Today’s position is the Mountaineers’ first inside the poll’s top five this season and the team’s highest in the NSCAA Poll since earning a No. 4 ranking in the final regular-season poll last year. WVU earned a top-five ranking in the NSCAA Poll each of the last 12 weeks of the 2015 season.
Florida State (3-0) continues to rank No. 1, while Stanford (3-0) and Virginia (4-0) move up one spot to No. 2 and No. 3, respectively. Florida (3-1) also moved up one spot and ranks No. 5.
Despite losing to the Mountaineers, 1-0, on Aug.