Gridiron Greyhounds Move Up to 21st in AFCA Top 25 Poll

Monday, October 23, 2017

PORTALES, NM — After an off week, the Eastern New Mexico University football team has moved up to 21^st in the American Football Coaches Association Poll. With six wins in their first seven games, the Greyhounds are off to their best start in decades and currently are second in the Lone Star Conference standings.

Last week, the Hounds debuted in the poll at 24^th, which was their first appearance in the Top-25 of the AFCA poll first since a three-week stretch in 2003, capped by a ranking of 21 on October 14, 2003. This week, Eastern is joined by fellow LSC competitors Midwestern State (5^th) and Texas A&M-Commerce (9^th).

With a 2013 Lone Star Conference Championship and back-to-back H.E.A.R.T. of Texas Bowl appearances in 2014 and 2015, the highly-successful Hounds have been in the receiving votes section of the poll many times in the last five years.

The Eastern New Mexico University football team will host Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday, October 28^th. The game will be sponsored by Wienerschnitzel and kick off at Al Whitehead Field at Greyhound Stadium at 7 p.m.