NASHVILLE – Editors of the College Football America 2017 Yearbook have elected to rank Northwest No. 8 in its 2017 preseason junior college Top 30 poll.

Northwest is also ranked 13th according to Street & Smith's College Football Preview magazine and 18th by JCGridiron.com. The NJCAA will release its preseason poll in the coming days, the primary poll used to determine the national champion.

East Mississippi is No. 1. Three of the next four teams in the CFA rankings hail from California. No. 2 Butte, No. 4 CCSF and No. 5 Mt. San Antonio have all won CCCAA titles since 2007. Garden City, No. 3, is the defending NJCAA national champion after riding a Cinderella wave to the title by beating Arizona Western in the El Toro Bowl.

The remainder of the Top 10 includes No. 6 Fullerton, No. 7 Arizona Western, No. 8 Northwest Mississippi, No. 9 American River and No. 10 Trinity Valley.

Riverside leads the next group of teams in the rankings at No. 11, followed by No. 12 Navarro, No. 13 Modesto, No. 14 Saddleback, No. 15 Mesa, No. 16 Long Beach City, No. 17 Holmes, No. 18 Northeast Mississippi, No. 19 Ventura and No. 20 Kilgore.

Rounding out the Top 30 is No. 21 San Mateo, No. 22 Lackawanna, No. 23 Santa Rosa, No. 24 Laney, No. 25 Central Lakes, No. 26 Bakersfield, No. 27 Eastern Arizona, No. 28 Los Angeles Valley, No. 29 Georgia Military and No. 30 Louisburg.

The College Football America 2017 Yearbook features more than 930 college football teams from the United States and Canada over the course of more than 300 striking, full-color pages. That includes every team from the NCAA (FBS, FCS, Division II and Division III), NAIA, NJCAA, CCCAA and U Sports (Canada). It also includes updates on club football, one-year postgraduate prep/sports academies and Mexican college football, along with dozens of action shots and stadium photos.

The print edition is available online via Amazon.com and other major retailers such as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. Additionally, an iBooks version for iPads and iPhones is available through Apple's iTunes bookstore and the iBooks app. And, new this year, a Kindle version of the book is now available.

*Portions of this story provided by Kendall Webb, publisher, College Football America.