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If Lehigh can get its defense back on track while getting a potentially record-setting performance from Luke Yoder, it could set the stage for another November to remember for the Mountain Hawks
It was ironic that this game ended up living up to the heavyweight matchup it was expected to be back in August, when Villanova was ranked in the Top 10 and Lehigh wasn’t ranked all that far behind them.
This weekend’s game on the Main Line — let’s just call it The Rematch — gives both Villanova (3–4, 2–2 Patriot) and Lehigh (6–1, 4–0 Patriot) an opportunity to shape the story of their seasons.
Schoellkopf field continued being a house of horrors for Lehigh (6-1, 4-0 Patriot) in a stunning 48-38 loss to Cornell (3-2, 1–1 Ivy).
Over the years, Schoellkopf Field up in Ithaca, New York has been a house of horrors for the Lehigh football program.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks (6-0, 4-0 Patriot League) got 31 consecutive points in the second quarter, including 24 straight points in a three minute stretch, as they dominated the Fordham Rams (1-5, 1-2) 34-0.
Less than two years ago, a win against Fordham was seen as a program-defiining moment for the Mountain Hawks. Now, as the 2026 Fordham Rams (1-4, 1-1 Patriot) visits the No. 6-ranked Lehigh Mountain Hawks (5-0, 3-0 Patriot), it’s a very different vibe.
It was the type of game a special teams coordinator could love.
Incredibly, Saturday’s game will not the only time a historic regular season winning streak involving Lehigh will have been played in Franklin Field.
Lehigh CB DJ Brown made the play of the day.
Lehigh football learned a great many lessons from Dartmouth on that day on what a very good FCS football team needs to do to win football games – control the offensive and defensive lines, play physical, have great execution on special teams, control the flow of the game, and minimize mistakes.
Lehigh went out in their Murray Goodman Stadium home opener and performed. And then some.
In the run-up to this week, you get the sense that it’s the first time both William & Mary and Lehigh are meeting each other firing on all cylinders. If you look at the record book, you don’t see much of a series, or a rivalry. William & Mary has dominated Lehigh, the Tribe winning eight of nine meetings. They played every year from 1984 to 1992.
Yoder would end with 120 net yards rushing on an efficient 17 attempts, adding 2 catches for 23 yards. And, of course, the four touchdowns.
In a strange way Coyote vs. the Roadrunner summarizes the opening of the football season for both Lehigh (1-0, 1-0 Patriot) and Georgetown (0-0, 0-0 Patriot).
The visiting Raiders put the game out of reach when Danny Shaban ran in from 29 yards out with 1:53 remaining in the game to give Colgate a 24-14 lead after Luke Vogeler added the conversion kick.
They say good things come in threes.
This 2026 Lehigh team is a lot more than Yoder and the other twenty-one starters.
Lehigh/Holy Cross games are supposed to happen in November.
The game will be the 60th all-time meeting between the two teams, original members of the Atlantic Coast Conference when it was formed in 1953.
The biggest question going into Villanova’s season wasn’t answered until the very end of preseason training camp.
You could argue that Lehigh’s biggest departures came via the transfer portal, but what looms larger is the departure of their head coach, Kevin Cahill, who took over for his mentor Tony Reno at Yale.
On paper, the Richmond Spiders have what it takes to make a run at the Patriot League title. Last year they did, too, but injuries and some unfortunate early losses derailed their chance before it really got begun.
On paper, it looks like Colgate could be in the middle of a ground-up rebuild. Personally, though, I think the Raiders a lot closer to the elite tier of Patriot League football than many may realize.
There are questions, but coach Troxell has been here before – he’s seen high-profile departures, had questions as to who would take their place… and last season, on the last weekend of the year, his Leopards were playing yet again with the Patriot League season on the line. That’s part of the culture he’s developed at Lafayette.
QB Tyler Hughes was a huge part of the Tribe’s offense in 2025, becoming the first player in school history to throw for more than 2,000 yards and rush for over 600 yards.
