Lehigh Mid-Season Report: The Surprising Resurgence Of the Lehigh Defense

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Lehigh Mid-Season Report: The Surprising Resurgence Of the Lehigh Defense

Post by News » Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:00 pm

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Under Tom Gilmore things have been different. Lehigh has been going through the adjustment of new ways of doing things, and evolving as true freshmen and players getting their first significant game action adjust to the speed and rigor of Division I football.

But a funny thing has happened on the way to "rebuilding", or at least what passes as rebuilding in a league that has struggled to find its place recently in the world of FCS.

Colgate, who started the season ranked in all the major Top 25s and were the prohibitive favorites to win the conference title, discovered that they forgot how to win football games. After Lehigh held them a half yard short of the goal line last week to hold on for a 21-14 win, the Riaders were then stunned last week at home by winless Bucknell, dropping them to 0-7 and almost certainly eliminated from the Patriot League title race.

With the stunning fall of Colgate, just like that, it looks like the balance of power in the Patriot League is, for better or worse, wide open - and "rebuilding" Lehigh appears to have as good a chance as anybody to come away with this thing.


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Re: Lehigh Mid-Season Report: The Surprising Resurgence Of the Lehigh Defense

Post by ngineer » Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:05 pm

Yep, it's anyone's ball at this time. Who wants it the most? This could be they year with a few 4-2 teams tied for first. I don't thing the PL has yet had a "three-way", so the league may be exploring virgin territory with the tie-breakers. Too soon, but after the next couple weeks we should be able to discern a scenario.
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Re: Lehigh Mid-Season Report: The Surprising Resurgence Of the Lehigh Defense

Post by LU808 » Thu Oct 17, 2019 11:27 pm

STATS....

12. Patriot League (preseason ranking: 11) - The demise of defending champ Colgate, which is 0-7, has been stunning. Holy Cross (New Hampshire) and Fordham (Richmond) have beaten CAA teams and Lehigh has played a strong schedule, although overall the league has struggled out of league.

That about sums it up!
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