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17
Week 5, 2026
No. 1
Ferris State
17 of 17 first-place votes
Teams receiving points
38
13 outside the top 25
Disputed
Fort Hays State
Best 9 · Worst 25
#TrendTeamRecPts
1 — Ferris State (17) GLIAC 3-0 425
2 — Harding GAC 3-0 406
3 — CSU Pueblo RMAC 4-0 377
4 — Minnesota State NSIC 4-0 371
5 — Grand Valley State GLIAC 4-0 357
6 ▲ +1 Northwest Missouri State MIAA 3-0 343
7 ▼ −1 Kutztown PSAC 3-0 316
8 — Western Colorado RMAC 4-0 305
9 — Emporia State MIAA 4-0 278
10 ▲ +1 Central Washington LSC 1-2 262
11 ▲ +1 Slippery Rock PSAC 3-0 252
12 ▲ +1 Findlay GMAC 3-0 246
13 ▲ +2 Minnesota Duluth NSIC 3-1 198
14 ▲ +3 Davenport GLIAC 4-0 163
15 ▲ +3 IUP PSAC 3-0 160
16 — Western Oregon LSC 1-1 150
17 ▲ +3 Central Missouri MIAA 2-1 126
18 ▲ +1 Northeastern State Independent 3-1 122
19 ▲ +4 Augustana NSIC 3-1 105
20 ▲ +2 Northwood GMAC 3-0 89
21 ▲ +3 Carson-Newman SAC 4-0 84
22 — Fort Hays State MIAA 2-1 70
23 ▼ −13 Valdosta State GSC 3-1 65
24 — Shepherd PSAC 3-0 50
25 — Henderson State GAC 3-0 40

Ballots the scoreboard disagrees with (1)

Games where somebody ranked the loser above the winner. Not an error — a voter is allowed to think the better team lost, and several of these will be exactly that.

  • UNC Pembroke beat Valdosta State 44-41 on Sep 19 — 1 ballot ranks Valdosta State higher (cneagle99)
Also receiving votes (13)
#TrendTeamRecPts
26 — North Greenville Carolinas 3-0 31
27 — West Alabama GSC 3-1 27
28 — Michigan Tech GLIAC 3-1 20
29 — UT Permian Basin LSC 2-1 19
30 — Newberry SAC 2-1 16
31 — Northern State NSIC 3-1 13
32 — Benedict SIAC 3-0 13
33 — UNC Pembroke Carolinas 3-1 9
34 — Wayne State (NE) NSIC 3-1 7
35 — Ashland GMAC 1-2 4
36 — Central Oklahoma MIAA 1-2 4
37 — East Central GAC 3-0 1
38 — Mars Hill SAC 3-0 1

Green = ranked above the consensus, red = below. The number is how many spots.

Average spots between a voter’s ranking and that week’s consensus.

