The University of Rhode Island (URI) football team will be playing its home games at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket for the 2026 season. This decision comes as the team’s current home, Meade Stadium in Kingston, is set to undergo a significant $42 million renovation after the conclusion of the 2025 season.
Image courtesy of URI Athletics By Brendan Flynn NEFJ Correspondent WORCESTER – Trailing by one with 2:23 left to play on the road, Rhode Island kicker Garth White cleared with uprights with plenty of room to spare on a go-ahead, 41-yard field goal to cap the Rams game-winning, 60-yard drive. The field goal was the third of the day for White, who accounted for every URI point in the 9-7……
Five and rising. The defending CAA champs and now 2-0 URI Rams have moved up to No. 5 in the AFCA Coaches Poll this week after beating Stony Brook on the road. Jim Fleming’s team has another huge early season test this weekend when the Rams visit perennial FCS playoff contender Holy Cross in the Cruaders’ home opener. This will be Rhody’s first non-conference game after opening the year with…
By Charlie Adams NEFJ Correspondent KINGSTON – The reigning Coastal Athletic Association champion Rhode Island took home a victory in its season opener, but Campbell did not make it easy. Trailing at halftime, the No. 9 Rams responded by outscoring the Camels 17-3 in the second half to take home a 31-20 win. “We did everything in a football game that can happen in an opener that can prevent you…
During its portion of CAA Media Day a while back, Rhode Island players weren’t shy about their ultimate goal for 2025. A national championship. But, after waiting almost four decades for another CAA title and finally bringing it home last year, head coach Jim Fleming knows the Rams are a long, long way from even thinking about a trip to that last game in Nashville the first week of January….
By Charlie Adams NEFJ Correspondent KINGSTON – No. 9 Rhode Island finished training camp with the attention to detail of a team ready to repeat as Coastal Athletic Association champions. URI’s mock game left no stone unturned. Without a ball being thrown or pads being worn, the Rams went through nearly all facets of a football game, both on and off the field. Practice wrapped with the team singing the…
Jim Fleming and his staff enjoyed every bit of the history-making CAA title a year ago. After all, it was the first time the program could celebrate a conference championship in 39 years. But, the final game of the season is what’s stuck with the staff, the players and the fan base the most. The playoff loss to Mercer is what’s fueled them in the offseason and now as training…
As the start of college training camps creeps closer and closer, lists and rankings are starting to trickle out ahead of the 2025 season. On Tuesday, FCS Stats Perform – secondary to the AFCA rankings and polls, but noteworthy nonetheless – released its preseason All-American teams. New England schools are well-represented with defending CAA champs URI and the local Ivy League schools making the biggest splash. First team offense: Marquis…
Image courtesy of URI Athletics In just a few short weeks, the URI Rams will begin training camp as defending CAA champions for the first time in 40 years. The only way to truly continue competing in the most competitive conference in all of FCS is to add as much talent as possible, both from the high school level and from the portal. With that in mind, on Friday, the…
By Charlie Adams NEFJ Correspondent KINGSTON – Following last year’s historic campaign that saw Rhode Island reach the postseason for the first time in 39 years with a CAA title, many fans got their first taste of the 2025 season in URI’s Blue-White spring game on Saturday. The final matchup to close out the month-and-a-half long practice session gave the offense four quarters of running clock to try to make…