Football ranked No. 24 in D3Football.com poll, No. 25 in AFCA poll
ADA — The Ohio Northern football team is ranked No. 24 in the fourth weekly 2011 D3Football.com poll and is No. 25 in the second weekly American Football Coaches Association poll.
The Polar Bears (2-1 overall, 1-1 Ohio Athletic Conference) were upset at Muskingum 27-7 on Saturday in their first road game of the season.
In the D3Football.com poll, Northern was ranked No. 9 last week, Was No. 12 in the second weekly poll, was No. 13 in the first weekly poll and was No. 14 in the D3Football.com Preseason poll after finishing No. 8 in the final 2010 D3Football.com poll.
ONU received 93 points in this week's poll, 352 less than the 345 points it received in the week one poll.
Two-time defending national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater is No. 1, receiving 619 points and 19 first place votes.
Ohio Athletic Conference rival Mount Union is second with 606 points and the six remaining first place votes, Saint Thomas (Minn.) is third with 551 points and Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) is fourth with 541 points.
In the AFCA poll, ONU received 89 points, 475 less than the 565 points it received in the first weekly poll.
Wisconsin-Whitewater is No. 1, receiving 1047 points and 39 first place votes, Mount Union is second with 1011 points and the three remaining first place votes, Saint Thomas (Minn.) is third with 940 points and Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) is fourth with 931 points.
Ohio Northern will return home on Saturday to face No. 2 Mount Union at 1:30 pm at Dial-Roberson Stadium as part of ONU's Homecoming Weekend.
D3Football.com 2011 Poll - Week #4
Sept. 25, 2011
| Rank | School (1st-place votes) |
2011 Record | Points | Last Week |
| 1. | Wisconsin-Whitewater (19) | 3-0 | 619 | 1 |
| 2. | Mount Union (6) | 3-0 | 606 | 2 |
| 3. | Saint Thomas (Minn.) | 4-0 | 554 | 3 |
| 4. | Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) | 3-0 | 539 | 4 |
| 5. | Bethel (Minn.) | 3-0 | 510 | 5 |
| 6. | Linfield (Ore.) | 2-0 | 506 | 6 |
| 7. | Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-0 | 469 | 7 |
| 8. | Thomas More (Ky.) | 3-0 | 394 | 8 |
| 9. | North Central (Ill.) | 2-1 | 376 | 11 |
| 10. | Kean (N.J.) | 3-0 | 369 | 12 |
| 11. | Wesley (Del.) | 2-1 | 356 | 13 |
| 12. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 3-0 | 313 | 14 |
| 13. | Redlands (Calif.) | 2-0 | 290 | 15 |
| 14. | Alfred (N.Y.) | 3-0 | 286 | 16 |
| 15. | Wabash (Ind.) | 3-0 | 257 | 17 |
| 16. | Wittenberg | 4-0 | 235 | 19 |
| 17. | Trine (Ind.) | 3-0 | 224 | 18 |
| 18. | Cortland State (N.Y.) | 2-1 | 174 | 24 |
| 19. | Louisiana College | 3-0 | 166 | NR |
| 20. | California Lutheran | 1-1 | 158 | 20 |
| 21. | Delaware Valley (Pa.) | 4-0 | 105 | 25 |
| 22. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 3-1 | 97 | 10 |
| 23. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 4-0 | 95 | NR |
| 24. | Ohio Northern | 2-1 | 93 | 9 |
| 25. | Salisbury (Md.) | 3-0 | 58 | NR |
Others Receiving Votes: UW-Platteville 33; Franklin 30; Hobart 24; Monmouth 23; Dubuque 18; UW-Oshkosh 14; Birmingham-Southern 14; Hampden-Sydney 14; Coe 13; Mississippi College 13; Trinity (Texas) 13; Hardin-Simmons 10; McMurry 10; Pacific Lutheran 9; Muskingum 7; Illinois Wesleyan 6; Huntingdon 6; UW-Eau Claire 5; Adrian 4; Williams 3; New Jersey 2; UW-Stevens Point 2; Endicott 1; Augsburg 1; Lebanon Valley 1.
AFCA 2011 Poll - Week #2
Sept. 26, 2011
| Rank | School (1st-place votes) |
2011 Record | Points | Last Week |
| 1. | Wisconsin-Whitewater (39) | 3-0 | 1047 | 1 |
| 2. | Mount Union (3) | 3-0 | 1011 | 2 |
| 3. | Saint Thomas (Minn.) | 4-0 | 940 | 3 |
| 4. | Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) | 3-0 | 931 | 4 |
| 5. | Bethel (Minn.) | 3-0 | 821 | 5 |
| 6. | Linfield (Ore.) | 2-0 | 820 | 7 |
| Wheaton (Ill.) | 3-0 | 820 | 6 | |
| 8. | Thomas More (Ky.) | 3-0 | 70 | 8 |
| 9. | Montclair State (N.J.) | 3-0 | 691 | 10 |
| 10. | Alfred (N.Y.) | 3-0 | 585 | 12 |
| 11. | North Central (Ill.) | 2-1 | 534 | 13 |
| 12. | Trine (Ind.) | 3-0 | 531 | 15 |
| 13. | Kean (N.J.) | 3-0 | 513 | 17 |
| 14. | Delaware Valley (Pa.) | 4-0 | 512 | 16 |
| 15. | Wittenberg | 4-0 | 465 | 18 |
| 16. | Wesley (Del.) | 2-1 | 415 | 19 |
| 17. | Wabash (Ind.) | 3-0 | 377 | 20 |
| 18. | Redlands (Calif.) | 2-0 | 610 | 22 |
| 19. | Salisbury (Md.) | 3-0 | 288 | 21 |
| 20. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 4-0 | 256 | 23 |
| 21. | Trinity (Tex.) | 4-0 | 198 | 24 |
| 22. | Illinois Wesleyan | 3-0 | 108 | NR |
| 23. | Wartburg (Iowa) | 3-1 | 105 | 11 |
| 24. | Dubuque (Iowa) | 4-0 | 95 | NR |
| 25. | Ohio Northern | 2-1 | 89 | 9 |
Others Receiving Votes: Louisiana College, 74; Albright (Pa.), 67; Cortland St. (N.Y.), 56; Hampden-Sydney (Va.), 48; Franklin (Ind.), 42; Randolph-Macon (Va.), 41; Wis.-Eau Claire, 29; California Lutheran, 26; Adrian (Mich.), 25; Wis.-Platteville, 19; Coe (Iowa), 15; Wis.-Stevens Point, 9; Hardin-Simmons (Texas), 8; Endicott (Mass.), 6; Williams (Mass.), 4; Wis.-Oshkosh, 4; Carthage (Wis.), 3; Pacific Lutheran (Wash.), 3; Trinity (Conn.), 3; Huntingdon (Ala.), 2; Springfield (Mass.), 2; Washington & Jefferson (Pa.), 1.