The Cortland Purple Tigers will square off against the South Jefferson Spartans at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Cortland is looking for their season's first victory.
Cortland's offense might be in the hot seat on Thursday considering what happened against Institute of Tech on Friday. They were outmatched by the Eagles and fell 42-0. While losing is never fun, the Purple Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New York football rankings (they are ranked 537th, while the Eagles are ranked 263rd).
Meanwhile, South Jefferson was within striking distance but couldn't close the gap on Friday as they fell 32-27 to Homer.
South Jefferson's loss dropped their record down to 1-3. As for Cortland, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.
Cortland might still be hurting after the 49-26 loss they got from South Jefferson in their previous meeting back in October of 2024. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point the Purple Tigers were down 43-12.
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