NOTES: The 24-game winning streak is tied for college football's longest in any division (NAIA and NCAA) -- Mount Union (Ohio), an NCAA Division III member, also holds 24 straight wins... No. 11 Saint Francis (Ind.) drops out of the top 10 for the first time since Sept. 23, 2003... Talk about consistency, the top three teams have been ranked the same each week in all 11 polls... No. 2 Carroll (Mont.) has been either No. 1 or No. 2 for the last 31 straight rankings... Sioux Falls (S.D.) has now been ranked No. 1 a total of 41 times since the 2000 season including 24 mentions since 2007... The No. 1 Sioux Falls defense has been getting the job done as no opposing player has rushed for 100 yards or more since the 2007 National Championship - a span of 24 games... Six teams in the country boast undefeated records with Carroll (Mont.) and St. Xavier (Ill.) holding the most wins (11)... The last time a team other than Carroll (Mont.) and Sioux Falls (S.D.) was ranked at No. 1 was Saint Francis (Ind.) on Nov. 12, 2006 - a streak of 39 polls... Carroll has now been ranked in the Top 5 in the last 62 straight polls dating back to November, 2004... St. Francis boasts the longest consecutive stretch of being named in the Coaches' Top 25 Poll - now standing at 126 straight mentions - the last time St. Francis was not mentioned in the Top 25 was Oct. 19, 1999... After St. Francis, Carroll is the next team in line with 113 straight Top 25 rankings while Sioux Falls stands at 112 straight mentions... Since 2000, Carroll has been ranked No. 1 53 times, the highest amount of any program during that time span; Sioux Falls is second with 41 mentions at No. 1 followed by Georgetown (Ky.) with 14, Northwestern Oklahoma State with 11 and St. Francis with three... Since 2000, there are seven teams that have been ranked at least one time each season - Carroll (Mont.), MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.), St. Ambrose (Iowa), St. Francis (Ind.), St. Xavier (Ill.), Sioux Falls (S.D.)... There are 77 schools that have been ranked at least once in the Top 25 since 2000, of that group of schools, six no longer sponsor NAIA football.
2009 NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Poll - (Nov. 9 - Rating #9)
|
RANK |
LAST WEEK |
SCHOOL (1st PLACE VOTES) |
2009 RECORD* |
TOTAL POINTS |
|
1 |
1 |
University of Sioux Falls (S.D.) (18) |
10-0 |
444 |
|
2 |
2 |
Carroll College (Mont.) (1) |
11-0 |
426 |
|
3 |
3 |
Lindenwood University (Mo.) |
9-0 |
411 |
|
4 |
4 |
Morningside College (Iowa) |
9-0 |
392 |
|
5 |
6 |
Saint Xavier University (Ill.) |
11-0 |
371 |
|
6 |
7 |
Ottawa University (Kan.) |
9-0 |
353 |
|
7 |
5 |
Lambuth University (Tenn.) |
9-1 |
340 |
|
8 |
10 |
MidAmerica Nazarene University (Kan.) |
9-1 |
326 |
|
9 |
11 |
McKendree University (Ill.) |
8-1 |
301 |
|
10 |
12 |
University of the Cumberlands (Ky.) |
9-1 |
284 |
|
11 |
8 |
University of Saint Francis (Ind.) |
7-2 |
258 |
|
12 |
9 |
Missouri Valley College |
7-2 |
246 |
|
13 |
14 |
Friends University (Kan.) |
8-1 |
240 |
|
14 |
13 |
Langston University (Okla.) |
6-2 |
238 |
|
15 |
15 |
McPherson College (Kan.) |
8-1 |
228 |
|
16 |
17 |
Hastings College (Neb.) |
8-2 |
181 |
|
17 |
19 |
Grand View University (Iowa) |
8-2 |
156 |
|
18 |
21 |
Minot State University (N.D.) |
8-2 |
140 |
|
19 |
20 |
Ohio Dominican University |
7-2 |
139 |
|
20 |
16 |
Dickinson State University (N.D.) |
7-3 |
127 |
|
21 |
23 |
Walsh University (Ohio) |
7-3 |
118 |
|
22 |
22 |
Eastern Oregon University |
7-4 |
82 |
|
23 |
18 |
Northwestern College (Iowa) |
7-3 |
68 |
|
24 |
RV |
Baker University (Kan.) |
6-3 |
51 |
|
25 |
RV |
Taylor University (Ind.) |
6-3 |
19 |
Others receiving votes:
Montana Tech of the Univ of Montana 11; Georgetown College (Ky.) 8; Shorter College (Ga.) 8; Black Hills State University (S.D.) 5; Campbellsville University (Ky.) 3; Central Methodist University (Mo.) 1; Midland Lutheran College (Neb.) 1; Sterling College (Kan.) 1
