-Platteville, 16-Linfield, 17-Wheaton (IL), 18-Carnegie Mellon, 19-Wisconsin-River Falls, 20-Hope, 21-Randolph-Macon, 22-Aurora, 23-Grove City, 24-Wisconsin-Whitewater, 25-John Carroll