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BRONX, N.Y. -  The Fordham University Rams continue the 2023 season, Fordham's 123rd varsity season, and close out the nonconference portion of the slate by traveling to Stony Brook, N.Y. to face the Stony Brook University Seawolves at LaValle Stadium on Saturday, October 14, at 3:30 p.m.
 
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The game will be streamed on FloFootball with Jonny Wincott (p-b-p) and Sam Kornhauser (color) announcing and broadcast live wfuvsports.org with Lou Orlando (p-b-p) and Brian Rabacs (color) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters with a 4-2 overall record and is coming off a 38-35 Patriot League win over Lehigh at Moglia Stadium last Saturday, while Stony Brook enters the game who an 0-5 record after a 56-28 CAA loss at Maine on September 30 (the Seawolves had a game at Morgan State cancelled last week).
 
This will be the seventh meeting between Fordham and Stony Brook on the gridiron with the all-time series is tied, 3-3. The Rams have taken the past two meetings including a 45-14 victory last year at Moglia Stadium as Tim DeMorat completed 27 of 39 passes for 371 yards and three touchdowns and Julius Loughridge rushed for 111 yards and two scores.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• Fordham senior placekicker Brandon Peskin was named the FedEx Ground NCAA FCS National Special Teams Player of the Week after the Lehigh game where he connected on three field goals, including the game winner, a career-long 45-yarder as time expired.
 
• The Fordham Rams have thrown the most touchdown passes of any NCAA FCS school over the past two years.
 
• The Rams threw a school-record 58 scoring strikes last year (56 of those from Tim DeMorat who set a school and Patriot League record) and have 17 from quarterback CJ Montes this year for a total of 75.
 
• Fordham sophomore quarterback CJ Montes has thrown 17 touchdown passes in his first six games as the Ram starting quarterback, the most for any Fordham signal caller over his first six starts.
 
• Fordham grad student wide receiver MJ Wright has 156 receptions for 2,410 yards and 19 touchdowns. He is tied for seventh in career receiving scores, eighth in career receiving yards, and 12th in career receptions.
 
• Fordham senior placekicker Brandon Peskin has made good on 96 career PATs, good for third on the Fordham all-time PAT list.
 
• Fordham junior linebacker James Conway has 316 total tackles, fifth on the Fordham career list.
 
• Over the past two years, the Rams are 11-2 at Moglia Stadium.
 
• Fordham junior linebacker James Conway and graduate student wide receiver MJ Wright were named 2023 NCAA FCS Preseason All-Americans.
 
• Both were named Third Team Preseason All-America by Stats Perform and to the Phil Steele FCS Preseason All-America Team.
 
• Wright was also named Preseason All-American by The Bluebloods while Conway was placed on the HERO Sports Top 25 Returning Linebackers list.
 
• The Fordham captains for 2023 are grad student offensive linemen Ryan Joyce and Lucas Portes, grad student wide receiver MJ Wright, grad student defensive back Stephen Williams II, and grad student defensive lineman Alfonzo Dixon.
 
• No New York area college football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 77 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Sacred Heart (65), Stony Brook (59), and Rutgers (49), while the NFL's Giants lead all NYC area professional teams with 72 wins over the past eleven years and the Jets have 63.