KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mustangs remain No. 1 in the fourth edition of the NAIA Football FirstDown Playbook Top 25 Poll. Morningside earned 17 first-place votes and 418 points for the third week in a row. Saving one first-place vote for No. 2 Grand View (Iowa). The top 15 teams stayed the same from the previous poll highlighted by Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) Keiser (Fla.) and Concordia (Mich.) in the top five.
Northwestern remains in the 7 spot and Dordt moves up one position to #17
Teams will find out their postseason fates on Sunday night, April 11, with the NAIA selection show at 6pm.
2020-21 NAIA Football FirstDown PlayBook Top 25 Poll – Poll 4 (April 5)
| RANK | LAST WEEK | SCHOOL [1st PLACE VOTES] | RECORD | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Morningside (Iowa) [17] | 8-0 | 418 |
| 2 | 2 | Grand View (Iowa) [1] | 6-0 | 401 |
| 3 | 3 | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | 6-0 | 387 |
| 4 | 4 | Keiser (Fla.) | 7-0 | 349 |
| 5 | 5 | Concordia (Mich.) | 5-0 | 347 |
| 6 | 6 | College of Idaho | 3-0 | 336 |
| 7 | 7 | Northwestern (Iowa) | 8-1 | 318 |
| 8 | 8 | Baker (Kan.) | 6-0 | 299 |
| 9 | 9 | Reinhardt (Ga.) | 8-0 | 292 |
| 10 | 10 | Marian (Ind.) | 4-1 | 272 |
| 11 | 11 | Saint Francis (Ind.) | 2-1 | 260 |
| 12 | 12 | Dickinson State (N.D.) | 9-0 | 248 |
| 13 | 13 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 7-0 | 238 |
| 14 | 14 | Arizona Christian | 8-1 | 203 |
| 15 | 15 | Bethel (Kan.) | 9-1 | 187 |
| 16 | 16 | Georgetown (Ky.) | 5-1 | 171 |
| 17 | 18 | Dordt (Iowa) | 8-2 | 156 |
| 18 | 17 | Benedictine (Kan.) | 7-2 | 155 |
| 19 | 19 | Avila (Mo.) | 8-1 | 141 |
| 20 | 21 | Roosevelt (Ill.) | 5-1 | 104 |
| 21 | 20 | Eastern Oregon | 2-1 | 84 |
| 22 | 23 | Ottawa (Ariz.) | 3-1 | 66 |
| 23 | 24 | Kansas Wesleyan | 8-2 | 62 |
| 24 | 22 | Southwestern (Kan.) | 6-2 | 61 |
| 25 | 25 | Valley City State (N.D.) | 5-2 | 25 |
Dropped Out: None
Receiving Votes: St. Ambrose (Iowa) 22 and Southeastern (Fla.) 20
