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Delaware Blue Hens’ football schedule for debut in FBS, Conference USA
Blue Hens to play first CUSA game at Florida International, face Western Kentucky in first league home game
Time will tell how ready the Blue Hens are for their climb to the Football Bowl Subdivision this season as a Conference USA member.
That time was not Friday night, when Delaware played its first game as a team built for the FBS, against an FBS team.
That FBS team, of course, was itself in the Blue-White intrasquad game that has annually ended spring drills for more than half a century.
Delaware will not really know, either, when Delaware State visits for the Aug. 28 opener against Delaware State, because the Blue Hens have always bashed the Hornets and they will again.
Those early 2025 nonconference games, at Colorado and home against Connecticut, will provide a better clue going into subsequent Conference USA games at Florida International and against Western Kentucky that will be particularly revealing.
But it will be an ongoing test and a season-long process. Are they deep enough? Are they talented enough? Most importantly, are they fast and physical and clever enough?
Coach Ryan Carty and his staff have frequently said – and they’re right – that they won’t truly know what it will take to succeed at that level, beyond the obvious, until they get into that weekly grind and begin regularly battling with their new peers and get to know them better.
And whether they succeed brilliantly or fail miserably, Delaware is doing the right thing in making this difficult, challenging climb.
Not all agree with that, for logical reasons. Delaware has long been a big fish in the small pond that is presently the Football Championship Subdivision, as the Hens were in Division I-AA and Division…
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Publish date : 2025-04-19 09:13:00
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