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Bronx, N.Y. -  The Fordham University Rams open the 2023 season, Fordham's 123rd varsity season, by traveling to Albany, N.Y., to take on the University at Albany Great Danes on Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium on Saturday, August 26, at 7:00 p.m.
 
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The game will be streamed on FloFootball with Rich Bogusch (p-b-p) and Johnson, Jr. (color) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Lou Orlando (p-b-p) and Brian Rabacs (color) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the game after going 9-3 overall in 2022, 5-1 in the Patriot League, while UAlbany went 3-8 overall last year, 2-6 in the CAA.
 
This will be tenth meeting between Fordham and UAlbany with the Rams leading the all-time series, 5-4. Fordham took last year's meeting, 48-45, on September 17 on Jack Coffey Field as the Rams rallied for 21 fourth quarter points for the win. Tim DeMorat led the Fordham offense last year, completing 33 of 53 passes for 464 yards and five touchdowns,  completing passes to nine different receivers, led by Fotis Kokosioulis, who caught nine passes for 81 yards and MJ Wright, who hauled in seven balls for 99 yards and one score.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• The Rams' season-opener at UAlbany on August 26 is the earliest season-opener in Fordham history (previous earliest opener for the Rams came in 2013 when the Rams commenced the season on August 29 by hosting Rhode Island).
 
• This will be the first game that Tim DeMorat does not start at quarterback for the Rams since a September 15, 2018 contest with Stony Brook which was started by Luke Medlock. DeMorat started the next 35 games.
 
• 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  back Trey Sneed, 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 73 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Sacred Heart (64), Stony Brook (60), and Rutgers (46), while the NFL's Giants lead all NYC area professional teams with 71 wins over the past eleven years and the Jets have 61.