Maine
1-2Coastal Athletic · Alfond Stadium · 10,000 · 5,065 avg in 2026
LastL 14–23 vs Merrimack · Sat Sep 12 · Sam Oppenheimer 1 TFL, 1 INT, 8 tackles
Nextat Boston College · Sat Sep 19 · 2 pm ET · Alumni Stadium (Chestnut Hill, MA) · series 0-6, lost the last 6 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 27 | #194 | #188 | +2.5✓ | @Towson | W 21–18 | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| 1 | Sep 5 | #194 | #98 | +21✗ | @App State | L 3–55 72 | 1-1 | 1-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #171 | #216 | -10✗ | Merrimack | L 14–23 | 1-2 | 1-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #210 | #133 | @Boston College | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #210 | #179 | @Elon | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | Sacred Heart | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Bryant | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | Campbell | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | @Rhode Island | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | @UAlbany | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | New Hampshire |
Advanced box score (EPA, success rate, explosiveness)▼
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | Merrimack | L 14–23 | — | — | — | -0.505 | 25.0% | 104.6% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Sep 5 | @App State | L 3–55 | — | — | — | -0.071 | 31.1% | 124.7% | Defense's roughest night |
| Aug 27 | @Towson | W 21–18 | — | — | — | -0.002 | 34.4% | 148.9% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Season average (3 games) | — | — | -0.192 | 30.2% | 126.1% | ||||
Maine is the northernmost FCS program, chasing a return to the 2018 playoff magic that put Orono on the national map — the Black Bears have made eight FCS playoff runs and keep building toward the next one.
The fanbase says Maine gets dismissed as a geographic outlier — a program in the far corner of New England that national FCS coverage treats as an afterthought — while the Black Bears have eight playo…
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L 14–23 vs Merrimack
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What it is like to watch them2025 · 6-6 · last season
✓ measured from 12 games · ranks are among Coastal Athletic teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Maine has won one of its last five.
Cold. 6-4 over the last 10, and lost the last two.
Next Sep 19
vs Boston College · away
Outcome band · Maine · 2026
Outcome band · Maine · 2026Maine's most likely season is 1-11 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 4-8.
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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Maine is the northernmost FCS program, chasing a return to the 2018 playoff magic that put Orono on the national map — the Black Bears have made eight FCS playoff runs and keep building toward the next one.
Recruiting buzz
Community pulse
No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.