CAA FOOTBALL ANNOUNCES 2007 SCHEDULE
RICHMOND, Va. (April 18, 2007) -- The 2007 Colonial Athletic Association Football schedule was released Wednesday by Commissioner Thomas E. Yeager, and is made up of 132 games over a span of 12 weeks.
“We are excited about the upcoming inaugural CAA Football season,” Yeager said. “Three different CAA Football teams have played for the National Championship in the past four years. Delaware and James Madison claimed the 2003 and 2004 titles making CAA Football the only conference to have two different programs win National Championships in consecutive seasons.”
The inaugural season of CAA Football will feature a total of 96 conference games, beginning Thursday, Aug. 30, when rivals Delaware and William & Mary face off at Walter J. Zable Stadium in Williamsburg, Va. The CAA Football conference’s slate features five intra-division contests for each squad as well as three contests outside of the respective six-team divisions.
“Our teams have won more NCAA Championship games over the past five years than any other FCS conference in the country,” Yeager said. “We also welcome back the reigning Walter Payton Award winner in New Hampshire’s Ricky Santos, one of two National Player of the Year honorees to come out of the conference in the last three years.”
Ten of the league’s 36 non-conference tilts will feature opponents from the Bowl Subdivision classification, including four teams which participated in 2006 Bowl games -- Boston College (Meineke Car Care), Maryland (Champs Sports), Navy (Meineke Car Care) and Virginia Tech (Chick-fil-A). CAA Football non-conference foes also include teams from the Big East, Conference USA, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference. Two CAA Football non-conference contests feature 2006 NCAA Division I Football Championship participants -- Furman and Coastal Carolina.
“A testament to our league’s overall balance is evidenced by having 10 of the 12 members compete in the NCAA Championships over the past six years,” Yeager said. “Our 14 NCAA berths are more than any other conference in the country over the past five seasons, and we are looking forward to continuing this excellence in an exciting inaugural season of CAA Football.”
The 2007 CAA Football Schedule is as follows:
Thursday, August 30
*Delaware at William & Mary
C. Connecticut State at Towson
Saturday, September 1
Monmouth at Maine
Holy Cross at Massachusetts
Northeastern at Northwestern
Fordham at Rhode Island
James Madison at North Carolina
Richmond at Vanderbilt
Villanova at Maryland
Saturday, September 8
*New Hampshire at James Madison
*Richmond at Northeastern
Furman at Hofstra
Maine at Connecticut
Massachusetts at Colgate
Rhode Island at Army
West Chester at Delaware
Towson at Morgan State
Villanova at Lehigh
William & Mary at VMI
Saturday, September 15
*Maine at Villanova
*Towson at Massachusetts
*Rhode Island at Delaware
Hofstra at Albany
New Hampshire at Marshall
Northwestern State at Northeastern
VMI at James Madison
Liberty at William & Mary
Saturday, September 22
*Hofstra at Rhode Island
*Massachusetts at Maine
*Delaware at Towson
Dartmouth at New Hampshire
Northeastern at UC Davis
Coastal Carolina at James Madison
Richmond at Bucknell
Penn at Villanova
William & Mary at Virginia Tech
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Saturday, September 29
*New Hampshire at Richmond
*Villanova at James Madison
*Towson at William & Mary
Stony Brook at Hofstra
Massachusetts at Boston College
Rhode Island at Brown
Monmouth at Delaware
Saturday, October 6
*Maine at Hofstra
*Delaware at New Hampshire
*James Madison at Northeastern
*Richmond at Towson
*William & Mary at Villanova
Saturday, October 13
*Hofstra at Towson
*William & Mary at Maine
*Villanova at Massachusetts
*Northeastern at Delaware
*James Madison at Rhode Island
Iona at New Hampshire
Stony Brook at Richmond
Saturday, October 20
*New Hampshire at Hofstra
*Northeastern at Massachusetts
*Rhode Island at Richmond
Maine at Stony Brook
Towson at Colgate
Saturday, October 27
*Hofstra at Villanova
*Maine at Northeastern
*Massachusetts at William & Mary
*Rhode Island at New Hampshire
*Richmond at James Madison
Delaware at Navy
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Saturday, November 3
*William & Mary at Hofstra
*Towson at Maine
*Massachusetts at Rhode Island
*Northeastern at New Hampshire
*James Madison at Delaware
*Villanova at Richmond
Saturday, November 10
*Hofstra at Northeastern
*Rhode Island at Maine
*New Hampshire at Massachusetts
*Richmond at Delaware
*James Madison at William & Mary
*Villanova at Towson
Saturday, November 17
*Massachusetts at Hofstra
*Maine at New Hampshire
*Northeastern at Rhode Island
*Delaware at Villanova
*Towson at James Madison
*William & Mary at Richmond
Saturday, November 24
NCAA Division I Football
Championship -- First Round
Saturday, December 1
NCAA Division I Football
Championship -- Quarterfinals
Friday & Saturday, December 7 & 8
NCAA Division I Football
Championship -- Semifinals
Friday, December 14
NCAA Division I Football
Championship -- Title Game
(Finley Stadium/Davenport Field;
Chattanooga, Tenn.)
* - CAA Football Conference Game |