KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Montana Western is ranked fifth in the preseason 2025 NAIA Coaches' Poll, leading five Frontier Conference teams in the rankings, which were released Monday.

Joining Western in the top 25 are Montana Tech at No. 11, Dickinson State at No. 13, Southern Oregon at No. 22 and Carroll at No. 25. College of Idaho is in the receiving votes category.

The Bulldogs went 10-2 in 2024, won their second consecutive Frontier championship and defeated Dickinson State in the second round of the playoffs. It was Western's first NAIA playoff win since 1994 and just the second in program history.

Western, which was voted by the coaches as the preseason favorite in the new-look Frontier's West Division, returns All-American quarterback Michael Palandri , who passed for 3,670 yards an

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