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GAME TWELVE, #Rivalry161, LEHIGH AT LAFAYETTE – One Rivalry Game For All The Marbles

On November 21, 2025November 21, 2025By Chuck Burton

Four years ago, these freshmen were recruited to Lehigh at least in part because they wanted to be a part of college football history, the Lehigh/Lafayette Rivalry. The 2022 game, played right after the COVID pandemic, essentially, was not a sellout. This Saturday, four years later, Lafayette’s Fisher Stadium sold out easily. It’s the product of two college football programs that picked themselves up and have earned the hype and sellout this game has created.

GAME ELEVEN, LEHIGH AT COLGATE – Mountain Hawks Try To Reach Eleven Win Plateau In Hamilton, New York

On November 14, 2025November 14, 2025By Chuck Burton

Lehigh enters this week with a lot more on the line than they did in 2023, or even 2024. The Mountain Hawks are ranked fourth in the nation, and should they win their last two games, they may be setting themselves up for at least one home game in the FCS Playoffs, and potentially more.

GAME TEN, HOLY CROSS AT LEHIGH – Number Four In the Nation Tries to Take Care of Business In Final Regular Season Home Game

On November 7, 2025November 7, 2025By Chuck Burton

It is not easy to survive an entire college football season undefeated, but the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (9-0, 4-0 Patriot League) hope to keep their incredible 2025 winning streak alive as they close out their regular season home schedule against the Holy Cross Crusaders (1-8. 1-3 Patriot League).

GAME NINE, GEORGETOWN AT LEHIGH – Heartstopping Hoyas Enter Bethlehem on Three Game Winning Streak

On October 31, 2025October 31, 2025By Chuck Burton

The Lehigh Mountain Hawks (8-0, 3-0 Patriot) and Georgetown Hoyas (5-3. 2-1 Patriot) enter this Saturday’s matchup with dizzying winning streaks.

GAME EIGHT, LEHIGH AT FORDHAM – The Hardest Stretch Of Lehigh Football Starts This Weekend in the Bronx

On October 24, 2025October 24, 2025By Chuck Burton

The Rams might be a dangerous team for the Mountain Hawks as they approach the toughest stretch of their schedule, because the conference stretch now means so much for Lehigh, and Fordham isn’t an easy as their record might indicate, cliches aside.

GAME SEVEN, LEHIGH AT COLUMBIA – Mountain Hawks Look To Keep Good Times Rolling At the Upper Tip of Manhattan

On October 10, 2025October 10, 2025By Chuck Burton

There’s always that risk, especially on the road in college football, that a highly-favored team comes out, makes a bunch of mistakes, and ends up in a rock fight that could go either way.

GAME SIX, YALE AT LEHIGH – Cahill’s Former Team Travels to Bethlehem in Mirror Match of FCS Unbeatens

On October 3, 2025October 3, 2025By Chuck Burton

There is one game in all of FCS this week that features two undefeated teams, and it is taking place this Saturday at noon at Murray Goodman Stadium.

GAME THREE, LEHIGH AT DUQUESNE: It Took More Than 70 Years, but Lehigh Football Will Finally Return to Pittsburgh

On September 12, 2025September 12, 2025By Chuck Burton

This weekend Lehigh (2-0, 1-0 Patriot) will go on the team’s first road trip of the season. They are heading across the state to Pittsburgh, PA to face off against Duquesne (1-1, 0-0 NEC) in an out-of-conference clash.

GAME ONE, RICHMOND AT LEHIGH: The Mountain Hawks Gained National Respect, And A FCS Playoff Win. Now, the Spiders Start Their ‘Revenge Tour’.

On August 28, 2025August 28, 2025By Chuck Burton

While Richmond will be looking for revenge, Lehigh will be looking for respectability – respectability in the sense of proving that last season was not a fluke.

#Rivalry160 Preview, Lafayette at Lehigh: It’s All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating

On November 22, 2024November 23, 2024By Chuck Burton

For the first time since 2013, the game simply called “The Rivalry” – the most-played college football game in the world – will be a sellout.

COLGATE AT LEHIGH AT 11/16/2024: A Tense Trap Game Awaits And Nervous Scoreboard Watching Back Home In Murray Goodman

On November 15, 2024November 16, 2024By Chuck Burton

This season’s matchup is a turnabout from last year, where Lehigh was playing out the next-to-last game in a rebuilding effort and Colgate was trying to secure a winning season and a puncher’s chance at a share of the Patriot League title.

