KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Montana Tech's football team bumped up a pair of spots to No. 13 in the weekly NAIA Football Go Rout Top 25, the NAIA national office announced Monday afternoon.

The Orediggers posted their second-consecutive shutout, a feat not accomplished by the Montana Tech football program since 1939, in Saturday's 38-0 whipping of Rocky Mountain College to earn the ranking. 

Montana Tech (6-2, 3-2 Frontier Conference) earned 191 points in the weekly poll, tying them with Georgetown for the No. 13 spot. The Diggers earned a season-opening victory over Georgetown, 29-22, August 29.

Tech is one of five Frontier schools to check into the poll. The Diggers are joined by No. 4 Montana Western, No. 8 Southern Oregon, No. 21 Carroll, and No. 24 College of Idaho in the top 25.

The Orediggers will continue Frontier Conference play Saturday with a 7 p.m. kickoff at Arizona Christian.

Rating Methodology:

• The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences. Each conference is given one rater for every four schools in the league or division.
• The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater rates the best teams. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place, 23 for third-place and so on through the list.
• The highest and lowest ratings for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) are removed. The team's rating will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the team appears on.
• Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes."

RANK	INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES]	RECORD	FINAL POINTS
1	Keiser (Fla.) [16]	6-0	375
2	Grand View (Iowa) [1]	7-0	356
3	Indiana Wesleyan	7-1	349
4	Montana Western	6-1	314
5	St. Thomas (Fla.)	6-1	312
6	Morningside (Iowa)	7-1	299
7	Benedictine (Kan.)	7-1	296
8	Southern Oregon	7-1	263
9	Northwestern (Iowa)	6-1	261
10	Dordt (Iowa)	6-1	234
11	Texas Wesleyan	7-0	224
12	MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)	7-0	208
13	Montana Tech	6-2	191
13	Georgetown (Ky.)	5-2	191
15	Baker (Kan.)	6-1	160
16	Evangel (Mo.)	7-0	143
17	Dickinson State (N.D.)	6-1	115
18	Southeastern (Fla.)	5-1	114
19	St. Francis (Ill.)	6-1	97
20	OUAZ (Ariz.)	6-1	81
21	Carroll (Mont.)	6-1	64
22	Cumberland (Tenn.)	6-2	44
23	Friends (Kan.)	7-1	41
24	College of Idaho	6-3	36
25	Bethel (Tenn.)	5-2	35

Dropped From Top 25: Marian (Ind.)

Receiving Votes: Concordia (Neb.) 26, Southwestern (Kan.) 12, Saint Francis (Ind.) 5, Marian (Ind.) 4

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