PUEBLO, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo football enters the 2025 NCAA Division II Playoffs ranked No. 4 and No. 6 in this week's latest AFCA Division II Coaches' and D2Football.com polls that were released Monday.
In this week's 12th and final national Division II football poll of the 2025 regular season, the ThunderWolves, who are sporting a 10-1 overall record and went 9-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference after its 30-27 double overtime win last Saturday at home against 22nd-ranked Chadron State to claim its second consecutive RMAC title, advanced two spots from No. 6 to No. 4 in the latest AFCA Division II Coaches' Poll presented by HUDL and jumped one spot to No. 6 in this week's D2Football.com Media Top 25 Poll.
The Pack received 669 points in this week's AFCA Coaches' Poll to sit 17 points in front of No. 5 Central Washington (10-1) and 42 points behind No. 3 Kutztown (Pa.) (11-0).
CSU Pueblo, Chadron State and Western Colorado are the three RMAC schools ranked in both of this week's AFCA and D2Football.com polls. Besides the Pack in the AFCA poll, Western Colorado (9-2), who closed the regular season with a 42-28 home win over Colorado Mesa, jumped three spots to No. 15 and Chadron State (8-3) remained at No. 22 in the AFCA poll after its double overtime setback to the Pack. In the D2Football.com poll, Western Colorado jumped four spots to No. 18 and Chadron State jumped two spots to No. 17 this week.
In this week's latest polls, the top two teams in each poll remained the same from last week as Ferris State (11-0) leads both polls at No. 1 as they earned 774 points and 30 first place votes in the AFCA poll, while Harding (11-0) remained at No. 2 in both polls as they earned 745 points and one first place vote in the AFCA poll. Kutztown moved up one spot to No. 3 in the AFCA and following them is CSU Pueblo at No. 4 and Central Washington at No. 5.
Meanwhile, in the D2Football.com poll, Kutztown (Pa.) (11-0) remains at No. 3 and is followed at No. 4 by Pittsburg State (9-2) and Central Washington is at No. 5.
CSU Pueblo will put its nine game win streak on the line this coming Saturday, Nov. 22 as they host 10th-ranked UT-Permian Basin for 1:02 p.m. first round NCAA Division II playoff game in the ThunderBowl. The two-time reigning RMAC Champions earned the No. 3 seed from Super Region Four in the NCAA Division II Playoffs.
