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Rams to honor seniors in pregame ceremony
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BRONX, N.Y. – The Fordham University Rams continue the season, Fordham’s 123rd varsity season, by hosting the Bucknell University Bison for a Patriot League contest at Moglia Field at Jack Coffey Field on Saturday, November 4, at 1:00 p.m.
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The Rams will honor 17 student-athletes who will be making their final appearance at Moglia Stadium in a special pregame ceremony.
The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Andrew Bogusch (p-b-p) and Grant DelVecchio (color) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Brian Rabacs (p-b-p) and Lou Orlando (color) handling the announcing chores.
Fordham enters with a 5-3 overall record, 1-2 in the Patriot League, and is coming off a 49-47 Patriot League loss to Holy Cross at Moglia Stadium last Saturday, while Bucknell enters the game with a 3-5 overall record, 1-3 in the Patriot League, after a 49-34 League win at Colgate last week.
This will be the 39th meeting between Fordham and Bucknell on the gridiron. Fordham leads the all-time series, which started in 1929, 20-18, and has taken the past ten meetings, including a 59-17 win last year in Lewisburg as Tim DeMorat completed 31 of 49 passes for 346 yards and five touchdowns with Fotis Kokosioulis catching 12 of those passes for 132 yards and two scores.
A few notes on the game:
• Fordham junior running back Julius Loughridge is looking to become just the eleventh Fordham running back to eclipse 1,000 rushing yards in a season (he enters the Bucknell game with 934 rushing yards on the year).
• 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 21 from quarterback CJ Montes this year for a total of 79.
• Fordham sophomore quarterback CJ Montes has thrown 21 touchdown passes in his first eight games as the Ram starting quarterback, the most for any Fordham signal caller over his first eight starts.
• Fordham grad student wide receiver MJ Wright has 164 receptions for 2,571 yards and 20 touchdowns. He is seventh in career receiving scores and career receiving yards, and tenth in career receptions.
• Fordham senior placekicker Brandon Peskin has made good on 103 career PATs, good for third on the Fordham all-time PAT list.
• Fordham junior linebacker James Conway has 349 total tackles, third on the Fordham career list.
• Over the past two years, the Rams are 11-3 at Moglia Stadium.
• Fordham junior linebacker James Conway and graduate student wide receiver MJ Wright were named 2023 NCAA FCS Preseason All-Americans.
• Fordham senior defensive back Nahil Perkins and graduate student wide receiver MJ Wright were named 2023 Phil Steele Mid-Season All-Americans.
• 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 78 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Sacred Heart (65), Stony Brook (58), and Rutgers (54), while the NFL’s Giants lead all NYC area professional teams with 72 wins over the past eleven years and the Jets have 66.
