The Colgate Raiders have added three opponents to their future football schedules for the 2027 and 2028 seasons, according to the program’s official athletics website.
Colgate, which is slated to visit the Harvard Crimson on Oct. 3, 2026, in Boston, Mass., will host the return matchup at Andy Kerr Stadium in Hamilton, N.Y., on a date to be announced during the 2027 campaign.
The Raiders and Crimson first met in 1952 and have played nine times overall. Their most recent meeting came in 1999, when Colgate earned a 24-21 road victory. Despite that win, Harvard maintains a narrow 5-4 edge in the all‑time series.
Also in 2027, Colgate is scheduled to travel to face the Cornell Big Red, followed by a return game in Hamilton during the 2028 season.
Colgate last visited Cornell in 2025, posting a 41-21 win in Ithaca, N.Y. The two programs are also set to meet at Andy Kerr Stadium on Sept. 19, 2026.
The Raiders and Big Red have met 106 times in a rivalry dating back to 1896. With last season’s victory, Colgate now holds a one‑game advantage in the series, 52‑51‑3.
Colgate’s future schedules also include a newly added non‑conference road game at Syracuse in 2028. The teams last met in 2025, when the Orange claimed a 66-24 win in Syracuse. That victory marked Syracuse’s 18th straight in the series and extended its overall lead to 33‑31‑5.
Colgate competes in the Patriot League at the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The Raiders announced their 2026 schedule earlier on Friday, highlighted by a nine‑game conference slate for the first time
Congratulations to Patriot League Colgate Raiders Football, on picking up regional games against interesting nearby colleges.
Hope for lots of success.
Newcomer Villanova will play Colgate 9/26.
Just having fun David.
Patriot League could be new home for ‘Nova, Maine, N.H., R.I.- what a great set of teams that would be. Just having fun too, Dan.
Well–I don’t think it is far-fetched. I think the CAA is in flux and might turn into a Southern based league. The MEAC is down to six football playing members—-I could see the northern CAA schools going Patriot and then the MEAC merging with the CAA for football only.
Stay tuned
Even though PL added public W&M, I don’t see them further expanding by taking on flagship, public universities. America East should add CCSU and Sacred Heart as full members which could allow them to sponsor football. UNH, Maine, URI, CCSU, Bryant, Monmouth, Sacred Heart, Albany, Stony Brook is a solid league, with manageable travel, provided the CAA allows Monmouth and SBU to play in it.
Pretty crazy the Colgate once had a 31-15-5 series lead on Syracuse
Colgate was once Syracuse’s biggest rival……especially during the Jim Brown years. The teams did not like each other much then….
@Gerry. While I agree that the Patriot doesn’t really want public flagships, this is FCS football and Maine, New Hampshire are hardly juggernauts. I just think we should keep an eye out in the CAA as it is definitely in transition.
I also don’t think the America East wants to sponsor football. Soccer is the best sport in the AE as evidenced by Vermont winning the 2024 NCAA Soccer title. But, I could be wrong. On paper, there are only 4 FCS football members in the conference and adding teams for “football only,” is not desired.
Bryant is a private school–we could see them making a move, but the Patriot is perfect right now–10 teams, everybody plays each other so you’d have a true champion devoid of the tiebreakers that the ACC had to use to give us Duke in the ACC Championship Game.