Our side
MoneylineLEH to win
ours 97%
Projected score
10–41
BUCK – LEH
2026-10-31 · 12:00 PM
Goodman Stadium · Bethlehem, PA
Conference game
Early season
The books
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Series
Lehigh lead
20–14–2
· 36 meetings since 1888
2025 unit ranks —
last completed season, from games actually played
Run game
edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks
152 ranks
Bucknell Bison #168 rush offense
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #16 run defense
Pass game
edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks
52 ranks
Bucknell Bison #86 pass offense
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #34 pass defense
Run game
edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks
98 ranks
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #52 rush offense
Bucknell Bison #150 run defense
Pass game
edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks
202 ranks
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #15 pass offense
Bucknell Bison #217 pass defense
Bucknell Bison
Balanced · 57% run
Ball-control
Lehigh Mountain Hawks
Run-heavy · 67% run
Ball-control
Dual-threat QB · 35 rush ypg
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
Bucknell Bison
WR
Sam Milligan
24 rec · 241 yds · 3 TD
#17 WR
DL
Jack Inserra
15 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL
#194 DL
RB
Michael Cadden
131 rush yds · 1 TD · 12 rec
#86 RB
LB
Nick Hoying
13 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 2.0 TFL
#298 LB
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
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
Def is higher = better. The projection assumes a 2.4-pt home edge (0 at neutral sites).
Where the number comes from
Bucknell offense vs Lehigh defense-17.0 pts
Lehigh offense vs Bucknell defense+8.6 pts
Efficiency adjustment · EPA, success rate, explosiveness+1.6 pts
Power projection before adjustment+29.3
The projection carries an efficiency adjustment —
a residual from season-to-date EPA, success rate and explosiveness, which earned its place by
walk-forward test (margin error 12.90 → 12.72 across seven held-out seasons).