Hiram College

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Presidents' · Charles A. Henry Field · 2,500

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetat Thiel · our model 65% Hiram College · a number, not a pick

LastW 20–11 vs Manchester · Sat Sep 12

Nextat Thiel · Sat Sep 26 · 3 pm ET · Alumni Stadium (PA) · series 0-1

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Hiram College · 2026 schedule & results2-0
WkDateUsOppLineOpponentResultRecordConf
1Sep 5#621#646@OberlinW 33–21-00-0
2Sep 12#616#669ManchesterW 20–112-00-0
4Sep 26#623#641@Thiel
5Oct 3Saint Francis
6Oct 10@Geneva
7Oct 17@Grove City
8Oct 24Case Western Reserve
9Oct 31Waynesburg
10Nov 7@Allegheny
11Nov 14Saint Vincent

Game Week

11 days

until kickoff · at Thiel · Sat Sep 26 · 3 pm ET

Verdict Begins·Live

The Terriers of tiny Hiram College in rural Ohio — the school once led by future president James A. Garfield — playing scrappy small-college football in the North Coast.

Standard GapA small liberal-arts college whose football identity is endurance and be…

Hiram is a 200-student-class college that suits up for football anyway — and nobody outside the village of Hiram, Ohio knows the Terriers exist.

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The season in chapters

Ahead
Sat Sep 26Next: Thielat Thiel · on the road

What it is like to watch them2025 · 3-7 · last season

Game feel72shootoutscombined pts / game1st highest-scoring of 12 in the Presidents'
Heart rate1-1white-knucklein one-score games (2 of 10)3rd most one-score games of 12 in the Presidents'
Margin-21.1outgunnedavg scoring margin10th best margin of 12 in the Presidents'

✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among Presidents' teams the same season

Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025

Hiram College has won two of its last five.

Cooling. 4-6 over the last 10, and won the last two.

Streak W2Last 5 · 2-3Last 10 · 4-6
The forecast

Next Sep 26

vs Thiel · away

Outcome band · Hiram College · 2026

Hiram College's most likely season is 2-10 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 5-7.

Floor0-12Rebuild year. Below .500.
Base2-10Mid-table finish.
Ceiling5-7Conference title race. Bracket qualifier in range.

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 dayWhat a Saturday in this stadium actually feels like.
The experience

The Terriers of tiny Hiram College in rural Ohio — the school once led by future president James A. Garfield — playing scrappy small-college football in the North Coast.

Playoff pathWhere this team sits in the D3 bracket race.
DIVISION III · THE PATH TO THE STAGG BOWL

Hiram College sits 2nd in the Presidents' Conference and 35th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — inside the projected 40-team field on the at-large math.

Presidents' · 2026
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Case Western Reserve0-01-079.5
2Hiram0-02-066.4
3Allegheny0-02-064.3
4Saint Vincent0-01-056.6
5Carnegie Mellon0-01-152.9
6Bethany (WV)0-01-152.5
7Washington & Jefferson0-01-152.3
8Geneva0-01-150.6
66.4 CFB Zeitgeist#35 of 229 D343.9 strength of schedule

Win the Presidents' 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.

Source: CFB Zeitgeist — conference records + NPI-style rating from 2026 games · the field is 40 teams, NPI-selected
Recruiting buzzWhat fans say about the incoming class right now.

Community pulse

No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.

CFB Zeitgeist · team-pages synth v1.0 “Go Terriers.”
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