ORWELL — Before the season, incoming Grand Valley head football coach Matt Rosati spoke about numbers.

Last year, he said the Mustangs finished with fewer than 20 players. By the time they began practice for the 2025 season, Rosati counted nearly 50 on his roster.

But that’s not the number people around Orwell are most excited about. They’re more focused on the number two – how many wins the Mustangs have earned already.

“Everybody’s very excited … people have been very, very supportive, and very excited about what we’ve been able to accomplish so far,” Rosati said.

It’s not every year Grand Valley starts 2-0. In fact, the ‘Stangs had not even started 1-0 in any of the six seasons preceding Rosati’s arrival.

From 2019 to 2024, Grand Valley went 0-6 in its season openers and were outsc

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