Lyon College

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Southern Collegiate Athletic · Pioneer Stadium · 1,500

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetvs Greenville · our model 73% Lyon College · a number, not a pick

LastW 21–14 at Illinois College · Sat Sep 12

Nextvs Greenville · Sat Sep 19 · 4:30 pm ET · Pioneer Stadium · series 0-0-1

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Lyon College · 2026 schedule & results1-1
WkDateUsOppLineOpponentResultRecordConf
1Sep 5#521#518East Texas BaptistL 7–580-10-0
2Sep 12#533#508@Illinois CollegeW 21–141-10-0
3Sep 19#533#598Greenville
4Sep 27#532#649@Westminster (MO)
5Oct 3@Texas Lutheran
6Oct 10@Austin
8Oct 24Texas Lutheran
9Oct 31@Centenary (LA)
10Nov 7Hendrix

Game Week

4d 20h

until kickoff · vs Greenville · Sat Sep 19 · 4:30 pm ET

Verdict Begins·Live

The Scots of Batesville, an Arkansas college that brought back football in 2013 after a 62-year hiatus and recently joined NCAA Division III in the SCAC, playing on the new on-campus Bad Boy Stadium.

Standard GapA reborn program writing a new chapter — the work is rebuilding from scr…

Plenty wrote off a tiny Arkansas college reviving football after 62 years, and the Scots are out to prove the program belongs back on Saturdays.

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The season in chapters

What it is like to watch them2025 · 2-7 · last season

Game feel54even gamescombined pts / game4th highest-scoring of 5 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic
Heart rate0-2rarely closein one-score games (2 of 10)5th most one-score games of 5 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic
Margin-16.3competitiveavg scoring margin4th best margin of 5 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic

✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among Southern Collegiate Athletic teams the same season

Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025

Lyon College has won two of its last five.

Cooling. 3-6 over the last 10, and won the last one.

Streak W1Last 5 · 2-3Last 10 · 3-6
The forecast

Next Sep 19

vs Greenville · at home

Outcome band · Lyon College · 2026

Lyon 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 Scots of Batesville, an Arkansas college that brought back football in 2013 after a 62-year hiatus and recently joined NCAA Division III in the SCAC, playing on the new on-campus Bad Boy Stadium.

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

Lyon College sits 2nd in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and 97th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.

Southern Collegiate Athletic · 2026
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Austin0-01-159.4
2Lyon0-01-152.7
3Texas Lutheran0-01-146.8
4Centenary (LA)0-00-142.0
5Gallaudet0-00-232.4
52.7 CFB Zeitgeist#97 of 229 D352.9 strength of schedule

Win the Southern Collegiate Athletic 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 Scots.”
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