Men's Cross Country Cracks USTFCCCA Top 30

NEW ORLEANS – After a strong showing at the Arkansas Chile Pepper Festival two weeks ago, Oklahoma Baptist men's cross country finds itself ranked #30 in the latest USTFCCCA Division II Coaches Poll, which was released on Wednesday, Oct. 14.

The Bison had been receiving votes in the poll since the beginning of the year and have been ranked as high as fifth in the Central Region poll. OBU started the year with a first-place showing at the Rogers State Distance After Dark (Sept. 3) and followed that up with a fourth-place finish at the highly-competitive Arkansas Chile Pepper Festival.

The latest ranking for the Bison marks just the second time in the program's Division II era (2015-pres.) that Oklahoma Baptist has been ranked in the top 30. OBU finished last season ranked #25 in the poll.

OBU is one of just two Great American Conference teams in to appear in the top 30 as GAC rival East Central shared the #30 spot in the latest rankings. ECU had been ranked as high as #25 three weeks ago. Harding is the only other conference foe to receive any votes in the poll.

The Bison will run their final regular-season race this weekend at the Dallas Baptist University Old Glory Gallop (Oct. 17).

USTFCCCA Division II Men's Cross Country National Coaches' Poll
Rank	School	Conference	Region	Points	FPV	Change
1	Wingate	SAC	SE	237	5	–
2	Colorado School of Mines	RMAC	SC	235	3	–
3	Adams State	RMAC	SC	224	–	–
4	West Texas A&M	Lone Star	SC	215	–	–
5	Grand Valley State	GLIAC	MW	207	–	–
6	Lee (Tenn.)	GSC	S	202	–	–
7	Pittsburg State	MIAA	CENT	189	–	↑ 12
8	Chico State	CCAA	W	185	–	–
9	Western Colorado	RMAC	SC	174	–	↑ 2
10	Western Washington	GNAC	W	170	–	↑ 1
11	Washburn	MIAA	CENT	158	–	↑ 5
12	Findlay	G-MAC	MW	153	–	NEW
13	Fort Lewis	RMAC	SC	146	–	↑ 1
14	UC-Colorado Springs	RMAC	SC	133	–	↑ 1
15	Nebraska Kearney	MIAA	CENT	124	–	↓ 3
16	Charleston (W.Va.)	Mountain East	ATL	116	–	↓ 1
17	Tampa	Sunshine	S	114	–	NEW
18	Colorado Christian	RMAC	SC	104	–	↓ 2
18	Cal Poly Pomona	CCAA	W	104	–	↑ 4
20	Florida Southern	Sunshine	S	87	–	↑ 2
21	Missouri S&T	GLVC	MW	75	–	↑ 9
22	Anderson (S.C.)	SAC	SE	74	–	↓ 3
23	Western Oregon	GNAC	W	57	–	–
24	Augustana (S.D.)	NSIC	CENT	52	–	↓ 3
25	Tiffin	G-MAC	MW	44	–	↓ 3
26	Saginaw Valley State	GLIAC	MW	32	–	↓ 15
27	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	Sunshine	S	24	–	NEW
28	CSU Pueblo	RMAC	SC	23	–	↓ 4
29	Lewis	GLVC	MW	22	–	↓ 19
30	East Central (Okla.)	GAC	CENT	15	–	↓ 4
30	Oklahoma Baptist	GAC	CENT	15	–	NEW
RV	Cal State San Marcos	CCAA	W	2	–	–
RV	Colorado Mesa	RMAC	SC	3	–	NEW
RV	Ashland	G-MAC	MW	1	–	NEW
RV	Walsh	G-MAC	MW	1	–	–
RV	Harding	GAC	CENT	3	–	NEW

FPV: First-place votes

Regions: ATL – Atlantic; CENT – Central; MW – Midwest; S – South; SC – South Central; SE – Southeast; W – West

A dash indicates no change. Arrows indicate movement from the previous poll.

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