The 1975 NCAA Division II football rankings are from United Press International and from Associated Press. The 1975 NCAA Division II football season was the first year UPI published a Division II poll. 1975 was also the 16th (and last) year AP published a "College Division" poll.
The final UPI poll was released before the Division II playoffs, and the final AP poll was released after the playoffs.
Legend
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The AP poll
| Week 1 Sept 24 [1] | Week 2 Oct 1 [2] | Week 3 Oct 8 [3] | Week 4 Oct 15 [4] | Week 5 Oct 22 [5] | Week 6 Oct 29 [6] | Week 7 Nov 5 [7] | Week 8 Nov 12 [8] | Week 9 Nov 19 [9] | Week 10 Nov 26 [10] | Week Postseason [11] | ||
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| 1. | Grambling State (3–0) (11) | Grambling State (3–0) (18) | Grambling State (4–0) (31) | Grambling State (5–0) (27) | Grambling State (6–0) (34) | Texas A&I (6–0) (24) | Texas A&I (7–0) (30) | Texas A&I (8–0) (29) | Texas A&I (9–0) (29) | Texas A&I (10–0) (29) | Texas A&I (12–0) (27) | 1. |
| 2. | Western Kentucky (3–0) (8) | Western Kentucky (4–0) (11) | Western Kentucky (5–0) (7) | Western Kentucky (5–0) (6) | Western Kentucky (6–0) (2) | Eastern Kentucky (6–0–1) (9) | North Dakota (8–0) (4) | North Dakota (9–0) (4) | North Dakota (9–0) (5) | North Dakota (9–0) (6) | Northern Michigan (13–1) (12) | 2. |
| 3. | Boise State (2–0) (1) | Boise State (3–0) (4) | Texas A&I (3–0) (2) | Texas A&I (4–0) (3) | Texas A&I (5–0) (3) | North Dakota (7–0) (3) | Boise State (7–0–1) (1) | Boise State (8–0–1) | Grambling State (9–1) (1) | Grambling State (9–2) (1) | Western Kentucky (11–2) | 3. |
| 4. | Texas A&I (1–0) (9) | Texas A&I (2–0) (5) | Boise State (4–0) | Idaho State (5–0) (4) | Eastern Kentucky (5–0–1) | Boise State (6–0–1) (2) | Grambling State (7–1) (2) | Grambling State (8–1) (1) | Western Kentucky (8–1) | Western Kentucky (9–1) | Grambling State (9–3) (1) | 4. |
| 5. | Jackson State (3–0) (6) | Jackson State (4–0) (1) | Idaho State (4–0) | Eastern Kentucky (5–0–1) | North Dakota (6–0) (3) | Grambling State (6–1) (1) | Wittenberg (8–0) (3) | Western Kentucky (8–1) | Henderson State (10–0) | Northern Michigan (10–1) (1) | Wittenberg (12–1) (1) | 5. |
| 6. | Idaho State (2–0) (3) | Idaho State (3–0) | Northern Michigan (5–0) (3) | North Dakota (5–0) (1) | Boise State (5–0–1) | Western Kentucky (6–1) | Western Kentucky (7–1) | Wittenberg (9–0) (2) | Northern Michigan (10–1) (1) | Boise State (9–1–1) | Livingston (10–3) | 6. |
| 7. | Eastern Kentucky (2–0–1) | Eastern Kentucky (3–0–1) | Eastern Kentucky (4–0–1) | Boise State (4–0–1) | Wittenberg (6–0) | Wittenberg (7–0) (2) | Eastern Kentucky (6–1–1) | Henderson State (9–0) | Boise State (8–1–1) | Ithaca (9–0) (1) | North Dakota (9–1) | 7. |
| 8. | Wittenberg (2–0) (1) | Northern Michigan (4–0) (1) | North Dakota (4–0) | Delaware (4–1) | Henderson State (6–0) | Henderson State (7–0) | Henderson State (8–0) | Lehigh (8–1) (1) | Bethune–Cookman (9–0) | Wittenberg (10–1) | Boise State (9–2–1) | 8. |
| 9. | Delaware (1–1) (1) | North Dakota (3–0) (1) | Delaware (3–1) | Wittenberg (5–0) | Northern Michigan (6–1) | Jackson State (5–2) (1) | Idaho State (7–1) | Northern Michigan (9–1) | Ithaca (9–0) (1) | Henderson State (10–1) | New Hampshire (9–3) | 9. |
