Aug 26, 2025

🏈 Blue Dragons remain No. 1 in first NJCAA DI poll

Posted Aug 26, 2025 8:10 AM
Photo Courtesy HutchCC Athletics
Photo Courtesy HutchCC Athletics

Hutchinson CC Sports Information

Week 0 games caused a little movement in the first NJCAA Division I Football Rankings of the 2025 season.

The first poll of the regular season still has the Top 4 teams where they started in the preseason poll – Hutchinson at No. 1, Iowa Western at No. 2, Northwest Mississippi at No. 3 and Navarro at No. 4. The Blue Dragons received all 12 first-place votes. Those four teams did not play in Week 0.

Snow (1-0) and Georgia Military (1-0) swapped spots at Nos. 5 and 6. The Badgers rolled past the Utah Islanders to move into fifth place.

After losing to No. 7 Trinity Valley on Saturday, Dodge City fell out of the receiving votes column.

Garden City remains No. 7, Butler remains No. 14 and Coffeyville is receiving votes.

The Blue Dragons don't open their season until September 6 at New Mexico Military, which opens its season this Saturday against Community Christian College.

Hutchinson was picked No. 1 in the preseason ranking for the third time in program history.

The Blue Dragons extend their program record for longest consecutive weeks in the national poll with 49 weeks. The Dragons have been ranked in the top three of the NJCAA Rankings for 43 consecutive polls and have been ranked No. 1 in 38 of the 68 polls released in the Drew Dallas era.