BLUE DRAGON REMAIN IN NJCAA FOOTBALL’S TOP SPOT

The Blue Dragon Football Team remains No. 1 in the NJCAA Division I Rankings. (Andrew Carpenter/Blue Dragon Sports Information)
The Blue Dragon Football Team remains No. 1 in the NJCAA Division I Rankings. (Andrew Carpenter/Blue Dragon Sports Information)

NJCAA DIV. I FOOTBALL RANKINGS

  Record Points Last Poll
1. Hutchinson (7)
2. Iowa Western (4)
3. Northwest Mississippi (1)
4. Jones
5. New Mexico Military
6. Butler
7. Snow
8. Trinity Valley
9. Georgia Military
10. Coffeyville
11. Navarro
12. Kilgore
13. Lackawanna
14. East Mississippi
15. Iowa Central
6-0
6-0
7-0
7-0
6-1
5-2
5-2
5-1
5-1
4-2
4-3
4-2
4-1
4-3
4-3
147
143
130
120
110
98
83
73
63
51
48
47
37
27
14
1
2
3
4
5
8
9
14
11
12
6
13
15
7
10
Receiving Votes: Garden City, Tyler, Pearl River, Northeast Mississippi

Hutchinson CC Sports Information

The Hutchinson Community College Football team gets back to work this week following a bye week and is once again ranked No. 1 in Monday's NJCAA Division I Football rankings, which were released on Monday.

Hutchinson received seven first-place votes with Iowa Western accumulating four and Northwest Mississippi one. Jones College is ranked fourth and defending national champion New Mexico Military is fifth.

The top four teams in the rankings are the only remaining undefeated teams in the country in Division I.

Butler climbed back up to No. 6 after a 41-24 victory over then-No. 7 Iowa Central, which is now ranked No. 15. Coffeyville, the only other Jayhawk Conference team in the rankings, had a bye week and went from No. 12 to No. 10.

Trinity Valley made the biggest jump this week, rising from No. 14 to No. 8.

The Blue Dragons are on the road at Garden City for a 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday against the Broncbusters. Garden City is coming off a narrow 23-20 loss to now-seventh-ranked Snow College. Garden City is receiving votes in the poll.

The Blue Dragons have been ranked in 12 consecutive polls.