2005 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team

In their fifth and final year under head coach Pete Lembo, the Mountain Hawks compiled an 8–3 record.

[1] Mark Borda, Kaloma Cardwell, Anthony Graziani and Adam Selmasska were the team captains.

14 in the preseason Division I-AA national poll.

A loss to unranked archrival Lafayette dropped Lehigh out of the final poll.

Lehigh played its home games at Goodman Stadium on the university's Goodman Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.