Reinhardt Climbs One Spot in Latest NAIA Poll

October 10, 2023

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Only one Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) team earned votes in the fifth regular-season edition of the NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Poll, which was announced on Monday.

Reinhardt received 64 voting points to move up to No. 23.

The Eagles are 3-2 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]	6-0	418
2	2	Grand View (Iowa)	5-0	401
3	3	Morningside (Iowa)	6-0	387
4	4	Indiana Wesleyan	6-0	368
5	5	Marian (Ind.)	5-0	355
6	7	Southwestern (Kan.)	6-0	328
7	8	Carroll (Mont.)	5-0	319
8	9	Keiser (Fla.)	3-2	311
9	10	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	4-1	287
10	12	College of Idaho	5-1	262
10	13	Concordia (Mich.)	5-0	262
12	6	Bethel (Tenn.)	5-1	235
13	15	Saint Xavier (Ill.)	4-2	221
14	19	Georgetown (Ky.)	3-1	220
15	18	Evangel (Mo.)	6-0	184
16	11	Montana Tech	4-2	165
17	20	Texas Wesleyan	4-1	132
18	21	Benedictine (Kan.)	4-2	122
19	RV	Montana Western	4-1	118
20	22	Dickinson State (N.D.)	5-1	107
21	16	St. Thomas (Fla.)	3-3	96
22	14	Dordt (Iowa)	4-1	93
23	24	Reinhardt (Ga.)	3-2	64
24	25	OUAZ (Ariz.)	4-1	54
25	RV	Louisiana Christian	6-0	33

Receiving Votes: St. Francis (Ill.) 28; MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 28; Roosevelt (Ill.) 25; Baker (Kan.) 8