Columbia Lions (6-0) vs. Yale Bulldogs (5-1)
October 28, 2017
Yale Bowl
Kickoff Time: 1:00pm
Game Time Weather Forecast: Mostly cloudy and 65 degrees
The Line: Yale is favored by 7 1/2 points
TV/Radio: The game will be broadcast on SNY with Yale play-by-play man Ron Vaccaro on the mike with color commentator Jack Ford. Columbia's free audio stream will feature Jay Alter on the play-by-play and Shawn Fitzgerald '80 doing color.
Leading Storylines
1) Another week, another game of the century for the Lions who are trying to keep their magical run going. A win here gives Columbia a clear inside track to its first Ivy title since 1961. The Lions haven't started a season 7-0 since 1932.
2) Yale is riding a pretty strong turnaround itself. A program and a coaching staff that looked dead in the water before last season's upset win at Harvard is now 5-1 and playing strong on both sides of the ball. Head Coach Tony Reno looked like he could be fired 12 months ago, but now he has the Eli faithful believing in a new era of winning.
3) Beyond the focus on the programs, this game will be played by a long list of standout players for both teams. Columbia features QB Anders Hill, WR Josh Wainwright, and CB Cameron Roane. The Bulldogs have two of the best RB's in the Ivies with Deshawn Salter, Zane Dudek, the much-improved QB Kurt Rawlings, and possible the Ivy League's most dangerous defensive player in LB Matt Oplinger.
5 comments:
11:30 a.m. Saturday morning on the way to New Haven on the bus. Five buses came up from Colombia today. That's an extra two hundred plus fans at the game. Congrats to the athletic department.
Now all we have to do is win. Fingers crossed.
Go Lions.
Alas, Big Dawg, it was the Bulldog who won today. The Lions need to trgtoup and sweep the final three games.
Alas Big Dawg, it was the Bulldog who won today. Lions need to regroup and sweep the final three games.
I meant "regroup" above but "trgloup" is good too if we see it as a typo for "DE-GOOP." Regroup, Lions, and de-goop your game.
There was a lot of goop in the coaching too.
Our D played well enough to keep us in it....but Yale D frustrated our offense to its lowest production all year. Can't beat a Yale with six points. Seems that simple to me. Some concern about our kicking game...seems to have lost its mojo....snapper, holder, Oren not in sync....that's fixable.
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