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GAME INFORMATION
Game #3: Colgate at Cornell
Date: Saturday, Oct. 5, at 12:30 p.m.
Site: Schoellkopf Field (25,597), Ithaca, N.Y.
2012 Records: Colgate (0-4, 0-0 Patriot); Cornell (1-1, 0-1 Ivy)
Series Record: Cornell leads 48-43-3
Last Meeting: Colgate won 35-28 in OT, Oct. 15, 2011, in Hamilton, N.Y.
Television: None
Radio: WHCU 870 AM, Barry Leonard (play-by-play), Buck Briggs (color)
Live Stats: Available at www.CornellBigRed.com
Live Video: Available at www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com
Tickets: Available by calling (607) 254-BEAR or online here

HEAD COACH DAVID ARCHER '05
David Archer '05, the Roger J. Weiss '61 Head Coach of Cornell Football, is in his first season at the helm of the Big Red (1-1 overall,.500; 0-1, Ivy, .000) ... Archer is the youngest Division I head football coach in the country ... he has been an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at his alma mater for six years ... Archer was hired as head coach on Jan. 3, 2013.

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STORY LINES
• Cornell renews one of its oldest rivalries with one of its closest neighbors when Central New York rival Colgate visits Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 12:30 p.m.
• The game will be broadcast live on the Ivy League Digital Network and locally on WHCU 870 AM with Barry Leonard and Buck Briggs on the call.
• After a year off the schedule, the two foes will resume a series that ranks 17th among the most played in college football history as the teams head into the 95th meeting. Amazingly, it only ranks third on Cornell's personal list behind the 120 games played between Cornell and Penn and the 100 matchups between the Big Red and Columbia.
• Cornell leads the all-time series 48-43-3, though the Raiders have dominated the series since 1975, winning 27 of the 34 matchups played.
• A week after picking up his first collegiate victory, first-year head coach David Archer '05 suffered his first loss in a 38-23 defeat at the hands of Yale.
• After going into the halftime locker room tied 10-10, the Bulldogs scored on their first four possessions of the second half and Cornell had two turnovers and two punts during the same span.
• The Big Red rallied with two touchdowns late, but wasn't able to threaten the result in dropping its Ancient Eight opener.
• Yale piled up 566 yards of offense in the win and avenged a 45-6 defeat at the hands of the Big Red a year ago.
• Archer has plenty of experience against Colgate, going 0-4 as a player and 1-4 as an assistant coach. The lone win came in his first season as an assistant coach at his alma mater in 2006, a 38-13 Big Red victory.
• His counterpart on the Colgate sideline, Dick Biddle, is in his 18th season directing the Colgate program. He is an impressive 13-2  against Cornell since he took over in 1996. When he first coached against Cornell in October 1996, Archer was a month shy of his 14th birthday.
• The matchup will feature two of the nation's top quarterbacks and two preseason Walter Payton Trophy candidates in Cornell's Jeff Mathews and Colgate's Gavin McCarney.
• Mathews continues to pile up Cornell and Ivy League records, and his latest outing was no different despite the loss. Mathews went 25-of-43 for 336 yards and three touchdown passes to become the school's career leader in that category (56).
• He enters the Colgate game needing 342 passing yards to become the Ivy League's all-time leader. The only name ahead of him is Brown's James Perry, currently the offensive coordinator at Princeton. He recorded 9,294 in his four seasons under center for the Bears.
• The Big Red offense ranks among the top 10 nationally in red zone offense (first, 100 percent), passing efficiency (ninth, 160.24), passing offense (10th, 310.5 ypg.) and turnover margin (third, +2.0).
• Mathews ranks first among all Football Championship Subdivision players in career passing yards per game (288.8) and is fourth in total offense per game (272.8 ypg.). Sitting second on the list is Colgate's McCarney at 281.2 yards per game.
• Colgate ranks near the bottom nationally in total defense, rushing defense, red zone defense and third down conversion defense. The Raiders are allowing 41.8 points per contest.
• On the flip side, the Raiders rank among the nation's top 25 offenses running the ball (218.0 ypg.) and sit among the best teams nationally against the pass (36th, 187.5 yards allowed per contest).