| 10. | Henderson State (2–0) | Delaware (2–1) | Montana (3–0) (2) | Henderson State (5–0) | Montana (4–1) | Idaho State (6–1) | Lehigh (7–1) (2) | Ithaca (9–0) (1) | Wittenberg (9–1) | Northern Iowa (9–2) | Northern Iowa (9–3) | 10. |
| 11. | Northern Michigan (3–0) (1) | Wittenberg (3–0) | Wittenberg (4–0) | Ithaca (5–0) (2) | Idaho State (5–1) | Northern Michigan (7–1) | Northern Michigan (8–1) | UMass (8–0) [note 1] | Jackson State (7–2) | Lehigh (9–2) | Henderson State (11–1) | 11. |
| 12. | Youngstown State (2–0) (1) | Henderson State (3–0) | Henderson State (4–0) | Jackson State (4–1) | Ithaca (6–0) (2) | Lehigh (6–1) | Jackson State (5–2) | Bethune–Cookman (8–0) | Northern Iowa (9–2) | Jackson State (7–2) | Eastern Kentucky (8–2–1) | 12. |
| 13. | South Dakota State (2–0) (1) | Montana (2–0) (1) | Jackson State (4–1) | Montana (3–1) | Kentucky State (6–1) | Kentucky State (6–1) | Bethune–Cookman (7–0) | Jacksonville State (7–1) (1) | Lehigh (8–2) | Eastern Kentucky (8–2–1) | Ithaca (10–1) | 13. |
| 14. | Abilene Christian (1–0) | Ithaca (3–0) | Western Illinois (4–0) (1) | Northern Michigan (5–1) | Delaware (4–2) | Ithaca (6–0) (1) | Ithaca (7–0) (1) | Jackson State (6–2) | Eastern Kentucky (7–2–1) | Bethune–Cookman (9–1) | Salem State (11–1) | 14. |
| 15. | North Dakota (2–0) | Abilene Christian (1–1) | Ithaca (4–0) (1) | Kentucky State (5–1) (1) | Lehigh (5–1) | Jacksonville State (5–1) | Kentucky State (7–1) | Northern Colorado (8–0) | UMass (8–1) | Delaware (8–3) | Texas Lutheran (11–1) | 15. |
| 16. | Bethune–Cookman (6–0) | 16. | ||||||||||
| Week 1 Sept 24 [1] | Week 2 Oct 1 [2] | Week 3 Oct 8 [3] | Week 4 Oct 15 [4] | Week 5 Oct 22 [5] | Week 6 Oct 29 [6] | Week 7 Nov 5 [7] | Week 8 Nov 12 [8] | Week 9 Nov 19 [9] | Week 10 Nov 26 [10] | Week Postseason [11] | ||
Dropped:
| Dropped: 15 Abilene Christian | Dropped: 14 Western Illinois | Dropped: 12 Jackson State | Dropped:
| Dropped: 15 Jacksonville State | Dropped:
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| Dropped: 15 UMass | Dropped:
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The UPI poll
| Week 1 Sept 17 [12] | Week 2 Sept 24 [13] | Week 3 Oct 1 [14] | Week 4 Oct 8 [15] | Week 5 Oct 15 [16] | Week 6 Oct 22 [17] | Week 7 Oct 29 [18] | Week 8 Nov 5 [19] | Week 9 Nov 12 [20] | Week 10 Nov 19 [21] | Week 11 Nov 26 [22] | ||
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| 1. | Grambling State | Grambling State (3–0) | Grambling State (3–0) | Grambling State (4–0) | Grambling State (5–0) | Grambling State (6–0) | North Dakota (7–0) | North Dakota (8–0) | North Dakota (9–0) | North Dakota (9–0) | North Dakota (9–0) | 1. |
| 2. | UNLV [note 2] | Boise State (2–0) | Boise State (3–0) | Idaho State (4–0) | Idaho State (5–0) | Western Kentucky (6–0) | Boise State (6–0–1) | Boise State (7–0–1) | Boise State (8–0–1) | Grambling State (9–1) | Grambling State (9–2) | 2. |
| 3. | Delaware | Western Kentucky (3–0) | North Dakota (3–0) | Western Kentucky (5–0) | Western Kentucky (5–0) | North Dakota (6–0) | Eastern Kentucky (6–0–1) | Grambling State (7–1) | Grambling State (8–1) | Western Kentucky (8–1) | Western Kentucky (9–1) | 3. |