Gliac_fan10 site
Average gap from consensus: 4.56 spots
Biggest outlier: UT Permian Basin at 13 vs consensus 29
leans LSC · +8.0 spots across 3 teams
Ballot history · 4 ballots
Submitted 10/4 6:17 am
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2CSU Pueblo—
  • 3Grand Valley State—
  • 4Harding—
  • 5Western Colorado—
  • 6Central Washington—
  • 7UT Permian Basin▲1
  • 8Minnesota State▼1
  • 9Emporia State—
  • 10Kutztown—
  • 11Central Missouri—
  • 12Northwest Missouri State—
  • 13Northwood—
  • 14Davenport▲2
  • 15Slippery Rock▼1
  • 16Mars Hill▲2
  • 17IUP—
  • 18North Greenville▼3
  • 19Michigan Technew
  • 20Shepherd▲3
  • 21Northeastern State▼2
  • 22Midwestern Statenew
  • 23Northern Statenew
  • 24Henderson Statenew
  • 25East Central▼5
  • —Ouachita Baptistout (21)
  • —Walshout (22)
  • —Hillsdaleout (24)
  • —Kentucky Stateout (25)
cneagle99 site
Average gap from consensus: 3.40 spots
Biggest outlier: Mars Hill at 25 vs consensus 38
leans SAC · +10.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 1 ballot
Submitted 9/20 9:25 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2CSU Pueblo—
  • 3Harding—
  • 4Minnesota State—
  • 5Northwest Missouri State—
  • 6Grand Valley State—
  • 7Findlay—
  • 8Western Colorado—
  • 9Emporia State—
  • 10Kutztown—
  • 11Slippery Rock—
  • 12Central Washington—
  • 13Carson-Newman—
  • 14IUP—
  • 15Northeastern State—
  • 16North Greenville—
  • 17Davenport—
  • 18Minnesota Duluth—
  • 19Valdosta State—
  • 20Western Oregon—
  • 21Northwood—
  • 22UNC Pembroke—
  • 23Shepherd—
  • 24Central Missouri—
  • 25Mars Hill—
ftballfan site
Average gap from consensus: 3.16 spots
Biggest outlier: Wayne State (NE) at 19 vs consensus 34
leans MIAA · +4.8 spots across 4 teams
Ballot history · 3 ballots
Submitted 10/7 9:17 am
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Grand Valley State—
  • 4CSU Pueblo—
  • 5Minnesota State—
  • 6Kutztown—
  • 7Emporia State▲1
  • 8Northwest Missouri State▼1
  • 9Slippery Rock—
  • 10Central Missouri▲1
  • 11Western Colorado▼1
  • 12Davenport▲1
  • 13Northwood▼1
  • 14UT Permian Basin▲4
  • 15Central Washington▲2
  • 16IUP▼2
  • 17Washburn▼2
  • 18Minnesota Duluth▼2
  • 19Michigan Tech—
  • 20Augustana▲5
  • 21Fort Hays State▲1
  • 22Wayne State (NE)▼1
  • 23Findlaynew
  • 24Mars Hill—
  • 25North Greenville▼5
  • —Northeastern Stateout (23)
Jayhawk Juco Guy site
Average gap from consensus: 2.96 spots
Biggest outlier: Benedict at 20 vs consensus 32
leans SAC · +3.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 1 ballot
Submitted 9/21 9:04 am
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Minnesota State—
  • 4CSU Pueblo—
  • 5Kutztown—
  • 6Northwest Missouri State—
  • 7Grand Valley State—
  • 8Western Colorado—
  • 9Findlay—
  • 10Slippery Rock—
  • 11IUP—
  • 12Central Washington—
  • 13Minnesota Duluth—
  • 14Northeastern State—
  • 15Emporia State—
  • 16Augustana—
  • 17Davenport—
  • 18Western Oregon—
  • 19Valdosta State—
  • 20Benedict—
  • 21Newberry—
  • 22Michigan Tech—
  • 23Carson-Newman—
  • 24Northwood—
  • 25Fort Hays State—
twolvesfan site
Average gap from consensus: 2.84 spots
Biggest outlier: Northern State at 21 vs consensus 31
leans NSIC · +5.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 3 ballots
Submitted 10/5 10:11 am
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Minnesota State—
  • 4Grand Valley State—
  • 5CSU Pueblo—
  • 6Kutztown—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Central Washington—