ABOUT COLGATE
• For the second time in three weeks, Cornell will face a Patriot League team coming off a bye week at Schoellkopf Field. This time it will be Central New York rival Colgate.
• The Raiders are off to an uncharacteristic 0-4 start, including a 39-22 defeat at the hands of Yale at home in its last game on Saturday, Sept. 21.
• Reigning Patriot League Player of the Year Gavin McCarney finished fifth in the Walter Payton voting a year ago for National Player of the Year honors. He finished 2012 with school-record 3,778 yards of total offense, compiling 2,372 through the air and 1,406 on the ground.
• The defending Patriot League champions were selected as the preseason favorite to earn yet another conference crown and opened the preseason ranked No. 23 nationally by The Sporting News.
• The Raiders return 41 letter winners and 13 starters from last season's 8-4 squad that went a perfect 5-0 in Patriot League play. Colgate lost in the first round of the FCS playoffs to Wagner, 31-20.
 • Head coach Dick Biddle has been one of the most successful coaches in college football, posting a 133-69 overall record in 18 years on the sidelines in Hamilton, N.Y.
• Biddle is the winninest coach in Colgate and Patriot League history.
• His teams are 38-10 all-time against Ivy League foes.

A WIN OVER COLGATE WOULD ...
• make Cornell 2-0 in non-league play, 2-0 against Patriot League foes and 2-0 at home in 2013.
• snap a four-game losing skid against the Raiders.
• be the 629th in program history (11th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

THE CORNELL-COLGATE SERIES
• Cornell and Colgate will be meeting for the 95th time dating back to the first contest in 1896.
• The Big Red owned the early series, going 13-0-1 in the first 14 games (1896-1911), while also posting nine and seven-game win streaks before 1951.
• Colgate has had the better of the series since 1975, capturing 27 of the last 34 meetings, including 10 straight (1993-2005) before the Big Red commenced on a two-game win streak.
• The teams didn't meet in 2012, but Colgate won the last meeting 35-28 in overtime back in 2011.
• In that game, Luke Tasker went without a catch for the first 58 minutes of the game, but then hauled in three passes for 109 yards in the final two minutes and overtime. He caught two passes for 103 yards in the final two minutes of regulation as Cornell rallied from an 11-point deficit to force overtime.

CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
• Cornell has a 130-74-7 record against the seven current members of the Patriot League football conference, including a 48-43-3 edge over Colgate.
• The Big Red has advantages over Bucknell (42-11), Fordham (4-3-0), Georgetown (2-1-0), Holy Cross (5-0-0), Lafayette (14-8-2) and Lehigh (15-8-2).

