Lehigh Football Nation

Today's "Know Your 2016 Opponents" series continues with the team that is predicted by College Sports Journal to finish 3th in the Ivy League : Yale. Although it would have been a great narrative coup if Hilary Clinton and Bill Clinton met at the classic 14-12 upset of the Bulldogs by Harvard in 1970 at wind-swept Cambridge, they instead, the world learned this week, met in the spring of 1971 at the law school library. One of the curious things about the Clintons is their lack of association with the "Yale-Harvard Football Game", as it's now known, even though Bill Clinton is a self-admitted sports nut, able to recall times when he congratulated winning teams that visited him in the White House, or times as President or at the Clinton Foundation reminiscing about Montana Grizzlies football.

Today's "Know Your 2016 Opponents" series continues with the team that is predicted by College Sports Journal  to finish 3th in the Patriot League : Holy Cross. Scared of the Purple People eaters this year?  I am. They're a veteran-laden offense, with a four year letterman at quarterback, hosting Lehigh this year at their home in "Woostah".  Defensively, conventional football scholarships have the Crusaders with a quickly built defense that got better as the season went along. They're a team that hasn't made the jump - yet - but could, playing Lehigh at home, poach the Mountain Hawks. It's a game I have circled on the calendar.