Behind yet another meet-winning effort from Seth Farmer -- and an outstanding team effort at the Mid-South Conference Championships where Shawnee State put nine runners among the top-15 runners overall en route to the 2019 Mid-South Conference Championship -- the men's cross country program at SSU retained its No. 8 national ranking in the last in-season poll of the 2019 campaign.

SSU, who accumulated 427 points to maintain its No. 8 standing, sits 22 points ahead of The Master's (Calif.) and just 21 points back of No. 7 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) in the national polls. Oklahoma City, who garnered all 20 first-place votes in the Men's Cross Country Poll, led the way with 560 points while the College of Idaho, Saint Mary (Kan.), Indiana Wesleyan, and Southern Oregon obtained top-five finishes with 541, 517, 505, and 491 tallies. Taylor (Ind.) was sixth with 473 points to their credit.