| 4. | Boise State | Jackson State (3–0) | Idaho State (3–0) | North Dakota (4–0) | North Dakota (5–0) | Boise State (5–0–1) | Grambling State (6–1) | Idaho State (7–1) | Lehigh (8–1) | Northern Michigan (10–1) | Northern Michigan (10–1) | 4. |
| 5. | Western Kentucky | Idaho State (2–0) | Western Kentucky (4–0) | Boise State (4–0) | Nicholls State (5–0) | Eastern Kentucky (5–0–1) | Western Kentucky (6–1) | Lehigh (7–1) | Western Kentucky (8–1) | Boise State (8–1–1) | Boise State (9–1–1) | 5. |
| 6. | Eastern Kentucky | North Dakota (2–0) | Northern Michigan (4–0) | Northern Michigan (5–0) | Eastern Kentucky (5–0–1) | Nicholls State (5–0) | Idaho State (6–1) | Eastern Kentucky (6–1–1) | UMass (8–0) | Lehigh (8–2) | Lehigh (9–2) | 6. |
| 7. | North Dakota | Northern Michigan (3–0) | Alcorn State (2–1) | Montana (3–0) | Boise State (4–0–1) | Montana (4–1) | Lehigh (6–1) | Western Kentucky (7–1) | Southern (8–1) | Northern Iowa (9–2) | Northern Iowa (9–2) | 7. |
| 8. | Jackson State | Eastern Kentucky (2–0–1) | Jackson State (4–0) | Western Illinois (4–0) | Montana (3–1) | Idaho State (5–1) | South Carolina State (5–0–1) | Southern (7–1) | Jacksonville State (7–1) | New Hampshire (8–2) | New Hampshire (8–2) | 8. |
| 9. | Akron | UNLV (1–1) | Western Illinois (3–0) | Eastern Kentucky (4–0–1) | Delaware (4–1) | Northwest Missouri State (6–0) | UC Davis (6–1) | UMass (7–0) | Northern Colorado (8–0) | UMass (8–1) | Livingston (9–2) | 9. |
| 10. | Idaho State | Alcorn State (1–1) | Montana (2–0) | Nicholls State (4–0) | Northwest Missouri State (5–0) | Lehigh (5–1) | Southern (6–1) | Akron (7–2) | Idaho State (7–2) | Idaho State (7–2) | UMass (8–2) | 10. |
| 11. | South Dakota State (3–0) | South Carolina State (4–0–1) | Northern Colorado (6–0) | 11. | ||||||||
| 12. | UC Davis (5–1) [note 3] | 12. | ||||||||||
| Week 1 Sept 17 [12] | Week 2 Sept 24 [13] | Week 3 Oct 1 [14] | Week 4 Oct 8 [15] | Week 5 Oct 15 [16] | Week 6 Oct 22 [17] | Week 7 Oct 29 [18] | Week 8 Nov 5 [19] | Week 9 Nov 12 [20] | Week 10 Nov 19 [21] | Week 11 Nov 26 [22] | ||
Dropped:
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| Dropped: 9 Delaware | Dropped:
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| Dropped: 10 Idaho State |
HBCU rankings
Jet magazine ranked the top 1975 teams from historically black colleges and universities based on a poll of coaches and conference commissioners.
The poll was published on December 18. [23]
- 1. Grambling State (10–2)
- 2. Florida A&M (9–2)
- 3. South Carolina State (8–2–1)
- 4. Bethune-Cookman (10–1)
- 5. North Carolina A&T (8–3)
- 6. Southern (9–3)
- 7. Jackson State (7–3)
- 8. Kentucky State (8–3)
- 9. Norfolk State (8–3)
- 10. Bowie State (9–1)
- 11. Johnson C. Smith (8–3)
- 12. Alcorn State (6–3–1)
- 13. Mississippi Valley State (6–4)
- 14. Livingstone (7–3–1)
- 15. Howard (8–3)
- 16. Fisk (7–3)
- 17. Virginia Union (6–4)
- 18. Fayetteville State (7–3)
- 19. Tennessee State (5–5)
- 20. Fort Valley State (6–1–2)
Notes
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