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How Lehigh Can (Maybe) Unbreak a Broken Season

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How Lehigh Can (Maybe) Unbreak a Broken Season

There really aren’t any other words to use.  The season is currently broken.Anyone who bravely worked their way to the game last weekend in rainy, windy Worcester, Mass had to have come to the same conclusion.The only thing keeping 2-6 Holy C…

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LFN’s FCS Top 25, 10/3/2017

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LFN’s FCS Top 25, 10/3/2017

I don’t officially vote in any of the FCS Top 25 polls, but I do share who I think deserves to be in the Top 25And this wasn’t a week where a lot of teams dropped out, but it was a week where there were a bunch of epic Top 25 clashes that caused some reshuffling in the ranks.

For example, Youngstown State humbled South Dakota State 19-7 at home in a defensive feast, Central Arkansas overcame Sam Houston State 41-30 in a shootout, and South Dakota continued their dominant early-season performance by jumping to a 38-6 lead and then holding off a furious Leatherneck rally to survive in a 38-33 win over Western Illinois.

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My Vote for the FCS Top 25, 10/18/2016

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My Vote for the FCS Top 25, 10/18/2016

You didn’t ask for them, but here’s my pick for this week’s FCS Top 25.

So this is the week that North Dakota State falls.

They fell in a thrilling defensive battle at home to South Dakota State in the game for the “Dakota Marker”.

It was a great game, filled with drama and showed that the Jackrabbits are worthy of everyone’s attention this week. In fact, South Dakota State’s effective, time-consuming drive was in many ways pulling from North Dakota State’s own trademark last-second comebacks, pulling together a drive for the ages, daring them to stop them yet consistently converting 3rd and 4th downs to set up the chance to win.

But then, therein lies the tricky part.  Where to rank the Bison, and where to rank the Jackrabbits?
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My Vote for the FCS Top 25, 10/11/2016

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My Vote for the FCS Top 25, 10/11/2016

You didn’t ask for them, but here’s my pick for this week’s FCS Top 25.

I love picking games correctly involving teams 1-13 because it makes picking the Top 25 very easy – simply cut, and paste.

Most of that comes from not overrating teams like Northern Iowa, who dropped out of my top 25 after a bad loss to South Dakota, and properly rating Villanova, who keeps winning and has been a regular in my Top 10 for several weeks now.

One of the teams I had been considering for the Top 25 is Dartmouth, but after a stunning 21-13 loss to Yale, I’ve had to re-evaluate that assessment.

Many a transitive property that puts Lehigh in the playoffs or maybe even the FBS National Championship game could start with “Lehigh beat Yale, and Yale beat Dartmouth, and Dartmouth beat New Hampshire…”

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My FCS Top 25, 9/27/2016

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My FCS Top 25, 9/27/2016

You didn’t ask for them, but here’s my pick for this week’s FCS Top 25.

(Photo Credit: Elon Athletics)

Let’s see, are there any other teams I can curse into losses this week?

Last time I was here, I was extolling the virtues of William and Mary and Stony Brook in this space.  This week?  Um, not so much.

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My FCS Top 25 Vote, Week 5: 10/5/2015

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My FCS Top 25 Vote, Week 5: 10/5/2015

If you’d like, you can check out my FCS Top 25 vote below.

This week was a huge one in the Missouri Valley conference, as two battles between ranked teams took place.

While North Dakota State beating South Dakota State might not have been surprising, the relative ease of which the Bison dispatched the Jackrabbits was, a 28-7 game that really wasn’t all that close.

And Illinois State, in a true “show-me” game, at least to me, really did show that they are as advertised, beating Northern Iowa 21-13.  While controversial RB Marshaun Coprich did play for the Redbirds, his 143 yards and 2 touchdowns were instrumental in their key conference win.

These two wins cleared a logjam in my Top 10 and established two clear frontrunners in the Missouri Valley race.

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My FCS Top 25, 10/29/2012

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My FCS Top 25, 10/29/2012

Did I forget to post my vote for the FCS Top 25 for the week ending 10/27/2012?  I guess I did.  My vote follows below the flip, with a shorter-than-usual explanation of things.Read more »

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My FCS Top 25, 10/8/2012

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My FCS Top 25, 10/8/2012

My vote for the FCS Top 25 for the week ending 10/1/2012 follows below the flip.Read more »

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Sunday’s Word: Nirvana

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Sunday’s Word: Nirvana

There are twenty-one teams in all of FCS that can claim that they are 2-0 right now.Of those twenty-one, only eleven teams can claim that they've beat two Division I teams – and one of those teams are our Lehigh Mountain Hawks. As a result, you&#3…

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