2026 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
American college football season
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The 2026 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team will represent Lehigh University as a member of the Patriot League during the 2026 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mountain Hawks will be coached by first-year head coach Rich Nagy and play at the Goodman Stadium in Lower Saucon Township, Pennsylvania.
- Rich Nagy (1st season)
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| Conference | Patriot League |
| Record | 0–0 (0–0 Patriot) |
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| Offensive coordinator | Dan Hunt (4th season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Mike Kashurba (1st season) |
| Home stadium | Goodman Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bucknell | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Colgate | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fordham | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgetown | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holy Cross | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richmond | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William & Mary | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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| August 29 | at Holy Cross | ||
| September 5 | at Georgetown | ||
| September 12 | William & Mary | ||
| September 19 | Dartmouth* |
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| September 26 | at Penn* | ||
| October 3 | Fordham |
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| October 17 | at Cornell* | ||
| October 24 | at Villanova | ||
| October 31 | Bucknell |
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| November 7 | Colgate |
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| November 14 | at Richmond | ||
| November 21 | at Lafayette | ||
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Preseason
In the 2025 season, Lehigh went undefeated in the regular season but suffered a loss in their first playoff game against Villanova after a first round bye.[2] Following concerns that their then head coach Kevin Cahill would be poached to a bigger school following this success, Lehigh launched a concerted fundraising effort to infuse the football team with $1 million being raised by private donors, and another $2.5 million donated by the Vandergraft family specifically to pay for the head coach, whose title would be renamed to the "Vandergrift Family Head Football Coach."[3]
Despite this Cahill would leave Lehigh and take up the head coaching job at Yale on February 23, where he worked on their coaching staff for 10 years prior to his 3-season stint as Lehigh's head coach.[4] Defensive coordinator Rich Nagy, who had joined the team at the same time as Cahill, would fill the vacancy and become the programs 31st head coach.[5] Special Team's coordinator Mike Kashurba was promoted to defensive coordinator to fill Nagy's vacancy while offensive coordinator Dan Hunt was also named Associate Head Coach.[5] Other changes to the coaching staff included Offensive Line Coach/Run Game Coordinator Mike Morita being named Assistant Offensive Coordinator while Defensive Line Coach Jeff Comissiong was promoted to Defensive Run Game Coordinator.[5] On April 21 Nagy named Chip Taylor, the head coach at Hamline for the last 10 years, as the special teams coordinator.[6] In his inaugural press conference Nagy stated his goal for the season was to win another Patriot League title.[7]
Lehigh's training camp closed on April 18.[8] Several of the team's veterans from the prior season, namely wide receiver Geoffrey Jamiel, graduated, while wideout Mason Humphrey, running back Jaden Green and backup quarterback Matt Machalik where lost to the transfer portal.[8]