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Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 12th, 2024 following the Week 7 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after opening their MVFC play.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 5th, 2024 following the Week 6 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 5th, 2024 following the Week 6 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after opening their MVFC play.
The win put Bucknell (3-2, 1-0 Patriot) in first place in the Patriot League, while Lehigh (3-2, 0-1 Patriot) will have an unusually long time to stew on the loss with two consecutive bye weeks before their next football game.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 29th, 2024 following the Week 5 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 29th, 2024 following the Week 5 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after having a bye week.
This week, Lehigh (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) will be playing their first league game against Bucknell (2-2, 0-0 Patriot) with a unique dynamic.
Enjoy the podcast “Tuesdays with the Patriot League” Podcast, originally aired on Twitter Spaces on Sept. 24th, 2024.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 21st, 2024 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 21st, 2024 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after defeating Southeastern Louisiana on.
BETHLEHEM, PA – “This was a statement game for us,” Lehigh (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) head coach Kevin Cahill said after a hard-fought but clear-cut 35-20 win over Princeton (0-1, 0-0 Ivy) this Saturday at Murray Goodman Stadium. Looking back on a game in front of a big, raucous family weekend of 6,217 fans, it seemed.
This weekend, the Mountain Hawks return to Bethlehem with a strange, new feeling of “being back”, to face Princeton (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League), themselves back from their 5-5 Ivy League campaign last season.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 14th, 2024 following the Week 3 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 14th, 2024 following the Week 3 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after defeating DII Augustana (SD).
At home last week, the game was over at halftime. This week, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (2-1, 0-0 PL) had to hold on in the final minute against the LIU Sharks (0-3, 0-0 NEC) to win 20-17.
For the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks (1-1, 0-0 Patriot League), playing the Long Island University Sharks (0-2, 0-0 NEC) at Bethpage FCU Stadium, everything about “Shark Week” is new. It’s the first time Lehigh has ever traveled to Brookville, Long Island to play a football game.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 7th, 2024 following the Week 2 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 7th, 2024 following the Week 2 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after defeating Incarnate Word in.
The number that kept popping up during Lehigh’s (1-1, 0-0 PL) win over Wagner (1-1, 0-0 NEC) was “2016”, probably the last number any member of Lehigh Nation might have imagined surfacing on a rainy afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium.
BETHLEHEM, PA – From the moment head coach Kevin Cahill stepped onto campus as Lehigh’s head football coach, he’s been talking about making Murray Goodman stadium a true home field advantage. He was right to broach the subject. The last time Lehigh had a winning record was in 2016, when the Mountain Hawks were 9-2,.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 2nd, 2024 following the Week 1 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 2nd, 2024 following the Week 1 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot despite losing at Oklahoma State.
RB Luke Yoder capped off a 9 play, 85 yard drive to tie the game at 7 late in the first quarter, but ultimately a deep, physical Army (1-0, 0-0) team led by budding stars QB Bryson Daily and bruising RB Kanye Udoh were too much for the Mountain Hawks (0-1, 0-0) in a 42-7 victory.
BETHLEHEM, PA – I’ve been a Lehigh football fan now for a very long time, and I would like to lead this preview to simply say that this weekend, Mountain Hawk fans will be experiencing something they haven’t experienced since 2002. I don’t mean “play a service academy.” On September 15th, 2018, Lehigh played Navy,.
BETHLEHEM, PA – Over the preseason, Lehigh football revealed a brand-new uniform design that freshens up the kit they had been using over the past six years. For a program that hasn’t had a winning record since 2016, it’s not the only thing that Lehigh Nation hopes is brand new going into the 2024 season..
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 24th, 2024 following the Week 0 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 24th, 2024 following the Week 0 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. The top five sees no change from the preseason rankings with just one.
Richmond’s Rival, William & Mary, was going to be a founding member of the Colonial League, which is now known as the Patriot League. It was almost a done deal.
The number of underclassmen on the field was astounding, even for such a young team as the Mountain Hawks.
Below are the Top 25 Group of Five (G5) preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2024 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. With conference realignment, one school that were showcased in year’s.
Below are the Top 25 FCS preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2024 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Last season’s champion of South Dakota State is the preseason #1 team with.
Every member of Lehigh Nation wants to put last year’s 2-9 season behind them. In 2024, the Mountain Hawks will do just that with a highly unusual 11 game schedule.
There is this huge diversity of teams lumped in FCS that I’m less familiar with – and that no FCS watcher is familiar with. And that’s exactly the problem.
BETHLEHEM, PA – It wasn’t a surprise, really, but it was a surprise. Coming off a 2-9 season that was “not up to our standard, not up to Lehigh standard”, head coach Kevin Cahill said in his opening remarks, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks were picked to finish sixth in the seven-team Patriot League for 2024..
