Tag: Patriot League

On Tuesday, Lehigh University temporarily suspended training and practices for all sports programs after several Lehigh students tested positive for the coronavirus. ...

In 2006, I wrote two pieces for the website I-AA.org about a Fordham/Columbia game I attended. The two crosstown Rivals competed for an actual...

For months, fans, players, and Lehigh football head coach Tom Gilmore knew that this game wasn't going to happen on this day. But Gilmore...

I have five burning questions on the issue that might help to give clarity on what a spring season for the Patriot League might look...

Despite the bungling and mismanagement of the NCAA, President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors, they still have one final chance to get on...

Hope is not a strategy, and the truth is any form of national strategy has failed in an effort to have college football this fall....

The Patriot League's dilemmas, whether the rest of FCS admits it or not, is the FCS' dilemmas. And as we inch closer to an...

If these are the only two plans that are actively being considered by the Ivy League, it means that, effectively, all out-of-conference games involving Ivy...

The challenges of reopening fall sports is still very considerable, to put it mildly, but the Patriot League president's statement seemed to move the conversation...

The Patriot League Office announced on Monday guidance regarding the 2020 fall competition, a list of principles to "guide the development of a Patriot...

This week, CSJ's David Mays got a hold of Colgate head football coach Dan Hunt and got his opinion on the most important topic of...

Sixty student-athletes in the NCAA Division I Football’s Championship Subdivision have been named to the 2020 College Sports Journal Preseason FCS All-America Team. ...

Lehigh head coach Tom Gilmore will be the first person to tell you that he'd prefer to have a regular spring assessment season for his...

In the past, college football has survived through outbreaks of disease and mass disruptions, and how the sport handled those circumstances provide a possible roadmap...

It was the weekend of March 8th where a slew of institutional decisions were made that really put Ms. Heppel on high alert....

It was an historic week that nobody could have foreseen. ...

I'm proud to unveil this year's edition of the Patsy Ratings....

Patriot League Women’s Basketball conference play continues this week with five games on Wednesday, January 8, four on Saturday, Jan. 11 and one on Sunday,...

With the first round of the FCS Playoffs now complete, we give you links to all our recaps and our writers’ impression of the games....

Monmouth piled up 502 yards of total offense as the Hawks beat Holy Cross 44-27 in the first-ever FCS Playoff appearance for the program and...

The FCS playoffs are finally here!  Enjoy the picks of the staff of the College Sports Journal and find out who we think will win...

Though they tripped up against 4-8 Lafayette, behind a strong, young defense the Crusaders pulled off an early upset of New Hampshire early and used...

Two-time defending national champion North Dakota State (12-0) tops the bracket as the number one seed after winning the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Bison...

Using the Sagarin ratings from this week alone to project the FCS playoffs, along with the automatic bid for the conferences that receive a bid,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...