2024 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating - No. 3 (October 17)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Milligan (Tenn.) remains at No.1 in the latest NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating. The Buffs received 16 of 21 votes, The Master's (Calif.) garnered the remaining one and College of Idaho received four. Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) joined the Top 25.
Rating Methodology:
- The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences and unaffiliated groupings.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater rates the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place, 28 for third-place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ratings for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) are removed. The team’s rating will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the team appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”.
| RANK | LAST TIME | INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Milligan (Tenn.) [16] | 586 |
| 2 | 2 | The Master's (Calif.) [1] | 565 |
| 3 | 4 | College of Idaho [4] | 556 |
| 4 | 3 | Saint Mary (Kan.) | 526 |
| 5 | 5 | Oklahoma City | 525 |
| 6 | 7 | Spring Arbor (Mich.) | 499 |
| 7 | 6 | Indiana Wesleyan | 466 |
| 8 | 8 | Taylor (Ind.) | 436 |
| 9 | 9 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 421 |
| 10 | 10 | Eastern Oregon | 406 |
| 11 | 12 | Dordt (Iowa) | 405 |
| 12 | 20 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 392 |
| 13 | 11 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 378 |
| 14 | 13 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | 353 |
| 15 | 14 | Doane (Neb.) | 340 |
| 16 | 15 | Montreat (N.C.) | 286 |
| 17 | 17 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 283 |
| 18 | 16 | Kansas Wesleyan | 279 |
| 19 | 18 | Saint Francis (Ill.) | 229 |
| 20 | 24 | Shawnee State (Ohio) | 228 |
| 21 | 19 | Grace (Ind.) | 226 |
| 22 | 23 | Corban (Ore.) | 155 |
| 23 | 22 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 144 |
| 24 | RV | Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | 131 |
| 25 | 21 | Carroll (Mont.) | 129 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Goshen (Ind.)
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 122, Goshen (Ind.) 104, Concordia (Neb.) 101, Cornerstone (Mich.) 68, Marian (Ind.) 30, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 23, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 16, Bellevue (Neb.) 11, Cumberland (Tenn.) 7, Benedictine (Kan.) 6, IU East (Ind.) 3, Southern Oregon 2
