(Wednesday, September 23; Sioux Center, Iowa) The most recent NAIA Football Top 25 Poll has been released and the Dordt Defenders are no. 16 in the voting.
Dordt is 1-2 this season with losses to now no. 4 Indiana Wesleyan and no. 7 Morningside. Dordt will go on the road this weekend to face Concordia in GPAC play.
The Great Plains Athletic Conference now has four teams in the poll with Northwestern (7), Midland (18), and Northwestern (22) are in the weekly poll.
The first Football Performance Index will be released on October 12 and the first ARC standings will be published on October 28.
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| RANK |
LAST |
INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
RECORD |
| 1 |
2 |
Keiser (Fla.) [8] |
1-1 |
| 2 |
3 |
Montana Tech [4] |
4-0 |
| 3 |
4 |
College of Idaho [1] |
3-0 |
| 4 |
6 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
4-0 |
| 5 |
9 |
Benedictine (Kan.) |
3-1 |
| 6 |
1 |
Grand View (Iowa) |
3-1 |
| 7 |
8 |
Morningside (Iowa) |
3-1 |
| 8 |
7 |
Friends (Kan.) |
4-0 |
| 9 |
10 |
Campbellsville (Ky.) |
4-0 |
| 10 |
14 |
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
4-0 |
| 11 |
T-11 |
Marian (Ind.) |
3-1 |
| 12 |
5 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
3-1 |
| 13 |
15 |
Carroll (Mont.) |
2-1 |
| 14 |
16 |
Southeastern (Fla.) |
2-0 |
| 15 |
18 |
McPherson (Kan.) |
4-0 |
| 16 |
T-11 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
1-2 |
| 17 |
22 |
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) |
3-0 |
| 18 |
RV |
Midland (Neb.) |
4-0 |
| 19 |
T-19 |
William Penn (Iowa) |
3-1 |
| 20 |
T-19 |
Louisiana Christian |
3-1 |
| 21 |
23 |
Dakota State (S.D.) |
3-1 |
| 22 |
13 |
Northwestern (Iowa) |
2-2 |
| 23 |
T-24 |
Baker (Kan.) |
3-0 |
| 24 |
17 |
Evangel (Mo.) |
3-1 |
| 25 |
T-24 |
Georgetown (Ky.) |
2-2 |
Receiving Votes:Â Cumberland (Tenn.), Cumberlands (Ky.), Kansas Wesleyan, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.), Montana Western, OUAZ (Ariz.), Southwestern (Kan.), Taylor (Ind.).
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