Six Missouri Valley Football Conference teams are ranked in this week's Stats Perform FCS Top 25 poll.   North Dakota State (1), South Dakota State (2), Illinois State (7), South Dakota (12), North Dakota (16) and Southern Illinois (17) represent the MVFC.   Youngstown State is receiving votes.

The Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll is released each Monday during the regular season and one day after the FCS championship game (to be played Jan. 5 in Nashville, Tennessee). A first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.
 

	School (1st votes)	Pts.	Prev.	Last Week
1	North Dakota St. (49)	1393	1	59-3 win at Tennessee State
2	South Dakota St. (7)	1351	2	30-24, two-OT win at then-No. 3 Montana St.
3	Tarleton St.	1260	5	59-3 win over Mississippi Valley State
4	Montana St.	1202	3	30-24, two-OT loss to then-No. 2 S. Dakota State
5	Montana	1123	6	42-17 win over Central Washington
6	Rhode Island	1050	9	31-17 win at Stony Brook
7	Illinois State	1049	7	41-13 win over Morehead State
8	Idaho	937	10	37-30 win over St. Thomas
9	UC Davis	885	8	70-10 loss at Washington
10	Lehigh	836	11	28-10 win over Sacred Heart
11	Villanova	743	13	24-17 win over Colgate
12	South Dakota	649	4	20-13 loss at Lamar
13	ACU	648	16	28-20 win over then-No. 25 Stephen F. Austin
14	UIW	568	12	No game
15	Tennessee Tech	560	17	45-17 win over Chattanooga
16	North Dakota	535	20	50-20 win over Portland State
17	Southern Illinois	510	14	34-17 loss at Purdue
18	Northern Arizona	409	19	38-31 win over Utah Tech
19	Jackson State	381	15	38-20 loss at Southern Miss
20	Monmouth	373	21	49-28 win at Fordham
21	Sacramento St.	253	18	20-17 loss at Nevada
22	Austin Peay	233	NR	28-6 loss at Georgia
23	New Hampshire	132	NR	19-16 win over Holy Cross
24	Lamar	121	NR	20-13 win over then-No. 4 South Dakota
25	West Georgia	110	NR	34-10 win at then-No. 22 Nicholls

Dropped Out of Top 25: Nicholls (22); Mercer (23); Southern Utah (24); Stephen F. Austin (25)
 
Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Mercer (0-1), 101; Presbyterian (2-0), 100; Harvard (0-0), 86; Southeast Missouri (1-1), 86; ETSU (1-1), 73; Richmond (1-1, 0-1 Patriot), 64; UT Martin (0-2), 59; Youngstown State (2-0), 59; Nicholls (1-2, 1-0 Southland), 52; Eastern Kentucky (1-1), 31; Southern Utah (1-1), 29; Gardner-Webb (1-1), 27; Stephen F. Austin (0-2), 27; South Carolina State (1-1), 14; Stony Brook (0-2, 0-1 CAA), 13; Tennessee State (1-1), 13; Towson (2-0), 9; Western Carolina (0-2), 5; Bryant (1-1), 5; LIU (1-1), 5
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Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll Voting Panel – Stats Perform: Craig Haley. Big Sky Conference: Riley Corcoran, Tyson Rodgers, Larry Weir. CAA Football: Roger Brown, Matt Harmon, Rob Washburn. Ivy League: JJ Klein, Craig Larson. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference: Kendrick Lewis, Patricia Porter-Mayfield. Missouri Valley Football Conference: Kyle Grooms, Dom Izzo, Randy Reinhardt. Northeast Conference: Sarah Boissonneault, Brian Cleary. OVC-Big South Football Association: Mike Bradd, Kyle Schwartz, Mark Simpson. Patriot League: Eric Malanoski, Ryan Sakamoto. Pioneer Football League: Cody Bush, Larry Hansgen. Southern Conference: Scott Keeler, Andrew Miller, Ralan Wardlaw. Southland Conference: Matthew Bonnette, James Dixon, James Hill. Southwestern Athletic Conference: Curtis Ford, Ronnie Johnson. United Athletic Conference: Brian Morgan, Benjamin Ray, Jake Withee. National Representatives: Sean Anderson, Stan Becton, Zack Carlton, Gene Clemons, Joe DeLeone, Matt Dixon, Steven J. Gaither, Sam Herder, Emory Hunt, Doug Kelly, Kyle Kensing, Brandon Lawrence, Zach McKinnell, Jon Passman, Omar Rashon Borja, Ryan Roberts, Timothy Rosario, Kent Schmidt, Phil Sokol, Reggie Thomas, Ralph Ventre, Jamie Williams.