@NCAA_FCS Almost a quarter of the spots in the 24-team FCS playoff bracket are from New England. URI, Yale and CCSU clinched their automatic qualifiers on Saturday, but UNH and Harvard had to wait to find out if they had more practice time together. In a rematch of last year’s playoff game, the NEC champ Blue Devils travel to face the CAA champ Rhody this Saturday. Yale heads out on……
NEW HAVEN – The Game is one of the most historic and well-known college football matchups in the nation, but whoever won the 141st edition on Saturday between Harvard and Yale was going to live on forever. For the first time, the winner of The Game was also going to clinch the Ivy League’s first automatic FCS playoff berth, along with the outright title. In front of over 52,000 fans…
By Ryan Barry NEFJ Correspondent KINGSTON – Hard times make strong people, and nowhere in the world of college football do they know that better than the University of Rhode Island. Seasons of struggling for program relevancy, teams that never fulfilled their potential, or moments of coming up just short while hope stared at them right in the face, have been all too familiar for the Ocean State’s flagship program….
Image courtesy of Alex Miller By Allen Lessels NEFJ Correspondent DURHAM – They did what they had to do. Now they wait to see if that’s enough. On the second Saturday in October, the University of New Hampshire football team lost at Rhode Island, 38-27, and its record fell to 3-4 overall and 1-2 in the Coastal Athletic Association. To have any chance at qualifying for the NCAA FCS playoffs…
By Rob Gullo NEFJ Correspondent NEW BRITAIN – Hosting the Mercyhurst Lakers at Arute Field for a chance at the FCS AQ and outright NEC title, the Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils football team repeated as conference champions with a 35-28 win. The Blue Devils were led by quarterback Brady Olson and running back Elijah Howard on offense, with both accounting for three touchdowns each. Olson completed 22-35 passes…
Harvard Athletics For the 141st time, Harvard and Yale will play football on Saturday afternoon down in the Yale Bowl. There’s an argument to be made that it’s the most important meeting in the history of ‘The Game’ rivalry. Or, at least in the last 116 years. Only in 1890 and 1909 were the stakes higher than they are this weekend. A quick Google search shows that in 1890, Harvard…
Well, this is it. For 14 of the 17 New England D1 programs, the regular season ends this Saturday. URI, CCSU, Harvard, Yale and UNH can all clinch postseason berths, although UNH might need a little help. BC is on a bye, UMass played on Tuesday night and UConn wraps up against FAU with a nine-win regular season on the line. New Haven finished its first D1 season two weeks…
Image courtesy of Holy Cross Athletics The Holy Cross program and its fan base find themselves in unfamiliar territory heading into Thanksgiving. Usually – at least for the last six years – Holy Cross was battling for the Patriot League title, or already making plans for the postseason. But, 2025 has been a rare down year and there will be no playoff appearance for Dan Curran’s crew after this Saturday….
It sort of feels like a win-and-in situation for UNH this weekend. But, if they can beat rival Maine convincingly – much like URI did a week ago – then it should almost guarantee them a spot in the FCS playoffs. The Wildcats are 7-4, 5-2 in the ultra-competitive CAA and looking to make it 17 of the last 21 seasons in the postseason. UNH has also won four straight…
It’s pretty simple. After making the playoffs last year for the first time in three decades, No. 9 Rhode Island has a chance to make it back-to-back years on Saturday. If the Rams (9-2, 7-0 CAA) can take care of business against 2-9 Hampton, they would clinch conference title outright and the automatic berth into the FCS 24-team bracket. There’s a good chance the Rams would still get an at-large…