The Game
« Johns Hopkins (10-1) welcomes Salisbury (10-1) to Homewood Field for a third round game in the 2025 NCAA Division III Football Playoffs.
A Look Back
« Johns Hopkins advanced to the third round of the NCAA Playoffs with a 34-14 win over Springfield last Saturday at Homewood Field.
« Salisbury set up this week's third-round game against Johns Hopkins as the Sea Gulls knocked off Endicott, 35-28, in the second round last week.
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 618-493-57 (.554).
« Overall, JHU owns 17 Centennial Conference titles (all 17 won since 2002) and has qualified for the NCAA Playoffs 14 times (all 14 since 2005).
How They Got Here
« Johns Hopkins earned an at-large bid to the 2025 NCAA Division III Football Playoffs. This is the second time in JHU's 14 all-time NCAA Playoff appearances that the Blue Jays have earned an at-large bid (2021).
« Salisbury also earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Playoffs this season as the Sea Gulls finished as the NJAC runners-up.
What's Next
« The winner of the Johns Hopkins-Salisbury game will play the winner Susquehanna-Eastern game in the NCAA Quarterfinals. The location and time of that game will be announced on Sunday, December 7.
Playoff History
« Johns Hopkins is making its 14th trip to the NCAAs, including its 12th since 2011.
« The Blue Jays are 16-13 all-time in the NCAA Tournament with runs to the 2018 and 2024 NCAA Semifinals and a pair of trips to the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2009 and 2023 highlighting their playoff history.
« In addition to the above, the Blue Jays also advanced to the second round of the playoffs in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2021.
« This week's game will be the 17th home playoff game in Hopkins history. JHU is 11-5 all-time at Homewood Field in NCAA Playoff games.
Against the NJAC
« This week's game will be just the 12th all-time for Johns Hopkins against a current member of the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC). The Jays are 8-3 all-time against current NJAC members.
« JHU's three all-time losses against NJAC teams have come against Salisbury as the Sea Gulls won in 1975 and 1976 and then again last season. The games in 1975 and 1976 were played before the Sea Gulls joined the NJAC for football.
JHU vs. Ranked Opponents All-Time
« This week's game against #9/#12 Salisbury will be Johns Hopkins' 44th against a team ranked in the top 25 by either the AFCA or D3football.com since 1999 (when the AFCA Poll debuted ... the D3football.com Poll debuted in 2003).
« Johns Hopkins is 22-21 all-time against teams ranked in the top 25 at the time of the game, including 11-7 in its last 18 games against ranked opponents.
More Ranked
« This week's game against #9/#12 Salisbury will mark the sixth in 11 games this season that Johns Hopkins faces a team ranked in the top 25 at the time of the game.
« Using rankings at the time of the game, the Blue Jays own wins this season against #21/#20 John Carroll (27-13), #5/#4 Susquehanna (40-22), #15/#17 Carnegie Mellon (28-27) and #25/#24 Muhlenberg (47-26) and have a one-point loss to the #25/#25 F&M (29-28 (OT) as well.
Third-Toughest Schedule To-Date
«  Not including their games against Johns Hopkins, the Blue Jays' 11 opponents to-date are currently a combined 84-37 (.694) on the year. That ranks as the third-highest opponent winning percentage in the nation through games of November 29.
December Football
« Dating back to 1900, Johns Hopkins will play its eighth game in the month of December this week against Salisbury (dates for games played before 1900 are not all available). JHU is 3-4 all-time in games played in December.
« JHU fell at Wesley in the 2009 NCAA Quarterfinals (12-0) on December 5 and topped RPI in the 2018 NCAA Quarterfinals (37-14) on December 1 before falling at Mount Union (28-20) a week later (Dec. 8) in the NCAA Semifinals. Â
« In 2023, JHU fell to Randolph-Macon (39-36) in the NCAA Quarterfinals on December 2 and added wins last year against DePauw (14-9 on December 7) and Mary Hardin-Baylor (17-10 on December 14) before falling at Mount Union (45-37) in the NCAA Semifinals.
Two-by-One (K)
« Junior wide receiver Cole Crotty enters this week's game with 1,141 yards receiving, while senior running back Geoff Schroeder has 1,083 yards rushing.