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF A TITLE
• The 1988 Big Red football team is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Ivy League title this weekend with a reunion.
• Cornell brought the Ivy League trophy back to the East Hill in 1988 when the team earned six victories against its Ancient foes.
• Five individuals earned first-team All-Ivy honors, including Cornell Hall of Famers Scott Malaga (RB), Mitch Lee (LB) and Mike McGrann (LB).
• The team outscored its opponents by nearly 100 points while averaging 345.0 yards per game.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Deon Randall scored four times and Yale piled up 566 yards of total offense to overshadow another record-breaking performance by Jeff Mathews as the Bulldogs defeated Cornell 38-23 at the Yale Bowl.
• Mathews became Cornell's career leader in touchdown passes as part of his 23-of-41 effort for 336 yards and three touchdowns.
• He surpassed Ricky Rahne's record of 54 with his second score of the day, a diving 22-yard catch by Chris Lenz in the fourth quarter.
• The day belonged to Randall, who missed last season's 45-6 Cornell victory in Ithaca. He caught 11 passes for 148 yards and three scores and ran for another 18 yards and a touchdown.
• On the day, Yale ran for 213 yards and threw for 353 more as Henry Furman was an effective 29-of-36 through the air, though virtually none of his passes travelled more than five yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Furman also ran for the game's first score.
• Becoming almost an afterthought was All-American running back Tyler Varga who put together a workmanlike 105-yard effort on the ground on 21 carries.
• Cornell's defense was led by Bobby Marani's 10 tackles and a forced fumble, while JJ Fives also forced a fumble and made a total of six stops. Justin Harris was credited with two pass breakups for the Big Red.
• Yale's fastbreak offense, which was neutralized by the Big Red most of the first half, came alive after halftime of a 10-10 tie. The Bulldogs scored on the first four possessions after the break, while the Big Red punted twice and turned it over twice over the same span.
• By the time Yale finished it off with 9:44 remaining in regulation, it was 38-10. A pair of Big Red touchdown drives cut into the deficit, but never threatened the result.
• Lucas Shapiro, Chris Lenz and Luke Hagy each had touchdown receptions for the Big Red for the second consecutive game to open the season.
• Freshman Ben Rogers had 224 all-purpose yards in just his second varsity game, including his first three career catches for 57 yards.
• Senior Tre' Minor blocked a field goal, his second career blocked kick.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior Jeff Mathews enters the contest needing 342 passing yards to surpass Brown's James Perry as the Ivy League's all-time leader (9,294) in that category.
• Mathews and Colgate's Gavin McCarney, the 2012 Patriot League Player of the Year, are among 20 preseason candidates on the Walter Payton Award Watch List for the FCS National Player of the Year.
• The 1988 Ivy League championship team is being honored this weekend and will be introduced at halftime of Saturday's game. That team beat Colgate 17-14 at Schoellkopf Field en route to a 7-2-1 record (6-1 Ivy League).
• Senior Grant Gellatly needs 43 receiving yards to move into the school's top 10 career list. He enters the weekend in 12th with 1,399 yards. Sitting 10th is Zac Canty '09 with 1,442 yards.

PASSING FANCY
• A Cornell quarterback has thrown for 300 yards or more in 11 of the last 14 games. Prior to that, there were only 26 300-yard passing games in the program's first 124 seasons, spanning 1,132 games.
• Jeff Mathews has posted five of the school's top 10 passing yardage totals in school history and three of the top five marks in Ivy League history.
• Mathews has been sacked 108 times in 31 career games (3.5 per game), but has missed just one game due to injury.
• If Mathews continues at his career average of 287.2 yards per game over his final eight career contests, he would end his career with an Ivy League record 11,201 yards (current record, Brown's James Perry – current Princeton offensive coordinator – with 9,294 yards). If those numbers are boosted to 344.7 yards per game, which he has averaged over the last three seasons, he would finish with 11,718 yards.
• He is on pace to finish his career ranked among the top 20 all-time in passing yards in Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) history.

BIG RED INVOLVED IN STORIED RIVALRIES
• The Big Red is involved in three of the top 20 most-played rivalries in college football.
• The Cornell-Penn series ranks fifth in most games played with 120.
• The 100 meetings between Cornell and Columbia ranks 12th, while the Cornell-Colgate rivalry stands 17th with 95 games played.
• The Cornell-Dartmouth and the Cornell-Penn series are the second-longest uninterrupted active series, as the teams have met every season since 1919, a span of 93 years.
• They trail only the Lafayette-Lehigh series, which has been played every year since 1897.

IVY LEAGUE DIGITAL NETWORK
• The 2013-14 season will be the inaugural year of the Ivy League Digital Network.
• With the exception of the Nov. 9 game at Dartmouth, which will be televised nationally on NBC Sports Network, and the Nov. 16 contest vs. Columbia on Fox College Sports, all of Cornell's games will be available on the network this season.
• All Ivy League contests, both home and away, will be in high definition and feature increased production values, including replay and other features.
• The subscription-based service can be accessed on CornellBigRed.com or through www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red remains at home to square off with perennial Ivy League contender Harvard on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 12:30 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Crimson leads the all-time series 43-32-2, including winning the last seven meetings between the teams.