2024 NAIA Football GoRout Top 25 - Rating No. 1 (September 9)

Sep 09, 2024

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Keiser (Fla.) remains the leader in the first regular season NAIA Football GoRout Top 25 Ratings, gathering all but two first-place votes. Northwestern (Iowa) follow behind in second and were awarded the other two first-place votes. College of Idaho moves into third place, Grand View (Iowa) bumps up to fourth, and Indiana Wesleyan joins the Top Five. Texas Wesleyan leaps from not being ranked or receiving votes in the preseason rating to 19th.

Rating Methodology:

The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences. Each conference is given one rater for every four schools in the league or division.
The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater rates the best teams. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place, 23 for third-place and so on through the list.
The highest and lowest ratings for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) are removed. The team’s rating will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the team appears on.
Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes."

POSITION	LAST TIME	INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES]	RECORD	FINAL POINTS
1	1	Keiser (Fla.) [14]	2-0	349
2	2	Northwestern (Iowa) [2]	1-0	337
3	4	College of Idaho	2-0	315
4	5	Grand View (Iowa)	1-0	305
5	6	Indiana Wesleyan	2-0	298
6	7	Marian (Ind.)	1-0	275
7	8	Bethel (Tenn.)	2-0	261
8	9	Saint Xavier (Ill.)	1-0	256
9	11	Montana Western	1-0	236
10	12	St. Thomas (Fla.)	1-0	215
11	3	Georgetown (Ky.)	1-1	205
12	19	Benedictine (Kan.)	2-0	179
12	13	Dordt (Iowa)	1-0	179
14	10	Morningside (Iowa)	1-1	167
15	21	Montana Tech	2-0	156
16	14	Evangel (Mo.)	2-0	144
16	15	Dickinson State (N.D.)	2-0	144
18	17	Baker (Kan.)	1-0	115
19	NR	Texas Wesleyan	2-0	80
20	23	MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)	1-0	71
21	24	Friends (Kan.)	2-0	65
22	19	Reinhardt (Ga.)	1-1	52
23	RV	Southern Oregon	1-0	49
24	16	OUAZ (Ariz.)	0-1	34
25	20	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	1-1	26