2024 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating - No. 2 (October 3)
Milligan (Tenn.) remains at No.1 in the latest edition of the NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Milligan (Tenn.) remains at No.1 in the latest edition of the NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating. The Buffs received 19 of 21 votes, while The Master's (Calif.) garnered the remaining two. Spring Arbor (Mich.) made the largest jump in the rating from No. 17 to No. 7. Oklahoma City also made a sizeable move up in the rating from No. 10 to No. 5 while Goshen (Ind.) joined the Top 25 this week.
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 | SCHOOL [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] | POINTS |
| 1 | 1 | Milligan (Tenn.) [19] | 649 |
| 2 | 2 | The Master's (Calif.) [2] | 623 |
| 3 | 3 | Saint Mary (Kan.) | 600 |
| 4 | 4 | College of Idaho | 582 |
| 5 | 10 | Oklahoma City | 579 |
| 6 | 7 | Indiana Wesleyan | 528 |
| 7 | 17 | Spring Arbor (Mich.) | 524 |
| 8 | 6 | Taylor (Ind.) | 496 |
| 9 | 13 | Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 454 |
| 10 | 8 | Eastern Oregon | 447 |
| 11 | 5 | Cumberlands (Ky.) | 411 |
| 12 | 9 | Dordt (Iowa) | 407 |
| 13 | 11 | Rio Grande (Ohio) | 403 |
| 14 | 14 | Doane (Neb.) | 402 |
| 15 | 12 | Montreat (N.C.) | 374 |
| 16 | 15 | Kansas Wesleyan | 352 |
| 17 | 16 | Aquinas (Mich.) | 299 |
| 18 | 18 | St. Francis (Ill.) | 266 |
| 19 | 21 | Grace (Ind.) | 262 |
| 20 | 19 | Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 254 |
| 21 | 20 | Carroll (Mont.) | 233 |
| 22 | 22 | Campbellsville (Ky.) | 211 |
| 23 | 23 | Corban (Ore.) | 171 |
| 24 | 24 | Shawnee State (Ohio) | 162 |
| 25 | RV | Goshen (Ind.) | 147 |
Dropped from the Top 25: Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Receiving Votes: Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 134, Cornerstone (Mich.) 110, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 87, UC Merced (Calif.) 55, Concordia (Neb.) 46, Cumberland (Tenn.) 25, IU East (Ind.) 18, Marian (Ind.) 17, William Woods (Mo.) 7, St. Ambrose (Iowa) 7, SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) 7, Concordia (Mich.) 6, Columbia (Mo.) 6, Saint Xavier (Ill.) 5, Benedictine (Kan.) 3, Southern Oregon 3