By Tim Glon

The Ohio Northern football team finished the 2015 season ranked No. 19 in the final D3Football.com poll.

The Polar Bears (9-3 overall, 7-2 Ohio Athletic Conference) received 144 points in the voting after receiving 33 points in the 11th and final regular season poll.

Mount Union won the national title and was ranked first with 625 points and all 25 first place votes, national runner-up St. Thomas (Minn.) was second with 599 points and Linfield (Ore.) was third with 562 points.

The Polar Bears have now been mentioned in the D3football.com poll in 14 of the last 17 years.

Northern reached the final 16 of the NCAA III Playoffs with a 28-24 victory at Franklin (Ind.) in the first round before bowing out to No. 5-ranked Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the second round.