Monday, July 28, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)-(NCAA Division II)

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)-(NCAA Division II)


The One Sentence Overview: The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) had four of its 15 teams-Kutztown 11-1, East Stroudsburg 10-2, California 10-3, and Slippery Rock 12-2-finish the 2024 season with 10 or more wins overall.

2025 Schedules (Teams listed in alphabetical order, click the links below to find the schedules)

NOTE: If the link to the team's schedule is not highlighted, the team has not submitted its schedule for the 2025 season. When the team's schedule is submitted, the link (s) will appear in each blog post. Also, please visit the RFC blog at realfootballcentral.blogspot.com for schedules, schedule updates, preseason previews, and much more.

Final 2024 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Football Standings

East Division

Bloomsburg

East Stroudsburg

Kutztown

Lock Haven

Millersville

Shepherd

Shippensburg

West Chester

West Division

California (Pa.)

Clarion

Edinboro

Gannon

Indiana (Pa.)

Seton Hill

Slippery Rock

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Saturday, July 26, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)-(NCAA Division II)

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA)-(NCAA Division II)


The CIAA In One Sentence: Will Virginia Union, Virginia State, Johnson C. Smith, or another squad take home the CIAA championship this fall?


2025 CIAA Preseason Predictions (courtesy of the CIAA)

2025 Schedules (Teams listed in alphabetical order, click the links below to find the schedules)

NOTE: If the link to the team's schedule is unavailable, the team didn't release its schedule for the 2025 season. Once the team's schedule is available, the link (s) will appear in each blog post. Also, please visit the RFC blog at realfootballcentral.blogspot.com for schedules, schedule updates, preseason previews, and more.







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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC)-(FCS)

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC)-(FCS)


Editor's Note: Effective with this post, the "THE RFC MYC" series will undergo a slight change. The "Overviews" will consist of only one sentence, including the links to preseason predictions and all-conference teams where they're available. Otherwise, let's get started.


Overview: Expect South Carolina State (9-3, 5-0 in 2024) and North Carolina Central (8-3, 4-1) to challenge for the MEAC crown in 2025.


2025 MEAC Preseason Predictions    


2025 Schedules (Teams are listed alphabetically; click the links below to access the schedules.)

NOTE: If the link to the team's schedule needs to be highlighted, the team still needs to submit its schedule for the 2025 season. The link (s) will appear in each blog post when the team's schedule is submitted. Also, please visit the RFC blog at realfootballcentral.blogspot.com for schedules, schedule updates, preseason previews, and more.

Final 2024 MEAC Football Standings

Delaware State

Howard

Morgan State

Norfolk State

North Carolina Central

South Carolina State


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Monday, July 14, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Patriot League (FCS)

Patriot League (FCS)

Overview: The Lehigh University Mountain Hawks had their best season in quite some time after finishing their 2024 season at 9-3 overall, while sharing the Patriot League title at 5-1 in conference play.


In the FCS playoffs, Lehigh rallied from an early fourth-quarter deficit to defeat and eliminate Richmond, 20-16, in a stunning first-round upset over the then #9 seeded Spiders on November 30. The Mountain Hawks' season ended the following weekend after losing to the #8 seed Idaho, 34-13, in the second round.


As 2025 arrives, the Patriot League will get a new member in its football circuit, with Richmond joining the fold after spending many seasons in the CAA. Ironically, the Spiders' first-ever game in its new conference will be the season opener, facing the Mountain Hawks in a rematch of that first-round playoff game at Lehigh on August 30.


Looking forward to the future, the Patriot League will get two more programs into the mix, as Villanova and William & Mary will join the conference for football in 2026. Adding both storied programs will give the league 10 teams by then. 


2025 Schedules (Teams are listed in alphabetical order; click the links below to find the schedules)


Final 2024 Patriot League Football Standings

Bucknell

Colgate

Fordham

Georgetown (D.C.)

Holy Cross

Lafayette

Lehigh

Richmond

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Ivy League (FCS)

Ivy League-(FCS)


Overview: The Ivy League is one of the few conferences at any level to experience sustained stability in its membership due to conference realignment. No new members have entered the league, nor have any current members left it during its seven-decade existence. The inaugural season occurred in 1956.

