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Final men's golf rankings of fall 2025: Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches Polls for Oct. 31

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Golfweek
Updated Oct. 31, 2025, 11:06 a.m. ET

These are the final coaches polls in men's college golf for fall portion of the 2025-2026 season.

The coaches polls below are for Div. I, Div. II, Div. III as well as two divisions of junior college golf.

Virginia men's golf is No. 1 in the final fall Bushnell/Golfweek coaches poll of the 2025-2026 season.

2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek Div. I Coaches Poll - Oct. 31

Virginia was a winner or the runner-up team in all four fall events and the Cavaliers will conclude the fall in the No. 1 spot in the Div. I coaches poll after getting 18 first-place votes and 543 total points. LSU is second and has two first-place votes. Vanderbilt is No. 3 and the Commodores earned one first-place vote. The final first-place vote went to No. 9 Oklahoma State.

RankUniversityPointsPrevious
1Virginia (18)5432
2LSU (2)51310
3Vanderbilt (1)4923
4Texas4535
5Arizona State4157
6Illinois4098
7Auburn3891
8Florida38614
9Oklahoma State (1)3526
10Ole Miss3384
11Arkansas32723
12Alabama32217
13North Carolina2759
14New Mexico23820
15Pepperdine21418
16Georgia Tech21319
17Utah19715
18Oklahoma16411
19Texas Tech16113
20Tennessee15516
21UCLA13625
22Wake Forest8521
23Notre Dame71RV
24Charlotte60RV
25BYU5612

Others receiving votes: USC (55), Duke (33), Louisville (23), Florida State (18), Georgia (14), Texas A&M (13), Northwestern (8), Long Beach State (6), Arkansas State (5), Cincinnati (3), Washington (3), Clemson (2), Cal Baptist (1), Colorado (1), Purdue (1), San Diego State (1), UC Santa Barbara (1).

2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek Div. II Coaches Poll - Oct. 31

Lee is No. 1 in the Bushnell/Golfweek Div. II Coaches Poll for the first time in more than three years. The Flames won the Fripp Island to Bermuda Invite by 18 shots, a tournament that put individual champion Drew Zielinski into the PGA Tour's Butterfield Bermuda Championship, the first time an active D-II player earned a spot in a Tour event. 

RankUniversityPointsPrevious
1Lee (5)4054
2Grand Valley State (7)3887
3West Florida (3)3871
4Central Oklahoma3606
5Florida Southern3573
6Wingate (1)3469
7Georgia Southwestern3265
8Columbus State28810
9St. Mary’s27013
10Catawba233RV
11West Texas A&M19923
12North Georgia (1)1922
13Central Missouri183RV
14Colorado Mesa15318
15UTPB149RV
16CSU Pueblo145RV
17Nova Southeastern13014
18Barry127RV
19Western Washington122RV
20Saint Leo12024
21Rollins11821
22Lander1098
23Cal State East Bay8217
24Lincoln Memorial5211
25Lynn4915

Others receiving votes: DBU (34), Oklahoma Christian (24), Winona State (23), Chico State (21), USCB (19), UMSL (18), Flagler (14), Colorado School of Mines (12), USC Aiken (10), Simon Fraser (8), CSU Monterey Bay (7), Tampa (7), Palm Beach Atlantic (6), Wayne State (MI) (6), Lenoir-Rhyne (5), Washburn (4), Arkansas-Fort Smith (3), Midwestern State (3), Belmont Abbey (2), Colorado Christian (2), Embry-Riddle (FL) (2), Harding (2), Carson-Newman (1), Eckerd (1), UT Tyler (1).

2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek Div. III Coaches Poll - Oct. 31

Huntingdon is No. 1 in the Div. III Coaches Poll for the first time in eight years. The Hawks received 13 first-place votes and 386 total points, just enough to move from sixth to first and slide ahead of previous No. 1 Emory. 

