2018 NAIA football rankings
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The 2018 NAIA football rankings reports the poll results conducted during the 2018 NAIA football season. Each season, one poll evaluates the various National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football teams and ranks them. Coaches from each of the football conferences are members of a selection panel, with conferences receiving one vote for every 4 member teams. Sometimes referred to as the football ratings or the NAIA Coaches' Poll, the poll is generally conducted once during the preseason and after each week of play during the regular season.
The Top 25 is determined by compiling points for each vote. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place and so on through the list. The highest and lowest ranking for each team (counting zero for ballots with no votes for a team) are disregarded. To obtain the final tally, each team's ranking is recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that includes the team.[1]
As an example, if there are 16 voting panelists, and one team is a unanimous choice for the highest ranking, then that team would receive 25 points * 14 ballots + 16 points (one for each ballot cast) = 366 points.
Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
Once the regular season is completed, the NAIA will conduct a playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll will be taken after completion of the series of playoff games, collectively referred to as the 2018 NAIA Football National Championship.
The NAIA released a preseason edition of the rankings on August 6, 2018. A complete schedule of poll release dates will be:[2]
| 2018 Poll Release Dates | |
|---|---|
| Spring | None |
| Preseason | August 6 |
| Week 1 | September 10 |
| Week 2 | September 17 |
| Week 3 | September 24 |
| Week 4 | October 1 |
| Week 5 | October 8 |
| Week 6 | October 15 |
| Week 7 | October 22 |
| Week 8 | October 29 |
| Week 9 | November 5 |
| Week 10 (Final Regular Season) | November 11 |
| Postseason | December 18 |
Week by week poll
- * preseason rankings include prior season won-loss records
| No change in ranking | ||
| Increase in ranking | ||
| Decrease in ranking | ||
| Not ranked previous week | ||
| NAIA National Champion | ||
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Win–loss record | |
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Number of first place votes | |
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Tied with team above or below also with this symbol |