New Hampshire
1-2Coastal Athletic · Wildcat Stadium · 11,015 · 5,480 avg in 2026
LastW 42–35 vs Stonehill · Sat Sep 12 · Jocquez Smith 122 rush yds, 3 TD
Nextvs Harvard · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET · Wildcat Stadium · series 0-8, lost the last 8 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 28 | #173 | #222 | -10✗ | @UAlbany | L 14–28 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 1 | Sep 5 | #173 | #143 | +35.5✗ | @Syracuse | L 3–66 77 | 0-2 | 0-1 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #196 | #247 | -13.5✗ | Stonehill | W 42–35 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #202 | #222 | Harvard | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #206 | #216 | @Sacred Heart | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | Elon | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | @North Carolina A&T | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Monmouth | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | @Merrimack | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | Rhode Island | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Stony Brook | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 21 | @Maine |
Advanced box score (EPA, success rate, explosiveness)▼
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | Stonehill | W 42–35 | — | — | — | +0.283 | 43.4% | 146.5% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Sep 5 | @Syracuse | L 3–66 | — | — | — | -0.256 | 27.0% | 88.9% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Aug 28 | @UAlbany | L 14–28 | — | — | — | +0.049 | 32.1% | 140.8% | Best defensive stand |
| Season average (3 games) | — | — | +0.025 | 34.2% | 125.4% | ||||
New Hampshire is the Walter Payton Award program that put Durham on the FCS map with 14 straight playoffs, and Ricky Santos — the award winner himself — is now the head coach proving the standard was never an accident.
The room says New Hampshire made 14 straight FCS playoffs, won the Walter Payton Award twice, and still gets called a cold-weather afterthought — that the Granite State program has earned its place at…
The season in chapters
What it is like to watch them2025 · 8-5 · last season
✓ measured from 13 games · ranks are among Coastal Athletic teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
New Hampshire has won two of its last five.
Cooling. 6-4 over the last 10, and won the last one.
Next Sep 19
vs Harvard · at home
Outcome band · New Hampshire · 2026
Outcome band · New Hampshire · 2026New Hampshire'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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New Hampshire is the Walter Payton Award program that put Durham on the FCS map with 14 straight playoffs, and Ricky Santos — the award winner himself — is now the head coach proving the standard was never an accident.
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