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BRONX, N.Y. -  The Fordham University Football Rams open the 2025 season, Fordham's 125th varsity season, by traveling to Boston to face the Boston College Eagles at Alumni Stadium on Saturday, August 30, at 2:00 p.m.
 
The game will be televised live on ESPN+ with Kevin Connors (p-b-p) and Craig Haubert (analyst) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and the WFUV YouTube channel with Chris Carrino (p-b-p) and Brendan Shorey (analyst) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the season after a 2-10 2024 campaign, 2-4 in the Patriot League, while Boston College is coming off a 2024 season where the Eagles finished 7-6 overall, 4-4 in the ACC, and feel, 20-15, to Nebraska in the 2024 Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.
 
Saturday's game will be the 29th meeting between Fordham and Boston College, the first since 1954. The Eagles lead the all-time series, 14-12-2, and they took the last matchup, 55-20, in Boston in 1954.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• Saturday's game will be the 196th game against another Jesuit institution for Fordham, and the first of three this year.
 
• The Rams have played 12 other Jesuit institutions over the past 125 years.
 
• Frank Cavanaugh, aka The Iron Major, served as the head coach at Boston College from 1916-26 before becoming the Fordham head coach in 1927, leading the Rams until 1932.
 
• Fordham senior linebacker James Conway has 436 total tackles, a new Fordham and Patriot League career record.
 
• Fordham grad student linebacker James Conway was named a 2025 First Team Stats Perform All-American as well as being named preseason All-Patriot League.
 
• Fordham grad student punter Will Haslett was named to the Preseason Watch List for the 2025 FCS Punter of the Year Award, which honors the nation's top collegiate punter in the Football Championship Series (FCS).
 
• Sophomore kicker Bennett Henderson converted his last eight field goal attempts of 2024, three of those for more than 40 yards, and has made good on ten of his 12 three-point attempts last year.
 
• Fordham will be 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.