Following Homecoming Victory over Kean, 6-0 Captains Move Up to 15th in New National Poll

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Christopher Newport University continues to climb the national football poll from D3football.com. Paul Crowley's Captains are ranked 15th in the country in the new poll released Sunday by the website, moving up from the 17th slot last week.

CNU is 6-0 for the first time in program history following a 49-0 victory on Saturday over Kean University during Homecoming Weekend at TowneBank Stadium. The Captains have now won their last 11 games dating back to last season, and are now 3-0 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), tied with Salisbury for the top spot in the conference.

The new ranking is the highest for CNU since the first week of the 2007 season when the Captains were slotted 12th in the country following a victory over tenth-ranked Rowan. Christopher Newport's highest national ranking ever was 11th during the 2003 campaign, which was the first year of the D3football.com poll.

Christopher Newport travels to Wayne, N.J., on Saturday to take on the Pioneers of William Paterson University (2-4, 1-2). The NJAC contest will kick off at 1:00 p.m.

The complete new poll from D3football.com:

Through games of Oct. 18, 2025:

Rank	School (No. 1 votes)	W-L	Points	Prev.
1	North Central (Ill.) (23)	6-0	623	1
2	Mount Union (2)	6-0	599	2
3	Johns Hopkins	6-0	577	3
4	Salisbury	6-0	513	5
5	Bethel	6-0	512	6
6	Hardin-Simmons	6-0	485	7
7	Wartburg	7-0	472	8
8	UW-Platteville	5-1	424	13
9	UW-Whitewater	5-1	421	9
10	UW-River Falls	5-1	396	12
11	St. John's	5-1	388	10
12	UW-La Crosse	4-1	381	4
13	John Carroll	6-1	336	14
14	Central	6-0	278	15
15	Christopher Newport	6-0	247	17
16	Carnegie Mellon	4-2	220	16
17	DePauw	5-1	212	11
18	UW-Oshkosh	4-2	162	18
19	Hope	5-1	160	19
20	Wheaton (Ill.)	4-2	144	21
21	Berry	5-1	142	22
22	Cortland	5-1	115	23
23	Randolph-Macon	6-1	70	25
24	UW-Stout	4-2	56	20
25	Adrian	6-0	38	--

Dropped out: No. 24 Linfield.

Others receiving votes: Baldwin Wallace 30; Trinity (Texas) 29; Wabash 23; Susquehanna 19; Washington & Jefferson 8; Monmouth 7; Mary Hardin-Baylor 6; Whitworth 5; Ithaca 5; Alma 4; Franklin & Marshall 4; Coe 3; Hampden-Sydney 3; Chapman 2; Linfield 2; Eastern 1; Maryville 1; Muhlenberg 1; Washington U. 1.

The D3football.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly. Points are awarded on a 25-24-23-22-etc. basis.

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