Apprentice School
0-2Independent DIII · Apprentice Field · 800
LastL 0–42 at North Carolina Wesleyan · Sat Sep 12
Nextvs Methodist · Sat Sep 26 · 1 pm ET · Apprentice Field · series 0-1
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #568 | #571 | — | @Christopher Newport | L 14–43 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #578 | #579 | — | @North Carolina Wesleyan | L 0–42 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Sep 26 | #593 | #652 | Methodist | ||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Keystone |
Game Week
11 days
until kickoff · vs Methodist · Sat Sep 26 · 1 pm ET
The Builders of Newport News, the football team of a shipyard apprenticeship school founded in 1919, where the players are working welders and machinists who took the 2018 National Club Football Association title.
Apprentice School's players are real shipbuilders, not scholarship athletes, and the football world treats a trade-school team like it can't be taken seriously — then it won a national club championsh…
The season in chapters
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Apprentice School has lost five straight.
Hibernating. 2-8 over the last 10, and lost the last five.
Next Sep 26
vs Methodist · at home
Outcome band · Apprentice School · 2026
Outcome band · Apprentice School · 2026Apprentice School's most likely season is 0-12 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 3-9.
No season-path projection for this program yet, so this is last season's record with a two-win swing down and a three-win swing up, over a 12-game frame.
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Game day
The Builders of Newport News, the football team of a shipyard apprenticeship school founded in 1919, where the players are working welders and machinists who took the 2018 National Club Football Association title.
Playoff path
Apprentice School sits 2nd in the Independent DIII Conference and 157th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keystone | 0-0 | 1-1 | 41.7 |
| 2 | Apprentice School | 0-0 | 0-2 | 40.6 |
| 3 | Wesley College | 0-0 | 0-0 | — |
Win the Independent DIII Conference for the automatic berth into the 40-team NCAA Division III bracket. Miss it and the path is an at-large bid, selected by NPI — the metric the CFB Index mirrors. Six wins survive the bracket to the Stagg Bowl.
Recruiting buzz
Community pulse
No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.