Georgetown at William & Mary
Georgetown (2‑4) at William & Mary (3‑4) — William & Mary is favored by 6.
How they got here
Last three games
Georgetown · 2-4
Rated 259th in our preseason ratings, 248th now, up 11 spots.
2-1 in its last three, capped by a 10-point win over Colgate as a 20.5-point underdog.
Last three games
William & Mary · 3-4
Rated 183rd in our preseason ratings, 253rd now.
1-2 in its last three, capped by a 3-point win over North Carolina Central as a 2.5-point underdog.
What’s at stake
Georgetown
- Georgetown is 2 games back in Patriot with 3 left to make it up.
- Washington's historic institution slowly ascending from a half-century of football silence.
William & Mary
- William & Mary is 3 games back in Patriot with 4 left to make it up.
- William & Mary Tribe football is one of the nation's oldest power programs—a second-oldest-college pedigree that produced legendary coach Jimmye Laycock, three NFL head coaches, and a consistently winning tradition. Under Mike London, the Tribe has returned to national prominence: ranked No. 10 in 2024 and now moving to the Patriot League for 2026.
The series
Georgetown leads the series 2-1
3 meetings since 1911 · Georgetown won the last meeting
- 1934Georgetown 3-0
- 1933William & Mary 12-6
- 1911Georgetown 66-0
Face-off
What each fanbase carries into this one.
Georgetown
The chip · vs big brotherThe chip is basketball's shadow. Georgetown basketball made 'Hoya Saxa' iconic; football gets to be the second sport on campus. The fanbase believes football can follow the same path basketball did.
What this game touches
The loss of DC relevance and the disappearance of the Howard rivalry. Georgetown football was overshadowed by basketball and erased from the Washington D.C. sports landscape. The cross-town rivalry with Howard (two DC Cup awards, 2008-2009) vanished when Howard left the conference. Georgetown is not wounded by recent collapse but by decades of irrelevance in its own city.
William & Mary
The chipThe program had to overcome the ghost of Jimmye Laycock—not a villain exactly, but a shadow so long and so successful that every coach who followed had to prove they weren't a step down. London has done that. Now the chip is proving it can stick.
What this game touches
The Laycock succession challenge. After 39 years (1980–2018) under one legendary coach, the program had to prove that the winning formula wasn't Laycock alone. The first years under London tested whether the culture would hold. By 2024, with a No. 10 ranking, the fanbase had its answer.
The betting line, and the fans
Our model and the betting line don’t fully agree on William & Mary’s chances here.
William & Mary favored by 6 · Total 47.5
William & Mary by 6: where a favorite like this usually runs
Half of games8 in 10 games
William & Mary’s chance through the game, if this goes like the 378 games since 2025 with a favorite of 3.5 to 7.5 points.
Home field
William & Mary is worth +9.1 points (±9.9) more at home than on the road since 2018 — top tenth of FBS, 99th percentile.
33% at home, 9% on the road against FBS opponents (1-2 home, 1-10 away).
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge (why); the books use about 3. Against the closing line this stadium reads +1.1 at home vs. away over 55 games — inside the ±8.5 noise, so the flat number is the honest one here.
The visitors travel about 115 miles to get here.
Week by week
William & Mary
- Wk 2Lat Lehigh20-44
- Wk 3Lvs Fordham27-52
- Wk 4Lat Duke7-62
- Wk 5Lvs Holy Cross14-41
- Wk 6Wat North Carolina Central17-14
Georgetown
- Wk 3Lat Richmond21-24
- Wk 4Lvs Columbia17-20
- Wk 5Lvs Cornell14-35
- Wk 6Wvs Bucknell21-14
- Wk 7Wat Colgate27-17
Power rating by week
Georgetown is rated 1.0 points ahead as of week 8. Our power rating by week; higher is better.
The market
The books’ cut: 5.3%, the margin built into the odds
Conference standings
Going into this game: place in the conference, then conference record.
- William & Mary9th1-3
- Georgetown5th2-2