« Did you know that this is the first time Johns Hopkins has had a 1,000-yard rusher and a 1,000-yard receiver in the same season? JHU narrowly missed on the double 1K in 2018 (Stuart Walters rushed for 1,048 yards and Ryan Hubley had 995 receiving yards) and 2009 (Andrew Kase rushed for 1,540 yards and Dan Crowley had 975 receiving yards).
More Two-by-One (K)
« Johns Hopkins is one of just three Division III teams in the nation that has produced a 1,000-yard receiver and a 1,000-yard rusher this season, and one of two teams in the NCAA Division III Playoffs that has turned this trick (North Central).
« The only other Division III teams in the nation with a 1,000-yard receiver and a 1,000-yard rusher thus far are North Central and Albright (PA).
« Johns Hopkins and Albright were the only Division III teams in the nation to produce a 1,000-yard receiver and a 1,000-yard rusher during the regular season.
A Fraternity of Two
« Geoff Schroeder's 232-yard rushing performance at Muhlenberg came two weeks after Cole Crotty's 228-yard receiving effort in a 52-21 win against Ursinus.
« With those two performances, Johns Hopkins is currently one of just two Division III programs that has produced a 225-yard rusher and a 225-yard receiver this season. The other team to turn that trick thus far is Geneva (PA).
Another Fraternity of Two
« Johns Hopkins advanced to the NCAA Semifinals for the second time last season (2018). Last year's appearance came one season after the Blue Jays made a run to the NCAA Quarterfinals.
« Johns Hopkins and North Central are the only two teams in the nation that advanced to at least the NCAA Quarterfinals in each of the last two years (2023, 2024).
A Fraternity of Three
« In addition to ranking as one of just two teams in the nation that has advanced to at least the NCAA Quarterfinals in each of the last two years, Johns Hopkins also belongs to another close-knit fraternity based on its recent success.
« Since 2021, Johns Hopkins has won 10 (2021), 10 (2022), 12 (2023), 12 (2024) and 10 (2025) games with a combined record of 54-7 in that time. Among Division III teams, only North Central and Mount Union also won at least 10 games in each of the last five years as well.
Playoff Balanced
«  Johns Hopkins played four games during the regular season against teams that qualified for the NCAA Playoffs (John Carroll, Susquehanna, Muhlenberg, Franklin & Marshall). A fifth playoff opponent was added last week when the Blue Jays hosted Springfield in the second round of the NCAA Playoffs.
« In five games against NCAA Playoff opponents this season, the Blue Jays are averaging 35.2 points and have scored at least 27 points in all five of those games.
« More remarkably, the Blue Jays have struck a near perfect balance offensively in those five games. In the five games against playoff teams this season, Johns Hopkins has rushed for 1,036 yards and passed 1,031. Translation, in those five games, Johns Hopkins is averaging 413.4 yards ... 207.2 yards rushing and 206.2 yards passing.
The Harvey Tracker
« Senior Bay Harvey continues to assault the Johns Hopkins record book as the Blue Jays compete in the NCAA Playoffs. Â
« Most importantly, Harvey is 24-3 as Johns Hopkins' starting quarterback (12-1 in 2023, 2-1 in 2024, 10-1 in 2025).
« Harvey set the Johns Hopkins record for career rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with his 21st and 22nd in the win against Springfield (had been tied with David Tammaro (2016-19) at the top of the list with 20).
« With 177 passing yards last week, Harvey became just the sixth quarterback in Centennial Conference history to throw for more than 7,000 yards and rush for more than 1,200 yards. He currently has 7,156 career passing yards and 1,348 career rushing yards.
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 and has followed that with a 10-1 record to-date in 2025.
« A 2014 Johns Hopkins graduate, Wodicka had spent the previous five years (2019-23) on the Blue Jay staff, including the final two of those years as the defensive coordinator before being promoted to head coach in February 2024.
« 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 122-19 (.865), nine Centennial Conference titles and nine 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.
At Home at Homewood
« Including last week's win against Springfield, the Blue Jays have enjoyed a dominant recent run at Homewood Field.
« Since the start of the 2014 season, the Blue Jays are 62-6 (.912) at Homewood Field; they are 78-9 (.897) at Homewood since 2010.
« JHU won a school-record 19 consecutive games at home from midway through the 2019 season until the 2023 NCAA Quarterfinal.
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