2019 NAIA football rankings
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The 2019 NAIA football rankings reports the poll results conducted during the 2019 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 four 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 was determined by compiling points for each vote. A team received 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) were disregarded. To obtain the final tally, each team's ranking was 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 were 17 voting panelists, and one team is a unanimous choice for the highest ranking, then that team would receive 25 points * 15 ballots (disregard 2 ballots) + 17 points (one for each ballot cast) = 392 points.
Teams that received only one point in the ballot were not considered "receiving votes."
Once the regular season was completed, the NAIA conducted a playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll was taken after completion of the series of playoff games, collectively referred to as the 2019 NAIA Football National Championship.
The NAIA released a preseason edition of the rankings on August 5, 2019. A complete schedule of poll release dates will be:[2]
| 2019 poll release dates | |
|---|---|
| Spring | None |
| Preseason | August 5 |
| Week 1 | September 16 |
| Week 2 | September 23 |
| Week 3 | September 30 |
| Week 4 | October 7 |
| Week 5 | October 14 |
| Week 6 | October 21 |
| Week 7 | October 28 |
| Week 8 | November 4 |
| Week 9 | November 11 |
| Week 10 (final regular season) | November 17 |
| Postseason | December 27 |
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 |