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Lehigh

· 3-0 (2-0) · power +9.8 · #86
Our numberLEH -21.6 no book has priced this game

Cornell

· power -13.8 · #335
Our side
MoneylineLEH to win ours 9%
Projected score 37–16 LEH – COR
2026-10-17 · 2:00 PM Schoellkopf Field · Ithaca, NY Preseason estimate

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Series Cornell lead 15–4–2 · 21 meetings since 1887
2025 unit ranks — last completed season, from games actually played
Run game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 46 ranks
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #52 rush offense Cornell Big Red #98 run defense
Pass game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 55 ranks
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #15 pass offense Cornell Big Red #70 pass defense
Run game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 190 ranks
Cornell Big Red #206 rush offense Lehigh Mountain Hawks #16 run defense
Pass game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 181 ranks
Cornell Big Red #215 pass offense Lehigh Mountain Hawks #34 pass defense
Lehigh Mountain Hawks Run-heavy · 67% run Ball-control Dual-threat QB · 35 rush ypg Cornell Big Red Balanced · 51% run Up-tempo

Ranked by team-unit strength (rush & pass offense vs. run & pass defense) across all 265 D1 teams, not by individual players. Identity, tempo and unit strength are measured from the 2025 season.

The evidence 2025 production and power ratings · supporting the number above

Who carried each team in 2025
Lehigh Mountain Hawks
RB Luke Yoder 419 rush yds · 9 TD · 3 rec #2 RB
DB Luke Denny 13 tkl · 1 PD · 1 INT #269 DB
WR Nick Palumbo 8 rec · 130 yds · 2 TD #245 WR
DB DJ Brown 7 tkl · 5 PD #397 DB
Cornell Big Red
No graded players for this team in 2025.

Top-rated players from last season, ranked within their position across D1. A grade measures what a player produced, and no 2026 game has been played yet — so this is who produced for these programs in 2025, not a claim about who is on the field this year.

Power breakdown
TeamPowerOffDefRank
Lehigh Mountain Hawks +9.8 +4.2 +5.6 #86
Cornell Big Red -13.8 -9.3 -4.6 #335

Def is higher = better. The projection assumes a 2.4-pt home edge (0 at neutral sites).

Where the number comes from
Lehigh offense vs Cornell defense+8.8 pts
Cornell offense vs Lehigh defense-14.8 pts
Rest · context onlyAway team on 7 more days rest

An efficiency adjustment from season-to-date EPA and success rate applies once teams have played enough games; before then it is 0 and the number is the power rating alone.

Situational spots are shown for context, not baked in: travel, altitude and rest were tested against 6,000+ games and the power and efficiency ratings already account for them. Adding them again would double-count.