PUEBLO, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo jumped one spot to No. 5 in this week's latest D2Football.com Media Poll and stayed ranked No. 4 in this week's latest AFCA Division II Coaches Poll, presented by GoRout Gridiron that were released Monday morning.
In this season's seventh weekly national Division II football poll, the ThunderWolves, who are 6-0 overall and 4-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, remained ranked No. 4 and jumped from No. 6 to No. 5 respectively by the AFCA and D2Football.com after having not played last weekend.
The Pack received 635 points in this week's AFCA Coaches' Poll to sit 24 points behind No. 3 Kutztown (6-0), who received 659 points after earning a 56-0 win over Lackawanna last Saturday and 21 points in front of No. 5 Minnesota State (7-0), who earned a 34-16 win over Winona State this past Saturday. In the D2Football.com poll, the Pack jumped one spot to No. 5 after previously No. 5 ranked Grand Valley State (5-1) fell 41-35 in overtime against Michigan Tech this past weekend. The Pack is one spot in front of Western Colorado (6-0 overall, 4-0 RMAC), who jumped from No. 7 to No. 6 in the D2Football.com poll.
CSU Pueblo and Western Colorado are the only two RMAC schools ranked in this week's latest national polls as Western Colorado is ranked No. 6 in both the AFCA and D2Football.com polls. Additionally, two RMAC schools, Colorado School of Mines (3-2-1 overall, 3-1 RMAC) and South Dakota Mines (5-1 overall, 3-1 RMAC) each earned a vote in this week's AFCA poll.
Eight of the Top 25 teams ranked in this week's AFCA Coaches poll are from Super Region Four, including four teams from the super region ranked inside the Top 8.
The top two teams remained the same in both the AFCA and D2Football.com polls as Ferris State (6-0) and Harding (6-0) are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in both polls. In addition to Ferris State and Harding, the AFCA has Kutztown (Pa.) (6-0) at No. 3, CSU Pueblo at No. 4 and Minnesota State at No. 5, while D2Football.com has Minnesota State at No. 3, Kutztown at No. 4 and CSU Pueblo at No. 5.
CSU Pueblo will look to remain undefeated on the season as they return to action this coming Saturday, Oct. 17 with a 2 p.m. Homecoming 2026 and Hall of Fame game in the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl against New Mexico Highlands (3-3 overall, 1-3 RMAC). The Pack enters the game having won 15 straight regular season games dating to last season's 36-35 home setback to Fort Hays State, and 29 consecutive conference games dating to the 2023 season, which is the longest active conference win streak in Division II football.
