Each season, one poll evaluates the various National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football teams and ranks them.
A final poll was taken after completion of the series of playoff games, collectively referred to as the 2019 NAIA Football National Championship.
A complete schedule of poll release dates will be:[2] A 16-team tournament was contested to determine the winner of the 2019 NAIA Football National Championship.
First, any conference champion ranked in the top 20 positions in the final regular-season Coaches' Poll received an automatic bid into the tourney field.
This alignment was then tweaked, for geographic and travel considerations, by the tournament selection officials to determine the announced first-round pairings.
The number of times a team has been ranked #1 in the postseason poll (the national champion) is shown in parentheses.