Chip’s Picks for NAIA Football 10/4/25

Every NAIA football game in the nation deserves to be looked at and we do that each week with Chip’s Picks! Chip’s Picks will select featured games as well as predict the winner of every NAIA football game. (For those of you unfamiliar “Chip” is just the nickname for me, Jason Dannelly.)

Each week we will carve out the best of the best in our featured game picks as well as selecting winners of every NAIA football games. All games are Saturday unless notated below.

Featured NAIA Football Games of the Week

Before we get to all of the picks, here are the main games we will have our eyes on this week. More to come on these matchups tomorrow in “Around the NAIAtion” from the Victory Sports Network.

Cumberlands (Ky.) at Campbellsville
Florida Memorial at Southeastern
St. Francis (Ind.) at Taylor (Ind.)
Concordia at Mount Marty
Grand View at William Penn
Lindsey Wilson at Georgetown
Briar Cliff at Dordt

Here’s the full list of the NAIA football scheduled sorted by the home team.

AwayHomeChip’s Pick
Carroll (MT)Arizona Christian Carroll
Southwestern (KS)Avila Southwestern
William WoodsBaker Baker
McPhersonBethany (KS) McPherson
Sterling (KS)Bethel (KS) Bethel
CumberlandsCampbellsville Campbellsville
Saint XavierDefiance SXU
Dakota WesleyanDoane Doane
Briar CliffDordt Dordt
Kansas WesleyanEvangel KWU
Bethel (TN)Faulkner Bethel (TN)
Lindsey WilsonGeorgetown (KY) LWU
Culver-StocktonGraceland Graceland
St. Francis (IL)Indiana Wesleyan IWU
Thomas (GA)Keiser Keiser
OUAZLangston OUAZ
Fort LauderdaleLouisiana Christian LCU
Marian (IN)Madonna Marian
Dickinson StateMayville State Dickinson State
Central MethodistMidAmerica Nazarene MNU
Benedictine (KS)Missouri Baptist Benedictine
St. AmbroseMissouri Valley MVC
Dakota StateMontana Tech Tech
WaldorfMorningside Morningside
Concordia (NE)Mount Marty Concordia
HastingsNorthwestern (IA) Northwestern
FriendsOttawa Friends
ClarkePeru State PSC
BluefieldPoint Bluefield
Union (KY)Reinhardt Reinhardt
Kentucky ChristianRio Grande KCU
JudsonSiena Heights Siena Heights
College of IdahoSimpson (CA) COI
Florida MemorialSoutheastern SEU
Montana WesternSouthern Oregon Montana Western
Ave MariaSt. Thomas (FL) STU
Saint Mary (KS)Tabor Tabor
Saint Francis (IN)Taylor Taylor
Arkansas BaptistTexas Wesleyan TWU
Rocky MountainValley City State Rocky
Oklahoma Panhandle StateWayland Baptist Wayland
WarnerWebber International WIU
Grand ViewWilliam Penn Grand View

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