Lewis & Clark College

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Northwest · Griswold Stadium · 3,000

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetvs Pomona Pitzer · our model 67% Lewis & Clark College · a number, not a pick

LastW 42–21 at Puget Sound · Sat Sep 5

Nextvs Pomona Pitzer · Sat Sep 19 · 4 pm ET · Griswold Stadium · series 1-0

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 1

Lewis & Clark College · 2026 schedule & results1-0
WkDateUsOppLineOpponentResultRecordConf
1Sep 5#497#664@Puget SoundW 42–211-01-0
3Sep 19#507#549Pomona Pitzer
5Oct 3@Puget Sound
6Oct 10Willamette
7Oct 17George Fox
8Oct 24@Whitworth
9Oct 31Linfield
10Nov 7@Pacific Lutheran
11Nov 14Pacific (OR)

Game Week

4d 20h

until kickoff · vs Pomona Pitzer · Sat Sep 19 · 4 pm ET

Verdict Begins·Live

The Pioneers of Portland, Oregon, a Northwest Conference program that rose from old Albany College — once losers of 28 straight — to win NWC titles, playing at Griswold Stadium in the shadow of the league's powers.

Standard GapA small Portland liberal-arts program whose football story is one of sur…

Lewis & Clark is a respected Portland college whose football, despite two undefeated conference championships, lives quietly behind the Northwest's bigger names.

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The season in chapters

Ahead
Sat Sep 19Next: Pomona Pitzervs Pomona Pitzer · at home

What it is like to watch them2025 · 6-4 · last season

Game feel60shootoutscombined pts / game2nd highest-scoring of 8 in the Northwest
Heart rate2-2white-knucklein one-score games (4 of 10)1st most one-score games of 8 in the Northwest
Margin+9.5comfortableavg scoring margin2nd best margin of 8 in the Northwest

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

Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025

Lewis & Clark College has won two of its last five.

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

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

Next Sep 19

vs Pomona Pitzer · at home

Outcome band · Lewis & Clark College · 2026

Lewis & Clark College's most likely season is 1-11 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 4-8.

Floor0-12Rebuild year. Below .500.
Base1-11Mid-table finish.
Ceiling4-8Conference 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 Pioneers of Portland, Oregon, a Northwest Conference program that rose from old Albany College — once losers of 28 straight — to win NWC titles, playing at Griswold Stadium in the shadow of the league's powers.

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

Lewis & Clark College sits 1st in the Northwest Conference and 16th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — in the projected field with a seedable rating.

Northwest · 2026
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Lewis & Clark1-01-068.8
2Willamette1-01-153.9
3Linfield0-01-077.9
4George Fox0-01-056.2
5Pacific Lutheran0-01-149.0
6Puget Sound0-10-141.2
7Pacific (OR)0-10-235.8
8Whitworth0-00-1
68.8 CFB Zeitgeist#16 of 229 D341.2 strength of schedule

Win the Northwest 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 Pioneers.”
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