2015 NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll – Final

Kansas City, Missouri — For the second-consecutive week, Morningside (Iowa) owns the No. 1 ranking in the NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Sunday. The ranking also makes the Mustangs the top seed for the 2015 NAIA Football Championship Series, which opens with first round play on Saturday, Nov. 21st.

Morningside earns its 20th all-time No. 1 ranking with 14 first-place votes and 340 total points in the final regular-season edition. The Mustangs won the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) championship for the fifth-straight season with a dominant 55-7 win against then-No. 4 Doane (Neb.) last Saturday. Morningside holds the longest active streak of top 10 rankings, having been listed among the top 10 teams for 59-straight polls dating back to Sept. 19, 2011.

No. 9 Doane (Neb.), No. 15 Montana Western and No. 21 Benedictine (Kan.) each fell five spots, marking the largest negative movement for teams still ranked within the Top 25. All three clubs lost on Saturday.

RANK	LAST TIME^	SCHOOL (1ST PLACE VOTES)	2015 RECORD	TOTAL POINTS
1	1	Morningside (Iowa) (14)	10-1	340
2	2	Baker (Kan.)	10-1	324
3	3	Grand View (Iowa)	10-1	312
4	5	Saint Francis (Ind.) (1)	9-0	305
5	6	Montana Tech	9-1	288
6	7	Marian (Ind.)	8-2	271
7	8	Southern Oregon	8-2	260
8	9	Tabor (Kan.)	10-1	247
9	4	Doane (Neb.)	9-1	232
10	11	Kansas Wesleyan	10-1	225
11	12	Campbellsville (Ky.)	8-2	213
12	13	Reinhardt (Ga.)	9-1	197
13	14	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	8-2	178
14	15	Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.)	9-2	166
15	10	Montana Western	7-3	157
16	17	Saint Xavier (Ill.)	7-3	150
17	18	Point (Ga.)	8-2	138
T18	22	St. Francis (Ill.)	8-3	108
T18	21	Dickinson State (N.D.)	8-2	108
20	23	St. Ambrose (Iowa)	8-2	100
21	16	Benedictine (Kan.)	7-4	71
22	24	Arizona Christian	6-3	51
T23	19	William Penn (Iowa)	7-4	38
T23	25	Faulkner (Ala.)	7-3	38
25	RV	Georgetown (Ky.)	6-4	31