  • 9Emporia State—
  • 10Slippery Rock—
  • 11Central Missouri▲2
  • 12IUP—
  • 13UT Permian Basin▲4
  • 14Henderson State—
  • 15Northwood—
  • 16Davenport—
  • 17Mars Hill▲1
  • 18North Greenville▲2
  • 19Northwest Missouri State—
  • 20Northern State▲1
  • 21Edward Watersnew
  • 22Valdosta State▲3
  • 23South Dakota Mines—
  • 24West Libertynew
  • 25Midwestern Statenew
  • —Northeastern Stateout (11)
  • —East Centralout (22)
  • —Kentucky Stateout (24)
reloadmvp site
Average gap from consensus: 2.64 spots
Biggest outlier: Valdosta State at 10 vs consensus 23
leans GSC · +13.0 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 4 ballots
Submitted 10/7 8:41 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3CSU Pueblo—
  • 4Minnesota State—
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6Emporia State▲2
  • 7Kutztown—
  • 8Northwest Missouri State▼2
  • 9Western Colorado—
  • 10Central Washington—
  • 11Slippery Rock—
  • 12Central Missouri▲1
  • 13Minnesota Duluth▼1
  • 14IUP—
  • 15Davenport—
  • 16Northwood▲1
  • 17Northeastern State▼1
  • 18Augustana▲1
  • 19Findlay▲1
  • 20North Greenvillenew
  • 21Mars Hillnew
  • 22Carson-Newman▼1
  • 23Valdosta State▼1
  • 24Henderson State▲1
  • 25Shepherd▼1
  • —Western Oregonout (18)
  • —Missouri Westernout (23)
pm2011 site
Average gap from consensus: 2.40 spots
Biggest outlier: Newberry at 20 vs consensus 30
leans SAC · +4.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 2 ballots
Submitted 9/21 12:40 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Minnesota State▲1
  • 4Kutztown▲2
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6CSU Pueblo▼3
  • 7Northwest Missouri State—
  • 8Western Colorado—
  • 9Findlay▲4
  • 10Slippery Rock▲2
  • 11Minnesota Duluth▲4
  • 12Central Washington▼1
  • 13Emporia State▼4
  • 14Western Oregon▲2
  • 15Augustana▲8
  • 16Northeastern State▲3
  • 17IUP▲1
  • 18Davenport▼1
  • 19Northwood▲3
  • 20Newberry▲4
  • 21Valdosta State▼11
  • 22Carson-Newman▲3
  • 23Benedictnew
  • 24Fort Hays Statenew
  • 25North Greenvillenew
  • —West Alabamaout (14)
  • —Central Missouriout (20)
  • —Northern Stateout (21)
The Stompinator site
Average gap from consensus: 2.36 spots
Biggest outlier: West Alabama at 15 vs consensus 27
leans GSC · +10.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 1 ballot
Submitted 9/22 10:13 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Minnesota State—
  • 3Harding—
  • 4CSU Pueblo—
  • 5Kutztown—
  • 6Grand Valley State—
  • 7Northwest Missouri State—
  • 8Emporia State—
  • 9Western Colorado—
  • 10Central Washington—
  • 11Findlay—
  • 12Slippery Rock—
  • 13Minnesota Duluth—
  • 14Valdosta State—
  • 15West Alabama—
  • 16Western Oregon—
  • 17Augustana—
  • 18IUP—
  • 19Northeastern State—
  • 20Central Missouri—
  • 21Davenport—
  • 22Northwood—
  • 23Michigan Tech—
  • 24Carson-Newman—
  • 25Henderson State—
Runnin' Cat site
Average gap from consensus: 2.28 spots
Biggest outlier: Ashland at 25 vs consensus 35
leans GMAC · +3.7 spots across 3 teams
Ballot history · 1 ballot
Submitted 9/20 3:05 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Grand Valley State—
  • 4Minnesota State—
  • 5CSU Pueblo—
  • 6Northwest Missouri State—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Central Washington—
  • 9Kutztown—
  • 10Findlay—
  • 11Emporia State—
  • 12Slippery Rock—
  • 13Davenport—
  • 14Western Oregon—
  • 15Minnesota Duluth—
  • 16Shepherd—