LEHIGH AT HOLY CROSS 11/9/2024: Mountain Hawks’ Next Challenge Is To Defeat Defending Champions On the Road

On November 8, 2024November 8, 2024By Chuck Burton

The Mountain Hawks (5-3, 2-1 Patriot League) have three very important preseason goals to potentially achieve this week in their business trip to Worcester against Holy Cross (4-5, 3-0 Patriot League).

LEHIGH AT GEORGETOWN 11/2/2024: Can Lehigh Navigate Through Game One of a Meaningful November, Or Will It Be Diverted To Further Rebuilding?

On November 1, 2024November 1, 2024By Chuck Burton

This Saturday’s clash featuring Lehigh (4-3, 1-1 Patriot) and Georgetown (5-3, 2-1 Patriot) will occur on the five year anniversary of a contest most of Lehigh Nation would rather forget – a 24-17 loss to Holy Cross on November 2nd, 2019.

FORDHAM AT LEHIGH 10/26/2024: Exactly What Do We Have Here, Mountain Hawks?

On October 25, 2024October 25, 2024By Chuck Burton

As it stands, make no mistake, Lehigh’s 3-3 season is at a crossroads against a deceptively tricky Fordham squad that seems a lot better than their 0-7 record might seem at first.

LEHIGH AT YALE 10/19/2024: Mountain Hawk Fans’ Double Bye Week Agony Finally Comes to an End

On October 18, 2024October 18, 2024By Chuck Burton

Lehigh was never meant to have a double bye week in the middle of October. But they did.

BUCKNELL AT LEHIGH 9/28/2024: Fixated On The Only “Revenge Game” on Lehigh’s Schedule

On September 27, 2024September 27, 2024By Chuck Burton

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.

PRINCETON AT LEHIGH 9/21/2024: Football Is So Back, Baby!

On September 20, 2024September 20, 2024By Chuck Burton

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.

LEHIGH AT LIU 9/14/2024: For the Very First Time, Mountain Hawks Are Looking Forward to Shark Week

On September 13, 2024September 13, 2024By Chuck Burton

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.

WAGNER AT LEHIGH 9/7/2024: Mountain Hawks Eager To Start Cooking Again at Home

On September 6, 2024September 6, 2024By Chuck Burton

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,.

#Rivalry159 Preview, Lafayette at Lehigh

On November 17, 2023November 17, 2023By Chuck Burton

It is, indeed, one where you have to throw out the record books and it’s the game you absolutely have to win, if you’re a Lehigh or Lafayette head coach. It’s great theater every year, no matter what the records are, but this year the theater suddenly ends up on the national FCS stage.

Lehigh At Colgate Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 11/11/2023: Surging Raiders And Improving Mountain Hawks Meet In Hamilton To Measure Their Progress

On November 10, 2023November 10, 2023By Chuck Burton

The Mountain Hawks will be going in with an eye of being a spoiler to Colgate’s title and championship ambitions, which suit them just fine. To them, ruining the seasons of Colgate and Lafayette in consecutive weeks would constitute a successful season for a rebuilding Lehigh football team.

HOLY CROSS AT LEHIGH 11/4/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: In Holy Cross, Kevin Cahill Gets a Glimpse As To What He Wants Lehigh To Be Again

On November 3, 2023November 3, 2023By Chuck Burton

To the surprise of probably no one, head coach Kevin Cahill had plenty of good things to say bout Lehigh’s next opponent, the Holy Cross Crusaders.

LEHIGH AT BUCKNELL 10/21/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Two Teams Needing A League Win Face Off In Lewisburg

On October 20, 2023October 20, 2023By Chuck Burton

A very young Lehigh football team finds itself taking a bus this week to Lewisburg, PA to find out about themselves.

GEORGETOWN AT LEHIGH 10/14/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Lehigh Finally Returns Home To Find “Scary” Hoyas On Their Doorstep

On October 13, 2023October 14, 2023By Chuck Burton

Lehigh fans are in uncharted waters as “scary” Georgetown (3-3, 1-0 Patriot League), who recorded a win against Fordham, face off against Lehigh (1-5, 0-1 Patriot League), who recorded a loss against Fordham.

