2022 NAIA Men's Soccer Coaches' Top 25 Poll - Poll #8 (October 26th)
Oct 26, 2022
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Dalton State (Ga.) makes it consecutive weeks atop the table in the NAIA Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Poll. The past three teams to hold the position were stopped from a third consecutive week, will the Road Runners buck the trend?
Poll Methodology
- The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, Association of Independent Institutions and Unaffiliated Groups.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”
- For the complete men’s soccer ratings calendar, click here.
| RANK | LAST | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | CONFERENCE | RECORD | FINAL POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Dalton State (Ga.) [17] | Southern States | 12-0-3 | 498 |
| 2 | 3 | Central Methodist (Mo.) | Heart | 11-0-4 | 479 |
| 3 | 2 | Mid-America Christian (Okla.) [1] | Sooner | 12-1-2 | 464 |
| 4 | 5 | Keiser (Fla.) | The Sun | 10-0-2 | 444 |
| 5 | 6 | Georgia Gwinnett | Continental | 10-1-1 | 427 |
| 6 | 4 | Mobile (Ala.) | Southern States | 11-2-1 | 413 |
| 7 | 7 | St. Thomas (Fla.) | The Sun | 8-0-3 | 399 |
| 8 | 8 | Bethel (Ind.) | Crossroads | 14-1-1 | 397 |
| 9 | 9 | Missouri Valley | Heart | 10-3-1 | 371 |
| 10 | 12 | William Carey (Miss.) | Southern States | 10-1-3 | 346 |
| 11 | 10 | MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) | Heart | 11-2-3 | 344 |
| 12 | 11 | Grace (Ind.) | Crossroads | 9-1-5 | 329 |
| 13 | 14 | Williams Baptist (Ark.) | American Midwest | 12-0-2 | 303 |
| 14 | 13 | University of Northwestern Ohio | Wolverine-Hoosier | 11-1-4 | 283 |
| 15 | 16 | Oklahoma Wesleyan | Kansas Collegiate | 10-4-1 | 261 |
| 16 | 15 | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | Chicagoland | 12-1-2 | 252 |
| 17 | 18 | Life (Ga.) | Southern States | 10-2-1 | 244 |
| 18 | 19 | Columbia (Mo.) | American Midwest | 9-3-3 | 231 |
| 19 | 17 | Indiana Tech | Wolverine-Hoosier | 9-1-5 | 209 |
| 19 | 20 | Warner Pacific (Ore.) | Cascade | 16-0-0 | 209 |
| 21 | 22 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | River States | 10-3-2 | 163 |
| 22 | 25 | Hastings (Neb.) | Great Plains | 11-1-1 | 131 |
| 23 | RV | Cumberlands (Ky.) | Mid-South | 8-4-3 | 119 |
| 24 | 24 | Madonna (Mich.) | Wolverine-Hoosier | 12-0-3 | 69 |
| 25 | 23 | Corban (Ore.) | Cascade | 14-2-1 | 68 |
Dropped From Poll: Cumberland (Tenn.); Viterbo (Wis.)
Receiving Votes: LSU Shreveport (La.) 65; Viterbo (Wis.) 64; Southeastern (Fla.) 53; Milligan (Tenn.) 49; Cumberland (Tenn.) 39; Hope International (Calif.) 38; Bethel (Tenn.) 17; WVU Tech 17; Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 15; Florida National 15; Indiana Wesleyan 14; Tennessee Wesleyan 14; Baker (Kan.) 11; Concordia (Neb.) 11; Louisiana Christian 8; Oregon Tech 5; UC Merced (Calif.) 4; Huntington (Ind.) 3; CIU (S.C.) 3
