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Fordham

· 0-3 (0-1) · power -18.4 · #369
Our numberLEH -34.5 no book has priced this game

Lehigh

· 3-0 (2-0) · power +9.8 · #86
Our side
MoneylineLEH to win ours 98%
Projected score 8–42 FOR – LEH
2026-10-03 · 12:00 PM Goodman Stadium · Bethlehem, PA Conference game Early season

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Series Lehigh lead 14–9 · 23 meetings since 1923
2025 unit ranks — last completed season, from games actually played
Run game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 170 ranks
Fordham Rams #186 rush offense Lehigh Mountain Hawks #16 run defense
Pass game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 218 ranks
Fordham Rams #252 pass offense Lehigh Mountain Hawks #34 pass defense
Run game even 17 ranks apart
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #52 rush offense Fordham Rams #35 run defense
Pass game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 182 ranks
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #15 pass offense Fordham Rams #197 pass defense
Fordham Rams Balanced · 45% run Avg pace 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
Fordham Rams
LB Andrew Osmun 29 tkl · 1.5 sacks · 4.0 TFL #5 LB
DB Justin Johnson 13 tkl · 1 PD · 1 INT #34 DB
DL Lorenzo Riddick 9 tkl · 1.5 sacks · 2.0 TFL #125 DL
DL Jakub Mwangelwa 7 tkl · 2.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL #141 DL
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
TeamPowerOffDefRank
Fordham Rams -18.4 -14.0 -4.3 #369
Lehigh Mountain Hawks +9.8 +4.2 +5.6 #86

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

Where the number comes from
Fordham offense vs Lehigh defense-19.6 pts
Lehigh offense vs Fordham defense+8.6 pts
Efficiency adjustment · EPA, success rate, explosiveness+2.4 pts
Power projection before adjustment+32.1

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).