Gulls Ranked No. 24 Overall In Final AFCA Top-25 Poll

January 7, 2026

BEVERLY, Mass. – The Endicott football team has been ranked No. 24 overall in the final American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Top-25 poll for the 2025 season.

Under the leadership of eighth-year head coach Paul McGonagle, the Gulls are the only collegiate football program in New England to be ranked in the last four year-end AFCA polls.

Those rankings are as follows: 2025 season (24th), 2024 season (19th), 2023 season (15th, year-end program record), and 2022 season (25th).

Additionally, this year's squad finished just outside the top-25 in the final D3football.com poll of the season, receiving the most votes (30) of any program not in the rankings.

YEAR IN REVIEW

Endicott captured its fifth straight Conference of New England (CNE) championship, tied for the longest streak in league history, and earned the program's first-ever bye into the NCAA Tournament.

The Gulls finished the season 9-2 overall (7-0 CNE) after falling to No. 9/12 Salisbury in the second round.

Prior to the NCAA Tournament, Endicott was ranked No. 24 in the final regular season American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Top-25 poll, marking the fourth straight year the Gulls have been nationally ranked headed into postseason play.

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(Photo Credit - Bradley Griffin '28)