In Your House: The NEC Blitz Road Trips in 2025

NEC Blitz is heading to three NEC football games this season- well, so far. We’ll still be bringing you the weekly coverage you’ve come to expect in 2025, but these on-campus matchups are something special. It’s the fans, the atmosphere- you know, the kind of thing that makes college football the greatest sport in the world. And nothing beats on-site reporting for capturing the feel of what’s happening on the field.

First stop: Duquesne at Pitt. This rivalry has been dormant since the late 1930s, but “The City Game” might be the NEC’s best shot ever at knocking off a P4 team. Duquesne looks scary good, and Pitt will be breaking in some new pieces. We’re expecting 40,000 screaming Yinzers at Acrisure Stadium, split between blue and gold and red and blue. I can’t wait for this one. The press box means no cheering, but as a Pitt alum covering an NEC team, maybe it’s for the best. I’m not sure I’d know who to root for anyway.

Next up: Mercyhurst vs. New Haven in Erie, PA. This marks the first-ever NEC matchup for the newly D1 Chargers, who (despite being ineligible for the conference title in 2025) will still be playing at a higher level than ever before. New Haven’s been a D2 powerhouse, and while they’ve lost key seniors from 2024 and are rolling with an interim head coach, they’re still dangerous. We can’t wait to see Adam Urena and the Lakers test themselves against the NEC’s newest contender.

Finally: CCSU at RMU. How could we skip it? This is the rematch of 2024’s “Game of the Year,” where CCSU stunned RMU in overtime, sealing the win on a two-point conversion that ricocheted off a lineman’s helmet into a receiver’s hands. Will we get that kind of drama again? Who knows. But we do know the Colonials will be out for revenge, and that alone makes it must-see football.