ABOUT COLGATE
• The Raiders are off to a 1-3 start after last weekend’s 35-10 loss to nationally ranked Holy Cross.
• Colgate owns a win at Maine (21-18) and losses at Penn (25-14) and Stanford (41-10).
• After a bye week following Colgate’s matchup with the Big Red, Colgate will play a second BCS opponent this fall when it visits Army.
• Quarterback Michael Brescia directs the offense and paces the team in rushing (177 yards, four touchdowns) and passing (382 yards), with Garrett Oakley (15 receptions for 147 yards) and Max Hurleman (nine receptions for 108 yards , 177 rushing yards) also playing big roles.
• Tyler Flick has a team-high 32 tackles and Mikey Jarmolowich has recorded 25 with Jackson Price picking off two passes for the defense.
• Shelby Pruett is averaging 42.9 yards on 29 punts, while Spencer Biscoe has connected on 4-of-6 field goals and all five PAT attempts.
• Second-year head coach Stan Dakosty, a 2005 Colgate graduate, has been a part of seven Patriot League championship teams as a player or assistant coach and helped the 2021 Raiders to a second-place conference finish after being picked seventh in the preseason.
THE SERIES
• Cornell and Colgate will be meeting for the 103rd time dating back to the first contest in 1896 with the Big Red holding a narrow 50-49-3 edge.
• 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 32 of the last 42 meetings, including 10 straight (1993-2005) before the Big Red commenced on a two-game win streak.
• The Raiders had won seven consecutive contests prior to the Big Red’s epic 39-38 comeback in Hamilton, N.Y. in 2016, the Big Red’s first road win at Colgate since 1992.
• The Raiders then won three straight before the Big Red’s 34-20 triumph last fall in Ithaca.
NOTES FROM THE LAST MEETING WITH COLGATE
• The victory gave Cornell its first victory on a Friday since defeating Manhattan Athletic Club on Nov. 18, 1892 on the road — nearly 129 years ago.
• Its last win at home on a day other than Saturday came on Monday, Oct. 9, 1916 vs. Gettysburg. The 26-0 Big Red win was the seventh game ever played on Schoellkopf Field.
• The Big Red’s 27 first downs were its most in a game since also registering 27 at Brown in 2017 and the most in front of the home crowd since posting 29 vs. Princeton in 2012.
• It’s the first time Cornell has had more than 230 yards rushing and passing in the same game since running for 284 and passing for 268 more against Fordham in 2009.
• Cornell allowed zero sacks for the second time this season and is allowing just 1.0 sacks per game in its five contests.
• The 10 pass breakups as a team is tied for the 10th-most in a single game in school history.
• Cornell’s .818 completion percentage is the fourth-highest in a single game in school history with at least 20 attempts with the record at .870 (40-of-46) against Columbia in 2011.
• Logan Thut’s 82-yard interception return for a touchdown was the fourth-longest in school history and 47th overall. Mark Broderick’s 99-yard return against Brown in 1990 is the longest.
• In Cornell’s more than 130 years of football, 10 defensive plays (interception or fumble returns) of 80 yards or longer have gone for touchdowns with two of those coming in the last two contests vs. Colgate (Jelani Taylor’s 87-yard fumble recovery touchdown in 2019).
• Richie Kenney threw for 167 yards, becoming the ninth player in school history to surpass 3,000 yards (3,013). He’s now three yards behind Robert Somborn ‘17 for eighth and 308 from moving to sixth.
• For the second straight home game, a Big Red player’s first career reception went for a touchdown. Against Colgate, Matt Robbert hauled in a 4-yarder from Jameson Wang and vs. VMI it was a 19-yard connection from Richie Kenney to Curtis Raymond III.
• Michael Irons had four pass breakups for the Big Red, the most in a single game since Jelani Taylor broke up three and added an interception two times in a three-game span during the 2019 campaign (at Harvard, vs. Brown).
• Freshman Jameson Wang became the first freshman in Cornell history to throw and rush for a touchdown in the same game and the second to record a passing and rushing score in the same year after Jeff Mathews in 2010.
• Wang’s 84 rushing yards were also the most by a BIg Red quarterback in a game since Dalton Banks ran for 87 yards on 15 carries with a touchdown against Sacred Heart in 2015.
CORNELL VS. THE PATRIOT LEAGUE
• Cornell has a 133-86-7 record against the seven current members of the Patriot League football conference, including a 50-49-3 edge against Colgate.
• The Big Red has advantages over five of the other seven conference schools: Bucknell (43-15), Fordham (4-3-0), Holy Cross (5-0-0), Lafayette (14-8-2) and Lehigh (15-9-2).
• The series with Georgetown (2-2) is even.
• This is the first of two scheduled matchups with Patriot opponents in 2022, with the Big Red scheduled to host Lehigh on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Schoellkopf Field.
LAST TIME OUT
RECAP I BOX SCORE I HIGHLIGHTS I GALLERY I POSTGAME NOTES
• A 99-yard Cornell scoring drive set the Schoellkopf Field Homecoming crowd on fire, but Yale’s defense dominated and its offense methodically allowed the Bulldogs to pull away for a 38-14 victory.
• Yale piled up a balanced 453 yards while controlling the line of scrimmage and the defense surrendered just 184 yards - with 99 coming on the five-play drive that evened the game at 7-7 late in the first quarter.
• The visitors built up a 28-7 halftime lead, and with neither team forcing a turnover in the contest, the Big Red was never able to change the momentum.
• Jameson Wang led the Big Red with 63 rushing yards and completed 9-of-14 passes for 68 yards and two scores - one apiece to Nicholas Laboy and Eddy Tillman.
• Defensively, Rasean Thomas made eight tackles with one for a loss, with Paul Lewis III and Jake Stebbins being credited with seven stops apiece.
• Max Lundeen posted five tackles and a sack, his second of the season.
• Nolan Grooms was 12-of-17 passing for 187 yards and two touchdowns, with Joshua Pitsenberger scoring three times for Yale.
• The freshman tallied 93 yards and two scores on the ground and caught a 5-yard touchdown in the win.
• The other touchdown reception went to Mason Tipton, who caught six passes for 133 yards.
• The Bulldogs’ defense posted nine tackles for loss and four sacks, with two of those coming from Osorachukwu Ifesinachukwu.
• He and Hamilton Moore each had a team-high six stops.
• The Bulldogs scored on six of its first seven possessions, discounting a kneel-down to end the first half, with the visitors racking up 34:42 of possession time.
• Yale was able to stay on the field by converting 8-of-14 third downs, while turning around two-of-three fourth down chances.
