ABOUT COLGATE
• Colgate fell to 0-3 over the weekend with a 31-20 road loss to FBS team Akron.
• Colgate's other losses came at Maine (17-14) and against #5 Villanova (28-3).
• Making his 24th career start this weekend is Raiders' quarterback Michael Brescia. He enters the week with 3,501 career passing yards, 12 touchdowns, and 18 interceptions. The 2021 Patriot League Rookie of the Year has rushed for 1,650 yards and 30 touchdowns. He's rushed for two touchdowns so far this season.
• Junior receiver Treyvhon Saunders leads Colgate in catches (16), yards (168), and touchdowns (1) this season after an All-Patriot League first-team season in 2023. Junior Brady Hutchison follows with 9 grabs for 97 yards.
• Colgate returns 2023 All-Patriot League offensive linemen Bardhyl Gashi and Chance Niesner.
• Junior linebacker Cole Kozlowski leads the Raiders with 38 tackles and is coming off a Patriot League Player of the Week nod after clocking 13 stops, including a career-high two sacks, at Akron. Fifth-year All-Patriot linebacker Christian Sweeney ranks second on the team in tackles with 21.
• Senior defensive lineman Andrew Taddeo matches Kozlowski's sack number of two.
• Junior defensive back Asauni Allen has broken up a team-high three passes. Sophomore Justin Lawrence and senior Arthur Hamlin each have an interception.
• Punter Shelby Pruett has punted 16 times for 742 yards for an average of 46.38 yards. He booted a season-high 66-yarder at Akron and has five punts for 50+ yards this season.
• Sophomore kicker Luke Vogeler is 3-for-4 on field goals through three games. This marks his first season taking over the place-kicking duties.
THE SERIES
• Cornell has a 51-50-3 lead in the series, which began in 1896. The Big Red has won two of the last three meetings.
• The Big Red had lost 10 of 11 games against Colgate before starting a two-game win streak in 2021. The Big Red won 34-20 that year in Ithaca and 34-31 in 2022 in Hamilton. Last year, the Big Red dropped a 35-25 decision on Homecoming against the Raiders.
• Cornell has an 11-11 record against Colgate on the road.
• Cornell has not won more than two games in a row against Colgate since a five-game win streak from 1970-75.
THE LAST MEETING WITH COLGATE
• Fifteen tackles from Noah Taylor and a 100-yard receiving game by Nicholas Laboy were not enough to lift the Big Red over Colgate. The Raiders controlled the fourth quarter, outscoring Cornell 21-8.
• The Big Red held the lead at the end of the first half and played a scoreless third quarter.
• The Raiders responded with back-to-back touchdowns to jump back out in front and secure a lead they never surrendered.
• Laboy’s 104-yard receiving was a career-high, marking his first 100-yard performance.
• With his effort, Laboy surpassed 500 career receiving yards (584) and now has four receiving touchdowns with scoring receptions in each of his past two games.
• Senior Noah Taylor made a career-best 15 tackles, moving his all-time total to 99.
• Taylor’s 15 tackles were the most by a Big Red player in a single game since Lance Blass ‘19 also recorded 15 against Dartmouth in 2018.
• Junior wide receiver Luke Malaga had his first career catch, a 21-yarder.
• Junior linebacker Luke Banbury was credited with a career-high seven tackles, while classmate Damon Barnes posted a career-best five stops.
• With 1,090 rushing yards for his career, junior Jameson Wang moved into 29th place on the school’s career list, Next up in 28th is former All-Ivy quarterback Ryan Kuhn ‘06 (1,110).
• Wang also upped his career passing yardage total to 2,674 yards, good for 14th at Cornell.
• His 22 passing touchdowns moved him into a sixth-place tie with Mark Allen ‘74, four behind Nathan Ford ‘09 for a top-five mark.
• Wang’s second career two-point conversion made him the 16th player in school history with multiple two-point conversions. The school record of four was set by Rick Furbush ‘71.
• Wang has upped his career scoring total to 94 points and is now one touchdown away from becoming the 24th player in Cornell history to surpass 100 for a career and the first since Harold Coles ‘20.
LAST TIME OUT
RECAP I BOX SCORE I HIGHLIGHTS I GALLERY I POSTGAME NOTES
• A group of 30 Big Red seniors were honored prior to Saturday's contest, but Cornell dropped a 29-14 decision to Columbia at Schoellkopf Field on Saturday, Nov. 18.
• Cornell fell to 3-7 (2-5 Ivy) while Columbia tallied its first conference win to improve to 3-7 (1-6 Ivy)
• Jameson Wang went 32-for-47 in the passing game, amounting 345 yards and a touchdown on the day. He rushed a team-high 12 times including one ending in the end zone, but only net nine yards gained on the ground.
• Davon Kiser's one rush for 10 yards led the running game for the Big Red. Kiser also led receivers with his first-career 100+-yard game. The sophomore totaled 121 yards on six grabs, including a haul in for 48 yards for the longest of either team on the day.
• The sophomore totaled 121 yards on six grabs, including a haul in for 48 yards for the longest of either team on the day.
• Nicholas Laboy finished just shy of triple digits, clocking 99 yards on nine receptions. Doryn Smith and Drew Powell each also tacked on significant receiving yards, tallying 52 and 48 yards, respectively.
• Wang became the first Big Red quarterback to pass for 300+ yards in at least three games in a single season since Dalton Banks hit the 300 mark thrice during the 2016 season.
• The 345 yards by Wang marks the most passing yards since Banks passed for 454 against Colgate on Oct. 1, 2016.
• Wang upped his career-rushing touchdowns to 20, tied for seventh-most in Cornell history.
• Kiser was the first Big Red receiver to hit more than one 100+ yard receiving game across a single season since Thomas Glover did it three times in 2021.
• Senior placekicker and punter Jackson Kennedy upped his career point count to 104, finishing his time at Cornell with the 22nd-most points in program history.
• Kennedy's 41 career PATs rank 17th in Cornell history.
• His 41-of-42 PATs rank ninth in school history in terms of percentage (97.6 percent).
• The Big Red held both Lion quarterbacks to 50 percent or worse in completion percentage. The duo of Joe Green and Caden Bell was held to a collective 13-of-29 through the air.