June 22, 2026 · Dead Period · Heritage Window · 2026 Outlook

Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens

5-5 2025 final

Pomona-Pitzer is a joint athletic consortium of two Claremont Colleges whose Sagehens compete with intellectual pride in the Sixth Street Rivalry — the gold standard of small-school SCIAC football.

The Sagehens hold the line.

Record

5-5

win% .500

Conference

4th of 7

So. Cal. · 4-4

Index Rating

50.1

D3 #122 of 240

Playoff Path

Win the league

Dead PeriodOffseasonPatientPost-win — basking

The Long Wait·Offseason

Pomona-Pitzer is a joint athletic consortium of two Claremont Colleges whose Sagehens compete with intellectual pride in the Sixth Street Rivalry — the gold standard of small-school SCIAC football.

Standard GapTwo of the Claremont Colleges' most prestigious institutions united in a…

Pomona-Pitzer represents one of the Claremont Colleges' most prestigious joint athletic consortiums. The Sagehens compete in SCIAC and maintain the historic Sixth Street Rivalry with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The program's identity…

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Offseason

69 days

until kickoff · Sun Aug 30 · 17:00 UTC

Act I

The 2026 Outlook

DIVISION III · THE PATH TO THE STAGG BOWL

Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens sits 4th in the So. Cal. Conference and 122nd of 240 in the CFB Zeitgeist — outside the at-large picture — the path runs through the conference title.

So. Cal. · 2025

	Team	Conf	Overall	Index
1	Chapman	8-0	9-3	63.1
2	Redlands	4-4	6-4	55.4
3	California Lutheran University	4-4	6-4	55.4
4	Pomona Pitzer	4-4	5-5	50.1
5	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps College	3-5	5-5	50.6
6	La Verne	1-7	1-8	36.1
7	Whittier	0-0	0-0	—

50.1 CFB Zeitgeist#122 of 240 D350.0 strength of schedule2 quality wins

Win the So. Cal. 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.

Source: CFB Zeitgeist — conference records + NPI-style rating from 2025 games · the field is 40 teams, NPI-selected

THE 2025 SEASON · 5-5

Signature win 41-17 over Willamette; toughest day 3-21 against Lewis & Clark College.

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The Sagehens hold the line.

What moved it — offseason · last 30 days

June Dead-period quiet — official-visit + heritage window —

Camp Fall camp ~40 days out

"Go Pomona Pitzer" — Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens fanbase · recurring line

0 mentions · awaiting signal

Winning record—

The baseline for a successful season.

Conference title—

The primary goal and national bracket path.

32-team bracket qualifierLocked—

One of 32 national tournament entries.

Stagg BowlLocked—

The Division III national championship game.

Floor 3-9

Base 5-7

Ceiling 8-4

floor3-9Rebuild year. Below .500.

base5-7Mid-table finish.

ceiling8-4Conference title race. Bracket qualifier in range.

Variance assumed at ±2 wins from last-season record. Replace with the season-path projection once preview data is built.

Act II

Who We Are

Home-Field Advantage · Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens · 2018-present

Above-Average

73% home win rate vs 56% on the road. margin runs +4.9 better at home.

Home14-5Away13-10

Act III

Last Season Reviewed

2025 season · tap to expand

Recent Form · last 10 games

Cooling

Two of five. Schedule has caught up.

Streak W2Last 5 · 2-3Last 10 · 5-5

Schedule Strength · Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens · 2025

Balanced

Average opponent win rate 46% across 7 finalized games. Balanced slate across the conference slate.

Opp Win %0.466

Moment of the Year · Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens · 2025

Won 41-17 at Willamette

Week 2 of 2025. A statement margin. Recruiting boards re-rendered overnight.

Decisive Margin

Postseason History

Recent postseason (2023): 0-1

Most recent: 2023 — loss 41-20 (away). Last 5 postseason: 0-1.

2023

From the Archive — Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens

2025: Lost 10-17 vs Chapman

In 2025, the program lost 10-17 vs Chapman — a close home result, 7 points either way.

Go Sagehens.