Each week when the small school rankings are compiled an enormous amount of effort is made in eliminating outside opinion. Personally, I go out of my way to not pay attention to other publications’ rankings because I don’t want to be influenced by their Top 25. Some time ago I got bit by looking at…

Update: I missed one of the at-larges. I had Texas Wesleyan in as a sure thing, but I was mistaken. Instead Cumberland took their spot. The Rams were strong throughout the first 3/4 of the season but had a bad last month. An extremely disappointing result for a team that battled adversity and some infamous…

Included with this week’s rankings is a look at a handful of teams from the trio of small school divisions who are currently listed in their respective division’s Top 25 that had been unceremoniously omitted from the preseason prospects. Admittedly, even if the Perfect Games small school rankings included a “receiving votes” section, they would…

With the NAIA regular season already having come to a close, and their NCAA small school counterpart’s climaxes quickly approaching, it’s more important to see what teams aren’t in the latest rankings rather than who makes up the Top 25’s. Historically the overwhelming majority of teams currently in the top two dozen will have their…

This week’s rankings have a special emphasis on strength of schedule. Earlier in the season it was necessary and understandable to weigh the rankings with an emphasis on potential rather than performance, Now that results are continuing to compile it’s becoming increasingly easily to attribute quality to wins and losses. There are tangible numbers that…