PUEBLO, Colo. – Colorado State University Pueblo remained ranked No. 4 and No. 5 respectively in this week's latest AFCA Division II Coaches Poll, presented by GoRout Gridiron and D2Football.com Media polls that were released Monday morning.
In this season's ninth weekly national Division II football poll, the ThunderWolves, who are 8-0 overall and 6-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference after picking up a 28-21 win this past Saturday at Fort Lewis, remained ranked in the same spots they were ranked last week by the AFCA and D2Football.com.
The Pack received 649 points in this week's AFCA Coaches' Poll to sit 32 points behind No. 3 Kutztown (8-0), who received 681 points after earning a 41-14 win over West Chester (Pa.) this past Saturday and 10 points in front of No. 5 Minnesota State (8-0), who picked up an impressive 35-0 win over then No. 22 ranked Wayne State (Neb.). In the D2Football.com poll, the Pack remained ranked No. 5. The Pack is one spot in front of Western Colorado (8-0 overall, 6-0 RMAC), who is ranked No. 6 in both the D2Football.com and AFCA polls.
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, one RMAC school, Colorado School of Mines (5-2-1 overall, 5-1 RMAC) received eight votes in this week's AFCA poll to be one of 12 teams receiving votes. One of the Pack's previous opponents this season, Central Missouri also received votes in this week's AFCA poll as the Mules earned four votes this week.
Six 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 (8-0) and Harding (8-0) are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respectively in both polls. In addition to Ferris State and Harding, the AFCA has Kutztown (Pa.) (8-0) 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. 31 as they host Black Hills State (5-3 overall, 3-3 RMAC) for a 1 p.m. Halloween and Breast Cancer Awareness Day contest in the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl. The Pack enters the game having won 17 straight regular season games dating to last season's 36-35 home setback to Fort Hays State, 31 consecutive conference games dating to the 2023 season, which is the longest active conference win streak in Division II football.
