The Game
« Third-ranked Johns Hopkins (6-0, 3-0) heads to Gettysburg (0-6, 0-3 CC) to open a stretch that will see the Blue Jays play three of their final four games on the road.
A Look Back
« Johns Hopkins moved to 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the Centennial Conference with a decisive 52-21 win against Ursinus last Saturday at Homewood Field.
« Gettysburg slipped to 0-6 overall and 0-3 in the Centennial as the Bullets fell on the road at Carnegie Mellon, 44-20, last Saturday.
The Facts
« This is the 140th season of Johns Hopkins football. JHU first fielded a team in 1882.
« Johns Hopkins enters this week's game with an all-time record of 614-492-57 (.552).
« Overall, JHU owns 17 Centennial Conference titles (all 17 won since 2002) and has qualified for the NCAA Playoffs 13 times (all 13 since 2005).
Poll Position
« Johns Hopkins is ranked #3 by the AFCA and D3football.com in this week's national polls. The Blue Jays have held the number three spot in the AFCA and D3football.com rankings in each of the eight polls issued thus far in 2025.
« The number three rankings from the AFCA and D3football.com are tied for the highest ever for Johns Hopkins. Dating back to last season's final poll, the Blue Jays have been ranked third by each organization in each of the last nine sets of national rankings.
« Johns Hopkins is appearing in the AFCA Top-25 for the 150th time in 265 polls since the poll debuted in 1999. Additionally, the Blue Jays are in the D3football.com Top-25 for the 169th time in 279 polls since D3football launched its poll in 2003.
Jays Top NPI Rankings
« Johns Hopkins sits atop this week's NPI rankings, the index used by the NCAA for selection to the NCAA Playoffs.
« With an NPI rating of 77.747, the Blue Jays sit just under three points ahead of number two Mount Union (74.751) with Wartburg (74.544) and North Central (74.500) just behind the Purple Raiders.
« The 40-team field for the 2025 NCAA Playoffs will be announced on Sunday, November 16 with first-round games slated for Saturday, November 22.
« This is the first time Johns Hopkins has topped the NPR rankings in football.
6-0, Again
« Johns Hopkins is 6-0 for the third time in four seasons (2022, 2023, 2025) and the 11th time since 2003.
« Prior to starting the 2003 season with six consecutive victories, Johns Hopkins hadn't started 6-0 in a season since 1931.
Toughest Schedule To-Date
« Not including their games against Johns Hopkins, the Blue Jays' six opponents to-date are currently a combined 26-5 (.839) on the year. That ranks as the highest opponent winning percentage in the nation through games of October 18.
« The Blue Jays' 10 regular-season opponents are currently a combined 37-18 (.673) (again, not including games played against JHU). That ranks as the seventh-highest overall opponent winning percentage counting all teams on the schedule.
Oktoberfest
« The calendar flipped to October with the recent game against Dickinson and the month has been good to the Blue Jays of late.
« Including last week's 52-21 win against Ursinus, the Blue Jays have won 48 of their last 51 games in the month of October dating back to 2010.
« The Blue Jays had been just 10-8 in their previous 18 games in the month of October before jump-starting the current 51-game run with a 49-24 win at Susquehanna (10-23-2010).
« During their October run dating back to 2010, the Jays have lost just once at home.
A Game of Runs
« Johns Hopkins has used some decisive runs during its 6-0 start to the 2025 season. Below is a look at the game-deciding runs the Blue Jays have had:
| Ithaca (W/42-12) |
Scored first 35 points of the game |
| John Carroll (W/27-13) |
21-0 run that bridged the 1st and 2nd quarters |
| Susquehanna (W/40-22) |
Outscored SU 30-0 in the 2nd & 3rd quarters |
| Dickinson (W/55-10) |
Led 42-0 at the half |
| Carnegie Mellon (W/28-27) |
Outscored CMU 21-3 in the second half |
| Ursinus (W/52-21) |
Sprinted to a 31-0 lead in first 26 minutes |
5K/1K
« Senior Bay Harvey fueled the 28-27 win against Carnegie Mellon as he threw for 245 yards and one touchdown and rushed for 59 yards and two scores, including the one that gave the Jays the 28-27 lead late in the fourth quarter.
« In the process, he joined David Tammaro (2016-19) as the only players in school history with more than 5,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing. He now has 6,046 career passing yards and 1,058 rushing yards.
« With his two rushing TDs, he is also now just three shy of tying Tammaro's school record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback (20).
Crotty Rolling
« Junior Cole Crotty continues to lead the Blue Jays in receiving with 42 catches for 744 yards and six touchdowns after rolling up nine receptions for a career-high 228 yards and two scores in the 52-21 win against Ursinus.
« He is tied for fifth in the nation in receiving yards per game (124.0) and is averaging a 17.7 yards per reception.
« Crotty now ranks 11th in school history in receptions (182), ninth in receiving yards (2,590) and 11th in touchdown receptions (20).
Head Coach Dan Wodicka
« Dan Wodicka is now in his second season as the head coach at Johns Hopkins. He led the Blue Jays to a 12-2 record, the Centennial Conference title and a run to the NCAA Semifinals in his first season in 2024.
« A 2014 Johns Hopkins graduate, Wodicka spent the previous five years (2019-23) on the Blue Jay staff, including the final two of those years as the defensive coordinator.
« Wodicka launched his coaching career with a two-year stint as the Johns Hopkins' wide receivers coach (2014-15) and made stops at Northern Michigan (2016) and Williams (2017-18) before returning to Homewood in 2019 as the special teams coordinator and defensive line coach.
« During 12 seasons with the program (four as a player, six as an assistant coach and two as the head coach), Wodicka has helped Johns Hopkins to a record of 118-18 (.868), nine Centennial Conference titles and eight trips to the NCAA Playoffs.
« Wodicka graduated as Johns Hopkins' career leader in receptions with 260, which went for 3,148 yards and 16 touchdowns. He remains second in school history in receptions and is also second in receiving yards.
« Wodicka took over for Greg Chimera, who left Johns Hopkins after the 2023 season to become the offensive coordinator at Penn.
« Wodicka's ties to Johns Hopkins go beyond the football field. His father, George, is a 1982 Johns Hopkins graduate and was a classmate of Jim Margraff. In addition, Dan's sister, Maggie, played on the Blue Jay women's basketball team and graduated in 2020.
Road Warriors
« In their last 29 road games dating back to 2019, the Blue Jays are 25-4. All four losses have come against teams ranked in the top 20 at the time of the game (#6 Muhlenberg-2019 | #4 Mount Union-2021 | #18 Susquehanna-2022 | #3 Mount Union-2024).
« Dating back to 2013, JHU is 57-10 overall on the road, including 53-5 in the regular season.
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