Once again, three teams finished in a three-way tie for the Ivy League title in 2024, with Dartmouth, Harvard, and Columbia all finishing conference play at 5-2. The Big Green and Crimson finished the season with similar overall records of 8-2, while the Lions finished at 7-3. A fourth team, Yale, finished fourth in the Ivy League at 4-3 while finishing at 7-3.

The 2025 season will bring one key change for the Ivy League, with this year's champion earning an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs for the first time ever. That move assures that the "Ancient Eight" will have at least one of its teams participate in postseason play first time since 1945. 


2025 Schedules (Teams listed in alphabetical order, click the links below to find the schedules)


NOTE: If the team's schedule is not highlighted, it has not submitted its schedule for the 2024 season. The link (s) will appear in each blog post after the team's schedule is submitted. Also, please visit the RFC blog at realfootballcentral.blogspot.com for schedules, schedule updates, preseason previews, and more.

Final 2024 Ivy League Football Standings

Brown

Columbia 

Cornell (N.Y.)

Dartmouth

Harvard

Penn

Princeton 

Yale


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Sunday, July 06, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Coastal Athletic Association (CAA)-(FCS)

Coastal Athletic Association (CAA)-(FCS)


Overview: Pay attention to the list of teams below. Do you notice who's missing?

Two teams that were members of the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) in 2024 have moved on to other conferences for 2025. 

One of those teams was the University of Richmond Spiders from Richmond, Virginia. The Spiders finished their final CAA campaign unbeaten at 8-0 before being upset by (soon-to-be) Patriot League member Lehigh 20-16 in the first round of the FCS playoffs. Richmond ended the 2024 season at 11-3 overall.

The other team to depart the CAA was the University of Delaware Blue Hens. Despite finishing its' final campaign at 6-2 in conference play and 9-2 overall, the Blue Hens were declared ineligible for postseason play. Delaware is transitioning to the FBS (Group of Five) level this season, with the Blue Hens set to join Conference USA for the first time in 2025.

As for the teams that are still in the CAA, expect some stiff competition for the conference crown this fall, with Rhode Island (11-3, 7-1 in 2024), Villanova (10-4, 6-2) and New Hampshire (8-5, 6-2) being among the primary contenders.

Still, that hasn't stopped Villanova and William & Mary from joining Richmond in the "new-look" Patriot League in 2026. The departure of both programs will leave the CAA with 14 teams. 

In fact, by the time this post is published, other teams on this list might seek greener pastures elsewhere.


2025 Schedules (Teams listed in alphabetical order, click the links below  to find the schedules)

NOTE: If the link to the team's schedule is unavailable, it still needs to submit its schedule for the 2025 season. The link (s) will appear in each blog post when the team's schedule is submitted. Also, please visit the RFC blog at realfootballcentral.blogspot.com for schedules, schedule updates, preseason previews, and more.
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Thursday, July 03, 2025

THE RFC MYC: Sun Belt Conference (FBS Group Of Five)

Sun Belt Conference (FBS Group Of Five)


Overview: As this article was posted, Texas State University announced on June 30, 2025, that it would be leaving the Sun Belt Conference to join a newly-rebuilt Pac-12 Conference, effective July 1, 2026. The Bobcats' departure will result in the SBC having 13 members by then, with seven schools in the East Division, and six in the West Division.

Meanwhile, after rejecting a bid to the Independence Bowl in the wake of then-head coach Charles Huff leaving to accept the same job at Southern Mississippi, the Marshall University Thundering Herd will look to defend their first-ever SBC title with a new head coach in Tony Gibson. He inherits a program that finished the 2024 season at 10-3 overall and 7-1 in conference play.

With or without Texas State, though, expect the Sun Belt Conference to be one of the toughest in all of FBS non-power conference (Group of Five/Six) college football in 2025.



2025 Schedules (Teams listed in alphabetical order, click the links below to find the schedules)

NOTE: If the team's schedule isn't highlighted, it didn't enter its schedule for the 2025 season. When the team's schedule is available, the link (s) to it will appear in each blog post. Also, please visit the RFC blog at realfootballcentral.blogspot.com for schedules, schedule updates, preseason previews, and more.







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