Football Opens Season at Navy on Saturday

Watch (CBS Sports Network Channel Finder) | Listen | Live Stats | Fordham Game Notes
 
Annapolis, Md. - The Fordham University football Rams open the 2016 season, the 115^th varsity season at Rose Hill, with a trip south to Annapolis, Maryland, to face the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen in Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Saturday, September 3, at 12:00 p.m.
 
The game will be broadcast live on the CBS Sports Network with John Sadak (p-b-p), Randy Cross (color) and Sheehan Burch (sidelines) announcing and can also be heard live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and on WFUVsports.org with Drew Casey (p-b-p), Kristian O'Hara (color) and Corey Miller (sidelines) handling the announcing chores.
 
#20 Fordham enters the game after going 9-3 last fall and advancing to the NCAA FCS Championships for the third straight year.  Navy enters its season opener after going 11-2 last year, including a win over Pittsburgh in the Military Bowl present by Northrop Grumman.
 
This will be the second meeting between Fordham and Navy on the gridiron. The Midshipmen shutout the Rams, 21-0, in 1914.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
The Fordham captains will be Kevin Anderson, George Dawson and Joe Pavlik.
 
The scout team players of the week were announced following practice on Thursday: D'Angelo Palladino (offense for defense), JM Nocket (defense for the offense) and Conor Cassidy (special teams).
 
The Fordham is one of four NCAA FCS teams to have two wins over an FBS opponent since 2013, joining North Dakota State, Bethune-Cookman and Portland State. The Rams were also one of six NCAA FCS teams to have a win over an NCAA FBS school in 2015.
 
The Rams have now been ranked in the top 25 for 43 straight weeks.
 
No New York area football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 38 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Rutgers and Sacred Heart, who each has 27 wins over the past three-plus years, while the NFL's Giants and Jets (who play more games in a season than the Rams) each have 28.