Lehigh at Penn
PHILADELPHIA (Interstat) — Lehigh will visit Penn on Saturday for an NCAA Football Championship Division game at Franklin Field. The Mountain Hawks enter with a 4-0 record, while the Quakers are 1-0. The weather forecast for game time calls for 69 degrees in Philadelphia. Lehigh will be the visiting team, and Penn will be the home team.
Lehigh has opened its season with four wins. The Mountain Hawks beat Holy Cross 35-10, Georgetown 45-14 and William & Mary 44-20 before their most recent result, a 24-20 home win over Dartmouth. In that game, quarterback Derek Morgan completed 10 of 13 passes for 73 yards and ran seven times for 35 yards and a touchdown. Luke Yoder rushed 27 times for 150 yards, caught two passes for 15 yards and scored two touchdowns. Trey Tremba added five carries for 21 yards. Morgan, a player to watch for Lehigh, also had one carry for 2 yards earlier this season at Georgetown.
Penn also enters unbeaten after a 20-7 win at Bucknell in its most recent game. Quarterback Miles Teodecki is the player to watch for the Quakers. He completed 18 of 34 passes for 197 yards and rushed 13 times for 87 yards with two passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. Donte West carried 17 times for 39 yards. Sean Williams Jr. added six carries for 25 yards. Penn will play its home opener at Franklin Field after the road win.
The Quakers’ most recent win came at Bucknell, where Teodecki led the offense. Penn’s other productive players in that game were West and Williams. Lehigh’s most recent win came at home against Dartmouth, with Yoder and Morgan leading the way. The Mountain Hawks’ other wins this season came against William & Mary, Georgetown and Holy Cross. The Quakers have not played at home this season.
Lehigh’s upcoming schedule includes a home game against Fordham, followed by road games at Cornell and Villanova. The Mountain Hawks also will host Bucknell and Colgate before closing the regular season with road games at Richmond and Lafayette. Penn’s next games include a trip to Dartmouth, home contests against Howard, Columbia, Yale and Harvard, and road matchups at Brown, Cornell and Princeton. Lehigh and Penn are both unbeaten entering the game.
Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Penn 28, Lehigh 23. Interstat’s ELO system projects Lehigh with a 68 percent probability to win. Penn has been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -13.5. The over/under for the game is 46.5.