Lehigh Football Nation

The big question regarding Fordham going into last year: What on Earth was happening with all of those scholarships? With a two-year headstart on everyone else, many folks thought that the Lombardis would be stomping on the rest of the Patriot League by the 2012 season - if merit aid would indeed result in FCS championship-caliber teams. In 2013, head coach Joe Moorhead finally delivered one of those types of teams , delivering an 11-1 regular season record, Fordham's second-ever playoff victory, and a signal to the rest of the FCS of what regular scholarship Patriot League teams might look like in the future. Yet the success, too, was not completely as it seemed. Had Fordham been eligible for the Patriot League championship, they would have been no more than co-champions - with their loss to Lafayette, they would have lost the autobid to the Leopards anyway. And the way they've built their team - as you will see - has not been so much built on Patsy Points, but ha

It's Year One of the Dan Hunt era for the Colgate Raiders, and, by extension, the first Dick Biddle -less Patsy Ratings class for the Maroons up in Hamilton. After very high hopes for the Raiders in 2013 - they had the preseason Patriot League offensive player of the year, QB Gavin McCarney , and were picked as the preseason favorites to win the Patriot League's autobid - the Fightin' Biddles suffered through injuries - none huger than the dogging ones to McCarney - to fall to a 4-8 record. If there's one thing that the HooDoos were able to do in an outstanding way with Biddle at the helm, it's getting quality, Patriot League championship-caliber athletes to play football in the middle of frigid Hamilton.  The Patsy Point system, too, acknowledges this, with the Gate securing a whopping 73 Patsy Points last year . In Hamilton, Colgate transitions from Biddle (known to Lehigh fans, heretoforth, as " Bobblehead Biddle ") to Hunt.  How did Dan Hunt&

We start out our Patsy Ratings for the Class of 2018 with the Bucknell Bison , who finished tied for second last season with a 3-2 conference record and a 6-5 overall tally. It's the second over-.500 and second six-win season for head coach Joe Susan in three years. It's also the first time that coach Susan had a winning record in official Patriot League play.  (They also stampeded over Lehigh last season .) Which leads us to this year's Patsy Ratings. According to the data, did coach Susan and his staff take their strong finish and translate it into a recruiting class that will shock and awe their Patriot League competition? Last year, Bucknell finished with a respectable, but not stratospheric, 51 in the Class of 2017 Patsy Ratings for the Bison , which I'll go into below the flip. According to the numbers, this year's class falls short of this number.