football moves up to No. 6

#	School (1st votes)	Rec.	Pts	Prev.
1	Mount Union (21)	1-0	621	1
2	Wis.-Whitewater (4)	2-0	590	2
3	Mary Hardin-Baylor	1-0	565	4
4	St. John's	2-0	505	7
5	Capital	1-0	501	6
6	MUHLENBERG	1-0	464	8
7	Wabash	1-0	405	9
8	Salisbury	2-0	392	11
9	Central	1-0	387	10
10	Wheaton (Ill.)	1-0	379	17
11	St. John Fisher	1-1	323	13
12	North Central (Ill.)	1-0	314	15
13	Bethel	1-1	306	5
14	Wis.-Eau Claire	1-1	305	12
15	Wesley	0-1	283	3
16	Washington and Jefferson	2-0	243	14
17	Franklin	2-0	197	19
18	Case Western Reserve	2-0	189	18
19	Ithaca	2-0	153	21
20	Cortland State	1-0	129	23
21	Trinity (Texas)	2-0	125	22
22	Millsaps	2-0	123	24
23	Redlands	1-0	112	25
24	Hardin-Simmons	2-0	98	--
25	Ohio Northern	0-1	76	16

Erik Snyder’s second-quarter touchdown gave the Mules a 17-7 lead in their season-opening 34-21 victory against Wilkes.

The Muhlenberg football team may have been idle last weekend, but the Mules were on the move in the D3football.com national poll.

The Mules moved up from No. 8 to No. 6 following losses by two of the teams that had been ranked ahead of them, Wesley and Bethel. The ranking is the highest in the Division III poll in program history.

Muhlenberg will put its ranking, and 12-game regular-season winning streak, to the test on Saturday when it travels to Schenectady, N.Y., to take on Union, a 24-14 winner at Springfield in its 2008 opener.