Posted: Oct 30, 2023
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Only one Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) team earned votes in the seventh regular-season edition of the NAIA Football Coaches' Top 25 Poll, which was announced on Monday.
Reinhardt collected a few more voting points this week in tallying 103, but the Eagles remained at No. 21 for the second week in a row.
The Eagles are 6-2 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] | 9-0 | 418 |
| 2 | 2 | Grand View (Iowa) | 8-0 | 402 |
| 3 | 4 | Indiana Wesleyan | 8-0 | 383 |
| 4 | 5 | Marian (Ind.) | 8-0 | 370 |
| 5 | 3 | Morningside (Iowa) | 8-1 | 350 |
| 6 | 6 | Keiser (Fla.) | 6-2 | 340 |
| 7 | 8 | College of Idaho | 8-1 | 316 |
| 8 | 9 | Georgetown (Ky.) | 6-1 | 312 |
| 9 | 10 | Bethel (Tenn.) | 8-1 | 279 |
| 10 | 12 | Evangel (Mo.) | 9-0 | 257 |
| 11 | 7 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 6-2 | 254 |
| 12 | 11 | Carroll (Mont.) | 7-1 | 252 |
| 13 | 13 | Montana Western | 7-1 | 249 |
| 14 | 14 | Benedictine (Kan.) | 7-2 | 198 |
| 15 | 15 | Saint Xavier (Ill.) | 5-3 | 186 |
| 16 | 16 | Texas Wesleyan | 7-1 | 176 |
| 17 | 17 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | 6-3 | 157 |
| 18 | 18 | Dickinson State (N.D.) | 7-1 | 136 |
| 19 | 20 | OUAZ (Ariz.) | 8-1 | 127 |
| 20 | 19 | Concordia (Mich.) | 6-2 | 122 |
| 21 | 21 | Reinhardt (Ga.) | 6-2 | 103 |
| 22 | 23 | Montana Tech | 5-3 | 70 |
| 23 | 25 | Dordt (Iowa) | 6-2 | 56 |
| 24 | 24 | Southwestern (Kan.) | 7-2 | 44 |
| 25 | 21 | Baker (Kan.) | 6-2 | 26 |
Receiving Votes: Louisiana Christian 23; Friends (Kan.) 22; Roosevelt (Ill.) 7; MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 5