The rebuilding year of 2023 was not easy, to be sure. But to close observers, among the rough seas were some encouraging signs for the years to come, through changes in culture, changes in expectations, and growing pains that Lehigh Nation hopes point the way to future success.
Like many things in the history of the NCAA, the survival of the Yankee Conference a a football-only construct was an accident.
Richmond, and their Rivals, William & Mary, were medium sized schools in medium sized markets with successful programs for their size and ambitions. Thanks to an entity called the “College Football Association”, or CFA, Richmond and William & Mary’s world was about to tear apart.
Richmond has been a master at surviving – they have been, and continue to be, the spider that cannot be stomped.
How long will 90% of the NCAA’s membership accept less-than status?
Most football fans are at least somewhat familiar with the NFL Scouting Combine, the main pre-professional barometer for the nation’s top NFL prospects. However, when it comes to NFL pro day events, knowledge of specifics tends to become much more piecemeal.
It was all fun spring football on a Saturday afternoon – a celebration, a gate swinging open for the 2024 season.
Quietly, on a very cold and wet March 19th at six o’clock in the morning, Lehigh’s spring practice officially began for the 2024 season.
This year marked the first year since forever that the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament wasn’t a big thing for me.
I have a humble proposal to save college football. With all the lawsuits and chaos swirling around the NCAA and member schools, a simple choice needs to be made. One will destroy the sport. The other might save it.
The casual college sports fan might be forgiven if their eyes glaze over Congressional hearings like this. Yet it’s so important, and the points involved so consequential, that it deserves not only an honest debate, but a plain English explanation as to what’s happening.
It wasn’t pretty by any stretch of the imagination. But in the end, Notre Dame got the job done.
Over the last two weeks, it seems the new-look Buckeyes are beginning to take on the look of a team that could emerge as a challenger for lofty finishes come tournament time at season’s end.
Below are the final Top 25 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2023 season amongst the FCS teams. South Dakota State finishes in the top position after winning the national title game over Montana. North Dakota State finishes in the #2 position after losing to Montana in the Division I FCS semifinal round..
Assuming you knew about this – and ESPN and the NCAA haven’t gone out of their way to tell people – their broadcast on ABC will be going up against five different NFL games with postseason implications.
The Blue Hens will be exiting the all-sports conference that they called home since 2005, and exiting the football structure now called “CAA Football” since 1986.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 12th, 2024 following the Week 7 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after opening their MVFC play.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 5th, 2024 following the Week 6 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 5th, 2024 following the Week 6 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after opening their MVFC play.
The win put Bucknell (3-2, 1-0 Patriot) in first place in the Patriot League, while Lehigh (3-2, 0-1 Patriot) will have an unusually long time to stew on the loss with two consecutive bye weeks before their next football game.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 29th, 2024 following the Week 5 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 29th, 2024 following the Week 5 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after having a bye week.
This week, Lehigh (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) will be playing their first league game against Bucknell (2-2, 0-0 Patriot) with a unique dynamic.
Enjoy the podcast “Tuesdays with the Patriot League” Podcast, originally aired on Twitter Spaces on Sept. 24th, 2024.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 21st, 2024 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 21st, 2024 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after defeating Southeastern Louisiana on.
BETHLEHEM, PA – “This was a statement game for us,” Lehigh (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) head coach Kevin Cahill said after a hard-fought but clear-cut 35-20 win over Princeton (0-1, 0-0 Ivy) this Saturday at Murray Goodman Stadium. Looking back on a game in front of a big, raucous family weekend of 6,217 fans, it seemed.
This weekend, the Mountain Hawks return to Bethlehem with a strange, new feeling of “being back”, to face Princeton (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League), themselves back from their 5-5 Ivy League campaign last season.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 14th, 2024 following the Week 3 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 14th, 2024 following the Week 3 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after defeating DII Augustana (SD).
At home last week, the game was over at halftime. This week, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (2-1, 0-0 PL) had to hold on in the final minute against the LIU Sharks (0-3, 0-0 NEC) to win 20-17.
For the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks (1-1, 0-0 Patriot League), playing the Long Island University Sharks (0-2, 0-0 NEC) at Bethpage FCU Stadium, everything about “Shark Week” is new. It’s the first time Lehigh has ever traveled to Brookville, Long Island to play a football game.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 7th, 2024 following the Week 2 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 7th, 2024 following the Week 2 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot after defeating Incarnate Word in.
The number that kept popping up during Lehigh’s (1-1, 0-0 PL) win over Wagner (1-1, 0-0 NEC) was “2016”, probably the last number any member of Lehigh Nation might have imagined surfacing on a rainy afternoon at Murray Goodman Stadium.
BETHLEHEM, PA – From the moment head coach Kevin Cahill stepped onto campus as Lehigh’s head football coach, he’s been talking about making Murray Goodman stadium a true home field advantage. He was right to broach the subject. The last time Lehigh had a winning record was in 2016, when the Mountain Hawks were 9-2,.
