---
"title": "Ultimate HBCU Sports Football Poll: A wild weekend leads to big changes in the rankings"
"description": "There was a lot of movement — for better or worse — within this week’s Ultimate HBCU Sports Football Poll after a weekend of upsets, blowouts, and thrilling finishes. Rank Team Prev Rank Record 1 Jackson State 1 5-1 2 Prairie View 2 5-1 3 Alcorn State 3 4-2 4 Florida A&M 7 4-2 5 […]"
"date": "2021-10-18"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "HBCU Sports"
"url": "https://hbcusports.com/2021/10/18/ultimate-hbcu-sports-football-poll-a-wild-weekend-leads-to-big-changes-in-the-rankings/"
"categories":
  - "Features"
  - "Football"
"tags":
  - "Alcorn State"
  - "Bowie State"
  - "Jackson State"
  - "Southern"
  - "Tennessee State"
---

# Ultimate HBCU Sports Football Poll: A wild weekend leads to big changes in the rankings

There was a lot of movement — for better or worse — within this week’s Ultimate HBCU Sports Football Poll after a weekend of upsets, blowouts, and thrilling finishes.

| **Rank** | **Team** | **Prev Rank** | **Record** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Jackson State | 1 | 5-1 |
| 2 | Prairie View | 2 | 5-1 |
| 3 | Alcorn State | 3 | 4-2 |
| 4 | Florida A&M | 7 | 4-2 |
| 5 | Langston | 5 | 6-0 |
| 6 | Bowie State | 6 | 6-1 |
| 7 | Savannah State | 8 | 6-1 |
| 8 | Norfolk State | 11 | 4-2 |
| 9 | Fayetteville State | 14 | 5-1 |
| 10 | Albany State | 15 | 5-1 |
| 11 | North Carolina A&T | 4 | 3-3 |
| 12 | Delaware State | 16 | 3-3 |
| 13 | Tennessee State | 18 | 3-3 |
| 14 | Southern | 20 | 3-3 |
| 15 | Kentucky State | 19 | 4-3 |
| 16 | Virginia Union | 22 | 4-3 |
| 17 | Alabama A&M | 13 | 3-3 |
| 18 | Alabama State | 11 | 3-3 |
| 19 | Chowan | 9 | 5-2 |
| 20 | Bluefield State | 12 | 3-2 |
| 21 | Howard | 25 | 2-4 |
| 22 | Fort Valley State | 17 | 4-3 |
| 23 | Shaw | NR | 4-3 |
| 24 | Miles | NR | 3-4 |
| 25 | Lane | 21 | 4-3 |