Week 1* Picks

 

Just a few games to choose from for this first weekend of games involving Columbia’s opponents from the Patriot League.

I’ll give my picks and remind everyone of my record from last year in this podcast.

Lafayette on Display

 

Columbia’s week one opponent Lafayette will hit the field for its season opener at mid-major Bowling Green tonight.

I’ll talk about that, the games on Saturday for Columbia’s other two out of conference opponents, and some other news in this podcast.

Reference items:

Lafayette game notes

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Lehigh game notes

The Wrong Kind of Attention

 

Former Yale star DL Clay Patterson made all the wrong kind of news Saturday, in what may now be the biggest embarrassment ever for a former Ivy football player or coach… but Columbia has a strong connection to a pretty bad incident as well.

In this podcast I’ll talk about that, and a key new prediction for the Ivy season from longtime Ivy and FCS beat writer/editor Craig Haley.

The Beautiful Past

 

The last decade of much more successful Columbia Football have added a lot of new fans to the program who are completely in the dark about what Columbia and Ivy League football used to look and feel like.

Given Columbia’s mostly very, very difficult history between 1947 and 2017, this ignorance can often be seen as merciful. But I thought it would be nice to should some of the newcomers some more unique, fun, and even beautiful glimpses of the Lions’ more distant past that I’m lucky enough to own in my collection.

That's the point of this new Roar Lions 2025 Podcast that is open and free to everyone here.

(Incidentally, my much more voluminous writings about so much of Columbia’s past can be found on my original Lion football blog that run from 2005-2012 here.

But in this podcast, I’ll be talking about some of the pieces below and the history behind them and the team during those times)

Back on the Field

 

The 2025 Columbia Football team is back on the field at this hour for the first formal practice of training camp.

This podcast is a brief preview of what we’ll be looking for over the next few weeks as we count down to the season opener at Lafayette on September 19th.