Maine Black Bears
Coastal AthleticOrono, MEAlfond Stadium
2026: 1–6 (1–3 Coastal Athletic). Last: lost to Bryant 17–14 at home. Next: Campbell, Saturday, Oct 24, 1 p.m. ET.
- W 21–18at Towson
- L 3–55at App State
- L 14–23Merrimack
- L 16–22at Boston College
- L 17–43at Elon
- L 16–24Sacred Heart
- L 14–17Bryant
- Oct 24Campbell
- Oct 31at Rhode Island
- Nov 14at UAlbany
- Nov 21New Hampshire
Maine has played football since 1892 and is officially 566–551–38; 335 of its 1,155 games are in our file. They have won nine Yankee Conference titles (the last in 1989), plus two Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference titles, two Atlantic 10 Conference titles, counting shared titles. Since 1967, the NFL Draft has taken 10 players from here in its first seven rounds, 0 of them in the first round. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 player and 2 coaches from Maine. The most-played rival is New Hampshire: 24 meetings, New Hampshire leads 19–5. This season, they’re 1–6.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 566–551–38 official; 139–193–3 on file; how we count
- Postseason
- 0–2 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 0 ranked
- Elo now
- 1210
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 97 · Composite No. 114 in FCS, Oct 17; down 8 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Conference titles
- 13 last in 2018
- Seasons
- 68 since 1887, 335 games
Identity
- Fight song
- Stein Song / For Maine!
2026 season 1–6
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27 | at Towson | W 21–18 | 44% |
| Sep 5 | at App State | L 3–55 | 28% |
| Sep 12 | vs Merrimack | L 14–23 | 72% |
| Sep 19 | at Boston College | L 16–22 | 23% |
| Sep 26 | at Elon | L 17–43 | 33% |
| Oct 3 | vs Sacred Heart | L 16–24 | 55% |
| Oct 17 | vs Bryant | L 14–17 | 53% |
| Oct 24 | vs Campbell | Preview | 41% |
| Oct 31 | at Rhode Island | Preview | 19% |
| Nov 14 | at UAlbany | Preview | 29% |
| Nov 21 | vs New Hampshire | Preview | 52% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
Players
The 2026 rosterThe moneyOn the 2026 team
- Sam Oppenheimer74 tackles, 1 sack, 2 INT (leads Maine in tackles)
- Noah Carpenter53 tackles, 1.5 sacks
- Rashawn Marshall410 rushing yards, 3 TD (leads Maine in rushing yards)
- Nick Laughlin145 rushing yards, 1 TD (leads Maine in receiving yards)
- Jeremiah McGill50 tackles, 1 INT
- Eddie Buehler829 passing yards, 4 TD (leads Maine in passing yards)
Program greats See all
Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Maine.
Program strength since 1887
Best seasons everMost-played series
All rivalries- New Hampshire
5–19 in 24
- 2015 L 6–22
- 2016 L 21–24
- 2017 L 23–24
- 2018 W 35–7
- 2019 L 10–28
- 2021 W 33–20
- 2022 L 41–42
- 2023 L 25–44
- 2024 L 9–27
- 2025 L 27–33
Lost the last four.
Next: Nov 21
- Rhode Island
16–5 in 21
- 2015 W 27–17
- 2016 W 28–21
- 2017 W 51–27
- 2018 W 38–36
- 2019 W 34–30
- 2021 W 45–24
- 2022 L 22–26
- 2023 L 17–34
- 2024 L 14–24
- 2025 L 13–45
Lost the last four.
Next: Oct 31
- UAlbany
11–6 in 17
- 2015 W 39–7
- 2016 W 20–16
- 2017 W 12–10
- 2018 W 28–9
- 2019 W 47–31
- 2020 W 38–34
- 2021 W 19–16
- 2022 L 21–23
- 2023 L 21–37
- 2024 W 34–20
Won the last one.
