Posted: Oct 02, 2023
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Only one Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) team earned votes in the fourth regular-season edition of the NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Poll, which was announced on Monday.
Reinhardt received 55 voting points to hold steady at No. 24.
The Eagles are 2-2 on the year.
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
- Each conference is given one rater for every four schools in the league.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second place, and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team's ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes."
| RANK | LAST TIME | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Northwestern (Iowa) [18] | 5-0 | 418 |
| 2 | 2 | Grand View (Iowa) | 5-0 | 401 |
| 3 | 3 | Morningside (Iowa) | 5-0 | 387 |
| 4 | 4 | Indiana Wesleyan | 5-0 | 368 |
| 5 | 5 | Marian (Ind.) | 4-0 | 352 |
| 6 | 6 | Bethel (Tenn.) | 5-0 | 339 |
| 7 | 8 | Southwestern (Kan.) | 5-0 | 305 |
| 8 | 9 | Carroll (Mont.) | 5-0 | 300 |
| 9 | 7 | Keiser (Fla.) | 2-2 | 299 |
| 10 | 10 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 4-1 | 269 |
| 11 | 11 | Montana Tech | 4-1 | 260 |
| 12 | 12 | College of Idaho | 4-1 | 234 |
| 13 | 15 | Concordia (Mich.) | 4-0 | 219 |
| 14 | 14 | Dordt (Iowa) | 4-0 | 216 |
| 15 | 16 | Saint Xavier (Ill.) | 3-2 | 186 |
| 16 | 17 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | 3-2 | 156 |
| 17 | 13 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 4-1 | 152 |
| 18 | 18 | Evangel (Mo.) | 6-0 | 147 |
| 19 | 20 | Georgetown (Ky.) | 2-1 | 113 |
| 20 | 21 | Texas Wesleyan | 4-1 | 106 |
| 21 | 22 | Benedictine (Kan.) | 4-2 | 86 |
| 22 | 23 | Dickinson State (N.D.) | 4-1 | 79 |
| 23 | 19 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 4-1 | 57 |
| 24 | 24 | Reinhardt (Ga.) | 2-2 | 55 |
| 25 | 25 | OUAZ (Ariz.) | 4-1 | 47 |
Receiving Votes: Montana Western 32; Louisiana Christian 20; MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 11; Baker (Kan.) 6; Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 5