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October 17, 2016 at 2:40 pm #28844October 17, 2016 at 7:25 pm #28850
Lehigh is ranked around #22 in the AnyGivenSaturday.com poll. The most accurate of all FCS polls over the past few years when their final poll is compared with the playoff outcome.
October 17, 2016 at 9:19 pm #28855#30 in FCS coaches poll, unfortunately the one that counts with NCAA, although agree that FCS and Athlon have more knowledgeable pollsters and more accurate, at any rate keep winning and keep moving up
October 17, 2016 at 10:42 pm #28857Beat Fordham and life is good. Lose and the season is for naught. Could be the biggest game in the last 20 years.
October 17, 2016 at 11:30 pm #28858[quote quote=28857]Beat Fordham and life is good. Lose and the season is for naught. Could be the biggest game in the last 20 years.
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no bigger than Gate last yearOctober 17, 2016 at 11:44 pm #28861[quote quote=28858]
Beat Fordham and life is good. Lose and the season is for naught. Could be the biggest game in the last 20 years.
no bigger than Gate last year
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Or Lafayette any year (not to mention all the playoff games too).
October 18, 2016 at 11:30 am #28863Lafayette is a faux rivalry, mostly the older crowd who cares, pre 1970 grads. Students go for the drinking and if they even attend are gone by middle of the 2nd qtr.
October 18, 2016 at 2:54 pm #28866[quote quote=28863]Lafayette is a faux rivalry, mostly the older crowd who cares, pre 1970 grads. Students go for the drinking and if they even attend are gone by middle of the 2nd qtr.
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Yeah, that Rivalry that routinely sells out stadiums really is a “faux rivalry”. If that’s the case, I wish all our games were “faux rivalries”.
October 18, 2016 at 4:59 pm #28873Actually it’s residents of the Lehigh Valley that care the most…townies. My point being students are mostly blase about the “rivalry”.
October 18, 2016 at 11:50 pm #28877I think Buck’s just trying to rile us up. Not sure if that was an option on the Buck poll the other day.
That said, I do appreciate Buck’s posts here.
LU-LAF is the real LU homecoming game, particularly when it’s home. And students still connect with alumni at that game — before and after.
I didn’t see 33,000 LV residents at Yankee Stadium two years back. Many came in from all parts of the country.
October 19, 2016 at 12:25 am #28879I was just gonna let it go. But my bloody lip from the goalpost fight after the last game in Taylor says “not faux”.
In fairness, I’ll grant that the Lehigh-Lafayette madness on campus is as big to undergrads as the game itself. But it’s not meaningless. I think the importance grows to LU students as they get older, even after they graduate. Maybe even moreso after graduation. But Lehigh-Lafayette week was the biggest deal on campus, period. In early 90’s at least.October 19, 2016 at 1:00 am #28880And in the late 60’s, early 70’s!!!
October 19, 2016 at 1:01 am #28881[quote quote=28877]
I didn’t see 33,000 LV residents at Yankee Stadium two years back. Many came in from all parts of the country.
[/quote]The attendance at that “faux rivalry” game was actually 48,256. The largest crowd to ever see a college game at Yankee Stadium.
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October 19, 2016 at 1:46 am #28884[quote quote=28881]
I didn’t see 33,000 LV residents at Yankee Stadium two years back. Many came in from all parts of the country.
The attendance at that “faux rivalry” game was actually 48,256. The largest crowd to ever see a college game at Yankee Stadium.
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The Penn State/Boston College game (Pinstripe Bowl) a month later ended up topping it with an official attendance of 49,012. However, that was the only Pinstripe Bowl that topped Lehigh/Lafayette 150 attendance-wise; even the 2013 Pinstripe Bowl that featured Notre Dame and Rutgers didn’t draw as many fans as the 150 game.
BTW, I’m originally from the Lehigh Valley but live in the DC area now and have no formal ties to either Lehigh or Lafayette, but I was there (thanks to Lafayette fan on the AGS and Lafayette Sports Forum sites, “Pards Rule”).
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