ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell knocked off Yale, 38-25, and the Big Red's record book got a workout — here's what stood out beyond the final score.

TEAM NOTES

• Cornell improves to 664-568-34 all-time, and moves to 1-0 in Ivy League play, the 31st time in 70 seasons since the Ivy League formalized in 1956 that Cornell has started 1-0 in league play.
• Yale entered the day ranked No. 17/18 nationally, and Cornell's win snaps a 20-season drought without a win over a ranked opponent. The Big Red's last win over a ranked team was Oct. 28, 2006, a 14-7 decision over No. 18 Princeton.
• Cornell moves to 13-38-2 all-time vs. ranked opponents and 11-28 specifically against teams ranked No. 11-25.
• This is Cornell's first Ivy League win of the season, and snaps a one-game losing streak in the Yale series (33-53-2 all-time now).
• The Big Red is now 3-1 in its last four Ivy home games.
• Saturday's 38 points is the second time in the last three meetings with Yale Cornell has topped 35. The Big Red scored 47 in 2024.
• Cornell's offense didn't turn the ball over against Yale, while the defense forced two takeaways both Tommy MacPherson interceptions and posted two sacks. That makes back-to-back games to start the season with multiple forced turnovers — the first time Cornell has done that since 2016 (3 vs. Bucknell, 4 vs. Yale), and just the 5th time since 2000.
• The Big Red scored 5 rushing touchdowns in the win, tying the program's most recent instance of 5+ rushing scores in a game was vs. Columbia in November of 2019.
• Cornell was 5-for-5 in the red zone.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES

• Senior Tommy MacPherson intercepted two passes, giving him four career interceptions, three of them across his last two games played.
• MacPherson is just the fifth Cornell player ever to record three interceptions through his team's first two games of a season, and the first since John Algeo in 1999. Factoring in his forced fumble from the Colgate game, he's also the first Cornell player in program history to total four takeaways through his team's first two games.
• Senior Ean Pope's 31-yard touchdown run in the third quarter was his career long and his fourth career rushing score; he finished with 48 yards on just 4 carries (12.0 avg).
• Senior Garrett Bass-Sulpizio bounced back from last week's career-high 3 interceptions with a clean game: 14-of-21 passing for 152 yards, no picks, plus two rushing touchdowns. Those scores give him 10 career rushing touchdowns, tied for 32nd all-time at Cornell.
• Junior Johnny Williamson set a new career high with nine tackles, topping the mark of seven he'd set twice before.
• Senior Alan Zhao was 1-for-1 on field goals (34 yds) and 5-for-5 on PATs, pushing his career totals to 16-of-18 field goals, which ranks first in program history among kickers with 10+ attempts, and 92 career points.
• Senior Ryder Kurtz caught 2 passes for 20 yards, pushing him past 1,000 career receiving yards (1,016). He is the 29th player in program history, and the first tight end, to reach that milestone.
• Junior Caden Lesiewicz boomed a 75-yard punt, a new career long (previous best: 68 yards) and the longest by any Cornell punter since Jackson Kennedy's 81-yarder at Lehigh in 2023.
• Sophomore RB Jordan Triplett added a rushing touchdown of his own, his seventh career score. 
• Senior WR Brendan Lee filled the box score with a rushing TD, a catch, and 3 punt returns.