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 ev...
It was all fun spring football on a Saturday afternoon - a celebration, a gate swinging open for the 2024 season. The post Lehigh Brown/White Scrimmage Focuses on Football Fun And Prep For Upco...
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. The post Quietly, Lehigh Starts Climbing the Mountain to...
This year marked the first year since forever that the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament wasn't a big thing for me. The post I Used To Watch The NCAA Tournament appeared first on The College Sp...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/i-used-to-watch-the-ncaa-tournament/
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 o...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/a-humble-proposal-to-save-college-football/
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 on...
It wasn’t pretty by any stretch of the imagination. But in the end, Notre Dame got the job done. The post Notre Dame Hockey Skates Past Buckeyes 5-2 appeared first on The College Sports Jour...
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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. ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/ohio-state-wrestling-find-groove-in-36-6-rout-of-illini/
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 ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-final-2023/
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 implic...
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. The post OPINION: Delaware is ...
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 25th, 2023 following the Week 13 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-nov-25/
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 18th, 2023 following the Week 12 games–the last regular season week. This will be the final rankings unti...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-nov-18-3/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 18th, 2023 following the Week 12 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-nov-18-2/
The final autobids have been determined, and the final games have been played. At 12:30PM on ESPNU, FCS Nation will learn the official bracket for the 2023 FCS Playoffs, and about the only thing ...
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 ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/rivalry159-preview-lafayette-at-lehigh/
The final weekend is poised to have a lot of drama - more than most years. Only three out of the ten possible autobids have been positively determined and how those play out will determine how ma...
Using the Sagarin rankings for this week of Nov. 11th, the following would be the field of 24 teams for the 2023/24 Division I FCS Football Playoffs. South Dakota State would be the top seed usin...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/csj-sagarin-2023-ncaa-fcs-playoff-projection-nov-13/
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 11th, 2023 following the Week 10 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the nati...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-nov-11-3/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 11th, 2023 following the Week 11 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-nov-11-3/
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 ...
Some of the picks will shock you. The post FCS Playoffs ‘Til I Die: CSJ Picks The FCS Playoff Field, 11/9/2023 appeared first on The College Sports Journal .
If the GPI were being used to determine at-large capability outside of the Top 12, it would seem like very good news for Youngstown State (15), Albany (16), UT Martin (18) and Chattanooga (21), w...
Using the Sagarin rankings for this week of Nov. 4th, the following would be the field of 24 teams for the 2023/24 Division I FCS Football Playoffs. South Dakota State would be the top seed using...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/csj-sagarin-2023-ncaa-fcs-playoff-projection-nov-6/
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 4th, 2023 following the Week 10 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the natio...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-nov-4-2/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Nov. 4th, 2023 following the Week 10 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-nov-4-2/
Lehigh leaped out to 14-0 , 21-14, and 24-21 leads on Holy Cross in a spirited effort at Murray Goodman Stadium, but the Crusaders would ultimately find a way to beat the Mountain Hawks in a 28-2...
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. The post HOLY CROSS AT LEHIGH 11/4/2023: Game...
We come up with a composite list of 24 teams - teams based on CSJ's staff picks on who we think will be in the field, not based on a formula, but who we project comes away with it. With the cavea...
If the Gridiron Power Index were used to seed the teams in the FCS playoffs, this week's rankings seem to indicate that the top seeds would be dominated by Big Sky and Missouri Valley Football co...
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 28th, 2023 following the Week 9 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the natio...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-oct-28-2/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 28th, 2023 following the Week 9 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-oct-28-2/
The FCS playoff committee released its Top 10 rankings on Thursday, and absent was Southern Illinois, which was ranked No. 7 in the 10/23 release of the GPI this week. The post Gridiron Power I...
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 21st, 2023 following the Week 8 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the natio...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-oct-21-2/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 21st, 2023 following the Week 8 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-oct-21-3/
After the game, DB Nick Petelkian cradled the game ball in his arm, but as RB Luke Yoder approached for post game interviews, he said he thought the ball should be split in half. The post Kevin...
A very young Lehigh football team finds itself taking a bus this week to Lewisburg, PA to find out about themselves. The post LEHIGH AT BUCKNELL 10/21/2023: Game Preview And Fearless Prediction...
Once again, a shift of power in the Missouri Valley Conference has rocked the GPI this week. The post Gridiron Power Index 10/18/2023 – Fighting Hawks Upend GPI This Week appeared first on T...
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 14th, 2023 following the Week 7 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the natio...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-oct-14/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 14th, 2023 following the Week 7 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl ...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-oct-14/
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 aga...
There was shuffling in the Top 10 of the Gridiron Power Index this week, with big movers Harvard, Youngstown State, Central Arkansas and NCCU making moves in the poll. The post Gridiron Power I...
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 7th, 2023 following the Week 6 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the nation...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-oct-7-2/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Oct. 7th, 2023 following the Week 6 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl g...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-oct-7-2/
It took three long drives, two defensive stops, and two long field goals - one of them PK Brandon Peskin's career long of 45 yards - for Fordham (4-2, 1-1) to escape Lehigh's (1-5, 0-1) upset bid...
What's a better metric? What should the definition of Division I, FCS and FBS be? The post OPINION: The Biggest Problem With College Athletics Is That Nobody, Not Even The NCAA, Has Any Idea As...
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. The post LEHIGH AT FORDHAM 10/7/20...
The Coyotes, who went from being unranked to 8th in the GPI, were one of four teams who appeared in the GPU for the first time this year, thanks to a cavalcade of massive upsets. The post Gridi...
Here are the Top 25 FCS rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 30th, 2023 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl games and the nati...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fcs-top-25-sept-30-2/
Here are the Top 25 FBS Group of Five (G5) rankings based on the Sagarin rankings for the week ending Sept. 30th, 2023 following the Week 4 games. We will will have a final ranking after all bowl...
https://www.college-sports-journal.com/college-sports-journal-sagarin-fbs-g5-top-25-sept-30-2/