Nichols College
0-2Commonwealth Coast · Vendetti Field · 763
LastL 14–63 at Merchant Marine · Sat Sep 12
Nextvs Coast Guard · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET · Vendetti Field · series 2-2, last win 2024
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 4 | #656 | #511 | — | MIT | L 7–35 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #656 | #531 | — | @Merchant Marine | L 14–63 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 19 | #661 | #519 | Coast Guard | ||||
| 4 | Sep 26 | #661 | @New England College | |||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | Maine Maritime | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | Curry | ||||||
| 8 | Oct 24 | @Endicott | ||||||
| 9 | Oct 31 | New England | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 7 | @Husson | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 14 | Western New England |
Game Week
4d 17h
until kickoff · vs Coast Guard · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET
The Bison of Dudley, Massachusetts, a small business-college program that won a run of New England Football Conference titles in the 1970s and still plays hard-nosed New England football at Vendetti Field.
Nichols is a small business college in central Massachusetts whose football, despite a 1970s championship run, almost never gets noticed.
The season in chapters
What it is like to watch them2025 · 2-8 · last season
✓ measured from 10 games · ranks are among Commonwealth Coast teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Nichols College has lost five straight.
Hibernating. 2-8 over the last 10, and lost the last seven.
Next Sep 19
vs Coast Guard · at home
Outcome band · Nichols College · 2026
Outcome band · Nichols College · 2026Nichols College's most likely season is 0-12 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 3-9.
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 Bison of Dudley, Massachusetts, a small business-college program that won a run of New England Football Conference titles in the 1970s and still plays hard-nosed New England football at Vendetti Field.
Playoff path
Nichols College sits 4th in the Commonwealth Coast Conference and 152nd of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Endicott | 0-0 | 2-0 | 72.1 |
| 2 | Curry | 0-0 | 1-1 | 50.4 |
| 3 | Western New England | 0-0 | 0-2 | 42.0 |
| 4 | Nichols | 0-0 | 0-2 | 41.6 |
| 5 | Husson | 0-0 | 0-2 | 39.7 |
| 6 | Maine Maritime | 0-0 | 0-1 | 33.1 |
| 7 | New England | 0-0 | 0-2 | 24.7 |
Win the Commonwealth Coast 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.