BRONX, N.Y. -  The Fordham University Rams close out the 2025 season, Fordham's 125th varsity season, by traveling to North Andover, Mass., to face the Merrimack College Warriors at Duane Stadium on Saturday, November 22, at 12:00 p.m.
 
The game will be streamed live on ESPN+ with John Avino (p-b-p) and Jacob Van Ryan (analyst) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the WFUV YouTube channel with Tucker Austin (p-b-p) and Thomas Tisdale (analyst) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham grad student linebacker James Conway enters the game with 585 career tackles, a new NCAA Division I record. He broke the old mark of 577 set by Troy's Carlton Martial from 2018-22. Conway also has 149 stops on the season, a new Fordham single season record, surpassing the former record of 145 set by Mark Blazejewski in 1991. Earlier this year Conway broke the NCAA FCS record of 550 career tackles set by Boomer Grigsby of Illinois State from 2001-04 (the NCAA has recorded tackles as an official stat since 2000).
 
Fordham enters the game with a 1-10 record, 1-6 in the Patriot League, and is coming off a 14-0 League loss at Georgetown last Saturday while Merrimack, an NCAA FCS independent, enters with a 3-8 overall record following a 42-37 loss at Sacred Heart last week.
 
It will be the second meeting between Fordham and Merrimack on the gridiron. The Warriors took the first meeting, 19-3, on November 23 last year as Ayden Pereira completed 12 of 15 passes for 131 yards and also ran for 136 yards in the season finale for both teams.
 
A few notes on the game:
• Fordham grad student linebacker James Conway was named one of 16 finalists for the 2025 William V. Campbell Trophy®, college football's premier scholar-athlete award that annually recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance, and exemplary leadership
 
• Conway is also one of 13 finalists for the FedEx Doris Robinson Award, which honors an FCS student-athlete who exemplifies excellence on the field, in the classroom and across the community.
 
• Conway leads all NCAA Division I tacklers with 149 on the season.
 
• Fordham junior quarterback Gunnar Smith is enjoying a successful first season for the Rams.
 
• Smith has completed 226 of 398 passes for 2,428 yards and 13 touchdowns.
 
• He leads the Patriot League and is 23rd in the NCAA FCS in passing yards/game (220.7), leads the League and is ninth in the NCAA FCS in completions per game (20.40), and is fifth in the conference in points responsible for per game (9.5).
 
• In three-plus years, grad student punter Will Haslett has punted 181 times, seventh on the all-time list, for 7,727 yards, fourth on the Rams' career list.
 
• Fordham is represented by five captains in 2025: senior tight end Jaden Allen, grad student linebacker James Conway, senior defensive back Alex Kemper, senior offensive linemen Duke Leonard, and senior defensive lineman Claudy Robinson.