Cornell Football 2025

[Ken711]

Any optimism for this season? Will we improve on our 4-6 record from last year?

I don't think the quality depth is there yet.  It's possible they take a set back this season having to replace Wang at QB.  Another recruiting class like this years will really help the program.  My forecast is anywhere from 2-7 to 5-5 at best.

[ugarte]

Any optimism for this season? Will we improve on our 4-6 record from last year?

let me watch the new guys play one game before i have to offer an opinion based on their roster bios.

[Trotsky]

This literally just occurred to me, 5 games in.  Does the Ivy champion get an auto bid into the FCS NC$$?

Edit: This seems to indicate yes: https://www.dratings.com/predictor/ncaa-football-predictions/fcs-playoff-projections/

Harvard currently projected as a 12 seed out of... 16 I guess?  Or maybe 32?  The NC$$ does that idiotic thing where they only show the home seeds.

Edit II: Looks like it is out of 24.  Projected conference bids:

7 Missouri Valley*
4 Big Sky (I coulda sworn those guys were FBS?)
3 Southland
1 Ivy, Big South, "Northeast" (?), Patriot, Pioneer, Southern, "United" (?).

* We need to kick these guys up a level.

[Trotsky]

Looking at the FCS Coaches Poll, some familiar names:

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  7 Lehigh
 17 Harvard
 30 Lafayette
 31 Penn
 37 Dartmouth
Cornell is, ahem, unranked.

There are 129 FCS schools.

The full stack power ratings: https://www.versussportssimulator.com/FCS/rankings

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10 Penn
13 Harvard
16 Dartmouth
29 Princeton
36 Brown
42 Yale
76 Columbia
113 Cornell 

Before the Bucknell win we were dead last, so, progress!!!

[Trotsky]

It is theoretically possible to beat Brown today and put a team below us in the Ivy standings.

[Trotsky]

October 26 FCS Rankings:

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 9 Harvard
12 Dartmouth
13 Yale
15 Penn
39 Princeton
64 Brown
88 Cornell
89 Columbia

[Trotsky]

Granted I am not an attentive fan, but I can't recall a Cornell football game where we made no turnovers.  Now for all I know it was the immediately prior week, but it has seemed a weakness for, oh, 45 years.

[billhoward]

Upbeat: Note the last item in the 2025 Big Red football schedule.

[ugarte]

Upbeat: Note the last item in the 2025 Big Red football schedule.

lol i said that back here https://elf.elynah.com/index.php?msg=271972 but it looks like the image didn't make the leap to the new forum