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Lehigh

· 3-0 (2-0) · power +9.8 · #86
Our numberLEH -16.8 no book has priced this game

Richmond

· 2-1 (1-0) · power -5.8 · #253
Our side
MoneylineLEH to win ours 15%
Projected score 36–19 LEH – RICH
2026-11-14 · 2:00 PM Robins Stadium · Richmond, VA Conference game Early season

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Series Richmond and Lehigh split 4 (2–2) · 4 meetings since 2021
2025 unit ranks — last completed season, from games actually played
Run game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 136 ranks
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #52 rush offense Richmond Spiders #188 run defense
Pass game even 1 ranks apart
Lehigh Mountain Hawks #15 pass offense Richmond Spiders #16 pass defense
Run game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 167 ranks
Richmond Spiders #183 rush offense Lehigh Mountain Hawks #16 run defense
Pass game edge Lehigh Mountain Hawks 107 ranks
Richmond Spiders #141 pass offense Lehigh Mountain Hawks #34 pass defense
Lehigh Mountain Hawks Run-heavy · 67% run Ball-control Dual-threat QB · 35 rush ypg Richmond Spiders Run-heavy · 62% run Avg pace Dual-threat QB · 44 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
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
Richmond Spiders
DL Camden Byrd 7 tkl · 3.5 sacks · 4.0 TFL #32 DL
LB Blake Houser 26 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL #44 LB
DL Daniel Sellers 7 tkl · 2.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL #88 DL
RB Aziz Foster-Powell 141 rush yds · 3 TD · 4 rec #68 RB

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
Richmond Spiders -5.8 -3.0 -2.8 #253

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 Richmond defense+7.0 pts
Richmond offense vs Lehigh defense-8.6 pts
Efficiency adjustment · EPA, success rate, explosiveness-3.5 pts
Power projection before adjustment-13.3

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).