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Revision as of 17:33, 8 March 2021
The 2020 NAIA football rankings reports the poll results conducted during the 2020 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 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 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 2020 NAIA Football National Championship.
Poll release dates
Due to the presence of the COVID pandemic, modifications to the playing season and associated polls and release dates were made. Some teams were able to compete and complete their seasons in the fall of 2020; however, a large portion of the NAIA season was delayed and played in the spring of 2021.
No preseason poll was released for the 2020 season; the first poll was released after the spring season was underway.
Following is a complete schedule of 2020 poll release dates.[2]
| 2020 Poll Release Dates | |
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| Poll 1 | February 22, 2021 |
| Poll 2 | March 22, 2021 |
| Poll 3 | March 29, 2021 |
| Poll 4 | April 5, 2021 |
| Poll 5 | April 11, 2021 |
| Postseason | May 17, 2021 |
Leading vote-getters
Since the inception of the Coaches' Poll in 1999, the #1 ranking in the various weekly polls has been held by only a select group of teams. Through the final poll of the 2019 season, the teams and the number of times they have held the #1 weekly ranking are shown below. The number of times a team has been ranked #1 in the postseason poll (the national champion) is shown in parentheses.
There has been only one tie for the leading vote-getter in a weekly poll. In 2015, Southern Oregon was tied with Marian (IN) in the preseason poll.
In 1999, the results of a postseason poll, if one was conducted, are not known. Therefore, an additional poll has been presumed, and the #1 postseason ranking has been credited to the postseason tournament champion, the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.
| Team | Total #1 Rankings |
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| Carroll (MT) | 57 (6) |
| Sioux Falls (SD) | 55 (3) |
| Morningside (IA) | 40 (2) |
| Georgetown (KY) | 25 (2) |
| Marian (IN) | 24 (2) |
| Saint Francis (IN) | 21 (2) |
| Saint Xavier (IL) | 14 (1) |
| Northwestern Oklahoma State | 12 (1) |
| Southern Oregon | 5 (1) |
| Grand View (IA) | 4 (1) |
| Lindsey Wilson (KY) | 4 |
| Azusa Pacific (CA) | 3 |
| Cumberlands (KY) | 2 |
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
poll1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "2020 Football Ratings". National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. October 8, 2020. Retrieved March 8, 2021.