Statesmen to No. 16 Entering Regular Season Finale

Oskaloosa–The Statesmen football team holds its highest ranking of the fall going into the final regular-season game as the NAIA released its ninth top-25 poll Monday, sponsored by Netting Professionals.

WPU (9-1, 4-1 Heart North) is now No. 16 with 221 points. It is the seventh time the navy and gold have been featured in the top 25 this fall (fifth consecutive). The rating is the highest for the program since being No. 13 on October 26, 2015.

There are once again five programs from the Heart of America Athletic Conference in the rating. Grand View is still No. 1 with 15 first-place votes, while Benedictine is also still third. MidAmerica Nazarene (unofficially No. 27) and Baker (No. 35) are in the receiving votes section as well.

Keiser (Fla.) is second in the NAIA with the last first-place vote, while Friends (Kan.) and Montana Tech are tied for fourth to finish off the top five.

WPU travels to Davenport Saturday to face St. Ambrose in a Heart North game at 1 p.m.

NAIA Football Rating No. 9 — November 10, 2025
(Number in parentheses is first-place votes)
1. Grand View (15)
2. Keiser (Fla.) (1)
3. Benedictine (Kan.)
4. Friends (Kan.)
4. Montana Tech
6. Dordt
7. Marian (Ind.)
8. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)
9. Morningside
10. Campbellsville (Ky.)
11. Indiana Wesleyan
11. Ottawa (Ariz.)
13. College of Idaho
14. Carroll (Mont.)
15. Southeastern (Fla.)
16. William Penn
17. St. Thomas (Fla.)
18. Montana Western
19. Northwestern
20. Georgetown (Ky.)
21. Saint Francis (Ind.)
22. Evangel (Mo.)
23. Southwestern (Kan.)
24. McPherson (Kan.)
25. Saint Xavier (Ill.)

Receiving votes: Dakota State (S.D.) 77, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) 69, Texas Wesleyan 55, Cumberland (Tenn.) 40, Reinhardt (Ga.) 34, Taylor (Ind.) 28, Kansas Wesleyan 23, Concordia (Neb.) 8, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 5, Baker (Kan.) 3.