  • 17Central Missouri—
  • 18IUP—
  • 19Augustana—
  • 20Carson-Newman—
  • 21Northwood—
  • 22Henderson State—
  • 23Michigan Tech—
  • 24Northern State—
  • 25Ashland—
Redwing site
Average gap from consensus: 2.20 spots
Biggest outlier: Ashland at 25 vs consensus 35
leans GMAC · +3.7 spots across 3 teams
Ballot history · 4 ballots
Submitted 10/4 7:18 pm
Submitted 10/4 7:13 pm replaced
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Grand Valley State—
  • 3Harding—
  • 4CSU Pueblo—
  • 5Minnesota State—
  • 6Kutztown—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Emporia State—
  • 9Central Washington—
  • 10Northwood—
  • 11Davenport—
  • 12Slippery Rock—
  • 13Central Missouri—
  • 14Tiffinnew
  • 15Northwest Missouri State▲3
  • 16IUP▼1
  • 17North Greenville—
  • 18Shepherd▲1
  • 19Findlay▲2
  • 20Edward Watersnew
  • 21Midwestern Statenew
  • 22Henderson State—
  • 23Hillsdale▲1
  • 24Michigan Tech▲1
  • 25West Alabama▼2
  • —Walshout (14)
  • —UT Permian Basinout (16)
  • —Kentucky Stateout (20)
EastStroud13 site
Average gap from consensus: 2.08 spots
Biggest outlier: Shepherd at 16 vs consensus 24
leans MIAA · +2.8 spots across 4 teams
Ballot history · 4 ballots
Submitted 10/7 12:22 am
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2CSU Pueblo—
  • 3Harding—
  • 4Minnesota State—
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6Emporia State—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Kutztown▲1
  • 9Northwood▲1
  • 10Slippery Rock▲1
  • 11Central Washington▲1
  • 12Central Missouri▲1
  • 13Northwest Missouri State▼5
  • 14UT Permian Basin▲1
  • 15North Greenville▲1
  • 16Davenport▼2
  • 17Henderson State—
  • 18Northern State▲2
  • 19Valdosta State▲4
  • 20IUP▼1
  • 21Mars Hill▲3
  • 22Shepherd▼1
  • 23Washburn▲2
  • 24Findlaynew
  • 25Hillsdalenew
  • —Central Oklahomaout (18)
  • —Northeastern Stateout (22)
GMACFB site
Average gap from consensus: 2.00 spots
Biggest outlier: UNC Pembroke at 23 vs consensus 33
leans SAC · +4.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 5 ballots
Submitted 10/5 5:52 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Minnesota State—
  • 4CSU Pueblo—
  • 5Kutztown—
  • 6Grand Valley State—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Slippery Rock—
  • 9Central Washington—
  • 10Emporia State—
  • 11Northwood—
  • 12IUP—
  • 13Davenport—
  • 14Northwest Missouri State—
  • 15Central Missouri—
  • 16North Greenville▲6
  • 17Valdosta State▲2
  • 18Hillsdale▲5
  • 19Findlay▲5
  • 20Mars Hill—
  • 21Henderson State—
  • 22UT Permian Basinnew
  • 23Northern Statenew
  • 24Edward Watersnew
  • 25West Alabamanew
  • —Northeastern Stateout (16)
  • —Newberryout (17)
  • —UNC Pembrokeout (18)
  • —Walshout (25)
ARtransplantedTWolf site
Average gap from consensus: 1.80 spots
Biggest outlier: Central Washington at 16 vs consensus 10
leans GSC · +4.0 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 6 ballots
Submitted 10/4 6:13 pm
Submitted 10/4 11:46 am replaced
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3CSU Pueblo—
  • 4Kutztown—
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6Minnesota State—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Slippery Rock—
  • 9Emporia State—
  • 10Northwood—
  • 11IUP—
  • 12Central Washington—
  • 13Davenport—
  • 14Central Missouri▲1
  • 15Northwest Missouri State▼1
  • 16North Greenville—
  • 17Valdosta State—
  • 18Henderson State—
  • 19Mars Hill—
  • 20West Alabama▲2
