PUEBLO, Colo. – Following its 24-21 come-from-behind win at then sixth-ranked Western Colorado, Colorado State University Pueblo football jumped one spot in both this week's latest AFCA Division II Coaches' and D2Football.com polls that were released Monday.
In this week's 10th national Division II football polls of the 2025 season, the ThunderWolves, who are sporting an 8-1 overall record and a 7-0 mark in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, jumped one spot to No. 6 in the latest AFCA Division II Coaches' Poll presented by HUDL and advanced one spot to No. 7 in this week's D2Football.com Media Top 25 Poll.
The Pack received 616 points in this week's AFCA Coaches' Poll to sit 40 points in front of No. 7 Central Washington (8-1) and 24 points behind No. 5 Augustana (9-0).
CSU Pueblo and Western Colorado are two of the three RMAC schools either ranked or receiving votes in the latest AFCA poll and are two of the three league schools ranked in the Top 25 of the D2Football.com poll. Besides the Pack in the AFCA poll, Western Colorado (8-1) fell five spots to No. 11 after its home loss to the Pack on Saturday, while Chadron State (7-2) was one of 12 schools to earn votes this week as they Eagles received 19 votes after having earning a 35-10 win last Saturday at South Dakota Mines. In the D2Football.com poll, Western Colorado fell four spots to No. 9 and Chadron State moved into the poll at No. 22.
In this week's latest polls, the top four teams in each poll remained the same from last week as Ferris State (9-0) leads both polls at No. 1 as they earned 775 points and all 31 first place votes in the AFCA poll, while Harding (9-0) remained at No. 2 in both polls and West Florida (9-0) remained No. 3 in the AFCA poll and the Argonauts are followed at No. 4 by Kutztown (Pa.) (9-0) at No. 4 and Augustana (9-0) at No. 5.
Meanwhile, in the D2Football.com poll, Kutztown (Pa.) remains at No. 3 and is followed at No. 4 by West Florida and Pittsburg State jumped up one spot to No. 5.
CSU Pueblo will put its seven game win streak on the line this coming Saturday, Nov. 8 as they travel to Golden, Colo., for a 12 p.m. RMAC tilt against Colorado School of Mines. The Pack enters the game having won 23 straight RMAC games dating to the 2023 season, which is currently the longest active conference win streak in Division II football and they have also won 14 straight road games dating to the 2023 season and that is also the longest active road win streak in Division II football.
