After recently sliding into the number one spot in the country, the guys on the JMU football team will defend their title against one of their biggest long-time rivals this weekend. The JMU Dukes and the Richmond Spiders’ rivalry go back years. They’ve played each other practically every year since 1981. Although Richmond has won more of these games than JMU, that doesn’t mean they will this year!

However, JMU is on a five-game winning streak and the thing about streaks is that eventually, they’re going to be broken. But let’s recap their last few match-ups back to the days when JMU was the #1 CAA team...

2004: Who cares who won this one? JMU won the national championship this year and that is all that matters.

2005: JMU lost. Boo!

2006: Victory for JMU!! 27-10 at the University of Richmond field—ha!

2007: JMU lost its Homecoming Game against Richmond by ONE point (which means this year is payback)

2008: To Be Continued. 3:30. Saturday. University of Richmond Stadium. Be there (or just watch it on TV). Or just wait to hear the results from someone else like I do.

It seems there might be an on-again, off-again pattern going on here. Hopefully this year, we are on again!