Washington and Lee

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Old Dominion · Wilson Field · 4,000

The nationunrankedAP / Coaches
The marketno line yetat Salisbury · our model 32% Washington and Lee · a number, not a pick

LastW 27–23 at Gettysburg · Sat Sep 12

Nextat Salisbury · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET · Sea Gull Stadium · series 0-3, lost the last 3

Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2

Washington and Lee · 2026 schedule & results2-0
WkDateUsOppLineOpponentResultRecordConf
1Sep 5#462#487WittenbergW 13–71-00-0
2Sep 12#462#641@GettysburgW 27–232-00-0
3Sep 19#469#451@Salisbury
5Oct 3Averett
6Oct 10Randolph Macon
7Oct 17@Bridgewater
8Oct 24Hampden Sydney
9Oct 31@Guilford
10Nov 7Shenandoah
11Nov 14@Roanoke College

Game Week

4d 17h

until kickoff · at Salisbury · Sat Sep 19 · 1 pm ET

Verdict Begins·Live

The Generals of Lexington, an elite Virginia liberal-arts college whose football dates to an 1873 win over neighbor VMI and now plays Division III in the ODAC with nine conference titles.

Title DroughtSince 2021 · 5 yrs

Washington and Lee gets dismissed as an academics-only school, yet its football goes back to 1873 and it has won nine ODAC titles in the modern era.

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The season in chapters

Ahead
Sat Sep 19Next: Salisburyat Salisbury · on the road

What it is like to watch them2025 · 7-4 · last season

Game feel48rock fightscombined pts / game8th highest-scoring of 8 in the Old Dominion
Heart rate3-2white-knucklein one-score games (5 of 11)2nd most one-score games of 8 in the Old Dominion
Margin+9.3competitiveavg scoring margin4th best margin of 8 in the Old Dominion

✓ measured from 11 games · ranks are among Old Dominion teams the same season

Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025

Washington and Lee has won four of its last five.

Warming. 8-2 over the last 10, and won the last three.

Streak W3Last 5 · 4-1Last 10 · 8-2
The forecast

Next Sep 19

vs Salisbury · away

Outcome band · Washington and Lee · 2026

Washington and Lee's most likely season is 2-10 — mid-table finish. The floor is 0-12; the ceiling is 5-7.

Floor0-12Rebuild year. Below .500.
Base2-10Mid-table finish.
Ceiling5-7Conference 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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The experience

The Generals of Lexington, an elite Virginia liberal-arts college whose football dates to an 1873 win over neighbor VMI and now plays Division III in the ODAC with nine conference titles.

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

Washington and Lee sits 1st in the Old Dominion Conference and 31st of 229 in the CFB Zeitgeist — inside the projected 40-team field on the at-large math.

Old Dominion · 2026
TeamConfOverallIndex
1Washington and Lee0-02-067.1
2Shenandoah0-02-065.6
3Randolph Macon0-01-153.2
4Averett0-01-152.2
5Guilford0-01-148.4
6Hampden Sydney0-01-145.5
7Bridgewater0-00-239.4
67.1 CFB Zeitgeist#31 of 229 D345.1 strength of schedule

Win the Old Dominion 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 Generals.”
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