Tag: Patriot League

No matter when the game is played, when Lafayette and Lehigh get together on the gridiron, it almost always seems to be close and come...

This April, the same weekend as The Masters, Lehigh and Lafayette will be playing the first-ever Rivalry football game in the spring, a most atypical...

When you look at it in terms of the development of this team - and how this leads into next fall - there's a lot...

Two Ethan Torres FGs, one 26 yards, and one 24 yards, were enough to put the Bucknell Bison atop the Patriot League South Division, shutting...

An already-crazy Patriot League season still had some craziness left to reveal this week, as the 156th meeting between Lafayette and Lehigh was postponed due...

In a way it's fitting during this strange season that two of the teams playing this weekend are in their season openers, while their opponents...

In a way, the opening drive which ended with zero Lehigh points summed up the entire afternoon. ...

BETHLEHEM, PA - The Holy Cross Crusaders beat the Lehigh Mountain Hawks 20-3 at Murray Goodman Stadium in the first college football game contested by...

It is uncharted waters for both teams, with plenty of questions to answer playing an unprecedented Patriot League spring football season. But many of...

For this Lehigh team, who has gone through this unique journey back to playing games that count, it feels like this weekend is almost as...

It's been a very, very long wait, but this weekend, finally, we have a weekend of Patriot League football to look forward to....

"I've been very impressed with the enthusiasm and attitude across the board," Lehigh head coach Tom Gilmore told me. "Getting the opportunity to be...

The CSJ writing staff answer the questions many of us have about the beginning of this unprecedented FCS season....

Today, the Patriot League was the final FCS football conference to unveil their spring competition schedule to the public, as a part of their release...

The National Football Foundation (NFF) highlighted today the more than 310 schools and 35 conferences playing college football this spring at the Football Championship Subdivision...

The signing day celebrations sometimes came with masks, but that didn't make them any less important or meaningful to a group of athletes that have...

At the campuses at Lehigh and Lafayette, and the communities that surround them, there is a void in the third week in November, that most...

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....