Here's how all three of Columbia's 2019 out-of-conference opponents fared Saturday:
St. Francis 14 Lehigh 13
The Red Flash overcame a 13-0 deficit with 3:34 left in the 3rd quarter to ruin former Columbia assistant coach Tom Gilmore's head coaching debut for the Mountain Hawks.
The key sequence came when St. Francis QB Jason Brown found 6-8 WR E.J. Jenkins for a 75 yard TD to make it 13-7, and then Lehigh failed to answer despite marching the ball on the ensuing drive inside the Red Flash 10.
Lehigh did have one last chance to win on a 40-yard FG attempt with time running out. But after a late timeout negated his first successful try, kicker Austin Henning's second attempt went wide right.
St. Francis has a much tougher opponent next week; #2 ranked James Madison.
Top Takeaway for Columbia: Brown is a pretty good passer, and the SFU defense looks pretty solid against the run.
Davidson 27 Georgetown 20
Davidson jumped out to a 20-0 halftime lead, but had to score a late TD to win it after Georgetown came all the way back to tie it at 20-20 in the 3rd quarter.
Georgetown's defense gave up an incredible 355 rushing yards and the Hoya offense only registered 11 first downs.
Top Takeaway for Columbia: The Hoyas may not be as good as advertised, and the run defense is really questionable.
CCSU 26 Fordham 23
Fordham almost pulled off a big upset over 12 1/2 point favorite CCSU, but the Rams failed mostly due to a devastating pick 6 early in the 4th quarter. Fordham tied it at 23 with 1:53 left in the game, but couldn't stop the Blue Devils from marching down the field for a winning 32 yard FG to win it with no time left on the clock.
Top Takeaway for Columbia: CCSU's QB Aaron Winchester is a great runner, but a mediocre passer. It will be a very different kind of game for the Lions defense as long as he's still starting six weeks from now.
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Jake, can you tell us anything about the scrimmage? The Ath. Dept's article doesn't say anything about on field play
I second that request... How about some updated news on the QB? I assume that he has been INSTRUCTED not to scramble using his head as a battering ram.. How about some slide drills? Robert Pelletreau
Re the scrimmage, the scoreboard didn't show any score and I assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that like last year there would be a full writeup so didn't pay attention to scores or stats.
General impression: we looked and played like a D1 team playing a DIII team, which was reassuring. In the first Q we relatively easily scored 2 TDs and our D didn't allow a first down. We scored at least 2 more, and maybe more, TDs later and allowed one late in the game by MSU.
There were about 20 players in shorts, i.e., either dinged up or not yet passed some physical etc. No one on crutches. No Young and no Wainwright.
As of last Friday, the QB hierarchy was: Bean, Foreback, Lenhart, Bell and Dame. Bean only played one series ending in a TD and seemed very poised and threw well. Forebeck played much more, had a very good initial drive ending in TD and later was a bit mixed in terms of passing accuracy. Has a strong arm. Lenhart played a lot but was a bit inconsistent with accuracy. Bell looked good. Dame threw an interception into the MSU end zone.
RBs looked good overall in that they seemed to gauge where they were going and then run really hard into the hole. Miller only played one or two series and looked good. But all of the backs did, Rose, Thomas, Neils, particularly Thomas.
The WRs made some nice catches; TEs involved and Ben Hill caught a TD pass; two WRs who looked very good who haven't gotten much attention from us thus far are Cameron Burt and Miles Davis.
Peter Wise appears to be the RT. The line protected well. Not sure how well it performed in the run game.
D looked good overall, i.e., stout. I really like our DBs. The safeties appear to be Ryan Rhoden and Hunter Lunsford. A second string--I'm not sure if I got that right--LB who looked good was Smyth-Macaulay
Two aspects of our game that did not look great were our kicking and our center hiking. I suspect that Chris Alleyne was so good last year at everything that he spoiled us, or at least me. Neither the kickoff game nor the FG kicking game impressed. And we had several hikes over the QB's head.
Dr. V
dr V,
you are the best!
I was there and I agree with you 100%
jim
Thank you Dr.V… Very brilliant analysis! I was impressed with the detail.... also the underlying theme is that we can count on still another excellent year … Now if we can get Fabish to throw the ball down field more often... we will be in clover! Robert Pelletreau
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