It’s a new era (again) for Bryant. It’s already been a pretty wild journey for a relatively young program. Bryant had a pretty decent run in the Big South/OVC the last two years, but the Bulldogs are heading home to join rival URI, Maine and UNH in arguably the best conference in all of FCS. Head coach Chris Merritt and his staff officially brought five new guys in on NSD…
A new era of CAA football is upon us. For the first time ever, 16 teams will be competing in one of the toughest conferences in the country next season as Bryant enters the fray. On Wednesday morning, the league revealed the schedules for each team and there will be a lot of intriguing matchups between the New England rivals, highlighted of course by Maine-UNH and now URI-Bryant. Fans of…
As we start 2024, the football season will officially end when the Pats close things out against the Jets next Sunday at Gillette. We thought we’d start to look ahead to the top storylines locally for the upcoming season with Pro Days and combines right around the corner. Heck, it’ll be time for high school and college training camps before you know it! 1. The future of the Patriots This…
Image courtesy of Bryant Athletics As the transfer portal gets wilder by the day, a bit of a surprise came locally on Monday. Bryant star quarterback and soon-to-be senior Zevi Eckhaus announced he was hopping in. Eckhaus – who was named the Big South/OVC Offensive Player of the Year – will have one year of eligibility remaining. Eckhaus threw for 315.8 yards per game in 2023, finishing with 28 touchdowns…
The Bryant football program is going to compete for an FCS playoff berth sooner rather than later. With Zevi Eckhaus under center and the Bulldogs finishing up a 6-5 season, the arrow is pointed up as Bryant departs the Big South after two years and heads into the CAA in 2024. Eckhaus was also named the FedEx Ground FCS National Player of the Week and the final Big South/OVC Player…
Bryant has just a handful of days left in the Big South conference. The Bulldogs’ brief two-year stint officially wraps up with a Senior Day home finale against SEMO this Saturday. Bryant can’t win the league title – that belongs to UT Martin – but they can finish 4-2 in the conference and 6-5 overall with a win. Bryant blew out Lindenwood last week, which, given the oddity of this…
While Bryant isn’t technically eliminated from the Big South title race and therefore the FCS playoff picture, the heartbreaking OT loss last weekend certainly didn’t help. Dropping a 45-44 decision against Gardner-Webb put the Bryant season on the edge with two games remaining against Lindenwood and SEMO. They’d need quite a bit of help and to win both games, but even if a Big South crown isn’t in the cards,…
Thanks to a performance that locked up Offensive Player of the Week honors for Zevi Eckhaus last weekend, Bryant got a massive bounce-back win (47-24) win over Charleston Southern. Not only did it move the Bulldogs to 4-4 overall and 2-1 in the conference, but it kept the outside shot for a postseason berth alive for at least one more week. If Bryant can beat Garnder Webb this week who…
Losing in OT is tough enough. Losing on a two-point conversion, on the road in OT when it looked like you got the stop and then an eight-minute review went against you is downright soul-crushing. After the excruciating loss to Eastern Illinois last week, Bryant is still very much in position to run at the Big South title. Both UT Martin and Southeast Missouri sit atop the conference right now…
Starting this weekend when the Bulldogs host Robert Morris, Bryant will be wrapping up its brief stint in The Big South Conference over the next month or so. After just two years, Chris Merritt’s squad will head “home” to the CAA in 2024. So, with just a few opportunities left to show they can compete with anyone in the country, the Bulldogs have their sights set on an FCS playoff…