(STATS) – CAA Football will be in the spotlight next Saturday – and reigning national champion James Madison won’t even be playing.
While the 5-0 Dukes break for their open week, all four CAA games will help shape the conference’s competitive title race.
Richmond will host Albany, Maine will be at Villanova, William Mary travels to Elon and Delaware will try to rebound from a loss to James Madison at first-place Stony Brook.
Key games in other conferences include:
Big Sky: Montana at Idaho State
Ivy: Yale at Dartmouth in a matchup of 3-0 teams
MEAC: North Carolina Central at Howard
Missouri Valley: Youngstown State at South Dakota in a Top 10 showdown and Western Illinois at Northern Iowa
Northeast: Wagner at Duquesne
Ohio Valley: Jacksonville State at upstart Austin Peay
Patriot: Lehigh at Colgate
Southern: Western Carolina at Wofford and Mercer at The Citadel
Southland: Sam Houston vs. Stephen F. Austin at NRG Stadium in Houston
SWAC: Alcorn State at Alabama State and Grambling State vs. Prairie View A&M at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas
In addition, Charleston Southern will play a recently added game at Indiana, while Illinois State travels to Northern Arizona for the final game of the Big Sky/MVFC Challenge Series (the MVFC leads 5-2) and Monmouth is at Holy Cross.
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