One human poll made up the 2017 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football rankings, sometimes called the NAIA Coaches' Poll or the football ratings. When the regular season was complete, the NAIA conducted a playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll was taken after completion of the 2017 NAIA Football National Championship.
Poll release dates The poll released a spring edition of the rankings on April 10, 2017. A complete schedule of poll release dates will be:
2017 Poll Release Dates Spring April 10 Preseason August 7 Week 1 September 11 Week 2 September 18 Week 3 September 25 Week 4 October 2 Week 5 October 9 Week 6 October 16 Week 7 October 23 Week 8 October 30 Week 9 November 6 Week 10 (Final Regular Season) November 12 Postseason December 19
Week by week poll
+ Legend No change in ranking Increase in ranking Decrease in ranking Not ranked previous week NAIA National Champion| - style="text-align:center;"|(т) Tied with team above or below also with this symbol
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 last (postseason) poll of the 2017 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.
TeamTotal #1 Rankings57 (6)55 (3)25 (2)24 (2)20Saint Francis (IN)17 (2)14 (1)12 (1)5 (1)4 (1)432
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