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 2nd, 2024 following the Week 1 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 2nd, 2024 following the Week 1 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. South Dakota State remains in the top spot despite losing at Oklahoma State.
RB Luke Yoder capped off a 9 play, 85 yard drive to tie the game at 7 late in the first quarter, but ultimately a deep, physical Army (1-0, 0-0) team led by budding stars QB Bryson Daily and bruising RB Kanye Udoh were too much for the Mountain Hawks (0-1, 0-0) in a 42-7 victory.
BETHLEHEM, PA – I’ve been a Lehigh football fan now for a very long time, and I would like to lead this preview to simply say that this weekend, Mountain Hawk fans will be experiencing something they haven’t experienced since 2002. I don’t mean “play a service academy.” On September 15th, 2018, Lehigh played Navy,.
BETHLEHEM, PA – Over the preseason, Lehigh football revealed a brand-new uniform design that freshens up the kit they had been using over the past six years. For a program that hasn’t had a winning record since 2016, it’s not the only thing that Lehigh Nation hopes is brand new going into the 2024 season..
Here are the Top 25 G5 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 24th, 2024 following the Week 0 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. Sagarin rankings provide the only rankings that actually ranks all Division I schools.
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Aug. 24th, 2024 following the Week 0 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the national championship game in January. The top five sees no change from the preseason rankings with just one.
Richmond’s Rival, William & Mary, was going to be a founding member of the Colonial League, which is now known as the Patriot League. It was almost a done deal.
The number of underclassmen on the field was astounding, even for such a young team as the Mountain Hawks.
Below are the Top 25 Group of Five (G5) preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2024 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. With conference realignment, one school that were showcased in year’s.
Below are the Top 25 FCS preseason rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2024 season. CSJ will show weekly rankings from the Sagarin rankings throughout the season and will have a final ranking after the national championship game in January. Last season’s champion of South Dakota State is the preseason #1 team with.
Every member of Lehigh Nation wants to put last year’s 2-9 season behind them. In 2024, the Mountain Hawks will do just that with a highly unusual 11 game schedule.
There is this huge diversity of teams lumped in FCS that I’m less familiar with – and that no FCS watcher is familiar with. And that’s exactly the problem.
BETHLEHEM, PA – It wasn’t a surprise, really, but it was a surprise. Coming off a 2-9 season that was “not up to our standard, not up to Lehigh standard”, head coach Kevin Cahill said in his opening remarks, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks were picked to finish sixth in the seven-team Patriot League for 2024..
The rebuilding year of 2023 was not easy, to be sure. But to close observers, among the rough seas were some encouraging signs for the years to come, through changes in culture, changes in expectations, and growing pains that Lehigh Nation hopes point the way to future success.
Like many things in the history of the NCAA, the survival of the Yankee Conference a a football-only construct was an accident.
Richmond, and their Rivals, William & Mary, were medium sized schools in medium sized markets with successful programs for their size and ambitions. Thanks to an entity called the “College Football Association”, or CFA, Richmond and William & Mary’s world was about to tear apart.
Richmond has been a master at surviving – they have been, and continue to be, the spider that cannot be stomped.
How long will 90% of the NCAA’s membership accept less-than status?
Most football fans are at least somewhat familiar with the NFL Scouting Combine, the main pre-professional barometer for the nation’s top NFL prospects. However, when it comes to NFL pro day events, knowledge of specifics tends to become much more piecemeal.
It was all fun spring football on a Saturday afternoon – a celebration, a gate swinging open for the 2024 season.
Quietly, on a very cold and wet March 19th at six o’clock in the morning, Lehigh’s spring practice officially began for the 2024 season.
This year marked the first year since forever that the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament wasn’t a big thing for me.
I have a humble proposal to save college football. With all the lawsuits and chaos swirling around the NCAA and member schools, a simple choice needs to be made. One will destroy the sport. The other might save it.
The casual college sports fan might be forgiven if their eyes glaze over Congressional hearings like this. Yet it’s so important, and the points involved so consequential, that it deserves not only an honest debate, but a plain English explanation as to what’s happening.
It wasn’t pretty by any stretch of the imagination. But in the end, Notre Dame got the job done.
Over the last two weeks, it seems the new-look Buckeyes are beginning to take on the look of a team that could emerge as a challenger for lofty finishes come tournament time at season’s end.
Below are the final Top 25 rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the 2023 season amongst the FCS teams. South Dakota State finishes in the top position after winning the national title game over Montana. North Dakota State finishes in the #2 position after losing to Montana in the Division I FCS semifinal round..
Assuming you knew about this – and ESPN and the NCAA haven’t gone out of their way to tell people – their broadcast on ABC will be going up against five different NFL games with postseason implications.
The Blue Hens will be exiting the all-sports conference that they called home since 2005, and exiting the football structure now called “CAA Football” since 1986.
