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FCS 2020 PREVIEW: Patriot League Preseason Rankings

Sam Herder by Sam Herder
July 8, 2020
FCS 2020 PREVIEW: Patriot League Preseason Rankings

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Welcome to the 2020 FCS summer preview series.

Every week will be dedicated to a conference as we break down the top teams, top players and what you need to know about the league heading into the season. We’ll have standings predictions, preseason All-Conference teams, top players to keep an eye on, podcasts and more.

The full conference-by-conference schedule and all of our preview content can be seen right here.

This week, we have the …

Patriot League

THE REASONING: (Rankings below). Whether the Patriot League decides to play in the fall or the spring, here’s how I think it’ll finish.

The Patriot League was extremely competitive from top to bottom last season. Expect the same in 2020 with every team returning plenty of experience.

I kept No. 1 and No. 2 the same from last season’s finish, but I don’t think teams 3-7 are too far behind. Just look at some of the notes on what went down last season that we discussed on our Patriot League preview podcast.

Bucknell, Lehigh and Colgate all went 3-3 in league play last year. Bucknell lost two conference games by seven points or less against Holy Cross and Lafayette, the top two teams. Lehigh started 3-0 in conference play, then lost the last three by 10 points or less. Colgate started the season 0-7 but ended the year on a three-game conference winning streak.

Fordham finished 2-4, but looked good in the nonconference — narrowly lost to NEC champ CCSU 26-23, defeated the CAA’s Richmond 23-16.

Then you have a team like Georgetown, who went 1-5 in conference play. But three of those conference losses were by three points and another was by 10 points.

So you can swap teams here and there below. The top two I like. And I have Fordham as the biggest riser based on what they have coming back, as pointed out in our conference outlook article.

Preseason Rankings

NOTE: These rankings are a prediction of what the standings will look like at the end of the season. It is the opinion of the author of this story and may differ from the order of our staff’s Top 25 FCS rankings. Conference schedules are taken into consideration.

RankTeam
1Holy Cross
2Lafayette
3Fordham
4Bucknell
5Colgate
6Lehigh
7Georgetown
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