(Tuesday, October 20; Sioux Center, Iowa) The Dordt Defender football team is up two spots in the most recent NAIA Football Top 25 Poll released earlier this week. Dordt is 12^th in the final version of the coaches' poll before it becomes the NAIA National Selection Committee Poll and will be a Top 15 version moving forward.

Dordt was a 49-3 winner over Briar Cliff on Saturday to improve to 5-2 overall and 5-1 in the GPAC and the Defenders have now won four games in a row. Dordt is scheduled to travel to face Mount Marty on Saturday, October 24 before concluding the home season against Waldorf on October 31.  Dordt has four games remaining on the regular season schedule and their two losses are to Morningside and no. 9 Indiana Wesleyan.

Dordt is one of four teams in the poll this week with Morningside holding no. 6, Midland no. 18, Northwestern no. 19.
 

RANK	LAST	INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES]	RECORD
1	1	College of Idaho [13]	6-0
2	3	Benedictine (Kan.)	7-1
3	4	Grand View (Iowa)	6-1
4	9	St. Thomas (Fla.)	7-0
5	5	Montana Tech	6-1
6	6	Morningside (Iowa)	6-1
7	7	Friends (Kan.)	7-0
8	8	Marian (Ind.)	6-1
9	10	Indiana Wesleyan	6-1
11	11	Carroll (Mont.)	6-1
T-12	13	Campbellsville (Ky.)	6-1
T-12	14	Dordt (Iowa)	5-2
14	15	Louisiana Christian	7-1
15	17	Georgetown (Ky.)	4-2
16	18	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	5-2
17	12	McPherson (Kan.)	6-1
18	19	Midland (Neb.)	6-1
19	20	Northwestern (Iowa)	6-2
20	22	Southeastern (Fla.)	5-1
21	23	Baker (Kan.)	5-1
22	16	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)	5-1
23	RV	Southwestern (Kan.)	6-1
24	RV	Cumberlands (Ky.)	5-2
25	RV	Taylor (Ind.)	5-2

Dropped out of the Top 25: Cumberland (Tenn.), Evangel (Mo.), William Penn (Iowa)
Receiving Votes: Cumberland (Tenn.), Dakota State (S.D.), Eastern Oregon, Evangel (Mo.), Kansas Wesleyan, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.), Ottawa (Kan.), OUAZ (Ariz.), William Penn (Iowa)