After enjoying so many consecutive seasons as Patriot League champions and co-champions, Holy Cross crashed to a 3-9 record last season, but their record really doesn’t tell the whole story.
The Rams finished 1-11 last year, and on top of that, they saw LB James Conway graduate, a huge presence on the defense who broke the national college football record for tackles (595) in his time as a Ram. To say that there was a lot to do in the Bronx this offseason is probably understating things a bit.
Predicted Order of Finish: 9th New head coach Jeff Behrman comes to Lewisburg from D-III John Carroll, where he guided the Blue Streaks to a 29-7 record over his three years as their head coach and a colossal upset last season in the D-III playoffs over Mount Union in double overtime, 10-7. He seems like an intriguing choice.
Georgetown enters a new Patriot League era with what will be a completely brand-new offense – with a new offensive coordinator and a huge number of brand-new players – and little runway to have that unit gel before playing two immense League games to open the season.
Not only was it the first NCAA baseball championship for the Wildcats, it was the first national championship of
any kind for the University of Arizona.
For the Mountain Hawks on Sunday, it once again came down to the final minute, but Lehigh (17-16) ended up scoring the last four clinching points in a 76-69 win that sent them to the Patriot League Finals.
In his three short years at Lehigh, Kevin Cahill proved himself to be an amazing head football coach. At the same time, as a Lehigh fan It felt like I didn’t get to taste enough of it.
NASHVILLE, TN. — For four quarters and into overtime Montana State and Illinois State had created a masterpiece during the 2025-26 Football Championship Subdivision championship game Monday night before 24,105 spectators at Vanderbilt University’s FirstBank Stadium. And with one final, precision-brushstroke, MSU quarterback Justin Lamson completed a Monet-like classic. Lamson’s four-down, back-shoulder, 14-yard pass at.
BOONE, N.C. — So this is how the 2025 college football season ends for Appalachian State. With two one-time FCS powerhouses, the Mountaineers and Georgia Southern playing in a meaningless bowl game in Birmingham, Alabama. Now residing in the vast wasteland of the Football Bowl Subdivision’s outcast Group of Six, these teams with nine combined.
Dale Brown left a legacy at the school that will be hard-pressed to duplicate. It was an accomplishment that few figured Brown could achieve when he took over the program in time for the 1972-73 season after spending five seasons as an assistant coach at Utah State University and one season as an assistant at Washington State University.
When the college basketball season tips off each year, fans all across the country think back to one night and one game when NCAA basketball stepped into millions of homes across the nation and became the spectacle it enjoys more than 40 years later.
Two of the best defenses in all of FCS were in a showdown on a cold December day in front of a large invested crowd, and the result was a game that was one for the ages.
This weekend at Murray Goodman Stadium, the Lehigh Mountain Hawks (12-0) will be facing off against a foe that is familiar to them in the Villanova Wildcats (10-2).
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.
This Saturday, Lehigh (11-0, 6-0 Patriot) beat longtime rival Colgate (4-7, 2-4 Patriot) to put the 2025 Mountain Hawks in the same rarefied air as some legendary teams with a 27-7 win.
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.
With the Lehigh defense holding their second consecutive home opponent without a touchdown, Lehigh (10-0, 5-0 Patriot) secured a perfect regular season record at home – one of their early goals of the season – after what ended up as a dominating 38-3 win over Holy Cross (1-9, 1-4 Patriot).
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).
The theme of the game going in was “Hawk-O-Ween”, due to the game’s proximity to Halloween, but it was the Mountain Hawks that ended up with all the treats.
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.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks surged to 8-0 (8-0, 3-0 Patriot) as they defeated the Fordham Rams (1-7, 1-3 Patriot) 27-6, on a sunny afternoon at Moglia Field in the Bronx.
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.
The Lehigh Mountain Hawks turned in a dominating performance against Columbia as they beat Columbia 31-7.
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.
