Yesterday the Hobart College Statesmen released their 2025 regular season schedule. Team 131 will have to be road warriors this fall as the Statesmen, the defending Liberty League Champions, will be on the road for six of their 10 games.
A strange decision by the LL to act as though the 2020 season happened to keep the in-conference schedule "on track", has effectively come back to bite Hobart in 2025. That combined with the return of the Empire 8 - LL OOC scheduling agreement (which took a two-year hiatus as the E8 made a deal with the Landmark) has Hobart playing Alfred, Brockport and Utica in Weeks 1-3. New LL associate member Hilbert College will host the Statesmen in Week 10. This addition has moved the traditional Week 11 finale against Centennial Cup foe Rochester to Week 9. The Statesmen have squared off against their oldest rivals in Week 11 every year dating back to the 2004 season, until this one.
The Statesmen will open the 2025 campaign under the Friday Night lights of Yunevich Stadium at Alfred University. Hobart then travels to Brockport in Week 2. The Statesmen will have their home opener against Utica University in Week 3. Hobart will look for its first ever win at Butterfield Stadium in Week 4, then returning to the Boz for a big Week 5 game against RPI.
Week 6 has the Statesmen on the road to Union and then getting a bye in Week 7. The regular season will resume in Week 8 at home against Saint Lawrence. Week 9 is the aforementioned Centennial Cup game in Rochester. Weeks 10 and 11 are away at Hilbert and the Senior Day season finale at the Boz against Buffalo State.
This is a front-loaded schedule that takes away Hobart's traditional home field advantage. The Statesmen are 29-3 at the Boz under HC Kevin DeWall '00 but have gone 18-14 on the road over the same time period.
This schedule will test Hobart's mettle early on. If the Statesmen can make it to Week 7 with minimal injuries and no or maybe one loss, they will be in the thick of the playoff hunt.
I'll have more recruiting news soon plus a few new post-season episodes of In the D3FB Huddle will be coming out also.
Thanks for reading and go 'Bart!
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