10/3/2004 - Football
Mids Receive Top 25 Votes In Both Polls

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-The Navy football team, off to a 5-0 start for the first time since 1979, received votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the second week in a row and also received votes in the USA Today/Coaches Poll for the first time.

Navy received 15 voting points in the Associated Press poll, which ties the Mids with Stanford for 31st. Navy received two points in the USA Today/Coaches poll, which ties the Mids for 39th place with Northern Illinois and Central Michigan.

Navy has not been ranked since Oct. 22, 1979, when the 6-0 Midshipmen rose as high as 17th in the polls.

Navy is idle this weekend before traveling to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. for a tilt against Notre Dame on Oct. 16. The game will be nationally televised by CBS at 12 noon.