Manchester
1-1Heartland · Carl W. Burt Memorial Stadium · 4,500
LastL 11–20 at Hiram · Sat Sep 12
Nextvs Olivet · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET · Carl W. Burt Memorial Stadium
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 5 | #669 | #648 | — | Westminster (MO) | W 17–10 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #669 | #616 | — | @Hiram | L 11–20 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #669 | #647 | Olivet | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | @Otterbein | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | Bluffton | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Franklin | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | @Mount St Joseph | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | @Rose Hulman | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | Hanover | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | @Anderson (IN) |
Game Week
4d 17h
until kickoff · vs Olivet · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET
The Spartans of North Manchester, a Church of the Brethren college in northern Indiana — Manchester College until a 2012 renaming — playing Division III football at Burt Field in the Heartland Conference.
Manchester is a historic Brethren college with a long football past, and outside the Heartland Conference almost nobody knows the Spartans play at all.
The season in chapters
What it is like to watch them2025 · 0-10 · last season
✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among Heartland teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Manchester has won one of its last five.
Cold. 1-9 over the last 10, and lost the last one.
Next Sep 19
vs Olivet · at home
Outcome band · Manchester · 2026
Outcome band · Manchester · 2026Manchester'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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Game day
The Spartans of North Manchester, a Church of the Brethren college in northern Indiana — Manchester College until a 2012 renaming — playing Division III football at Burt Field in the Heartland Conference.
Playoff path
Manchester sits 4th in the Heartland Conference and 95th of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanover | 0-0 | 2-0 | 62.5 |
| 2 | Mount St Joseph | 0-0 | 2-0 | 62.0 |
| 3 | Franklin | 0-0 | 1-1 | 57.4 |
| 4 | Manchester | 0-0 | 1-1 | 52.8 |
| 5 | Rose Hulman | 0-0 | 1-1 | 46.9 |
| 6 | Anderson (IN) | 0-0 | 1-1 | 46.6 |
| 7 | Bluffton | 0-0 | 0-2 | 29.4 |
Win the Heartland 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.