Next: Nov 14
| Opponent | Games | ME record |
|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 24 | 5–19 |
| Rhode Island | 21 | 16–5 |
| UAlbany | 17 | 11–6 |
| Villanova | 16 | 6–10 |
| Delaware | 13 | 6–7 |
| Richmond | 13 | 6–7 |
| Stony Brook | 12 | 7–5 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | 5–7 |
Rivals the program names: New Hampshire.
Every opponent (80)
Every program Maine has played, A to Z, with Maine’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- App State 1–1
- Army 0–4
- Bates 0–1–1
- Boston College 0–7
- Boston University 0–1
- Bowdoin 2–5
- Brown 1–3
- Bryant 7–2
- Campbell 0–1
- Central Michigan 0–1
- Colby 1–1
- Colgate 2–2
- Columbia 0–3
- Dartmouth 0–6
- Delaware 6–7
- East Carolina 0–1
- Eastern Washington 0–1
- Elon 4–4
- Florida International 1–1
- Georgia Southern 0–2
- Georgia State 1–0
- Hampton 2–1
- Harvard 0–11
- Hawai’i 0–1
- Hofstra 4–3
- Holy Cross 0–1–1
- Iona 1–0
- Iowa 0–1
- Jacksonville State 1–0
- James Madison 2–9
- Kents Hill 1–0
- Liberty 0–2
- Long Island University 1–0
- Massachusetts 5–7
- Merrimack 3–1
- Mississippi State 1–0
- Monmouth 4–1
- Montana 0–2
- Montana State 0–1
- Morgan State 1–0
- Nebraska 0–1
- New Hampshire 5–19
- New Mexico 0–1
- New York University 0–1
- Norfolk State 2–0
- North Carolina A&T 1–0
- North Dakota State 0–1
- Northeastern 6–1
- Northern Colorado 1–0
- Northern Illinois 0–1
- Northern Iowa 0–1
- Northwestern 0–1
- Oklahoma 0–1
- Pittsburgh 0–1
- Princeton 1–1
- Rhode Island 16–5
- Rhodes 2–1
- Richmond 6–7
- Rutgers 0–1
- Sacred Heart 1–1
- Shaw 1–0
- St. Cloud State 1–0
- Stonehill 0–1
- Stony Brook 7–5
- Syracuse 0–2
- The Citadel 0–2
- Toledo 0–1
- Towson 6–4
- Tufts 4–3
- Tulane 0–1
- UAlbany 11–6
- UConn 0–3
- Villanova 6–10
- Weber State 1–0
- Western Carolina 0–1
- Western Kentucky 1–0
- William & Mary 7–4
- William Penn 1–0
- Yale 0–9–1
- Youngstown State 0–1
Conference titles
13, counting shared titles- Atlantic 10 Conference 2
- 2001 (shared), 2002
- Yankee Conference 9
- 1949 (shared), 1951, 1952 (shared), 1961, 1965, 1974 (shared), 1982 (shared), 1987 (shared), 1989 (shared)
As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.
Conferences
- Independent 1892
- Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 1893–1946
- Yankee Conference 1978–1996
- Atlantic 10 1997–2006
- CAA 2007–2022
- Coastal Athletic Conference since 2023
- 1997Joined the Atlantic 10 from the Yankee Conference in football. Source
- 2007Joined the CAA from the Atlantic 10 in football. Source
Maine’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the Hall of Fame
Every inductee- Players
- 1
- Coaches
- 2
| 2014 | John Huard LB |
| 1987 | David M. Nelson coach, career 1946–1965 |
| 1955 | Edward N. Robinson coach, career 1898–1925 |
In the NFL Draft
By college- Drafted, rounds 1–7
- 10 since 1967
- First-round picks
- 0
The school
University of Maine- Enrollment
- 12,029 9,601 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Orono, Maine
- Public or private
- Public Research 1
- Founded
- 1865
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $48,653 10 years after starting
Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.
