KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Montana Tech’s football team remained in the NAIA’s top 10, the association announced with this week’s STADIONIC NAIA football coaches’ top 25 poll.[[“value”:”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Montana Tech’s football team remained in the NAIA’s top 10, the association announced with this week’s STADIONIC NAIA football coaches’ top 25 poll.
The Orediggers checked in at No. 6 in Monday’s poll.
Montana Tech sports a 4-1 record headed into Frontier Confernece East Division play, which begins this weekend at No. 22 Dakota State.
The Orediggers won their first four games of the season before dropping their first regular-season game in nearly two years Saturday at now-No. 1 The College of Idaho.
STADIONIC NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll (Sept. 28)
TREND
RANK
LAST TIME
INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES]
RECORD
▲
T1
3
College of Idaho [5]
4-0
●
T1
1
Keiser (Fla.) [6]
2-1
▲
3
4
Indiana Wesleyan
4-0
▲
4
5
Benedictine (Kan.)
5-1
▲
5
6
Grand View (Iowa)
4-1
▼
6
2
Montana Tech
4-1
●
7
7
Morningside (Iowa)
4-1
●
8
8
Friends (Kan.)
5-0
●
9
9
Campbellsville (Ky.)
4-0
●
10
10
St. Thomas (Fla.)
4-0
●
11
11
Marian (Ind.)
3-1
●
12
12
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
4-1
●
13
13
Carroll (Mont.)
3-1
●
14
14
Southeastern (Fla.)
3-0
●
15
15
McPherson (Kan.)
5-0
▲
16
18
Midland (Neb.)
5-0
▼
17
16
Dordt (Iowa)
2-2
▼
18
17
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
3-0
▲
19
20
Louisiana Christian
4-1
▼
20
19
William Penn (Iowa)
4-1
▲
21
22
Northwestern (Iowa)
3-2
▼
22
21
Dakota State (S.D.)
4-1
●
23
23
Baker (Kan.)
4-0
▲
24
25
Georgetown (Ky.)
2-2
▲
25
RV
Cumberland (Tenn.)
3-1
▼
Dropped from Top 25: Evangel (Mo.)
Receiving Votes: Cumberlands (Ky.), Evangel (Mo.), Kansas Wesleyan, Montana Western, OUAZ (Ariz.), Southwestern (Kan.), Taylor (Ind.)
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