CHARLOTTE – For a fourth consecutive year, Northwest's football program has finished the season with a Top 10 end of the year ranking. On Monday, the Rangers were voted 7th in the final NJCAA poll. 

It marks the sixth NJCAA Top 10 finish in the last nine seasons for the Rangers, who ended the season at 8-2 overall with losses to No. 1 EMCC (13-0) and No. 5 Jones College (10-2).

Northwest opened the year ranked fifth according to JCGridiron.com and Street & Smith's Magazine and sixth in the NJCAA.

The Rangers boasted a Top 20 offense and scoring defense in the NJCAA this season. 

Northwest was one of five teams from the MACJC in the final poll along with No. 1 East Mississippi, No. 5 Jones, No. 12 Gulf Coast and No. 18 Copiah-Lincoln.

East Mississippi defeated Garden City 10-9 in the 2018 eTeamSponsor Football National Championship game. 

To learn more about Ranger football visit the athletics website at www.nwccrangers.com.