RankUniversityPointsPrevious
1Huntingdon (13)3866
2Emory (3)3841
3Carnegie Mellon3534
4Illinois Wesleyan3355
5Mary Hardin-Baylor32716
6Sewanee3117
7Methodist2972
8Washington and Lee2918
9Aurora2839
10Oglethorpe2363
11Wittenberg230NR
12Rochester22323
13Willamette20925
14Southwestern19712
15Transylvania16420
16Kenyon16110
17Gustavus Adolphus15611
18Pomona-Pitzer12713
19Gettysburg11117
20Whitman73RV
21Piedmont67RV
22Trinity (TX)6114
23LeTourneau5315
24Southern Virginia46RV
25Carleton22RV

Others receiving votes: Lynchburg (13), Hampden-Sydney (12), Berry (10), Rhodes (10), Bethel (MN) (7), John Carroll (7), Babson (6), McDaniel (4), Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (3), NYU (3), Otterbein (3), Trinity (CT) (3), Amherst (2), Guilford (2), Saint John's (MN) (1), Skidmore (1).

2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek NAIA Coaches Poll - Oct. 31

After winning two of their four fall tournaments, including the Jupiter Collegiate Invitational by 10 strokes on October 14, Keiser is No. 1 for the second consecutive poll. Reinhardt (one first-place vote) and Oklahoma City tied for second in this poll.

RankUniversityPointsPrevious
1Keiser (7)1991
T-2Reinhardt (1)18012
T-2Oklahoma City1803
4Marian1738
5Ave Maria15114
6Dalton State1435
7MidAmerica Nazarene1422
T-8Coastal Georgia13710
T-8Friends13711
10Lindsey Wilson1364
11Missouri Valley College109RV
12OUAZ108T-6
13Rocky Mountain9917
14Blue Mountain Christian87T-19
15Webber International86RV
16Wayland Baptist839
17Texas Wesleyan81T-6
18USAO6425
19Victoria61RV
20Taylor55RV
21Northwestern Ohio37RV
22Point3422
23Southeastern2918
24Indiana Wesleyan1713
25Cumberland15NR

Others receiving votes: Hastings (14), The Master’s (11), William Carey (9), Northwestern (IA) (6), Columbia International (5), Morningside (5), St. Ambrose (4), Bellevue (2).

2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek NJCAA Div. I Coaches Poll - Oct. 31

After winning two of their final three tournaments of the fall, including the NCAA Div. II-hosted Ryan Palmer Foundation Invite on Oct. 15 by 13 strokes with a 30-under 822, Odessa takes the top spot in the Bushnell/Golfweek NJCAA Div. I Coaches Poll for Oct. 31. The Wranglers, ranked first for the first time since Aug. 30, 2024, received five first-place votes and 86 overall points.

RankUniversityPointsPrevious
1Odessa (5)862
2Midland (2)801
3Indian Hills744
4McLennan643
5Hutchinson475
6Weatherford366
7Central Alabama327
8Garden City208
9Eastern Florida State179
10New Mexico JC810

Others receiving votes: Iowa Western (5), Blinn (4), Western Texas (2), Tyler (1).

2025-26 Bushnell/Golfweek NJCAA Div. II Coaches Poll - Oct. 31

Mississippi Gulf Coast is No. 1 in the final fall coaches poll. With top-three finishes in its last three tournaments, the Bulldogs received two first-place votes and 38 total points in the Oct. 31, 2025, poll. The previous No. 1, Heartland, slides back to No. 2 with Kirkwood, South Mountain (Arizona) and Murray State rounding out the top five. 

RankUniversityPointsPrevious
1Mississippi Gulf Coast (2)383
2Heartland (1)341
3Kirkwood (1)332
4South Mountain264
5Murray State (OK)225
6Northeast (NE)206
7Highland117
T-8Des Moines Area9RV
T-8Meridian9T-10
10Southeast (NE)88

Others receiving votes: Iowa Central (5), Jones (3).

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