  • 21Findlay▲3
  • 22Minnesota Duluth▲3
  • 23UT Permian Basinnew
  • 24Northern Statenew
  • 25Carson-Newmannew
  • —Western Oregonout (20)
  • —Kentucky Stateout (21)
  • —Rooseveltout (23)
BisonBones site
Average gap from consensus: 1.68 spots
Biggest outlier: Central Oklahoma at 22 vs consensus 36
leans MIAA · +4.3 spots across 4 teams
Ballot history · 1 ballot
Submitted 9/21 6:49 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3CSU Pueblo—
  • 4Minnesota State—
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6Northwest Missouri State—
  • 7Kutztown—
  • 8Western Colorado—
  • 9Emporia State—
  • 10Central Washington—
  • 11Slippery Rock—
  • 12Western Oregon—
  • 13Minnesota Duluth—
  • 14Central Missouri—
  • 15Findlay—
  • 16IUP—
  • 17Augustana—
  • 18Davenport—
  • 19Northeastern State—
  • 20Valdosta State—
  • 21Carson-Newman—
  • 22Central Oklahoma—
  • 23Michigan Tech—
  • 24North Greenville—
  • 25Henderson State—
OldBison site
Average gap from consensus: 1.64 spots
Biggest outlier: UNC Pembroke at 24 vs consensus 33
leans LSC · +2.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 3 ballots
Submitted 9/29 5:27 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3CSU Pueblo—
  • 4Minnesota State—
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6Kutztown▲2
  • 7Northwest Missouri State—
  • 8Western Colorado▲1
  • 9Emporia State▲1
  • 10Central Washington▼4
  • 11Slippery Rock—
  • 12Northwood▲6
  • 13Minnesota Duluth▼1
  • 14Davenport▲2
  • 15Central Missourinew
  • 16Western Oregon▼1
  • 17IUP▼3
  • 18Northeastern State▲1
  • 19Augustana▼2
  • 20Findlay▼7
  • 21Henderson State—
  • 22Fort Hays State▼2
  • 23Valdosta Statenew
  • 24Shepherd▼1
  • 25Carson-Newman▼3
  • —UNC Pembrokeout (24)
  • —Newberryout (25)
Thunder
Average gap from consensus: 1.40 spots
Biggest outlier: Northern State at 25 vs consensus 31
leans GAC · +2.5 spots across 2 teams
Ballot history · 5 ballots
Submitted 10/5 12:56 pm
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Minnesota State—
  • 4CSU Pueblo—
  • 5Grand Valley State—
  • 6Kutztown—
  • 7Western Colorado—
  • 8Slippery Rock—
  • 9Northwood—
  • 10Emporia State—
  • 11Northwest Missouri State—
  • 12Central Washington▲1
  • 13Davenport▲2
  • 14Central Missouri▼2
  • 15Findlay▲4
  • 16IUP▼2
  • 17North Greenville—
  • 18Henderson State▼2
  • 19Valdosta State▲1
  • 20Northern State▲1
  • 21UT Permian Basin▲1
  • 22Washburn▲1
  • 23Hillsdale▲2
  • 24Mars Hill—
  • 25Minnesota Duluthnew
  • —Central Oklahomaout (18)
KleShreen site
Average gap from consensus: 1.12 spots
Biggest outlier: IUP at 20 vs consensus 15
leans LSC · +2.0 spots across 3 teams
Ballot history · 6 ballots
Submitted 10/7 5:21 pm
Submitted 10/7 5:15 pm replaced
  • 1Ferris State—
  • 2Harding—
  • 3Grand Valley State▲1
  • 4CSU Pueblo▼1
  • 5Minnesota State—
  • 6Western Colorado▲3
  • 7Northwest Missouri State▼1
  • 8Central Washington▲2
  • 9Emporia State▼2
  • 10Kutztown▼2
  • 11Slippery Rock—
  • 12Northwood▲7
  • 13IUP▲7
  • 14Davenport▲1
  • 15Central Missouri▲2
  • 16North Greenville▲6
  • 17Henderson State▲7
  • 18Valdosta Statenew
  • 19UT Permian Basin▲6
  • 20Minnesota Duluth▼7
  • 21Mars Hillnew
  • 22Findlay▼10
  • 23Northern Statenew
  • 24Michigan Technew
  • 25Edward Watersnew
  • —Western Oregonout (14)
  • —Northeastern Stateout (16)
  • —Augustanaout (18)
  • —Carson-Newmanout (21)
  • —Fort Hays Stateout (23)

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