On the newsreel
- BOOTH STARS FOR ELI IN SEASON’S OPENER AS MAINE LOSES, 38-0
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1–6 | 1–3 | 1210 | ||||
| 2025 | 6–6 | 5–3 | 1328 | ||||
| 2024 | 5–7 | 3–4 | 1267 | ||||
| 2023 | 2–9 | 1–7 | 1178 | ||||
| 2022 | 2–9 | 2–6 | 1257 | ||||
| 2021 | 6–5 | 4–4 | 1357 | ||||
| 2020 | 2–2 | 1322 | |||||
| 2019 | 6–6 | 4–4 | 1381 | ||||
| 2018 | 10–4 | 7–1 | 1444 | ||||
| 2017 | 4–6 | 3–5 | 1298 | ||||
| 2016 | 6–5 | 5–3 | 1323 | ||||
| 2015 | 3–8 | 3–5 | 1252 | ||||
| 2014 | 5–6 | 4–4 | 1345 | ||||
| 2013 | 10–2 | 7–1 | 1468 | ||||
| 2012 | 5–6 | 4–4 | 1375 | ||||
| 2011 | 9–3 | 6–2 | 1445 | ||||
| 2010 | 4–5 | 3–3 | 1307 | ||||
| 2009 | 5–6 | 4–4 | 1336 | ||||
| 2008 | 9–5 | 5–3 | 1391 | ||||
| 2007 | 4–7 | 3–5 | 1292 | ||||
| 2006 | 6–6 | 5–3 | 1353 | ||||
| 2005 | 5–6 | 3–5 | 1297 | ||||
| 2004 | 6–6 | 3–5 | 1329 | ||||
| 2003 | 6–5 | 4–4 | 1306 | ||||
| 1991 | 0–1 | 1256 |
Every season back to 1887 (43 more)
| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0–1 | 1251 | |||||
| 1981 | 1–0 | 1239 | |||||
| 1980 | 0–1 | 1139 | |||||
| 1979 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1066 | ||||
| 1977 | 0–1 | 1054 | |||||
| 1969 | 0–1 | 1077 | |||||
| 1967 | 0–2 | 1071 | |||||
| 1965 | 0–1 | 1088 | |||||
| 1942 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1940 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1938 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1937 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1936 | 0–1 | 1090 | |||||
| 1934 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1933 | 0–1 | 1092 | |||||
| 1931 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1930 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1928 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1925 | 0–1 | 1089 | |||||
| 1924 | 0–1 | 1088 | |||||
| 1923 | 0–1 | 1092 | |||||
| 1922 | 0–1 | 1091 | |||||
| 1920 | 0–2 | 1090 | |||||
| 1919few games on file | 0–1 | 1095 | |||||
| 1916few games on file | 0–2 | 1094 | |||||
| 1915few games on file | 0–3 | 1097 | |||||
| 1914few games on file | 0–2 | 1108 | |||||
| 1913few games on file | 0–1–1 | 1118 | |||||
| 1912few games on file | 0–1 | 1116 | |||||
| 1909few games on file | 0–1 | 1126 | |||||
| 1908few games on file | 0–1 | 1142 | |||||
| 1907few games on file | 0–2 | 1168 | |||||
| 1906few games on file | 0–2–1 | 1213 | |||||
| 1905 | 4–3–1 | 1268 | |||||
| 1904 | 4–4 | 1204 | |||||
| 1903few games on file | 0–3 | 1140 | |||||
| 1902few games on file | 1–1 | 1175 | |||||
| 1901few games on file | 1–1 | 1142 | |||||
| 1900few games on file | 0–1 | 1105 | |||||
| 1899few games on file | 0–1 | 1117 | |||||
| 1898few games on file | 0–1 | 1136 | |||||
| 1896few games on file | 0–1 | 1192 | |||||
| 1887few games on file | 1–0 | 1210 |
Officially 566–551–38 since 1892 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 139–193–3 (335 of its 1,155 games are on file). Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1888–95, 1897, 1910–11, 1917–18, 1921, 1926–27, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1939, 1941, 1943–64, 1966, 1968, 1970–76, 1978, 1982–89, 1992–2002: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.