Manchester0-10The Spartans of North Manchester, a Church of the Brethren college in northern Indiana — Manchester College until a 2012 renaming — playing Division III football at Burt Field in the Heartland Conference.
Manchester is a historic Brethren college with a long football past, and outside the Heartland Conference almost nobody knows the Spartans play at all.
The Spartans drill.
Manchester · Next-Season Outcome Band
Manchester · Next-Season Outcome BandFloor / Base / Ceiling
Variance assumed at ±2 wins from last-season record. Replace with the season-path projection once preview data is built.
Recent Form · last 10 games
Hibernating
Zero of five. Reset territory.
Opens Sep 5
vs Westminster (MO) · at home
Game Week
11 days
until kickoff · vs Westminster (MO) · Sat Sep 5 · 18:00 UTC
The Spartans of North Manchester, a Church of the Brethren college in northern Indiana — Manchester College until a 2012 renaming — playing Division III football at Burt Field in the Heartland Conference.
Manchester sits 7th in the Heartland Conference and 239th of 240 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.
| Team | Conf | Overall | Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanover | 6-0 | 9-3 | 66.0 |
| 2 | Mount St. Joseph | 5-1 | 6-5 | 52.4 |
| 3 | Franklin | 3-3 | 5-5 | 49.7 |
| 4 | Bluffton | 3-3 | 5-5 | 46.9 |
| 5 | Rose-Hulman | 3-3 | 3-7 | 42.8 |
| 6 | Anderson (IN) | 1-5 | 2-8 | 36.2 |
| 7 | Manchester | 0-6 | 0-10 | 28.5 |
Win the Heartland Conference for the automatic berth into the 40-team NCAA Division III bracket. Miss it and the path is an at-large bid, selected by NPI — the metric the CFB Index mirrors. Six wins survive the bracket to the Stagg Bowl.
Signature win 20-26 over Anderson (IN); toughest day 7-76 against Hanover.
Community pulse
No high-engagement r/cfb discussions tracked for this program in the last year.
The Pulse on Manchester
What moved it — fall camp · last 14 days
No player stats logged for this program yet — stats appear once the season is underway.
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Sep 6 | — | — | — | Westminster (MO) | L 14–21 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 3 | Sep 13 | #637 | #624 | — | Concordia University Chicago | L 14–35 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 4 | Sep 20 | #658 | #439 | — | @Adrian | L 0–57 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 6 | Oct 4 | #668 | #615 | — | @Bluffton | L 23–39 | 0-4 | 0-1 |
| 7 | Oct 11 | #667 | #611 | — | Capital | L 27–52 | 0-5 | 0-1 |
| 8 | Oct 18 | #666 | #576 | — | @Franklin | L 21–48 | 0-6 | 0-2 |
| 9 | Oct 25 | #667 | #419 | — | @Hanover | L 7–76 | 0-7 | 0-3 |
| 10 | Nov 1 | #667 | #597 | — | Rose-Hulman | L 13–35 | 0-8 | 0-4 |
| 11 | Nov 8 | #667 | #485 | — | @Mount St. Joseph | L 20–48 | 0-9 | 0-5 |
| 12 | Nov 15 | #666 | #663 | — | Anderson (IN) | L 20–26 | 0-10 | 0-6 |
Home-Field Advantage · Manchester · 2018-present
Average
5% home win rate vs 5% on the road. margin runs +1.4 better at home. Carl W. Burt Memorial Stadium seats 4,500.
64°F average kickoff temp; 0% of games had measurable precipitation; 8 mph average wind.
Based on 20 home games with weather data.
All-Time Record
2-38
since 2022 · 4 seasons · .050 win rate