Author: Chuck Burton

The FCS Playoff Committee has a pretty unenviable job this time around in trying to determine the playoff seeds. With a crazy day of upsets...

It is rare that the MVP of the Lehigh/Lafayette game is a kicker, but that's exactly what happened this afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium as...

This season, though, there isn't the same feeling of continuity that permeated many of these other games. Part of that comes from the fact that,...

Going into this game, Lehigh's defense had a serious challenge on their hands - to stop, or a least slow down, the leading rusher in...

I've been doing this FCS Playoff field predictions a very long time now, and it's been a very strange year. It's not customary for so...

It's highly unusual for Lehigh (4-5, 3-2) and Sacred Heart (6-4, 4-2)to be playing a non-conference game this late in the season, but for both...

Two weeks to go, and how many autobids have been clinched? How about... none?...

We are two weeks away from the end of the Patriot League regular season, and there is a very distinct possibility that the winner of...

It was, depending on your perspective, either the roughest Lehigh offensive performance of the season, or the greatest Bucknell defensive performance of the year....

It's somewhat serendipitous, according to John Feinstein of The Washington Post, that this week's battle of undefeated teams between Dartmouth and Princeton came to be....

Holy Cross will be trying to cement their hold on the top of the Patriot League standings when they host Lafayette this weekend. They could...

Most games between head coaches in their first years at a school are ones where the opponents need to feel themselves out, thanks to unfamiliarity. ...

For the players of both programs, it was more about demonstrating how much they had improved over that battle of 1-6 teams on a wet,...

There are three more football weekends to go before FCS Playoff Selection Sunday, where FCS Nation hopes ESPN pronounces all the schools' names correctly and...

In the final minute, Holy Cross made one more play than Lehigh....

Undefeated Princeton and Dartmouth look to not slip up going into a potentially enormous matchup of undefeated teams in the Bronx....

November in the Lehigh Valley is known for potentially frosty temperatures, blazing red and yellow fall colors, and apple picking season. Don't expect anything chill at...

Remember when I had Villanova as a seed? Good times. Harken back to when I had Delaware in my field? Yes, way back when –...

After their 27-24 win over Georgetown - their third conference game won on very memorable final plays - what is the Mountain Hawks' secret for...

Another week, another nail-biting game with the game in doubt in the closing seconds. Fans of of the Mountain Hawks might have been standing, perhaps...

The Patriot League sees Fordham with a week off and features six conference members in action. Lehigh looks to get their conference record to 3-0,...

Last season, Lehigh football suffered through a bunch of firsts that Mountain Hawk football fans had no desire to experience. One important one came on...

This week, two of the nation's unbeaten teams play tricky challengers: one in prime time on Friday night, and the other takes on a rival...

As of right now, the FCS Playoff field feels like the show "Who's Line Is It Anyway", where the picks are just random improvisations of...

Before the biggest game of the year so far for the Lehigh football program, senior WR Dev Bibbens was left off the depth chart for...

This week, an unlikely battle for first place in the Patriot League is on the line in the Bronx, and Lafayette and Georgetown battle it...

Last week's battle of unbeatens ended up not much of a battle - 4-0 Dartmouth jumped all over Yale early and never looked back, crushing...

Both teams find themselves sitting tied atop the Patriot League standings, playing for first place, and unlike last year, there will be no shortage of...

Welcome, America, to the FCSP'TID Cover Photo Curse. Eastern Washington, UC Davis, Jacksonville State, and, last week, Montana State graced this space as rising teams that...

Call it "Conference Carnage Week". High-profile conference games ended upending conference championship races, and further cementing others on top of the standings....

This week's games feature a couple of challenges vs. the Ivy League, LIU still trying to win their first game in the NEC, and a...

It's a week with two Patriot League/Ivy League matchups and two Patriot conference matchups, as Fordham and Georgetown face off against one another in a...

After the Big Green took it to Penn last weekend on Friday night, Dartmouth returns home for Homecoming in a huge battle between undefeated teams...

Don’t bother looking at my previous editions of “Playoffs ‘Til I Die” to get a solid playoff bracket. Like the rest of America, I had...

It was a week of thrilling conference rivalries, and it's the "Military Classic of the South" that yielded the best story of them all....

Nobody at Andy Kerr Stadium was sitting down during the last play of the game....

Two enormous conference games loom this week, including one of the better Patriot League rivalry games in Lehigh at Colgate. Holy Cross at Bucknell also...

This week we see a primetime Ivy League matchup in actual prime time, as undefeated Dartmouth and undefeated Penn face off under Franklin Field's lights....

To Colgate fans, Lehigh is returning to the scene of the crime this weekend. That's because the Raiders' last Patriot League conference loss came to Lehigh...

The Pac-12 is right. What this bill really is doing is opening up a spigot of money from well-financed actors, and putting it in the pockets...

A week ago, UC Davis was being lauded for giving top-ranked North Dakota State a true run for their money at their place. Last week,...

On a hot, humid late September afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium, Gilmore won his first football game as head coach, finally outlasting visiting Merrimack 10-3...

It wasn’t the sort of game for the NFL’s Red Zone channel. It wasn’t for people who love power rushing, precision passing, or turnover-free ball....

A brand-new rivalry is spawned in the NEC and a league tilt between St. Francis (PA) and Bryant feature this week....

League play starts next week, but the teams of the Patriot League need some help in out-of-conference this week if at all possible. As a...

In the end, the matchup this weekend will be a show-me type of game, one that might set the trajectory for both programs....

The Ivy League had a hugely successful opening weekend, as many expected. As a whole the Ancient Eight went 6-2, the only losses coming from...

It would be nice if Eastern Washington would stop making my sample FCS Playoff brackets look so foolish. The first playoff bracket of the season,...

Without question the top FCS game of the week was the battle of FCS powerhouses in the Fargodome.Returning home after 47-22 victory the week before...

Another interesting week awaits us in the NEC, featuring a battle between a NEC title contender and a Pioneer Football League contender. ...