LEHIGH AT FORDHAM 10/7/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Mountain Hawks Last Patriot League Team In League Play

On October 6, 2023October 6, 2023By Chuck Burton

Ranked as high as 15 in some polls last week, it stands to reason that Fordham will approach their conference game with Lehigh with urgency, to put it mildly.

LEHIGH AT MONMOUTH 9/30/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Can Lehigh Follow Lafayette’s Opening Act Against the Hawks?

On September 29, 2023September 29, 2023By Chuck Burton

In an upset, in Easton, Lafayette hung on to beat Monmouth 28-20 in an outcome that really couldn’t have worked out much worse for the Brown and White.

LEHIGH AT DARTMOUTH 9/23/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Buddy Teevens’ Life to be Honored During Mountain Hawks Trip to Hanover

On September 22, 2023September 22, 2023By Chuck Burton

This was going to be a tough, physical matchup before the untimely death of Buddy Teevens. Adding the fire and emotion from the moment will add a layer of complication to Lehigh’s task this week as well.

CORNELL AT LEHIGH 9/16/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction: Fresh Off Their First Win, Mountain Hawks Have Unfinished Business With Big Red from Last Year

On September 15, 2023September 16, 2023By Chuck Burton

There were a lot of tough, disappointing weekends last year during the Mountain Hawks’ 2-9 season, but taking away the loss to Lafayette, Lehigh’s 19-15 loss to Cornell could have been the toughest one for Lehigh Nation to stomach.

Colgate At Lehigh Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 11/12/2022: Does ‘Hate The Gate’ Even Apply Anymore?

On November 11, 2022November 12, 2022By Chuck Burton

When Lehigh (1-8, 1-3 Patriot League) faces off against Colgate (3-6, 2-2 Patriot League) this weekend at Murray Goodman Stadium, there will be stakes.

Lehigh At Holy Cross Game Preview, 11/05/2022: Mountain Hawks Have One Goal, To Stop The Coronation

On November 4, 2022November 4, 2022By Chuck Burton

WORCESTER, MA – Watching last week’s thrilling Holy Cross/Fordham game as someone who’s watched a lot of Lehigh football in my life, it was hard to not get flashbacks. The thrilling 53-52 win by Holy Cross (8-0, 4-0) over Fordham (6-2, 2-1) was unquestionably the game of the year in the Patriot League, if not.

Bucknell At Lehigh Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 10/22/2022: Two Teams In Desperate Need To Taste A Win

On October 21, 2022October 21, 2022By Chuck Burton

If you’re a numbers person, it might be best to skip down to the end, because this Saturday, the Bucknell Bison (0-6, 0-2) will be traveling to Bethlehem to take on the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (1-6, 1-1) in a battle between teams that, to put it mildly, are desperate to get into the win column.

Monmouth At Lehigh Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 10/1/2022: What Could Have Been, Had the Patriot League Chose The Hawks?

On September 30, 2022September 30, 2022By Chuck Burton

What might have happened to the Patriot League had the Presidents genuinely gave a fair hearing, and accepted, Monmouth as a member?

Lehigh at Princeton Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 9/24/2022: The Ecstasy, And The Agony, Of Mountain Hawk Trips to Old Nassau

On September 23, 2022September 23, 2022By Chuck Burton

I do not know whether in this game (slated to kick off at 3pm), in this 62nd meeting of the series, Lehigh (1-0, 1-2) will experience a win or a loss against Princeton (1-0, 0-0). What I do know is there is enough of a rivalry between the two schools that I can tell you a little bit about the ecstasy and agony of these matchups.

Lehigh at Georgetown Game Preview And Fearless Prediction, 9/9/2022: Mountain Hawks Approach Critical Conference Game With Confidence

On September 9, 2022September 10, 2022By Chuck Burton

Despite the fact it’s only the second game of the season, it’s hard to overstate the importance of this game to establish either Lehigh (0-0, 0-1) or Georgetown (0-0, 1-0) as Patriot League contenders in 2022.

CSJ 2022 Game Preview: UTSA at Army West Point

On September 9, 2022September 9, 2022By Kent Schmidt

UTSA at Army West PointWhen: Saturday, September 10, 12:00 PM EDTWhere: Michie Stadium, West Point, N.Y.TV/Streaming: CBS Sports Network / CBS Sports Network Two teams that lost in Week 1 will try to get their first win in this game. Army lost on the road to Coastal Carolina 38-28, while UTSA lost at home to Houston 37-35 in three.

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