Jim Shannon – Hearst Connecticut Media We got some big time performances when it mattered most this weekend. Some guys helped clinch league titles and others helped their teams qualify for the FCS postseason with an at-large bid. Oh, and one particular QB continued his remarkable season. Here’s the Week 13 Dudes of the Week: If we did a Dude of the Week for all the Dudes, it would have……
The regular season has come to an end for everyone but UMass and BC, who close out their brutal campaigns this week. URI, Yale, CCSU, UNH and Harvard all made the FCS postseason and will play next Saturday just a few days after Thanksgiving. Here’s how things shook out after the final weekend of 2025: 1. UConn (9-3) – Huskies win nine games for the 2nd straight year. Chance for…
And just like that, the 2025 college season is over. BC and UMass still have regular season games this week, but for the majority of the New England programs, this past Saturday was the end of the line until winter workouts begin. We had UNH-Maine, CCSU, Harvard-Yale and URI covered (check out those stories on the site), but here’s what else you may have missed around the region: UConn 48,…
@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…